Originally Posted by blahel
c2cd2008 great tips! i have been considering buying a steam cleaner for a while so i was wondering how happy are you with yours and what features you like and use and what dont you like? are you happy with your shark brand? or would you buy a different one if you were to buy one now?
I LOVE the Shark. I first seen it on TV late at night. (I sleep with a TV on for noise becuase my hubby works away from home) I woke up in the middle of the night and there it was on TV. I started watching it and never went back to sleep! LOL I next went online and read a lot of reviews on the Shark and other products as well. Some were good, some were bad, but that was with all brands. Now keep in mind we are all different people with different ideas on what we want it to do. BUT... I got mine and I was so happy! It took almost two months for it to arrive, I was irritated about that but happy the day it arrived. I dropped everything I was doing and played all day long. It is really easy to use and has attachments for just about anything you can think of. I used it for hours and hours. It will last about an hour or a little less on a tank of water. It takes 10-15 minutes to be hot enough to use which I do not think is a huge ordeal some of the reviews were complaining about the time it took to heat up, but to me not a biggie.
When it is ready you just turn on the hose like you do the vacuum and start to clean! For the floors you use the floor attachment. It come with one cleaning pad and they recomend that you purchase more but I will tell you, it is nothing more than a good towel sewn to wrap around the fixture and has velcro, I made some more! Too easy, I just took a cheap towel from Fred's Dollar store cut to fit, serged it and added some velcro, it works the same as the ones they want you to purchase and I got 4 of them from one $3.00 towel.
There is a brass attachment that you can use for a lot of stuff. I used it to clean the grill, worked like a charm, you just scrub a little andn wipe and that grill looks like new. I also used the same attachment on the metal things at the door entry's.
There is a concentrated nose you can use to get into small places, once again works like a charm.
Now there is a little elbow grease and you have to have towels to wipe up as you go but I feel its well worth it. I have a rag bucket I keep handy and it takes all week to use them all up. I just wash in the washer at the end of the week and hang out to dry and the cost to do that is less than what it cost to purchase cleaners.
You cant go wrong. Now some who have other brands may tell you theirs is better, I wold not know. But I wished I had gotten mine years earlier! Its my best friend during the day. We had a stain in the carpet and nothing would take it up, we did apply a little degreaser to it, steamed away at it for a couple of minutes and wiped at it, repeated a couple of times and the carpet is perfect again!
I have used this thing to clean windows, the car, you name it!
I totally endorse it!