Mocho Vileda!

[vivalalavatrice]

What is the most strange tools to clean the floor?

If you ask this to any women here in Italy the most will answer you "Il mocho Vileda!"

I've always dreamt of having one and use it specially when you have to clean floor with hot water (here the most of the house has got ceramic floor, as well as mine either), or with a dangerous detergent containig ex. chlorinate...

This WONDERFUL tools, allow you to clean the floor without touching at all the water and having no contatct with it specially if it contains dangeorous substances (if you have the squeezing tools either, that one conic shapend!)

Now I've got one... I've never considered the floor cleaning such amazing doing it so softly without benidng down to the can...

This below is the only link I found for american folks too...

But although the brand Vileda is the same all over the world, the items change from a coutry to an other...

BYE
Diomede

http://www.o-cedar.com/prowring.asp

 

[vivalalavatrice]

For Euro folks too...

In Italian I didn't found anything...

but this is in Geramy...

http://www.vileda.de/

 

[vivalalavatrice]

And this is the holiding link..

Hera you are...

http://www.freudenberg.com/ecomaXL/index.php?site=Freudenberg_E_household_products_fhp

 

[oxydolfan1]

Oh, yeah, I have a lot of their stuff!

The self-wringing mops and tools have been growing in popularity in recent years, even though they do cost significantly more over here than our old-school cotton string mops.

My personal favorites are items from the "Casabella" cleaning line!

http://www.casabella.com

 

[foraloysius]

Personally I prefer Leifheit products over Vileda.

http://www.leifheit.de/2003/haushalt_gb/_framework/default/default_hhleifheit.php?id1=haushalt

 

[foraloysius]

Here's the American website

http://www.leifheitusa.com/

 

[veg-o-matic]

Dang, Louis! That Mr. Mister mop they have shoots the cleaning solution out at 290 PSI!

Gotta get me one o' them!

veg

 

[vivalalavatrice]

American OF COURSE better...

Louis I don't think that products you suggested me are availabel here either... here in Italy Vileda is the better sold!

Anyway... any american-sold-either product MUST to be better )

Good Bye
Diomede

 

[oxydolfan1]

Really, D?

Over here, these products set great store by their "Made In Italy" origins (the styling, the display, the origin printed prominently on the overwrap!)

Our home-grown, mass-market stuff tends to look a bit plainer.

The Vileda product I DO see selling big here are these square red buckets, with a round wringer attached to the center, that you place the mop into and wring out without touching...

I'm also seeing more and more Israeli-style "sponga"-type floor squeegees, that you throw a "shmatta" (rag) over and mop with.

 

[vivalalavatrice]

The truth oxy?

It makes my laughing ) Sorry... but...

Here we produce many items especially for foreign markets, European markets I mean...
For example Merloni's appliances many people know that are Italian and are sold very largely in EU... and here either of course

The oddity is that if you ask anyone what are the best quality (I mean material quality and reliablety), everyone will answer you German items (in EU market), and without any doubt American ones in the world...

The problem is the cost! So people renouce to the quality and go for Chinese products... lower quality but lower prices!

That's why many producers here has lost a lot of business especially after that Chinese have been increasing their quality maintaning such low costs!

I think that "Made in Italy" is only an abroad mark... only to impress people that those products are "made" (are thought better) with having paid attention to the details...

The elegance of the shaping form, what now is called "design", is the only "MADE IN ITALY" feature left...think to the fashio design, and to the Italian fashion Industries (Gucci, Armani, Versace...)

How do we say... "neighbours grass is ever grenn more!" Italian produce and sell abroad, while here just the same Italian have to buy Chinese...:-DDD
The globalization has made that and what else could make more?!?

GoodBye
Diomede

 

[oxydolfan1]

I agree. Most of the stuff we are talking about, has a very stylized design....

The one thing I remember about Italian washing machines were that they had very vivid colors....in Germany EVERYTHING was white, lol!!