Chances are you have an area in your home that features hard-surface flooring. Hard surfacing flooring is any non-carpet flooring material. This includes solid hardwood, engineered wood, natural stone, ceramic or porcelain tile, luxury vinyl plank or tile, laminate, or linoleum.

So, what’s the best way to clean a large area with a hard surface? Angie recommends using this dust mop and a flat mop. Surprisingly, it is faster and more efficient to clean your hard surface flooring with a dust mop versus vacuuming it.

When cleaning a room with a hard surface, Angie recommends starting with the dust mop and walking around the perimeter of the room with the mop. Stop once all the dust is in a pile. Next, walk backwards in a figure 8 (see diagram above), covering about 3 feet with each twist of the figure 8 (it might be more than 2 rows if the floor is very large) and ending by pushing the dirt into the pile created from dusting the perimeter. Continue this pattern until the whole surface has been dusted. Be sure not to lift the dust mop, or the dirt will go flying.

After pushing all dirt into a pile, you can vacuum it up. Angie suggests using this rubber brush to clean the dust mop. Then wet mopping can begin.

After the floor is clean, you should apply your preferred cleaning solution to your flat mop and start cleaning the floor. Be sure to choose a cleaner that is specific to your floor type.

Once you are done dusting and mopping the floor, you can remove both mop heads and clean them in the washing machine.