Mint Hard Floor Cleaner 4200..

[Pom]

We are buying a 2400 SF house almost entirely tile floor. Anyone have any experience with the mint cleaners (or recommend your cleaner). Do these navigation cleaners do a good job?

[sillygoosegirl]

I bought a Mint a year and a half ago, and was not very happy with it. It just has a little cloth pad that it rubs the floor down with. It does a pretty good job with dust bunnies and hair, but if you drop something like say ground coffee or a little bit of garlic peal, it's just going to push it around. It does NOT eliminate the need to vacuum, and I'd call it completely worthless in the kitchen. I found the wet mode to be basically worthless as well.

I gave the Mint to my mom and got a Roomba instead, which I like worlds better for two simple reasons: scheduling and sucking. The Roomba actually vacuums and it runs everyday without me needing to actually do anything. With the Mint, you need to pick it up, plug it in to charge, then remember to start it before you leave the house (two actions at different times or it doesn't go). Additionally, somewhere in there you need to change the cloth pad and vacuum up the place where it stopped because there will be a load of crud directly under it when it stops. (All of this meant the Mint didn't get run all that often.)

The two major advantages I can think of that the Mint has over the Roomba is that the Mint is very quiet (not that I run the Roomba when I am at home; I schedule it to run when we are both at work, but if you are a SAHM the Mint might have an advantage there), and if you have pets, the Mint has a lot fewer moving parts to get hair tangled in, which I understand can be a big problem for the Roomba (I don't have pets) and like I said above the Mint does pretty good with hair even though it isn't so good with other things.

[Pom]

Thanks for the reply. The cat would appreciate the quiet, haha.