Anyway, if you're not familiar with Spin Mop, which is viral and annoying and apparently not that great because the mop head can move in a way that you end up scratching your floors if you're not careful, it's a mop and bucket set with a pedal-powered salad spinner on one end of the bucket.
The mop head spins freely, so when you put it into the spinner and push the pedal, that spins the basket and the head and centrifugal force slings the water in the mop head out into the bucket. It's very handy for making sure you're not flooding your floors which is important if you have a modern flooring type like luxury vinyl plank or are mopping hardwoods. It's best not to get those TOO wet. AND DON'T USE BOILING HOT WATER ON THEM EITHER.
PRETEND SPIN MOP because if I don't get it out of my system I'll be stewing about it forever.
What I'm seeing all over Facetokstagram is people doing this:
They say this separates your dirty and clean mop water.
This does nothing. You're still using one bucket of water both to wet and rinse your mop, and that bucket of water is going to get dirty. The only things being separated are the soon-to-be dirty water and whatever is spun out of the mop head.
This is stupid and it annoys me how much I see it online.
A 2-bucket system requires two, separate buckets.
The rinse water would go in the Spin Mop bucket, and the clean cleanser water would go in the other bucket.
dip mop head into the clean cleanser bucket
spin off in the other/rinse/dirty bucket
rub on floor
dip and swish in the rinse/dirty bucket to rinse the mop
spin off
dip into the clean cleanser bucket
spin off
rub on floor
repeat
That's how it works. That's a 2-bucket system.
When it's time to rinse you dump out all the water from both buckets, rinse out both buckets, and refill both with clean water. Then you dip into the clean water bucket, spin off in the other one, etc. same as before just with no cleanser.
A proper 2-bucket method isn't perfect. I just finished scrubbing my kitchen floor by hand with The Walmart Brush (which doesn't require much water and that is why my buckets have so little in them) and here's how my buckets looked when I was done.
Rinse/dirty bucket is blue, clean cleanser bucket is teal. It's not perfectly clean, the brush did carry some grime into the teal bucket after rinsing in the blue one, but this does demonstrate the why of a 2-bucket system pretty well. You're never dipping into a bucket of filthy cleanser water and then spreading THAT back on your floors if you use a 2-bucket system [correctly].
