Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Does not work nearly as well as the original

After reading the other reviews, I am wondering if I have a defective model. Here is our experience with this machine:We've had a floormate since 2001. We loved our original floormate, so when it conked out, we bought this model. It DOES NOT clean the floors, at all! The "new and improved" brushes don't even touch the floor most of the time. It doesn't suck up the excess water as well as the older one, so you're basically just pushing dirty water around the floor. We are so dissapointed, we've went back to cleaning on our hands and knees.