In fact I had to jiggle the machine around until the charging light came on. When I first mounted the unit into the cleaning station’s provided port, it refused to engage with the power supply. However I do have one major gripe to mention and it’s the dodgy interface between the machine and the charger-cum-cleaning station. I can’t really find anything negative to say about the design of the machine itself or its performance. A separate button activates the self-cleaning mode when the unit is mounted to the charger-cum-cleaning station.
And because the roller brush stretches across almost the entire width of the cleaning head, it will tackle spills right to the edge.Īside from the on/off button, the CrossWave Max also has a floor selector that activates two types of water intensity for treated wooden floors and non-porous compounds like tile, linoleum, polished concrete. The roller itself measures nine inches (about 23cm) in width and is made from a soft wooly material with several extended bristles for scrubbing obstreperous substances off the floor. This means you can clean for much longer than others without having to refill the clean water tank or empty the dirty one. The CrossWave Max weighs a very respectable 5.22kg and comes with an extra large 828ml clean water tank and a larger-than-average 550ml dirty water tank with filter attached. The idea is that, on release of the trigger, the vacuum system is activated to suck up all excess liquid, leaving the floor dryer than most of its competitors.
This is because the machine only dispenses water to the roller when the trigger is pulled. The CrossWave Max is super easy to master as long as you can get a handle on the concept of pulling a trigger while you push and releasing it when you pull. It also features a powerful vacuum motor to suck up all sorts of liquid mess in the path of its nine-inch maw, including spilled cereals, porridge and unsavoury substances like vomit, dog wee and possibly even other forms of liquified excremental matter which I wasn’t keen on experimenting with. Like the similarly-styled Tineco Floor One S3 and Roborock Dyad, the CrossWave is a fully cordless mopping system that cleans hard floors of all styles – including treated wood – using water, cleaning solution and a fast-rotating woolly roller. Whatever, it’s a strangely attractive thing – for a mop. Presumably the CrossWave Max gets its name from the wavy shape of its side profile. It’s also more readily available online and from a company with a foot placed firmly in the UK – and that makes it easier to get things fixed when/if required. And the main reasons why it’s so brilliant is because it’s a bit lighter than the others, it stands up on its own, it washes floors superbly well, it cleans itself afterwards and it all comes apart really easily for occasional rinse trips to the sink. I’ve even given some hard floor steam cleaners a whirl which you can read about in T3’s guide to the Best Steam Cleaners.Ĭonsequently, I’d like to think I’ve tested a fair breadth of hard floor cleaning options these past few weeks to form a valid opinion, but truth is I haven’t tested any model to date that’s as good as the Bissell CrossWave Cordless Max. To date I’ve tried the excellent cordless Tineco Floor One S3 and Roborock Dyad, the cordless Kärcher EWM 2 – a simple roller mop that also dispenses water but doesn’t really suck it up or clean itself – and the cordless two-in-one Roidmi RS70, which transforms from a efficient vacuum cleaner into a wet mop.
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