Tineco Floor One S6 FlashDry Review: Takes care of the worst spills and the basic cleaning

I’ve got a chequered history with wet and dry floor cleaners – the concept is outstanding but sometimes the additional work they present after the fact can be a pain.

I’m a do the job and put it away kinda cleaner, so if there’s cleaning of the cleaning product to do after I’ve used the cleaning product then it’s a hard sell. Probably why I love robot vacuums with Auto Empty stations so much frankly.

The one time I tried a wet and dry product at home my wife almost immediately noticed a smell in the dining room where the Vacuum stood on it’s base, it stank, because I am useless and didn’t clean it properly after use – aparently.

Fast forward to today, and I’m on a winner. I look like a genius. Not only can I clean up the messiest spills and get the floors looking great, but there’s no odor in the room!

I must be spending loads of time pulling it apart to clean the rollers, the waste tank and all those things to keep this from happening right?

Wrong. It does it all itself. Boom!

The Tineco Floor One S6 Flashdry retails around $899, and not only can it clean your floors – picking up dry and wet spills, but it can clean itself.

From spilt bread crumbs when making chicken schnitzel to a full cracked egg on the floor. Turn the Tineco Floor One S6 on, it self propels itself forward and you just guide it over the floor.

You’re really just steering it, the pull it has to move itself forward is quite impressive, but this also allows you to pull back on it to get a bit of friction back, slow it up and focus on a particular area.

When doing a general floor clean this isn’t necessary, that’s more just a pattern approach, walking backwards doing long cleaning strokes forward across the floor – like you would vacuuming, because this is both vacuuming and mopping at the same time.

I literally cracked an egg (Well, Harri did, and loved it) in front of the Tineco Floor One S6 Flashdry, and it gobbled it up, all except the large uncracked half shell, which you would pickup yourself in any case.

Not to be complacent, we had to test it again – this time – would we be crying over spilt milk? Let’s see. Harri poured more than I expected after suggesting this was a “waste of resources” though he gleefully ran to the fridge to grab it.

Again, smooth and clean.

I think in these instances it’s critical to give the area a full clean again to ensure you’re getting a clean brush onto the floor.

What’s happening is the base of the unit is “scraping” the muck from the roller and sucking it into the waste water tank.

What surprises me most is how little water this machine uses overall though.

Given it’s cleaning the brush and wetting the brush as we go, it’s really quite impressive.

The roller goes quote close to the edge for your regular clean which is great.

I’m torn on who wants this, because the Robots do a great job of the daily clean. The “stick vac” does a good job of the quick clean, do we need this also for the horror spill?

More likely this does the job of the stick vacuum and the horror spill for a home with primarily hard floors.

Impressive stuff.

Oh, and if you’re wanting some yuk in your life – here’s what it looks like emptying the waste tank.

And then, the real star performance comes when it’s back on dock. Press the self clean button and you’re initiating a whole extra process of self-cleaning.

Using hot water to dissolve stains and deep clean the brush, and then, spinning at high speed there’s hot air drying to give the brush a fresh start ready to clean again.

It’s not some rushed process either, takes a good 3-5 minutes, and you know it, because the unit speaks to you. Reminds you to empty the waste tank, reminds you to self clean, it’s really quite a helpful unit, not nagging.

And yes, again, here’s the waste tank AFTER the self clean – imagine if this was left on the brush! Yuk!

Nice job!

If spills happen at your place, this is well worth a look.