Extensively tested system

I have now been extensively tested for several weeks Swiffer. I am a male and brush my 2-person household: 75-square meter apartment, tiles in kitchen and bath, remaining flat real wood parquet.

Swiffer dry cloths Floor:

- Dirt from a size of small grains (Semmelbröselchen, stones from the road) can not take the towels. Instead, the Swiffer pushes these particles across the floor to and fro. Totally unsuitable so the "sweep" of dirt such as arises during cooking, eg rice grains, flour dust, etc. and completely unsuitable for "sweep" of normal garbage in the hallway, one has Kicked off the street, let alone in winter (stray Split, road salt). For such applications, you still need a good, old broom.

- House dust, hair, lint, "dust bunnies" on the other hand eliminates Swiffer perfect. He takes this filth into itself. Here one does not dust rum. I have "hay fever" and must Niessen repeatedly during sweeping with the normal broom. Not when Swiffern. Here no dust is stirred up - big plus! I once with a normal broom "pre-versa", and then wiped with the Swiffer. Amazing what can be a broom and what the Swiffer is still recording.

- For larger areas (in this case 75 square meter apartment ") you of course need some towels because their" capacity "is still limited I wipe my home about once a week, the basic cleaning state is therefore likely." Clean "Nevertheless I need. for the whole apartment for about seven dry floor cloth to wipe off the dust that accumulates in one week.

- Drawback in the bathroom: As soon as the Swiffer wipes a spot that is only minimally wet, he suddenly loses his dusting capabilities. If the dry soil damp cloth, then it makes the already recorded dirt lie where it is straight and refuses to take further dust. One must then eliminate the Feutigkeit only with a normal cloth and then wipe (with a new dry Swiffertuch).

Swiffer wet floor cloths:

- Completely unsuitable - touted as full-bodied in the product description - "ground-in dirt and grime to loosen from the floor." My benchmark is a commercially available microfibre cloth. The microfibre cloth and stuck dirt goes away quite easily. The wet Swiffertücher let such filth just lie or stick, even if you properly "rubs". Because the wet Swiffertüchern missing a comparable microfibre structure and they are also not as strong as a good ground cloth, but it is just a disposable cloth, rather comparable to a "Klinex" which has dampened.

- The damp Swiffertücher are as I said something like a piece of cloth from the paper towel roll, which has wetted with a cleaning solution. Naturally, the capacity of such a fabric is limited. It shows if you wipe with the cloth. For just a little larger surfaces, the moisture ranges from no where near. When I wipe in the bathroom, then I have to replace the cloth there three or four times, ie the used cloth take the Swiffer, throw it in the garbage and bring up a new cloth. For the whole apartment I need about 15 towels. That also is not surprising, because even during normal wiping with a conventional wiper ("mop") wrestles you to mop yes regularly and clean it in the water bucket and "obsolete" there fresh fountain solution. That's the Swiffer course otherwise. No one would come up with the idea of ​​wanting to wipe the entire apartment with a few milliliters of wiper fluid. You have to constantly change the Swiffertücher So, because you only can make mini surfaces clean with them. Then the water is used is negligible and one can possibly even with the dry cloth "wipe" across the floor, which of course has no cleaning effect. The constant exchange of Swiffertücker I feel in any case as not easier than if I take the same traditional mop with the microfiber cloth. The microfibre wiper makes but clean, tidy the Swiffer not. Instead, they produced with the used Swiffertüchern a neat pile of rubbish.

- If I, however, a small area just quickly wipe clean needs - in the kitchen, for example, is a small splash of milk arrives to the floor - it is very simple and practical, easy quick wipe with a damp the Swiffertuch. One does not have to fill water into the bucket, not only do the wipe wet etc. Just a quick Swiffertuch raise - that goes quickly and is easy - and wipe quickly throw cloth and finished. For an entire bag of milk Swiffer would be, however, again be compromised because it can not absorb as much liquid.

- Here it stinks the cleaning solution, which is located in the humid Swiffertüchern, quite formidable in my opinion. The wipes have a very pungent smell of artificial Dufstoff. This fragrance is very difficult only from the nose and is in my opinion simply fails, does not smell good. The chemical substance which is in the cleaning solution, and does not really seem to be "healthy". Anyway, you have to wear protective clothing when using this substance - focused and in large quantities - works. Of course, only get small amounts and also diluted when cleaning on the ground and in the air. In these amounts - I assume - is the substance not questionable. But I still wonder why you should brush with poison when you can take safe cleaning products, which then might also smell even better. This is the absolute knock-out criterion, which is why I will not continue to use the Swiffer wet cloths and also would not recommend for me.

- There is the way alternatives: around DM (drugstore chain), there are other wet floor cloths, which are much cheaper and smell better. You can use these towels easily with the Swiffer, which also fit in terms of size.

- Also on the dry Swiffertüchern there are significantly less expensive alternatives, such as Aldi or dm. I buy künfitg these cloths and not of Swiffer. Because the enormous price difference I see over no corresponding cleaning benefits.

Swiffer system per se:

The wiper itself is good. Robust, the wipes can be easily wind up with the twist mechanism, with which the base part is attached to the stem, to get clean in all the nooks and also well under furniture. From the size of the stem is borderline for me (178 cm tall), I have to bend down so easily when wiping, the stem could therefore be a bissl longer.

Conclusion:

- Swiffer system for dusting ideal.
- Also ideal for moist wipe over it on a small, limited, slightly soiled surface.
- Not recommended for larger spills and
- Not suitable for ground-in dirt.
- Impractical for large areas.
- Wet wipes are impregnated with chemicals and smell unpleasant.
- There are noticeably cheaper towels from the competition, the same wipe good but smell better.
- No substitute for broom and mop, but good addition.