Customer Reviews

Behrens #412W 12QT Comb Mop Bucket

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

My title is in response to those annoying commercials about replacing your mop and broom with a Swiffer. I have a fairly large home with hard floors, most of which are tile or laminate. After spending a small fortune on a multiude of new inventions to clean them, I now aknowledge that nothing gets the job done as well or any quicker that the old fashioned broom and mop. The best mop is a cotton string one without any mechanical devices in it for wringing, but my hands don't have much strength anymore and I needed to get a mop bucket with a wringer. This one is large enough to accomodate my big fluffy mop but small enough to fill in the kitchen sink and not too heavy for lifting it when filling or dumping. It appears to be made well enough to last for many years and was priced well below anything else in the same league.

I chose to purchase this wringer bucket because I love using a regular cotton mop for cleaning floors and the wheeled mop buckets are too large and too expensive for my average sized home. The bucket functioned great the first time I used it, but on the second use the little weld that holds the mechanism to rod coming out of the bucket snapped and the entire wringer mechanism came apart. I'm planning on going to the hardware store and purchasing a washer that I can crimp on the end so that the mechanism can't slide off the bar. I'm worried though, that as I continue using it more parts are going to break as wringing a mop creates a lot of tension on the mechanism. The design is great and worthy of 5 stars but the assembly of my bucket appears to be on the sloppy side, might not be true for others.

You might ask, "how can a galvanized mop bucket be bad?" Well, let me tell you, it can be!

After searching for this product in brick and mortar stores, I realized the day of a galvanized mop bucket had past. I own one that is probably 35 years old if it's a day and it works beautifully. I needed another for a vacation home and so ordered it. The price seemed right and the shipping was just under ten bucks so I got it.

When I opened it, I found that it was defective in several areas: 1. the "foot pad" where you stand on it to stabilize the pail to ring the mop, does not line up properly with the other "ringer" pad." So, this means instead of comfortably ringing the mop, you have to litterly stand directly of the pail while ringing - a major inconvenience because not only do you get the water all over your feet, you are off balance. The ringer pad is so high up that you need to hold onto something else, like a counter, before you can place you foot onto it.

2. The rollers themselves don't line up so there is a one inch difference from one end of the roller to the other, thus, the water never gets rung out properly.

3. The finish itself is so bad that if you attempt to touch the sides of the item anyplace there is a weld or screw, there are sharp bits of metal, and if you are not careful you end up with metal splinters.

4. The metal frame also came in bent in various areas. Since the box itself was in perfect condition, I must assume this is how it left the warehouse.

Return it? Forget it! They don't refund the shipping price, so, I'll not only be out the shipping costs but my cost to mail it back - in which case I'll have spent almost as much as the cost of the item itself, and then I'll have to go through the experience with someone else as well. So, I'll keep it as a reminder that once in awhile you get fooled.

Find someone else to get this from!

MC

Very effective mop bucket - price was right - just wish it was a bit wider so my full mop would wring at one time. Maybe I shoulda bought a bigger one, but I didn't want anything that heavy. I'd recommend it to anybody

I purchased this for my mother who suffers from rumitoid authoritis and has difficulity using her hands. I thought this would work great for her as she could wring the mop using the foot pedal and less stress on her hands. Well....this bucket forces you to stand on one "stabelizer" pedal and lift your foot nearly 12 inches off the ground to step down on the wringer pedal all while holding the mop handel and pulling upward through the wringers. It's very unstable to have to pull the mop through the wringer while using both feet to keep the bucket from falling over and pushing down on the wringer pedal, so much so, my mother requested I return it because she was afraid she would fall over trying to step on one handle, step up to the wringer pedal, then while doing all that pull the mop up through the wringer. I'm not 70 years old and I had alot of awakward feelings of falling over while using this product. I would not recommend this product. Great idea, just not user friendly

Ordered this wringer bucket because I'm sick of the 'self-wringing' mops pitched in stores these days. The bucket itself is great, seems very solid and well-made. However, the wringers don't really do the job like I expected (used this type of bucket for years as a kid). The wooden wringer rollers themselves are pretty lightweight. I expect them to break every time I use the wringer. Because the wringers are so small, I have to really stomp on the wringer pedal to get even a minimal wringing. I can't really wring a mop out using this contraption, even if I do it twice the mop is still soaking wet.

It's a great idea, but not carried out well in this product.

I hate putting my hands in dirty mop water. If you have pets like me.... I clean up messes from them. Who wants to hand wring a urine soaked mop? I feel like this is an affordable way to keep your house clean and your hands too!!

It hasn't broken yet but the rollers are too small to wring the entire width of the mop, and not strong enough to squeeze it very well. If you stick the mop back down then you've soaked all over again, so that doesn't work. It is rather UN-ergonomic and the pressing down with both feet while pulling up on the mop is quite a circus, and not so fun if you lose your balance in the process. Also, I feel I need to wear sturdy shoes in order to avoid injuring my feet on the metal "tabs". Cringe!

If you don't like the modern mops and you like the real feel of clean with out all the effort, this is your bucket. It is light enough to handel and yet very durable. Holds enough water and yet it helps you conserve water. Easy to clean and well worth the money, Which I didn't think was to much. I had looked for years for a good medal bucket. I could not be happier.

Behrens 412W Galvanized Mop Wringer Pail, this item performs to my expectations and is priced competitively. Also the pale is of a practical size for my small apartment.