Tineco Floor ONE S5 Smart Cordless Wet Dry Vac

Okay so this is disappointing that I was going to review the Combo Tineco but it pulls up my review on the expensive Tineco I bought last year. I guess you need to be aware of which Tineco someone is reviewing; the performance is NOT the same!. I am feeling very ripped of with the combo that was advertised as multi-surface because reading the instruction it says to not use it on carpet like my other Tineco. Yet directly 8n this as it boosts carpet as a surface to use it on. Also, this model doesn’t have a suction mode which is very valuable when you spill something. Compared to the other Tineco this isn’t even close to the same. If that was a 9 out of 10 then this one is a 4 out of 10. Review on the expensive one not the cheaper combo: The job it does and the speed I can clean things up is what I absolutely love. It is very lightweight and I can buy around the house quickly and it does a beautiful job…for the most part. When you hit rugs with super low pile it has a hard time grabbing hair from the dogs it just rolls them around and creates a ball of hair instead of vacuuming it up so I still need my heavy vacuum to really clean. But the biggest issue is it doesn’t hold much water. Every 2 minutes it tells me to fill the water, or empty the dirty water or clean the brush. It’s annoying that I cannot clean even one room without having to stop 2-3 times to do one of those three things. Maybe if you live in NY in a shoebox apartment, this would be fine, but out here in the country where we have normal sized houses, it’s a PITA. But I put up with it because it works. I will toss it out when the next tool comes out that can last a bit longer because it does drive me crazy. One other thing I don’t like is the place it puts solids that it picks up. They are wet and gross and the only way to dump that is getting your hands full of muck. That little piece the wet muck sits on has fallen in the trash several times too and I can see that if you lose that little 10 cent piece you’ve just rendered the entire machine useless. I do not see anywhere to buy a spare! Update after 3 months of usage. I had to change the filter as it was really dirty. So feelings about it still remain. The programming of the machine is more about a routine than a need. If I clean the floors then dump the dirty water and then put it on to recharge, it will still tell me to dump the dirty water and it won’t shut up until you (go through the motion) unlatch it and latch it again. Make sure you empty that dirty container because unlike a vacuum if you leave that wet muck in there things hatch and grow. The dirty container being plastic holds a smell that is really bad. When you turn it on and air blows it smells bad. The number one thing that grosses me out is having to use your hands to empty the waste in the wet dirty area, it’s gross especially if you’ve picker up bugs, spiders and flies off the floor. While I love how well it cleans that enough to make me never want to use it again. It complains about emptying, filling changing something about every minute so that’s my next pet peeve. While you’ll look at the dirty tank and say wow that’s big, I’m here to say NO it’s not because it can only be filled up about 1/3 of the way and then it stops working. It is NOT a smart machine! It just has a routine it expects you to follow and if you do things out of order it will still tell you to do it in its chosen order. Everytime you put it on the charge it wants to clean the machine. The issue with that is it will go though a tank of cleaner and then tell you to empty the dirty tank before and after the cleaning then you will have to fill the solution again because it used it all cleaning the machine. The machine cleaning makes the roller sopping wet so you may want some newspaper or paper towels to ring it out a bit. It also doesn’t clean behind the roller or down the tube of the dirty water tank; you’ll need the brush provided to do that. One other thing: pet fur doesn’t get tangled up in the roller or wheels but you do need to take 3 seconds take the roller off and Yang all the hair out from behind the roller that it catches (yep gross job #2). I think I’m going to look for some tongs that I can clip to this device and maybe that will take care of touching the gross stuff. It still cleans great! But the machine is in my opinion “high maintenance”.