Cutting-edge technology for the monotonous job of floor cleaning

Kya deLongchamps gets down and dirty this week testing technology and other assorted kit for floor cleaning.

I am an Irish country-dwelling mother. My whole blasted house, bar the bedrooms and bathrooms, is open plan and traversed by several prickly-footed out-of-control JRTs.

Their fat absorbent paws suck through the fields, woodlands, muck heaps and more.