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In 1999, we moved into a funky old house with a terrazzo floor in the kitchen and dining room. Terrazzo is polished concrete with (usually) small pieces of some eye-catching mineral. Our floor is dark gray with flecks of mica. Terrazzo is particularly challenging in the cleanliness department, and indeed represents a multigenerational cleaning trauma in my family: my mom said she used to dread doing hers in the 1960s.

Our terrazzo had not been truly clean from the moment we moved in until the glorious day the Hoover FloorMate arrived. Having been warned by the reviews on Amazon (and, really, where on earth else would you get an electrical appliance any more?), I took it slowly and read all the directions as I was assembling and testing. As the plastic does look a wee bit less than robust enough to cross a continent, I was careful not to force any of the parts into place, and kept going patiently until I figured out exactly how everything should look, move, fit, and work.

First pass across the floor. It's a little louder than a vacuum, but nothing I couldn't endure. Wow, the terrazzo isn't really that dark a gray. Ugh, look at the receiver tank, there must be dirt in there from the Eisenhower administration. I found that I wasn't even having to suck up the water; I'd go forward across the spot, then in reverse, and the reverse pass would get the water up, leaving the floor easily able to air-dry.

The machine, thanks be to the appliance gods, even folds nearly flat so it's easy to get under stuff like our raised kitchen cabinets (they really, really wanted to show off this floor). The gunk in the receiver tank would gag a maggot. The eight-ounce bottle of solution included with the cleaner got used up that first night, but we were left with a startlingly clean ready-to-wax terrazzo floor. A bit of buff-free wax on an applicator, and we're ready for visitors.

One of our dogs, an Aussie shepherd mutt named Lucy, likes to sleep on the terrazzo, as she has long fur and we live in Texas and it stays cool. I made a lot of noise and fuss and removed the appealing stink she had spent many a year laying down, and it took her several days to forgive me. She is now happy, and exploring new and unaccustomed corners of her floor to claim for napping.

Without an appliance to clean this floor, I would never, ever have gotten this done: scrubbing on hands and knees is dispiriting, especially when you consider that it's impossible to get the floor truly clean that way. Mops, brushes, buckets, Swiffers: that's like taking a squirtgun to a forest fire. This is the real deal. Yeah, you'll have an expensive appliance just to clean tile and hard-surface flooring. But I assure you, nothing else works this well.Get more detail about Hoover H3060 Floormate Spinscrub 800 Wet/Dry Vacuum Cleaner with Tools.