I'm so fed up with mopping and having the floor look just as bad after as before, and I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. My DH vacs the floor, and then I mop it. The wood floor is fine, but the kitchen tiles cause me endless grief. It being the kitchen, sometimes bits of food (eg, a small shred of carrot) drops on the floor and dries there if I can't wipe it straight away (ie- often!). It sticks to the floor, so the vac doesn't pick it up. I mop and it comes away with the hot water, but the mop doesn't pick it up, so I end up with a floor that is clean, but still has bits all over it. Gar!!!

So I know the obvious solution is to clean up those bits straight away, but it just doesn't always happen. Does anyone else run into this annoying problem? What do you do? Should I go over the floor with a scrapey thing before I mop and get those bits off? Or get down and old fashioned scrub my floor?