T/S: Vacuuming vs. Sweeping & Mopping

I have wood floors

This isn't about cats?

I guess I would refer to vacuum a kitty, as I would not know how to mop one, but even my morbidly obese cat who could not groom herself as she could not reach most of her body never required vacuuming. Groom with a brush, hello.

I don't get it... with a vaccuum you just run it over every spot of carpet and if something doesn't come up, it's not like you have to vaccuum harder! (You have to resort to a more hands-on solution.) Vaccuuming itself is kinda painless, no?

I am getting a vaccum soon. Psyched.

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What I hate is carpet itself, a trap for dustmites and allergens and stains. I prefer 0 carpet where I live.

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I would rather have carpet than a tile floor...nothing is worse than having to clean out grout with a toothbrush. I had to do that at my parents' house all the time & kneeling on that stuf for an hour or more = ow ow ow. I bought myself some skater kneepads just to make it tolerable.

i think the key to 'enjoying' vacuuming is having a seriously kick-ass vacuum
i hate my vacuum

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Sweeping & mopping is twice the workload of just vacuuming.

WAIT HOW THE FUCK IS TI SPELLED

i was reading this late 50s asimov essay the other day about how a small percentage of household dust is space dust and i thought that made dust much more tolerable
(the swiffer duster does rule though)
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WE WILL NEVAR KNOW

i hate vaccining

we are waiting for UN report on the way to spell vacccum. for now it is simply unregulated

I don't understand any of you. Of course, maybe kickass vacuums is the key. My history of vacuums:

1. Crappy electrolux thing with the tube coming out of some roll-around unit. Advantage: it had an air vent on the back that shot straight up into the air & you could make ping-pong balls float over it. By the time my parents got rid of it, I think it was 20+ years old.

2. Centralized vacuuming system in the house my parents built, you'd plug the vacuum hose/vacuuming part into various holes in the wall. No suction at all & extremely cumbersome & heavy. I had to vacuum staircases with that thing, which fucking A I hated to do.

3. Some tiny baby vacuum w/an emptiable cylinder that we all called "the sharkless dick stick" for reasons I don't remember.

4. Crappy-17 year-old stand-up vacuum with replacable bags.

It's like having to use a lawnmower inside your house.

you are lucky to have so many vaucms. I haven't owned one for 5 years!

Since then, I sweep practically every other day and it is terrible.

It is amazing how shitty V's are, especially if you are spending under $150 or so.

Sweeping involves the added task of using a dustpan & brush to sweep up the swept up dust pile.

Dyson = classic. Emptying Dyson = dud. I want the electrolux that says it compacts the dust into handy bite-sized pellets.

Also this belief that no carpets = no dust = crazy.

you worked in a donut shop

she's a punk

I can't find any of the threads where I talk bout that shop and all the v. v. innovative donuts I made and constantly being covered in glaze/lard/flour at all times & hoping someone would think I looked "new york noize" even though I actually looked "repellant and filthy."

i hated the sound of a hoover when i was a child. i still do. i hoover about once a month even though i have all wood floors. some things you just need a hoover for. the interstices and corners.

btw no one in britain says vacuum, *everyone* says hoover® (in the same was as everyone said walkman® instead of "personal stereo"). i take it it's not the same elsewhere?

Vacuums are so HEAVY to push around, esp. on stairs! Brooms are light & easy and there's the instant gratification from seeing the little dirt piles. "I swept you up, dirt and hair, now I will get rid of you!" Whereas when vacuuming all you get to witness is the hairs it failed to pick up.

Every vacuum I've had has freaked out at picking up, say, 3+ human hairs, and then I'd have to turn the vacuum off and pull all the hair (all almost none of it) off the rotating thing w/the bristles. ANOTHER reason vacuuming was hell.

Yeah, no one I know calls it anything but a vacuum. The all say Jell-o, Vaseline, Kleenex, Frisbee, etc. for the names of those generic things, but not Hoover. They also say "copy" or "photocopy" instead of Xerox, which I've never heard someone I know use as a verb.

I like the first vacuum after the bag has been replaced. There is suddenly extra power and you can HEAR all manner of things clicking and clinking up the tube.

For those unhappy with vacuuming, I have one word: Wertheimer.

You can thank me after you suck.

There's no way I could justify spending all of my disposable income for two months on a vacuum. Not that I'd HAVE to now that I live in a glorious house of only wood floors! HAHAHAHAhaha.

Also, it's WAY easier to clean up spills & stains on non-carpet surfaces.

Vacuuming is best with a good vacuum. Bagless is essential: either Dyson or Rainbow. Emptying Rainbow = no dust but might make you gag. Shop-vacs are bagless but their filters clog too easily. They're fun for reversing the airflow and using as electric bellows on backyard fires, though.

Sweeping is ace under normal domestic circumstances. Things get sketchy in a shop or construction environment, but wax-based sweeping compound takes care of that... unless you're sweeping drywall dust. That's a sinus infection waiting to happen, and you still won't get it clean because you can't sweep drywall dust out of plywood subflooring.

Oh and: mopping blows.

If you have carpets then your vacuum must have a beater brush or there is no point.

I love my little Henry http://www.bullnet.co.uk/henry/l0200002.jpg and my compost heap loves the contents of his bags.

OK, wtf is this no vaccuuming with wood floors nonsense, Abbott? Clearly you do not have pets, at least not pets that shed. I have a whole house full of wood floors and vacuum every week, thanks to FOUR CATS. Dyson "bare floor" setting=miracle.

We don't have carpets although I still vacuum the floors. With a shop-vac, don't ask.

But my most LOATHED chore ever must be mopping. I recently bought one of those hard floors wet/dry vac. It's a nasty, useless thing.

Please ILx, enlighten me with the easiest, best way of wet-cleaning floors!

stand-up vacuum cleaners are an abomination upon the earth, YES they are heavy, YES they are clumsy, NO their cord doesn't auto-retract, etc etc etc etc - it is crazy they still even make them! but in the US that's all anybody has!

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i prefer sweeping. vacuuming reminds me of trying to clean all the cat hair out of my parents' furniture and rugs.

mopping isn't fun. i prefer going at the floor with some clorox wipes (lately tho it's the greener "method" brand wipes). that way i don't have to worry about waiting for all that standing water to dry.

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I choose filth.

vacccccuuuum. i have one of those bagless ones, it is a treat and a half.

do you mean dyson? they suck donkeypoo.

sweeping seems ridiculous: you just move it to another place. (yes, i know, you gather it up but there's still dust on the floor afterwards.)