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Today we will con­sid­er in action a real helper in clean­ing the house — a steam mop from the Star­wind com­pa­ny. It allows you to remove old dirt, dis­in­fect the floor­ing from bac­te­ria, clean the limescale on the tile, and suc­cess­ful­ly cope with dried cof­fee and red wine stains on white floor­ing.

Characteristics

• Type: Steam Mop
• Pow­er: 1300W
• Man­age­ment: on the body
• White colour
• Option­al col­or: blue
• War­ran­ty peri­od: 12 months.

Packaging and equipment

The mop comes in a bright col­or­ful box with a glossy fin­ish. On the front side of the box, the mop itself is depict­ed in full growth and in col­or. The name of the man­u­fac­tur­er, the name of the mod­el and the main advan­tages are also writ­ten here. Also in the low­er right cor­ner is the pow­er of 1300 watts, which, of course, we will check below. The side of the box lists the ben­e­fits of the mop, key con­trols, spec­i­fi­ca­tions, and assem­bly infor­ma­tion.

The mop and all acces­sories are tight­ly packed with card­board, foam and each ele­ment in its indi­vid­ual plas­tic bag. We take out the card­board pack­ag­ing and see that the mop is tight­ly packed in card­board nich­es.

In the box we will find a noz­zle for clean­ing car­pets, an alu­minum tube for extend­ing the mop han­dle, a plas­tic han­dle with a com­fort­able grip, a long five-meter cable. And also find the mop itself with a plas­tic main noz­zle. We will also find a mea­sur­ing cup, two microfiber rags and instruc­tions with a war­ran­ty card in Russ­ian.

The alu­minum tube is strong enough, 70 cm long, at the end it has a recessed spring-loaded met­al but­ton for fix­ing inside the plas­tic body of the mop.

There are no com­plaints about the rags. They are qual­i­ta­tive­ly stitched along the edges, made of two lay­ers of microfiber fab­ric. Fas­ten­ing is implied with the help of five patch­es with Vel­cro tape. These patch­es cor­re­spond to the reverse Vel­cro ele­ments on the mop head itself.

The car­pet clean­ing noz­zle is a plas­tic cov­er that fits over the main mop noz­zle. It is made of blue plas­tic and has 4 fix­a­tion zones, as well as one plas­tic lever for remov­ing from the mop.

The plas­tic pen has a curved body made of glossy plas­tic, which is made of 2 dif­fer­ent col­ors: white with blue accents. It also has a plas­tic hook for wind­ing the com­plete cable. On the left side of the han­dle, a blue plas­tic but­ton was placed in order to deep­en the met­al but­ton of the alu­minum tube. This allows you to remove the plas­tic han­dle from the alu­minum tube with­out any dif­fi­cul­ty.

A 5 m long pow­er cable allows you to clean even in places far from the sock­et in the room. The clean­ing radius is 6 meters. If you have enough out­lets, then this allows us to clean the entire area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe house, mov­ing from room to room, with­out using an exten­sion cord. The net­work cable has a stan­dard euro plug with ground­ing.

Appearance

The mop has a body made of white glossy plas­tic. Screw fas­ten­ings are vis­i­ble along the entire perime­ter of the rear side of the mop body. The name of the man­u­fac­tur­er is writ­ten on the front of the mop, placed under the water con­tain­er. There is also a switch and a sta­tus indi­ca­tor. But most impor­tant­ly, the main plas­tic noz­zle is put on the mop, which has a swiv­el joint that allows you to turn the mop as you like and reach any hard-to-reach places. On the reverse side there are ven­ti­la­tion holes, a stick­er with para­me­ters and char­ac­ter­is­tics, a hole for enter­ing a net­work cable and a hook for wind­ing it, as well as a but­ton to remove the alu­minum tube from the body of the mop.

On one side of the case, we notice blue inserts that have a spe­cial niche for the alu­minum tube.

The main para­me­ters by mod­el, pow­er, rat­ed volt­age, man­u­fac­tur­er, importer and assem­bly are placed on a stick­er on the back of the case.

On the front side of the mop placed the name of the man­u­fac­tur­er. Above it there is a com­part­ment for fill­ing water, which has a trans­par­ent body with a white plas­tic cov­er, there is also a switch wash­er that has 2 posi­tions, and a sta­tus LED for oper­a­tion.

The switch has only 2 posi­tions: on and off, and both posi­tions are indi­cat­ed on the case. The LED is pear-shaped. The con­tain­er has a white plas­tic lid fit­ted with sil­i­cone seals to pre­vent water from spilling out.

The main noz­zle has a des­ig­na­tion on the upper side of the body that warns of the dan­ger of hot steam escap­ing and a plas­tic round hinge that allows it to rotate around its axis and reach hard-to-reach places. On the reverse side there are 5 fas­ten­ers for Vel­cro, and holes on a met­al strip for steam to escape.

Exploitation

By the way, it is con­ve­nient to store the net­work cable on a mop, wound on com­plete hooks

First, pour water with a mea­sur­ing cup into the water con­tain­er and close the lid, plug the device into the mains, and turn the switch to the on posi­tion. We see how the orange LED indi­ca­tor lights up.

By the way, I for­got to tell you that a day before this action, I spe­cial­ly spill fresh­ly brewed cof­fee direct­ly on the white floor­ing in order to check the qual­i­ty of the steam mop in wash­ing off already dried cof­fee stains tomor­row. At the risk of get­ting hit in the neck by a wife who said that cof­fee paint­ed the white sur­face of the floor­ing well. We turn on the steam mop and mea­sure its pow­er con­sump­tion at the time of steam gen­er­a­tion. The mop con­sumes about 1200W.

The mop copes with dried cof­fee stains in just a few strokes. There was no trace of the spilled drink. And I did not notice any prob­lems with paint­ing the floor­ing.

If you have chil­dren, then I think it will not be dif­fi­cult for you to imag­ine a sit­u­a­tion when stains of var­i­ous ori­gins appear on the floor, which are so dis­gust­ing to wash by hand. Let’s wait a while and accu­mu­late real­ly old stains. Exclu­sive­ly for test­ing. The mop soaks dried dirt in 2 counts and laun­ders in just a few move­ments.

We go to the bath­room and see that we have tiles with chrome inserts on the walls. These inserts per­fect­ly accu­mu­late white spots from lime deposits from water and do not want to be washed off at all. Then we take a mop and go through sev­er­al times, steam­ing this capri­cious sur­face, we see that as a result we have a clean glossy sur­face of a chrome tile. It remains only to wipe with a cloth. My son and I even see our reflec­tion)

Also if you are the own­er of a wild­ly slop­py pet. For exam­ple, what is our Kuzya,

Then you can imag­ine what the places of their con­stant meal turn into. The steam mop per­fect­ly soaks and scrubs all the dried food residues scat­tered around.

It is also worth not­ing that steam­ing destroys germs and bac­te­ria, so it is def­i­nite­ly rec­om­mend­ed to go through the entire apart­ment with steam­ing as often as your nat­ur­al indus­tri­ous­ness allows you to do. The Star­wind SSM5333 mop has, in addi­tion to all its clear advan­tages, a well-thought-out sys­tem for turn­ing off steam pro­duc­tion when the mop is not ver­ti­cal, or you just put it down and do not move. This is to pro­tect your floor­ing from pro­longed expo­sure to steam. I also tried to process the car­pet with a com­plete noz­zle in order to clean it from the traces of sleep on it of the same slop­py Kuzi. It’s amaz­ing how much dirt, hair and dust she knocks out with steam from a long pile. Pass­ing over the already vac­u­umed place over and over again, we get whole skeins of crum­pled hair, dust and dirt, which makes it feel like the car­pet has not been cleaned at all. I def­i­nite­ly rec­om­mend this mop. For its bud­getary cost, it will allow you to do a full and high-qual­i­ty clean­ing of the liv­ing space and spend less time on it than if you wash the floor with a con­ven­tion­al mop or by hand.

You can buy this mop in many local net­works of our coun­try, for exam­ple, in Citylink

To under­stand the process of work, I shot a full video review.