Clean+Wash Hygiene: Clean floors are an engineer's job

Engineers solve problems. They don't always succeed, but they work with this posture. Dyson, of all consumer electronics and home appliance companies, is the one shaped most like its founder. James Dyson is a British inventor, designer and entrepreneur but, above all else, he is an engineer, the kind who solves problems. The Clean+Wash Hygiene, the British company's new floor cleaner, tries to solve a problem that is as widespread as it is little discussed: appliance hygiene. Let me explain: floor washers, while cleaning, become dirty themselves. Most models on the market use filters that clog, absorb stagnant water, proliferate bacteria and eventually release unpleasant odours. You usually notice after a few weeks, the floor smells less like 'clean' and more like 'wet cloth forgotten in the bucket'.

Clean+Wash Hygiene tries to eliminate the very thing that causes problems in competitors: filters. Dirt is confined to the brush and does not circulate in the inner tubes. At the heart of the system is an extremely high-density microfibre roller: 84,000 filaments per square centimetre, an amount that, to put it in a nutshell, is equivalent to compressing the fibre of an entire spectacle wipe into a fingernail. This forest of microfilaments is constantly regenerated with clean water. This writer has tested the previous model, the WashG1, which was not perfect. This new product is not a quantum leap. The low weight and compact head make it less tiring to use, more agile, and suitable for quick and frequent cleaning. Excellent dirt isolation and simplified internal flow. For those who live in completely paved houses, do frequent cleaning and consider the bucket a 20th century legacy, the answer may be relevant. For those looking for a single tool that can replace hoover, floor cleaner and textile surface care, the Clean+Wash remains a piece, not the mosaic.