These Compact Appliances Can Vacuum and Mop at the Same Time

This story was updated in August 2022 to ensure all recommendations vetted and tested by the Good Housekeeping Institute Home Appliances and Cleaning Lab were in stock and correctly priced.

Cleaning your floors in just one step used to be the stuff of fantasy, but a new category of floor cleaners now exists that stands to revolutionize how we clean our floors. While you could get a robot mop that vacuums and then passes a wet pad across your floors, these new upright devices can vacuum up dry dirt and wet messes, actually cleaning and washing your floors all in one step. Easy to set up, use and store, vacuum mops combine the suction of a high-powered vacuum and the wet cleaning power of a top-rated mop all in one device.

For this roundup of the best vacuum-mop combos, we put 11 of the newest, best-selling vacuum mops through dozens of performance and ease of use tests. Our experts cleaned up 143 messes over a two-month period — everything from cereal to soy sauce stains — taking meticulous notes on how well these vacuum mops performed and how easy they were to assemble, use, clean and store. We tested on vinyl and hardwood flooring to assure that no damage was caused by cleaning with these devices.

Our top vacuum mop picks:

The picks below are the six models that earned the highest scores across all categories and have the features our experts would want from a vacuum mop that we'd use in our own homes.