Bissell Commercial BigGreen BGFS650 Hercules Scrub and Clean Floor Machine, Green

This worked beautifully on 100-year-old hardwood flooring that had been covered by carpet for decades. We used YouTube for recommended cleaners. It was a mess and turned out better than expected. Very easy to use, even for this 75-year-old woman LOL. Excellent build quality, this should last a long time. Nice design for comfortable ergonomics. Easy cleanup when job is completed.

Searched several options for a floor scrubber. Even contemplated renting. Finally decided on this scrubber. My primary concerns were the ability of the scrubber to do the job and reliability. I have about 1800 sq ft of ceramic tile that needed a good scrubbing. The scrubber exceeded my expectations. I used the Zep floor cleaner at 1oz per gallon of water. Just poured some on the floor and started scrubbing. It not only cleaned the floor of several years of accumulated crap up in the master bath, it also cleaned a couple of years of grease and grime from the kitchen/family room areas. Key is using lots of cleaner and going over the same area a couple of passes. You literally need the floor covered in cleaner and use the scrubber to move it around and pass over each area multiple times. Doing it that way it even got most of the grout clean. Next scrubbing those will probably clean also. By lots of cleaner I used 3 gallons of water and 3 oz of Zep for the entire 1800sq ft! Not sure which is the better buy. The scrubber or the Zep! So this little scrubber is very capable of cleaning most home floors. As far as reliability I'll only know for certain many years from now, hopefully! But even though it uses plastic wheels and maybe even gears I've been around for over 60 years and frankly all of those machines made out of "iron" were not that good. The old days were never as good as we remember them. This scrubber seems to be well built for what it's intended. Home use. If it lasts long enough to clean the tile this well ever year for the next ten years I'll be happy. If it lasts twenty years then I'll be more than happy and more than 80 years old! Beats the hell out of the old days of actually scrubbing floors!

First off, this floor scrubber is NOT an industrial deep grout cleaning machine. After reading the reviews I understood that before buying. The machine is VERY lightweight and has several warnings both on the machine and in the directions not to apply any weight to force the scrubbers, if you do this you will wear the motor out long before the machine is ready to die. This is a SURFACE scrubber, so if your grout is even a millimeter indented from the surface of the tile it will NOT scrub your grout. So why did I give it four stars? Because what it does do is scrub the floor. If you are looking for something to scrub a floor that does not have grout and is all the same level, or if you are looking to scrub tiles and handle your grout separately this is an awesome little machine! The previous owners of our house had painted the bathroom floor tile with latex paint. I had been hand scrubbing the paint off on my hands and knees with a scrub brush. After purchasing this floor scrubber I was able to do the entire floor in about an hour and it removed all of the latex paint with no effort on my part other than moving the machine along the floor. HOWEVER, due to how lightweight the machine is it does not apply any pressure at all to the scrubbers. There were a few spots on the floor of toilet seal wax, from where my husband had replaced our toilet. No matter how many times I went over it with the scrubber it would not scrub the wax off, only loosen it and I went over it with a towel and pulled it off. It is a great shower floor scrubber for maintenance cleaning, but again not if you were trying to remove years of staining and dirt from the grout. Conclusion - this is a great little machine for removing dirt and lightly stuck on debris from flat, even surfaces. It is extremely light and easy to carry up and down stairs. It doesn't take up much room in a utility closet and there are no tanks to clean or empty. It does NOT have the power of machines that you would rent but is great for making maintenance cleaning easier and faster.

I was the dummy who continued to mop her laminate wood floors with Mop N Glo. I realized too late that my floors were no longer getting clean and had dirt embedded in the waxy film. I was on my hands and knees scrubbing the wax off the floor and after about 20 hours I hadn't even made it out of the kitchen. So I bought this to help speed up the process. It did the job and it was easier on my back but it still took multiple times to get the wax off. And all of that would be okay if the motor wouldn't overheat after 4-5 minutes of use. The first day I didn't have an issue but I was doing a hall so I had to do small sections at a time. The next day it was extremely frustrating waiting on my machine to work again. Scrub 4 minutes, wait 30. It took 13 hours to do our living room and most of that was spent waiting on the machine. In hindsight, I probably should have hired some professionals with a better machine to strip the wax off my floor. I'm not necessarily sorry I bought it and I realize it's not a high end machine but I was disappointed that it overheated so quickly.

I clean professionally and use this machine actually to agitate solution into commercial low pile carpet with brushes. It works excellent as it's not too heavy, it's fast and easy to operate. Disassembles into pieces for easy transportation. Nice long cord. comes with extra pads for polishing tiles. 1200rpm rotating brushes is also great for carpet encap cleaning. Note: Although the description says not suitable for carpet it actually works great for low pile carpet, area rugs where you can't use heavy agitators. It's also excellent for resilient floors or hard floors. I would give the machine a break after about an hour or two use as this is not a heavy duty commercial machine.