Scrubbing a floor on hands and knees or Using a Mop?

I'd be thrilled if I could get down on my hands and knees to mop a floor .. my knees are far too sore to even dare try .. bet I'd never get up again ... I also find it very difficult to use a mop ... it's too heavy for my weak muscles ... dratted Fibromyalgia makes even washing a kitchen floor a hard task ... I have a very small steam cleaner ... it's on wheels and looks like a mini vacuum .. I can whizz over my floor reasonably quickly and sit on a stool while I do it ... also the floor dries superfast too .. so it makes it safer for me .. less likely to slip over ... and best of all you don't need any detergents as the steam kills off any bacteria there might be and leaves a lovely clean floor ...

For most of my floors, I use a mop. I have a cat room where I have a couple of males that spray, though. For that room it is necessary to really get down on my hands and knees and scrub, as bad as I hate it. It takes a good brush and bleach to thoroughly clean and disinfect that area weekly. Also, I have to get close to be sure that I've gotten all of the spots cleaned really well.

I almost always use a mom to clean my floors. Like you said, it is much easier. With that being said, there are also times that I need to get down and clean from the floor. My daughter is going to be three real soon. She has this habit of stickering or coloring on the floors of our kitchen. She is starting to get better about it now, but she slips occassionally. When that is the case, I have to use one of those Mr. Clean Magic Erasers or Goo Be Gone. Aside from that, it is mopping all the way!

The mop is what I sling these days. however I do get down on the tough spots or places where a close up cleaning is required. Depends on how tough you wish to work, sometimes the mop handle and heavy wet mop head is a bit much and the old scrub brush and bucket is just the thing.

I agree. I prefer to mop when I have to. I rarely ever get down on my hands and knees to clean the floor unless I'm cleaning up broken glass or something similar. As long as I can cross it barefoot and not slip in something, step in something sticky, or have something sharp puncture my foot, I'm good.

Do people really still get on their hands and knees? I never saw anyone do that except in movies. My mom uses a stringy mop, but I prefer sponge mops. I do get down on my knees if there's a bad spill that the mop isn't getting out - sometimes you just need that extra muscle power! But overall, I would never travel the entire kitchen on my knees scrubbing that way. That seems bad for your back, your knees, and is unnecessary with all the nifty mops they sell nowadays :)

Well I think both are good. However..I use a mop and that works fine for me. I think that the other is a bit compulsive...but if you have the time and it makes you feel better then by all means go ahead. I think that bleach and a cleanser and hot water work just as good...

I have to get on my hands and knees to really clean a floor. Mops to mean don't get a lot of the stickyness and what not. Or at least what I have seen/done.

I usually HAVE to just mop, but sometimes I just have to scrub it. I have a light colored linoleum, and I can never get a mop to really get it good and clean. I can't do that as much as I would like, though, due to health problems, but this floor has all those little pits and it just looks awful sometimes.

My mother-in-law did it by hand. Well this Christmas her daughter bought her a scrumba I think it is called. I have done it on my hands & knees. We have this light colored tile of sorts that just shows dirt like you would not believe. I usually take a mr. clean eraser to it if someone is coming to visit. On normal occassions I will use a mom & pinesol though.

I cant do the floor scrubbing on my knees anymore due to arthritis, so a mop it is!

I use a twist mop.If I get down on my hands and knees my back starts to hurt and my knees. I know of this older lady that still gets down on her hands and knees to scrub,I think she thinks the floor gets cleaner.

I agree! I perfer to use the mop than get down and scrub the floor, some hot water, and strong detergent does the trick every time!!!

After working for several maid services and never using a mop, I figured out why. Look under the cabinet overlay, around your frig and close to your table legs. You will see dirt, which in turn holds germs, a mop holds tons of bacteria and even mold, so you may think that you are getting your floor clean but all you are doing is spreading germs. I still clean my floor with a rag and on my knees, I just use a knee pad the kind you would use for gardening and it works great or you can bunch up some rags place them under your knees and slide while you wipe.

I use a mop most of the time, but sometimes maybe once a year or so I will get on my hands and knees and scrub the floors clean to get into the dents. Our tiles have little groves to look like marble stone.

i prefer using mop but still, in some areas where the dirt is strong enough, i prefer to use hands

Well i am a bit old fashioned here i am a hands and knees kinda girl. However, i had a near fatal accident and now i rely on help to do my floors and am not comfortable with asking her to do the hand and keens thing.

I agree with you besides I have a bad back. I think it would be a whole total body work-out though.

I'm a hands'n knees scrubber. I've yet to find a mop that cleans the floor well. I have tiled floors and 4 small kids, so the grout gets alot of abuse! Those mops work well with flat surfaces, but don't do the grout justice... I scrub my floors with a bleach solution, then do a rinse of just warm water.

I must admit that when I didn't have a mop I would actually scrub the floor on my hands & knees. And when I was getting up my entire body would just ache from head to toe. I don't recommend it. I much rather prefer using a mop now. And still do to this very day. As I feel you can still get every corner if you guide the mop in the right direction, or under little corners. And I agree with you. If you use a strong detergent while mopping the floor you can't go wrong.