Whether you're doing a brief mop or the annual spring clean, the job is made much easier with an effective floor cleaner.
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Our expert testers
We buy floor cleaners available from major supermarkets and use our laboratory for testing them. We also work out value for money of each product by measuring how much is recommended per use vs how much it costs to purchase at time of testing.
How we choose which floor cleaners we test
With a range of products on the market, what makes us choose one floor cleaner to test over another? As with most of our product testing, our aim is to test the most brands on the market and what you're most likely to see in stores.
We check in-store to see what's available and survey manufacturers to find out about their range of products. From this information we put together a final list that goes to our buyers. They then head out to the retailers and purchase each product, just as a normal consumer would. We do this so we can be sure they're the same as any consumer would find them and not 'tweaked' in any way.
How we test floor cleaners
Lab experts put each floor cleaner to the test by soiling white ceramic tiles with oily grime. Using a scrubbing apparatus with a damp cloth (or wipe) attached, the tiles are scrubbed 20 times. The reflectance readings are measured before and after cleaning to determine the overall score which is a measure of dirt removal.
CHOICE Expert Rating
Dirt removal accounts for 100% of this overall score.
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