How to make a mop with your own hands?

Wash floors on all fours with a rag is not quite comfortable and convenient. Especially if you remember that in the courtyard, after all, the twenty-first century. Of course, there is no question of an automated floorwash device, but one should not neglect such an effective technical means as a mop. The mop helps to wash the floor quickly enough without applying much effort. In the article, let's talk about how to make a mop with your own hands, so that it is simple and effective at the same time.

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Wooden Floor Mop

The simplest device for washing floors is an ordinary wooden stick with a crossbeam. To make a mop with your own hands made of wood is quite simple:

1. It is necessary to take 2 wooden slats. Their length will vary, depending on your height. The handle can have a size of 80 to 135 cm, try on it to suit you. The working surface has a standard length of about 30-40 cm.
2. Carefully grind the surface so there is no risk of splintering when cleaning the house.
3. Fasten both parts with screws or nails.

However, it has a number of drawbacks. It was not by chance that it got the name "lazy".She can clean the floor only in the middle of the room, and in the corners, in narrow aisles, at the baseboards "lazy", alas, is useless. No better than industrial products, equipped with a metal bar and a clip for a rag. In addition, the crossbeam in such products often scratches the floor.

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Rope mop

It looks like a giant paint brush. It easily penetrates into hard-to-reach corners, where it is difficult to reach by hand. Such products are on sale, and many have time to evaluate their convenience. It is much more convenient than making a mop with your own hands made of wood.

You can try to make a rope product yourself. The task is to fix on the stick a bundle of pieces of cotton rope.

Option 1

To implement this idea, you can act like this:

1. If you have the skills to work on metal, it is enough to perform three simple parts for the tip of the product:
   • Slotted disk.
   • Clip.
   • Clamping clamp.
2. Now cut the cotton rope into pieces of 40-60 cm. The bunch should be thick enough( the more rope pieces, the better).
3. Put a rope bundle on the disc and press it with a metal bracket.
4. Even more durable and durable product will be obtained if you replace the rope part with old cotton knitwear, cut into strips in a spiral.

Important! Will serve such a product quite a long time. Care for such a mop is fairly simple: after each use of the rope is washed in soapy water.

Option 2

There is an even easier way to make a mop with your own hands. You do not need to work on metal, so almost anybody will cope with this task.

You will need:

• Round wooden stick.
• Screws or nails 20 mm longer than the diameter of the stick.
• Thick cotton rope or knitted stripes.
• Twine or wire.
• A pair of old children's socks.

The order of work is as follows:

• After stepping away from the end of the stick 4-5 cm, hammer two nails crosswise at a distance of 1.0-1.5 cm from each other. The heads of screws or nails must protrude outwards. They are necessary so that the rope bundle does not slip off the stick.

Important! To the tree does not crack, a little dull nails or screws, knocking with a hammer on the point. A sharp nail exfoliates the wood, creating a crack. A nail or a screw with a blunt end paints a tree, and no cracking occurs.

• Pull the toe over the nails and wrap the end of the stick with rags so that the nails can not be probed.
• Put another sock on top and tie it tight.
• Slice the rope in pieces of 40-50 cm, lay flattened on the floor.
• Put the prepared stick over the ropes in such a way that the dressing on the toe was in the middle of the rope pieces.
• Pull the pieces of rope around the stick using a piece of twine or wire.
• Before you finally tighten the knot, distribute the rope pieces evenly.
• Putting the stick upright, you will see that at the end a large brush was formed. Cut the ends of the rope evenly.
• Screw down the elastic of the first sock, putting it on the head of the brush.
• Bind the product with a twine over the edge of the sock rubber.

The mop is ready for use!

A rope product will help keep the floors clean.

Important! A good alternative to a rag is the nozzle on the mop with your own hands made of microfiber or crocheted from the remnants of yarn. The microfibre product allows you to do both wet and dry cleaning. When cleaning without using water and detergents, dust is removed due to electrostatic effect.

Now you are convinced that it is not necessary to spread out every couple of months a certain amount for a new mop or nozzle for it. You are quite able to make such a cleaning tool with your own hands, while you will be assured of its reliability, practicality and convenience.