No manufacturer recommends the use of a steam cleaning device on ANY type of hard surface flooring. Consumers should contact the flooring manufacturer for cleaning and care advise for their flooring as well as for specific safe cleaning products. Steam is essentially water...water is hardwood flooring's worst enemy.
A Shark Steam Cleaner can be used to clean hardwood floors. All of the surfaces safe to clean with the steam cleaner can be found within the instructions of the product.
None. You should not use a steam-cleaner on hardwood floors. Water, and especially steam, can damage wood by swelling it at the seams, and then causing it to crack and split later. Use only cleaners approved for hardwood floors, or a window cleaner containing alcohol, or a vinegar/water solution. Mist it onto the floor or onto the head of a damp (not wet!) sponge mop or swiffer-type mop, then wipe clean.
You can't clean wood floors with a steam cleaner, but natural stone floors should not be harmed by this method. Vinegar and water is the best way to clean stone floors.
With the X5 steam cleaner.
There is no steam cleaner that should be used on hardwood floors. Although products claim to be safe on wood and laminate, they are not.
A floor steam cleaner permits one to clean all the dirt, let it be invisible or uninvisble from hard wood floors. The color of a floor steam cleaner is often white.
The Saeco Steam Cleaner is widely know as being one of the best steam cleaners on the market and it is able to clean a number of different surfaces. You can find more information at Saeco Steam Cleaner's site.
highly NOT recommended to steam clean any wood or laminate floors
Under no circumstances should a steam cleaning devise be used on a hardwood or laminate floor! Steam is essentially hot water. Water will damage your beautiful wood flooring. Consumers should contact their flooring manufacturer for safe cleaning methods and products.
Hardwood should not be steam cleaned. Virtually every hardwood flooring manufacturer states that steam on a hardwood floor in time will damage it. Forcing steam down into the seams of the floor will inevitably cause moisture damage.
The Shark Steam Mop
The Bissell steam mop can be used to clean a vinyl floor. In fact it can also be used on marble, ceramic, stone, laminate, linoleum and sealed hardwood floors.