I’m currently home on spring break with five children and a teacher husband, which means one thing: My house is trashed.
Everywhere I look, I see clutter, grime, and stains. Along with the urge to basically throw away everything in my house (moms, you feel me, right?), I’ve been looking for ways to simplify spring cleaning. As much as I would like my house – and all the surfaces in it – to be sparkling clean all of the time, that’s just not a reality with five kids in the house.
But I can fight back with a simple cleaning tool that’s both versatile and can clean and disinfect virtually any surface. Enter the steam cleaner.
Dupray Neat Steam Cleaner With 17-Piece Kit
$150
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I’ve been eyeing this bad boy for months because I love the idea of a steam cleaner. Maybe it’s harking back to my days as a floor nurse, but I know that steam cleaning is one of the most effective ways of truly disinfecting surfaces. With five kids in the house, I’m always battling some kind of virus or another, so I love the idea that a steam cleaner could help me disinfect surfaces and cut down on sick days.
I’ve always used a steam mop on my floors, especially when I had babies crawling on them, so adding a steam cleaner to the rest of the surfaces in my house just makes sense.
There are a lot of steam cleaners on the market, but what drew my eye to this one is its simplicity and versatility. It’s just one compact cube and hose that you can add attachments to and clean virtually any surface, nook, or cranny in your entire home.
“This steam cleaner is a breeze to use. It’s got a simple setup and controls that are easy to figure out,” explains one Amazon shopper.
Dupray Neat Steam Cleaner With 17-Piece Kit
The Dupray steam cleaner is so versatile you can even clean fabrics and upholstery with it. (How convenient would that be after a bout of the stomach flu when your kids have camped on the couch for days??)
“My couch cushions (again, look away, you with weak stomachs) were beginning to take on a slight boy-butt odor, with maybe a suggestion of boy feet, after several weekends-long marathon group gaming sessions… the corner tool with the included bonnet took care of that quickly,” shared one brave Amazon shopper and parent. “I *think* I could do it even faster using the floor tool and a cloth.”
The included accessories mean you can blast small nooks and crannies too, which I find ideal. You know those absurd places in your house that you never even think to clean but somehow realize one day are disgusting, like the toilet seat hinges or the seams of your fridge drawers? (Seriously, I had to take a knife to mine last week and it was not pretty!)
This steam cleaner will take care of them all.
“I used the nozzle to clean out the base, corners, and insides of the slider door track. I’d cleaned this regularly, the corners were always hard to get and it would get grimy and moldy fast. Now I know why. I hadn’t been able to clean deep enough in the groove and underneath parts of the track; this left grime/shower mold that re-populated quickly,” described an Amazon shopper who took the cleaner to her shower. “The volume of grime I cleaned out was unreal, like how did it all fit in there. Now there’s nothing there to re-populate it, so it should stay much cleaner between bi-weekly cleanings.”
I have to admit I’m excited to think about all I can accomplish with this steam cleaner. Nothing says you’re getting older like being excited over a steam cleaner, but you know what? We’re here and I’m 100% OK with that.
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