The Roborock Flexi Lite is a powered vacuum/mop with a particularly elegant style – it looks svelte. Its best use is on hard floors as a one-pass vacuum and mop.
The powered mop category has exploded in the past two years with brands including Tineco, Eufy (Mach), Narwal, Karcher, HiZero, and many more. Dyson, LG and Samsung have mop head attachments or power mops.
The theme has many variations – single, double, and quad rollers, clean water bottle sizes, wastewater handling, with/without vacuum suction, steam, combo, lay-flat and more. We wrote a guide, Five tips for choosing a cordless power mop which we try to update after every review.
What should a power vacuum/mop do?
First, consider it a hard-floor-only mop with benefits because most are not vacuums in the traditional sense. Few vacuums/mops can operate as vacuums only and are not for carpets (unless you want wet carpets).
Clean water is supplied from a clean tank to a rotating roller/s, and dirty water is squeegee/bladed off to the wastewater tank. A …