Works & protects at all temperature. Reduces the effort it takes to turn the gears at all temperature.

I did a lot of research on steam mops here on Amazon and elsewhere. I was ready to purchase the highly rated Eureka Enviro in large part due to the Aug 2009 review by Chandler. But that review is somewhat dated, this SI-70 is newer I believe. I was also concerned about the size of the Eureka mop head. I think it is important that the head swivel and in this case, the HAAN does an excellent job of getting into areas I suspect would be impossible for the Eureka. I also wanted a unit I could use as a stand-alone steamer. My past experience with Steam was a rather old and inexpensive unit called Steam Buddy or something like that. It did a reasonable job on the floors and as a standalone. But the HAAN is vastly superior.