Do you own a vacuum cleaner?

[Zelig]

The concept of only sweeping rather than vacuuming seems nuts to me. My primary reason for vacuuming is to remove dust from the home/air, and sweeping is generally counter-productive to that indoors.

 

[emzie]

My wife and I both have very long hair. We also have 5 cats. I vacuum the entire apartment at least once a day. Even we had marble floors, I'd have to find a way to vacuum them.

I own, uh... five?

Should probably get rid of some of them. Really only need one good regular vac plus one wet/dry vac.

One of my regular vac's brush accessories is literally called the "parquet twister": https://ca.miele.ca/Calgary/en/Product/Details/1298

Been meaning to also get an electric air duster, so I can blast dust into the air and then vacuum it as I go: Electric air dusters rock

They're awesome! Vacuuming what's blown off is a bit of a pain though, so if it's portable, I'd recommend cleaning it outside.

 

[AmazonQueen]

I vacuum the kitchen (tiles) and the small sitting room (wood floor). Only the bathrooms don't get vacuumed and thats because there isn't enough space to make it worthwhile.

 

[The_J]

Okay, it seems I'm a freak!

I first use a broom to sweep the non sticky stuff into a pile and then I vacuum that pile up.

Vacuum for the carpets and rugs. Swiffer mop and broom for the non-carpeted areas.

Unfortunately, yes. My current space has wall to wall carpenting save for kitchen & bath. In the future I hope to find a spot that's more hardwood + scattered rugs, because I loathe the sound of vacuum cleaners and prefer sweeping to vacuuming.

But at least I'm not the only one who doesn't vacuum non-carpet areas. I'm a bit relieved.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I own, uh... five?

2 regular vacuum (one in each floor of the home)
2 handheld (cleaning inside of PCs)
1 Commercial type (most used since its the most powerful)

 

[Quintillus]

I have a vacuum, but it kind of sucks. Got the cheapest model available, so it's not very powerful and is pretty noisy. Would be nice to have a midrange model that both didn't suck as much and sucked a lot more simultaneously. I don't enjoy vacuuming due to the noise and mediocre results from my bottom-of-the-line model, and go with the Swiffer approach on non-carpeted areas.

It's interesting to me that over 90% of the respondents have a vacuum, even including the one who has a radioactive monkey instead. The early 1900s model of hardwood floors and rugs that you'd take out to beat clean really has fallen by the wayside. Which both isn't surprising, and to an extent is surprising that it has to such a high extent. Apparently very few people are in older houses that still rely on rugs; everyone has done what my grandparents did and carpeted part of their old, pre-vacuum house.

 

[PhroX]

I got rid of mine. I mean, it was just gathering dust....

 

[Kyriakos]

At least with a vacuum you don't need to worry about microorganisms there. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

 

[Zardnaar]

I have a vacuum, but it kind of sucks. Got the cheapest model available, so it's not very powerful and is pretty noisy. Would be nice to have a midrange model that both didn't suck as much and sucked a lot more simultaneously. I don't enjoy vacuuming due to the noise and mediocre results from my bottom-of-the-line model, and go with the Swiffer approach on non-carpeted areas.

It's interesting to me that over 90% of the respondents have a vacuum, even including the one who has a radioactive monkey instead. The early 1900s model of hardwood floors and rugs that you'd take out to beat clean really has fallen by the wayside. Which both isn't surprising, and to an extent is surprising that it has to such a high extent. Apparently very few people are in older houses that still rely on rugs; everyone has done what my grandparents did and carpeted part of their old, pre-vacuum house.

We ised to buy cheap ones. Lesson learnt now get more powerful ones.

 

[EnglishEdward]

... and rugs that you'd take out to beat clean really has fallen by the wayside.

This is best left until your annoying neighbour parks their pristine white car outside your front door.

At least with a vacuum you don't need to worry about microorganisms there. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

But it is not really a vaccum, merely a volume of reduced air pressure; and there are tartigrades.

We ised to buy cheap ones. Lesson learnt now get more powerful ones.

Powerful vacuum cleaners are being banned in the EU.

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[FriendlyFire]

This is best left until your annoying neighbour parks their pristine white car outside your front door.
But it is not really a vaccum, merely a volume of reduced air pressure; and there are tartigrades.
Powerful vacuum cleaners are being banned in the EU.

Well that sucks, for commercial cleaners that need them
But the EU have new type of 900w vacuum cleaners that are the same efficiency as the old 1600w ones

 

[Akka]

We have two, as we each had one before living together.
And we use them on basically everything. The broom is only for when we can't be bothered to plug the vacuum.

 

[Kyriakos]

But

It was only an attempt at humour ^^

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

A good vacuum is one of those things I’ve learned is worth spending on, especially with pets. I bought a nice bagged one a couple years ago after always buying cheap bagless ones and it’s much nicer.

 

[Broken_Erika]

It's interesting to me that over 90% of the respondents have a vacuum, even including the one who has a radioactive monkey instead.

My radioactive monkey has a little radioactive vacuum cleaner.

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

Vacuum for the carpets and rugs. Swiffer mop and broom for the non-carpeted areas.

I also own a carpet rake, which is very handy when you have a cat.

Hey that's a great idea!

I've never heard of a carpet rake. I have two cats myself and a carpet rake would really come in handy. Do they sell these at the local pet store?

 

[Broken_Erika]

Hey that's a great idea!

I've never heard of a carpet rake. I have two cats myself and a carpet rake would really come in handy. Do they sell these at the local pet store?

Cursory search come up with Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, Lowe's, so i guess most big box stores will have them.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Hey that's a great idea!

I've never heard of a carpet rake. I have two cats myself and a carpet rake would really come in handy. Do they sell these at the local pet store?

They're not just for pet hair, so I don't know.

Cursory search come up with Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, Lowe's, so i guess most big box stores will have them.

I bought mine from Amazon.

I've had the carpets professionally cleaned a few times here, and I used the rake, then someone else with a really good vacuum cleaner went over all the carpeted areas. The guy who came to do the steam cleaning was impressed, and said that not enough people use carpet rakes, and he wished more did. It was better for the carpet and made his job a bit easier.

Maddy's been shedding a lot during the past few months, and it looks like a disaster. I just rake it up, though, and it goes in the garbage.

 

[sophie]

My partner and I splurged on a Dyson the first Christmas we lived together. Easily a top-3 joint purchase for us.

We use it a lot and everywhere, and have to between the long hair shedding, the cats, and the frequent cooking.

 

[Cutlass]

4. 1 regular one for each floor, 1 small one for small jobs, 1 shop vac for big jobs.