How to repair a bucket with a wringer and a mop. Using an old CD-rom to repair a mop

If the mop is good and of high quality, has a reinforced frame and a handle made of thick-walled pipe, you can replace the sponges on it about ten times.

How to choose the right spare sponge?

The first step is to visit a hardware store or a store with household chemicals. If the mop is inexpensive, most common types of replacement sponges will do. If this household item has a higher than average price, be prepared for a longer search.

In any case, it would be a good idea to take an old sponge with you to the store, having first disconnected it from the sponge. You will learn how to do this a little later. The main criterion when choosing a new spare part is the size of the sponge spine. It is a metal clip with four holes. It is worth starting from the size of this clip and the location of the mounting holes on it: they must match completely.

What will be needed for replacement?

To replace the sponge on a squeegee mop, all you need is a large Phillips screwdriver, pliers and a bucket. hot water. It is worth preparing and workplace: Repairing a squeegee mop can be done directly on the floor or on a table of sufficient size. It is very important that the workplace is cleared of unnecessary things and that nothing interferes with your work. If there is a potential assistant nearby, he will also not be out of place.

Changing the sponge on a squeegee mop in three steps

Step one: remove the old sponge. To get rid of the worn-out jaw or what is left of it, you need to unscrew the four screws that secure the part to the movable hinge. Here the first difficulty arises: those screws that are closer to the center of the spine are quite problematic to get to. Although the spine itself moves in the longitudinal direction, it will not be possible to hold it in place and unscrew the screw at the same time. A couple of extra hands wouldn't hurt here.

Action two: routine repairs. Since the mop is disassembled, why not check it out? technical condition? Using pliers, you need to tighten the nuts on the mounting bolts and studs, and check that the plastic coupling is securely attached to the mop handle. If this unit becomes loose, it is better to immediately make additional fixation with several self-tapping screws.

Step three: install a new sponge. Having removed the store film from the part, we install it in place. We must not forget that the sponge can be moved along the squeezing mechanism so that the hinge parts do not interfere with tightening all four screws. By the way, it is better to tighten the screws immediately until they stop, and not to tighten them first: this way the likelihood that the sponge will quickly become loose will be minimal.

Preparing the mop for work

What you need to do immediately after replacing the sponge on a squeezing mop is to soften the foam rubber. To do this, immerse the mop in a bucket and pour boiling water into it so that the sponge is completely under water. After five minutes of soaking, the repaired mop can already be used.

I'm not a neat freak. If I’m wearing street shoes and remember that my cell phone is in the room, I won’t take off my shoes. So I'll go get my cell phone.
Because of this, I have to wash the floor frequently. And I don't like cleaning.
But this is necessary for cleanliness, and in the kitchen sterility is absolutely necessary.
I not only eat there and hunt mice, but also make soap, cream, and other things. I don’t do it now because of the mouse. Temporarily. But one way or another, I have to clean often and the floor must be very clean.
So that there would be nothing for the mouse to eat, and it would be clean for me.
I once wrote about what mop I chose for myself:
Now I’ll just repeat the picture. Some kind of mop like this.

I bought a pack of rags for this mop at the “everything for 38” (fix price) store. The fact is that in ordinary supermarkets such a cloth costs from 155 rubles. per piece
By the way. I don’t recommend buying such a mop at a fix price store. Fragile! I managed to break an expensive one, but breaking this one is a piece of cake. And one more thing. I broke it, but we fixed it. That is, it is repairable! You can buy endlessly! The plastic breaks. Assembled on metal. Now this is an eternal mop. I had to tinker a bit with drilling out the hole and assembling the bolt and nuts. But if you have a drill, a screwdriver and a box of bolts in the house, you don’t even have to go to the store. Everything is selected and assembled on site. We needed 4 hands. Some hands hold, others collect. Everything took an hour, no more. But I had to tinker. Not the simplest design.



But I wasn’t talking about a mop. This is just a word.
I bought a lot of mop cloths.
I put this cloth on the mop and wipe the floor. I just throw the rag in the bucket and put on a clean one. If you are doing general cleaning, first use rags with detergent, then with water, then dry. They all fall off and go into a separate bucket/basin after use.
And cleaning the entire apartment takes no more than 20 minutes. Because I don't rinse rags. I just put on clean ones as needed. Washing solution during spring cleaning does not get dirty, since only a clean rag always gets wet in it. At the end of cleaning, the cleaning solution is still clean!
When the supply of clean rags comes to an end after another general cleaning, I don’t pour out the solution, but rinse the rags in it one by one. I just rinse it off a little from the sand. Since the operation is of the same type, it is done quickly. I dipped it in, rinsed it a little and set it aside. Next rag. Then water with the sand that has settled at the bottom into the pot, and the whole pile of rags into the washing machine. I can never wash them in my life like a washing machine can do. She's really cleaning it up!
Then the rags dry and are stacked again. To take the top one.
There is always a clean cloth on the mop. Always ready to wipe up where something has dripped or spilled.
This cleaning method is for the lazy. For those who want to quickly clean up without overworking and without tiring their hands.
People wash their sneakers in the washing machine. Why you can’t wash floor rags there personally is not very clear. Is it really possible to rinse and wring out rags with your hands? This is both time and labor!
Since we're talking about cleaning. I will share one more discovery. It was made by an elderly woman suffering high pressure, and I licked it off.
The easiest way to clean a bathtub is with a toilet brush. Of course, you can have a separate brush))) No need to bend low and rub with difficulty. The brush is convenient! I doused it with bath cleaner and a brush once, once! Really convenient way! More convenient than a bath brush. You don't have to bend over low.
Just sharing my experience.
If you have any secrets for quick and easy cleaning, please share with me.

This article will not contain information about repairing a steam mop; I will only tell you about repairing the most ordinary mop.

One day, while hard at work cleaning the floors, a mop purchased for 200 rubles in one of the city’s supermarkets was successfully broken. Analysis of the breakdown showed that the connection between the handle and the main part of the mop failed because The fastenings are made entirely of plastic. The photo shows exactly where the breakdown occurred. It was decided to do mop repair.

When visiting stores, I was constantly looking for a replacement mop so that the connections at the point of failure were made of metal. Soon such a unit was found, but the price of 1,500 rubles was too bad to pay for a piece of “plastic.”

Armed with a universal joint for 80 rubles, I set about repairing the mop. Process mop repair I didn’t take pictures, there’s nothing complicated there. We saw off the protruding parts with a hacksaw, drill holes and attach them with super glue. As a result, we get an improved and strengthened version of the mop for not a lot of money. Look at the photo for the result:

If you needed to repair a steam mop, you couldn’t do it yourself; you would have to take the mop to a service center. There are a lot of reviews about such cool mops that they are very convenient and clean well, but what stops you from buying is that they quickly break down and require repair of the steam mop.

So that housekeeping is not a burden, so that cleaning the house and maintaining cleanliness takes minimal time, it is important to use high-quality equipment and tools. I already wrote about what types of mops there are in the article. I recently bought a new York Salsa mop, made in Poland, with a replaceable microfiber mop. Mops are available in several colors - blue, green, orange and pink.

This comfortable mop with a microfiber head consists of a handle, a platform and a replaceable head.

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The handle is made of metal, I hope it will last a long time. I read a lot of reviews on the Internet that housewives quickly broke plastic handles. Due to the fact that the handle is telescopic, its length can be changed from 80 cm to 140 cm. This can be done by turning the plastic ring.

The handle has a plastic rotating loop at the end. The York Salsa mop can be hung on a hook for storage.

If the handle does break, you can buy a replacement in the store.

Platform (mop holder)

The nozzle platform is made of high quality plastic. Thanks to the special design of the platform, it is very mobile and maneuverable. It can penetrate into the most inaccessible corners of the apartment, easily maneuver among things and clean under low-lying furniture.

To make the attachments easy to remove and put on, there is a button on the platform. By pressing it, the platform will fold almost in half.

For ease of storage, the platform can be fixed pressed against the handle. In this form it takes up little space.

Microfiber nozzle (mop)

The main advantage of this attachment is that it is made of microfiber. You can read about all the advantages of this material in the article.

The villi (“worms”) of the mop are very soft to the touch. Thanks to these “worms” the floor will always be clean, whether it’s parquet, tiles, laminate or linoleum or a simple wooden floor.

You need to care for a microfiber nozzle in the same way as any microfiber cloth (read the article).

If one mop is not enough for cleaning, then you can buy a spare one or make a nozzle yourself.

Using a York Salsa mop with a microfiber pad

This mop can successfully replace several cleaning devices. Using a cleaning mop, you can perform both dry and wet cleaning. The dry cleaning method does not use water or detergents. Due to the electrostatic effect, all dust and dirt are easily collected. During wet cleaning, microfiber has excellent absorbing and cleaning properties and does not leave streaks on the floor.