The Tineco iFloor Breeze cordless vacuum and floor washer is a remarkably versatile and attractive device which effortlessly allows you to maintain spotless floors.
If you are looking for a small, lightweight, apartment-friendly floor washer, take a look at the features this Tineco iFloor Breeze offers to help you with keeping hard surface floors in your home very clean and sparkly. Make maintenance an easy task, not a chore, with the Tineco and live in a healthier, cleaner environment by using it frequently.
What can it do? Vacuum carpets, refreshes carpets, vacuum hard floors, mop hard floors, clean up all pet hair and “accidents” and serve as a general purpose light-duty wet/dry vacuum! It has a very well-engineered, light-weight body that is very easy to maintain. If you hate dragging out a heavy carpet cleaning machine or finding a way to shove it back into a crowded closet, this multi-purpose cleaner will solve that problem too.
Tineco is an innovative Chinese manufacturing company founded in 1998. It focuses on adding intelligent technology to consumer products. It introduced a smart vacuum cleaner in 2019 and a smart hair dryer in 2020. Its motto is “Live Easy, Enjoy Life.” The iFloor Breeze multi-surface floor washer is the company’s newest entry for home use.
Consider these features:
• iFloor Breeze compact cordless vaccum and floor washer (Model #FW040100US)
• Simultaneously vacuums and washes carpets, area rugs and hard surface floors
• Large non-slip ergonomic handle for effortless control
• Brushless digital motor for powerful, quiet operation
• IPX4 water resistance
• Automatic solution dispensing, adjustment for heavier dispensing rate
• Cleaning solution dispensing rate: 1 ounce/minute (normal), 3.4 ounce/minute (heavy)
• LED lights on controls
• 20 minutes running time from 21.6 volt lithium ion battery
• Maximum recharge time: 4 hours
• 190 watt motor provides excellent suction power
• Handle on base to aid in carrying unit
• 10.5 inch wide cleaning path
• 20 ounce cleaning solution tank
• 17 ounce dirty water tank with automatic shut-off
• High-impact clear brush window
• Brush roller easily removes for cleaning
• One multi-surface brush roller included
• One 16 ounce Deodorizing and Cleaning Solution bottle included
• 3 in 1 docking tray (with brush roller and filter stand) stores, cleans and charges unit
• Lightweight! Just 9.5 pounds!
• Two year limited warranty
The out of the box first impression was WOW…., it has noticeably sleek and clean lines …looks like a TESLA designer was working on this product. Very easy to assemble – just insert the handle into the body and you are ready to go. Press the power button, tilt back the handle and the iFloor Breeze begins quietly whirring, self-powering its way around as it cleans your floors. Tilt the handle back upright and the unit turns off. Elegantly simple!
And, for those of us who do not like hauling around an unwieldly heavy floor cleaner, this is your lucky day! You have in this unit a very lightweight, easy to lift (only 9.5 pounds) and maneuverable cleaner. For extra dirty surfaces press a button just above the power switch to add extra cleaning solution to dissolve the soil. You will really appreciate fine engineering of the brush head – it actually drives itself forward to lightly wash away the dust and dirt on the floor. You do not push it across the floor – it pulls you and glides across your floors! This may seem like a small feature but the effort of cleaning your floors is greatly reduced by this nice touch.
The brush head is extremely maneuverable. It can get into hard-to-reach under-furniture spaces. However, it should be noted that it does not get flush to the walls or to the very corners of the floor. The rotating brush is framed by the housing about one inch on all sides. Therefore floor edges need to be wiped with a mop or rag for thorough cleaning. This adds a small extra task to get those dusty corners. That is not a major problem – think of it as an opportunity to give baseboards a needed wiping also when getting the dirty corners and edges. So, it just requires an extra swipe of a cleaning rag.
The unit comes with an ultra-concentrated cleaning solution that uses just a capful of solution for a tank of clean water. The provided 16 ounce bottle should last for many washings and it really does a nice job in both cleaning and deodorizing. The unit has separate tanks for the cleaning solution and extracted dirty water. The two water tank system makes it easy to add more cleaning solution or dispose of dirty water. When you are finished just remove the two tanks, pour the dirty water down a toilet and rinse both containers. I recommend that you rinse out the area around the brush head and pour water through the suction hole to really eliminate collected debris from the unit. It collects a lot of dirt from your floors and you will want to be sure to have it really clean for your next use. Also, rinse out the sponge HEPA filter after each use. The entire post-cleaning process takes just a couple of minutes.
The fluffy roller brush is as described, ideal for hard floors, cleans thoroughly and is easy to remove for rinsing and replacing on the unit. The water on the roller that gets applied to floor and swept off dries in a minute or so and I saw no clouding or streaks when I used the cleaning solution at the normal application rate (one ounce per minute.) I suggest that you buy a couple of extra brush rollers and sponge HEPA filters so that you can have clean, dry parts ready at all times.
The handle has a very ergonomic design and features a cushioned hand hold for comfortable use. It is a nice length for people of every height and makes control of the iFloor Breeze quite easy.
The unit has a relatively short run time (20 minutes on a full charge.) In some ways this is actually a good feature, not a bug, because you will consciously work quickly and thereby make the chore of floor cleaning a short experience. Nevertheless, one design element which I wish Tineco would rethink is that the battery is not removable. It would be nice to have the option of charging a spare battery and exchanging batteries when the charge is depleted. But since most will use this cleaner for relatively small jobs, this is not a big issue. I also wish that Tineco would include a spare cleaning roller brush in the box.
So how well does it clean? Hardwood and tile floors: A+! I found that it did an outstanding job on all of the hard surfaces, cleaning the floor and then pulling up all of the sudsy water and dirt. Aside from the issue of the edge-cleaning weakness, it left the floor clean, dry and streak-free! As a bonus, although it is not meant for heavy-duty carpet cleaning I found that running it over large area rugs served to refresh them, removing surface soil and deodorizing them.
All in, I would say the Tineco is an ideal cleaning companion for smaller spaces. It is really useful for anyone who needs a lightweight unit because of limited mobility. My elderly mother says this is the perfect floor cleaner for her as it exactly meets her needs for a lightweight and easy to handle device given her mild arthritis pain in her hands. I recommend it and think it deserves four stars. (Maybe I am being a bit stingy but the relatively short running time, edge-cleaning issues and lack of a spare roller brush cost it one star.)