Bissell INC 5200 Flip-!t Hard Floor Cleaner

I have used literally every kind of floor cleaner on my engineered hardwood floors. Steam mops will warp and fade wood, regular mops with oil soap attract more dirt, swiffer is good for in between a cleaning and even had a Hoover floor scrubber, scooba and mint cleaner too!Hoover floor scrubber was great but the company does not make lasting products as they used to in the distant past. I have found that there products have about a year life and then time to replace. (I had the floor scrubber, Linx stick vacuum, Proheat carpet cleaner and all lasted a year then they no longer work the same. I am meticulous in my care and cleaning of the machines too. Hoover just does not make a long lasting product.The Scooba floor cleaner made a snail trail and went in circles. Waste of money.Mint floor cleaner was good. It was the original one and it lasted a few years and recently died. Good cleaner to sweep but not really get floors clean, it was a lightweight cleaner that floated across my floors so for a mess on the floor you would still need a mop.The Bissell Flip it has been great so far! It is lightweight but it cleans my floors wonderfully. I make a few extra passes so it vacuums and squeegies the water all up and leaves my floors dry. I found that if you do not empty the dirty cup when it is close to fill, that is when it will spit water out (as other reviews says it leaks water)It is a smaller fill tank on both the clean water and solution and the dirty water tank but being the cleaner is so compact and light in size, I do not mind emptying as I clean and usually it is for every room. Fine with me when the results are floors that look beautiful and feel sanitary clean on barefeet!!! (Nothing worse that having your shoes off and walk on a dirty floor that makes your white socks dirty or your bare feet dirty)I have only used the cleaner with the scrub brush attachment and have not tried the micrfiber cleaning pad as I just use a swiffer for in between sweep cleans.I do like that if my stick vacuum or my swiffer missed some dust/ dirt on the floor I can flip this unit to vacuum side and turn right around to wetmop! Genius!!So I am happy to have a compact unit that doesn't make my back ache after pushing around the floor to clean, fits well in my kitchen closet and is easy to clean after use.

A real time saver ! This machine works great its easy to use and small enough to store just about anywhere and does two things very well ,both the dry vacuum and wet vacuum/mop feature makes life a whole lot easier.Once you have vacuumed the entire floor all you have to do is flip the handle over in the opposite direction and you are ready to mop , the wet vacuum feature is great it not only insures that any excess cleaning solution is picked up and it causes the floor to be all but dry in less than 5 minutes.I noticed that some of the other reviewers had made comments about the lack of suction for the dry vacuum or that the tank that holds the cleaning solution leaks,first of all unlike carpet vacuums hard surface vacuums have no brushes so any thing that is really stuck to the floor has to be loosened by hand first and as far as the complaints regarding the leaking tank if you read the instruction manual it tells you not to store liquid in the machine while not in use and to empty both tanks before storing,the few drops of water that people see when they first lean the handle over during operation is just residual cleaning solution left in the machine it is no big deal . If you want to save time and energy this is the machine for you if you have a lot of floor to clean this is the machine for you the vacuum is more than adequate and the wet vac feature is great for all types of hard surfaces it does not over saturate the floor with cleaning solution which means no messy mop and bucket.This is a great machine !

I like this machine, although its not very heavy duty and you have to do a lot of physical scrubbing with the machine itself to get the floor clean. I do like not having to lug a mop bucket around and then find a place to empty it, after cleaning the floors with either the brush attachment or the easy clean soft head, you just empty the dirty water and you are done. I also love the fact that you can take the head off and wash and reuse. It's great!!! I'd say a good buy for the money, don't do much with the vacuum side, Im not really sure the purpose for that, but I don't want to suck up stuff in the same side as my cleaning fluid. Does great for small jobs, but not recommended for large amount of flooring.

This product did a better job on my floor then the mops I was using. I was having trouble getting my floors clean and leaving a shin due to the salt that was being dragged in from outside. What I did not like about it was that it is harder to use. I am in my 60's and it did wear me out after doing the large floor, plus I had to be very careful about how I did it so it would's leave steaks. Which a lot of the times it did.

Do not purchase this item if you own pets. The wet cleaner works great however when I vacuum, all the pet hair clogs in the filter. I called the company thinking I got a bad unit since I own 4 other Bissell products and have always had good luck with them. After 2 calls, many minutes on the phone, and the usual questions of " did you do this" and "did you do that", I was finally informed that this product won't handle pet hair and that it will always clog the filter rather than going into the "dirty tank". I did not see this any place in the information on the product stating pet hair would be a problem. Of course they tried to tell me about all the other cool products Bissell sells and that I might want to purchase one of them.(don't think so)I am very disappointed since I thoughtI found the perfect unit for my situation. I won't purchase any other Bissell product in the future since I consider this unit a rip off which they make sound better than it is and when they know there are limitations on its use. Again, pet owners BEWARE. This is NOT the unit you want!!!!