Tineco FLOOR ONE S9 Artist Steam Wet Dry Vacuum Cleaner Review

The Tineco Floor ONE S9 Artist Steam is the wet/dry mop I reach for on everyday messes. It shoots steam to lift fresh dirt and mud fast, it vacuums and mops in one pass, and when you're done it washes and hot-air-dries its own roller so you're not stuck with a damp, smelly pad. It grabbed long hair without wrapping up the roller, too. The one place it let me down was old, dried-on stains — steam couldn't melt a four-to-five-day-old syrup mess. It's a premium machine, but for real day-to-day cleaning it earned the Just A Dad sticker. Here's how it held up.

What's in the Box and First Setup

The S9 Artist Steam is a cordless, lie-flat steam wet/dry mop with a 0.88 L tank, a replaceable brush roller, and a dock that charges it and runs a hands-free self-clean and dry. In the box you get the mop, the dock, a spare roller and filter, a tube-cleaning brush, and a bottle of Tineco solution. Setup is quick: click the handle into the body, charge it, then fill the clean-water tank. It runs four modes — Auto, Max, Steam, and a Suction/Dry-only mode — and the iLoop sensor reads the mess and adjusts water and suction for you. It's on the heavier side at around 12.7 pounds, but the power-assist wheels do the pushing.

Cleaning Performance: What It Actually Picks Up

Everyday Dirt and Mud

This is where it shines. Dirt, mud, and general mopping cleaned up easily — the iLoop ring turns red when it senses dirt and ramps up, then eases off as the floor comes clean. Steam mode noticeably cleans faster than plain water-only Max; you just move a little slower to let the steam work. For the day-to-day spills most of us actually deal with, it's a strong performer.

Dried-On Stains — the Miss

I threw a torture test at it: four-to-five-day-old dried-on chocolate syrup and ketchup. This is where it struggled. I expected the 284°F steam to melt it and it did not — it took many passes and the floor still stayed sticky where the syrup had been. To be fair, robot vacuums and other mops didn't beat this mess either, but at a premium price I wanted more. Bottom line: it's a great everyday cleaner, not a miracle stain-buster for old, baked-on messes.

Hair and Pet

Strong here. I put down a bunch of long hair with the mess, and the dual-block scrapers — a comb scraper plus a straight scraper — grabbed the hair and dropped it into the dirty-water tank, so you knock it into the trash instead of fishing it out of the sink. After a self-clean there was still a little hair wrap left on the roller to pull off, but no major clogging.

Ease of Use

The LCD screen shows your charge, the dirt level, and the steam-prep percentage, and there's no trigger to hold — it's fully automatic. Steam takes about a minute to prep. The lay-flat mode goes nearly flat to reach under furniture, and it has a brake so it won't roll away in storage, which I really liked. The one thing I'm not a fan of is the forced self-propelled 'SmoothDrive' — the mop wants to drive itself, and it's not a hard machine to push anyway. A couple of other honest gripes: the buttons are easy to bump if you've got big hands, the dirty-water tank is tippy (I dumped it once), and there's no low-water warning — it ran completely dry on me with no alert.

Maintenance Reality

This is a real strength. Dock it and it runs a heated wash of the roller (about 2 minutes) followed by a 185°F hot-air dry (about 5 minutes), and — unlike a lot of mops — the roller actually comes out dry, not damp. That's what keeps it from smelling. The drying is a little loud for those 5 minutes, but the base station itself stays fine. You should still lift and wipe the scraper/comb area after each use, rinse and fully dry the filter (a spare is included so one can dry while the other runs), and swap the filter every 3–4 months and the roller around every 6. The dirty-water sensor likes a brush-out now and then.

Battery and Runtime 

Tineco specs it up to about 75 minutes, but in real use I saw closer to 44 minutes on the unit's own readout, and it hits 'battery low' before that steam-and-mop marathon is over. Steam and Max draw more and drain faster. For a normal cleaning session it's plenty; if you're doing a big whole-house run in one shot, keep the dock handy.

Is It Worth It?

For everyday cleaning, yes. It's one of the best daily-driver wet/dry mops I've used — steam lifts fresh dirt fast, the hair handling is strong, and the self-clean-and-dry dock is genuinely best-in-class. It is a premium machine and it won't rescue you from old, baked-on stains, so go in knowing that. But for the messes most homes actually make day to day, it does the job well and earned the Just A Dad Approved sticker.