Laminate, tiles and lino clean with tap water and nothing else, and dry in about a minute. The steam unit lifts out for the grout, the hob and the shower screen. And it is covered for five years, with no form to fill in.
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Vekto Steam Mop S20 + the lift-out handheld steam unit and a microfibre pad
Worth £169.99The snap-on carpet glider, a second microfibre pad and the measuring cup
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Heater, pump and body, no registration needed.
Instead of 14. Use it on every floor you have, or get every penny back.
Microfibre pads stay in stock, so a worn pad never means a new mop.
The laminate had that tacky feel when you walked across it in socks, since before the last tenant left. Gone after the first go round, and I only put water in it. He was back crawling on it before I'd wound the cable up.Rosie T. · Oxford
Life with the Vekto Steam Mop S20
Plug in, twenty seconds, round the kitchen, back in the cupboard. Here is what changes in the first week.
There is no bucket to fill, no mucky water to pour away and no mop to dry. Twenty seconds from the plug to steam, so a quick go after the dog comes in replaces the Saturday job you kept putting off.
Tap water goes in, hot steam comes out, and the pad takes the dirt away. Nothing is left on the floor, and it is dry in about a minute. No waiting in the doorway with a toddler on your hip.
Sticky laminate and grey grout
If you have laminate or tiles, what you really want is the floor to feel clean under bare feet, not just look it for five minutes.
Hot steam softens the dried-on juice, the trodden-in mud and the film a bottle of floor cleaner leaves behind. The microfibre pad lifts it away. Look at the pad afterwards and you will see what the mop and bucket was moving around.
Lift the steam unit out, point it along the line, wipe with a cloth. The grey comes out of the grout without bleach, and the same unit does the hob, the shower screen and the taps.
Drag the slider. Left is the grout and the patch by the cooker after a mop and bucket. Right is the same floor after this.
“They just stopped heating the water properly so instead of steaming they just wet the floor.”What owners say about the steam mop they had before
The question everyone asks
Every steam mop review ends the same way: light on, no steam, and the shop wants to know if you registered it. Here is the straight answer.
It runs on tap water alone. No detergent tank to split, no pump handle to work up and down, no bottle of own-brand solution to keep buying. Two steam speeds on a switch, and steam that keeps coming while the tank has water in it.
Most steam mops die because scale builds up in the heater. Tap water is fine in this one. In a hard-water area, run a descaler through it now and then, the same as the kettle, and it keeps steaming for years.
If it ever stops steaming inside five years, you get it repaired or replaced, free. No 28-day form, no proof of registration, no arguing with a shop. Just a message to {email}.
The rest of it
Steam
A 2000 W heater has steam at the pad twenty seconds after you switch on, so a quick go round the kitchen is a quick go, not a wait. The 400 ml tank gives up to 25 minutes of steam, enough for the whole downstairs in most homes, and you can see the water level through the side and top it up at any point.
Two speeds
Laminate wants a fine steam and a quick pass, so the board never takes water in. Tiles, lino and the bits stuck on by the cooker want more. The switch gives you one or the other. The pivoting head turns flat to go under the kickboards and the radiator, and the 25 cm pad covers a kitchen in a few passes.
Handheld
Press the catch and the steam unit comes out of the mop as a handheld steam cleaner. Point it along the grout, at the ring on the hob, along the track of the shower door or round the base of the loo, and wipe with a cloth. Click it back in and it is a mop again. Snap the glider on under the head and it freshens the hallway rug too.
How it works
A steam mop comes down to three things: how quickly it heats up, how much steam the floor gets, and whether it leaves the floor wet. Here is how the Vekto Steam Mop S20 handles each one.
A 2000 W heater turns tap water into steam twenty seconds after you switch on, and keeps it coming for up to 25 minutes on one 400 ml fill. Plenty for the whole downstairs without stopping.
Two steam speeds on a switch. Low puts a fine steam through the pad for laminate and sealed wood. High is for tiles, lino, stone and whatever is stuck on by the cooker. Most steam mops have one setting, and it is too much for laminate.
Heat softens the dirt, the microfibre pad takes it away, and what is left is a thin warm mist that is gone in about a minute. Lift the unit out for the grout and the hob, and snap the glider on for the rug.
Covered for five years, with 60 days to try it in your own home.
A floor fitter's view
Twenty-four years laying laminate and LVT, and called back to the floors a steam mop has ruined. This is the one he tells his customers to buy.
I get called back to floors that have lifted, and nine times out of ten the owner tells me the same thing. The steam mop left puddles, or it got run over a click floor that was never sealed at the joints. Steam does not ruin a floor. Water sitting on it does. The Vekto Steam Mop S20 is the first one I have been happy to leave with a customer. The low speed on laminate puts a fine steam through the pad and the board is dry before you have turned round. Tap water and no cleaner, so there is no film on the surface to dull it. The unit lifts out for the grout and the kickboards, which is where the muck actually lives. And five years of cover with no form, which is more than some floors get from the fitter. This is the one I tell people to buy.
Compare before you buy
Here is what the big names leave out at £60 to £140.
| Compare | Vekto Steam Mop S20 | Shark Steam Mop and Vax Steam Fresh (£60 to £140) |
|---|---|---|
| Heater | 2000 W | 1,050 W on the Shark, up to 1,600 W on the Vax |
| Steam on one fill | Up to 25 minutes | 15 minutes |
| Handheld steam cleaner | Lifts out of the mop | Not on the Shark Klik n' Flip |
| Carpet glider | In the box, free | Not in the Shark box |
| What goes in the tank | Tap water, one tank | Vax adds a detergent tank, the part its owners complain about most |
| Weight | About 2 kg | Vax Steam Fresh 3.7 kg |
| How the steam comes | Two speeds on a switch, continuous | The £44 Shark is a pump handle you work up and down |
| The guarantee | 5 years, no registration | Vax 1 year. Shark 12 months, plus a year only if you register within 28 days |
What it really costs
Three ways to a clean kitchen floor, and what each one costs.
Fill the bucket, mop the dirt round, pour the mucky water down the drain, dry the mop. The floor is wet for twenty minutes and the grout still needs doing on your knees. So you buy a separate handheld steamer for the bathroom as well.
15 minutes of steam a fill, so the downstairs is two fills. No handheld on the Klik n' Flip, no glider in the box. Twelve months of cover, plus a year only if you fill in the form within 28 days of buying it.
Hot in 20 seconds, up to 25 minutes a fill, two steam speeds and a floor that is dry in about a minute. The handheld lifts out for the grout and the hob, and the glider and spare pad are in the box. Tap water only, nothing to split. Covered for five years with no form, with 60 days to try it at home. Delivered free and fast from our UK warehouse.
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Customer reviews
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Eight-month-old who licks the kitchen floor, so the floor spray went in the bin the day this arrived. Did the whole of downstairs after his tea and the boards were fine to put him back on by the time I'd rinsed the pad. Nothing on his hands but crumbs now.
Victorian terrace, quarry tiles in the kitchen, and the lines between them had been grey since my mother-in-law moved in with us. Took the little unit off and went along them while the football was on. My husband thought I'd had someone in. Did the hob while it was still hot, then the cubicle door track upstairs. Her carer does the bathroom floor with it on a Tuesday now because it isn't heavy, which is the bit I didn't expect.
Hampshire water is like rock, so it gets a dose of kettle descaler once a month. Lounge, hall and kitchen-diner mean swapping sockets about halfway round, which is the only grumble. Steam comes through in seconds and the lino looks like it did when it went down. Four stars for the lead.
Muddy paws through the kitchen twice a day. Out of the cupboard, done, back in. Dry again before the dogs are.
Can't wring out a mop any more and hands and knees are out of the question at 71. This is light enough to push one-handed and the pad goes into the machine with the tea towels. My daughter had it unpacked and steaming in five minutes, and the conservatory tiles have not looked this good since her dad did them.
Bought it for the kitchen but the handheld bit has lived in the bathroom ever since. The crust round the hot tap and the black in the track of the cubicle door wiped off after a few seconds of steam. Soft water up here so I've not had to descale it yet.
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Out of the box
Click the tube in, fill it from the tap, plug it in. That is the whole set-up.
The aluminium tube clicks into the body and the head clicks onto the tube. Press a microfibre pad onto the head. No screws, no tools.
Up to 400 ml of tap water with the measuring cup, cap on. You can see the level through the side, so you know when to top it up.
Pick low for laminate or high for tiles, start at the far corner and work back towards the socket. For the rug, snap the glider on under the head. For the grout, lift the unit out.
What's in the box
The glider, the second pad and the measuring cup are in the box, not sold separately. Keep the box for 60 days in case you want to send it back.
| Power | 2000 WPlugs into the wall, 220 to 240 V. |
|---|---|
| Ready in | 20 secondsFrom switching on to steam at the pad. |
| Steam per fill | Up to 25 minutesTwo steam speeds: low for laminate and sealed wood, high for tiles, lino and grout. |
| Tank | 400 mlYou can see the water level. Top it up any time. |
| Cord | 4.8 m |
| Weight | About 2 kg |
| Size | 107.5 cm tallAluminium tube. Pivoting head 25 × 15 cm. |
| Floors | Sealed wood, laminate, tiles, stone, lino and marbleCarpets and rugs freshened up with the snap-on glider. |
| Handheld | The steam unit lifts outGrout, the hob, the shower screen, the taps and the loo. |
| Water | Tap waterNo cleaner, no second tank. Descale now and then in a hard-water area, like the kettle. |
| Plug | UK three-pin plug |
| Certified | UKCA, CE and RoHS |
| Guarantee | 5 yearsHeater, pump and body. No registration. Plus 60 days to try it at home. |
Spare microfibre pads stay in stock for five years. Ask at [email protected] any time.
Is it right for you?
For people who want the hard floors done properly without a bucket, and are fed up with steam mops that stop steaming at month thirteen.
If the first list sounds like your floors, this is the steam mop. And you have 60 days to try it at home.
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Your guarantee
Never heard of Vekto? Try it at home for 60 days. Put the mop and bucket in the shed for two months: the kitchen, the hall, the bathroom, the grout, the hob. If the floor is not cleaner and dry faster than it was with the bucket, send it back and get every penny, no quibble. After that it is covered for five years on the heater, the pump and the body, with no registration.
Two months at home. Full refund, no quibbles.
Heater, pump and body. Repaired or replaced free.
Fast and tracked to your door anywhere in the UK. Nothing to pay at the door. Tracking number emailed the moment it leaves.
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Common questions
The usual killer of a steam mop is scale in the heater, and the usual answer is twelve months of cover and a registration form. This one is covered for five years on the heater, the pump and the body, with no form. Tap water is fine. In a hard-water area, run a descaler through it now and then, the way you do the kettle, and it keeps steaming. If it ever stops, you get it repaired or replaced, free.
No. There are two steam speeds. Low puts a fine steam through the pad for laminate and sealed wood, and the board is dry in about a minute. High is for tiles, lino and stuck-on bits. A steam mop that leaves puddles is one that has stopped heating properly, or one with a single setting that is too much for laminate. This one has neither problem.
Yes, on sealed laminate, which is what nearly every laminate sold in the UK is. Use the low speed, keep the mop moving, and the floor is dry before the next board has a chance to take any water in. It is not for unsealed or waxed wood, and if your laminate is lifting at the joints already, steam will not fix that. If in doubt, try a corner behind the sofa first.
Tap water is fine. The tank is 400 ml and you can see the level through the side, so you fill it from the tap with the measuring cup and go. In a hard-water area, in the south and the east especially, run a descaler through it now and then, the same as the kettle. In Scotland, Wales and most of the north you will rarely need to.
The cord is 4.8 m. A kitchen, a hall or a bathroom is one socket. A long open-plan downstairs means one change of socket halfway, so plan the route from the far corner back towards the socket. The 400 ml tank gives up to 25 minutes of steam, so the water lasts longer than the lead does.
That is what it is for. Lift the steam unit out of the mop and point it at the line of grout, the burnt-on ring on the hob, the track of the shower door, the scale round the taps or the base of the loo. Hold it a few seconds, wipe with a cloth. It loosens what a sponge and a bottle of cleaner would not shift. Very old, stained grout may need more than one go.
It lifts the pile and freshens a rug or a hallway runner, and it takes the flattened look out of where the sofa was. It does not wash a carpet or lift a stain. Snap it on under the head for the rug, snap it off for the hard floor. It is in the box as part of the free gift.
The Carpet & Spare Pad Kit: the snap-on carpet glider, a second microfibre pad so a dry one is always to hand while the other is in the wash, and the measuring cup. It is in the box with every order, at no extra cost. Both pads wash in the machine and come out like new.
Send a message to [email protected] and you get it repaired or replaced, free. The 5-year guarantee covers the heater, the pump and the body, counted from the day yours arrives, with no registration and no 28-day window. Pads stay in stock for five years. And you have 60 days to send it back for a full refund if it does not suit your floors.
Stop filling the bucket. Stop keeping everyone out of the kitchen while it dries. Stop buying a steam mop every eighteen months. The Vekto Steam Mop S20 does the floors and the grout, goes back in the cupboard, and is covered for five years with no form to fill in. It is delivered free and fast from our UK warehouse.
