Comments | skloak: Stupid cleaning

skloak

Stupid cleaning

Nov 16, 2007 18:32

Ok, so I've been cleaning the house on the weekends when Joe's off on SCA trips. This weekend the floors are clear enough I can vacuum, so I'm doing that, and picking up even more clutter and trash, putting away odds and ends that are where they shouldn't be, doing perhaps a bit of dusting, etc. Tomorrow will be working on the cat room, which, by ( Read more... )

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lemchan November 17 2007, 02:37:49 UTC

I don't know what the solution is to vacuums that smell bad, in my experience it seems to happen more easily to uprights but that's just an unscientific observation. We just threw out our last one because it seemed to be beyond hope.

We use one of these now, though that particular merchant is price gouging (I think it should be at least $100 cheaper). It gets our carpet (soiled by 3 cats) very clean although I am constantly cleaning stuff out of the beater bar, possibly because our carpet is both new and cheap and sheds constantly (as do the cats, but it doesn't seem to clog with *hair*). Kind of awkward to use on stairs but then most vacuums are..

skloak November 17 2007, 03:28:02 UTC

Yeah, and one of the nice features of the Dyson I like is that it's got a 17' expandable wand, so I could leave the whole upright unit at the bottom of the stairs and do them all in one long trip with the wand and mini brush, never having to manhandle the vacuum upstairs as I go. Which is good, because I nearly kill myself every time I have to do that.

I constantly have to clean the beater bar in this one too.. my hair gets wrapped around it, and carpet fuzz, and animal hair, and that alone is enough to reduce cleaning power. But it's nasty to clean, and I'd really like to never have to do it again. And it is, by the way, a Hoover WindTunnel, altho it's an upright, not a canister, and it's .. probably seven years old now.

And yeah, the smell. I don't even know what it is or where it's coming from, but it's yucky. I'm glad the weather is so nice lately, I was actually able to open the windows and air out the house.

Course, at this point, $200 for a vacuum is just as doable as $500.