Has Anyone Ever Over-Vacuumed?

[wyaple]

I would love to hear stories of over-vacuuming. That is, vacuuming so much that your carpet, etc. became unusable, threadbare and/or damaged.

As a follow up question, what would be the maximum you should vacuum? Is daily too much? Twice a week? Once a week?

Without pets, I've found myself quite comfortable vacuuming twice a week. Last August, we added one dog, and I've upped that to four times a week only in the family room where we normally allow the dog to play.

Bill

 

[suckolux]

I am sure I have! Most times it's daily, but there is a long hair cat and half hard wood floors!

 

[kirbysthebest]

Over Vacuumed?

NO. 


 


I have a long haired dog, and a cat so I vacuum everyday.    I call it de-hairing the carpet.  


 


Used to be a saying "carpets love to be vacuumed" The more dirt you get out of it, the longer it last.  Now this was before the new soft type carpets and vacuums with steel  wire brush rolls. 


 


I personally feel that a good quality carpet can take frequent vacuuming, and poor quality carpets will at least be clean.  The only bare spot I have is the one the dog chewed in the carpet--right in front of the front door I might add.   


 


I believe carpet manufacturers recommend you vacuum once per week for each person living in the household, and add once a week additional for each pet.  I've often wondered what large families do???  We had a neighbor family with 10 kids.  Not at all uncommon in our Catholic neighborhood.  By manufacturer guidelines that would be twice a day.  Bet it didn't happen. 


 


 

 

[sebo_fan]

Hell yeah I over vacuumed too much back in the day when our family bought Dyson vacs. Both the DC01 and DC04 reduced the carpet to bare threads. Mind you I think my late parents were happy as they weren't fans of the red tartan carpet that came with the home, anyway.

I think I/we over vacuumed because of the shock of what the Dyson picked up versus the old Hoover Junior uprights. What of course we didn't realise at the time was the fact that the Dyson was just picking up viewable dirt compared to the dirt in the Hoover bag...

The daily use was lessened to once or twice a week when we no longer owned pets.[this post was last edited: 1/28/2016-19:12]

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Well, since the HOOVER

"makes rugs last longer",  I'd say, "No". My carpets are lasting beautifully.  They're also ONLY cleaned with Hoover cleaners.  And,  mine never even belch any dust anywhere.

 

[sebo_fan]

Well, when you say Hoover does that mean Proper Hoover vacs or ones made in China?

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Well, it was the U.S, Hoovers that stated

it on the bottom plates.  I'd imagine the British Hoovers did, too.


 I have some "China" Hoovers,  and, really no issues, yet.


 John

 

[sebo_fan]

The only time I've had belching dust is when the bags are taken out the soft bagged uprights, quickly. Bags of course have moved on with the pull strip seal.

 

[kirbylux77]

John

"And, mine never even belch any dust anywhere"

You can HONESTLY say that one of your Hoover Convertibles with a C bag doesn't belch dust? Hmm, ok, go ahead & run your cleaner in a dark room, hold a flashlight up to the bag & report back with your findings. Just because you can't SEE the vacuum leaking dust, doesn't mean it isn't releasing microscopic dust particles back into the air you breathe.

Rob

 

[kirbyvertibles]

Growing up I had a neighbor lady who was a clean freak. She had 3 sons and they lived in a single wide mobile home, nothing fancy but she sure made it a nice home.
Anyhow with the purchase of the new home also came the purchase of a new vacuum from kmart (a brandywine lower end rounded hood with headlight Eureka upright with vibra groomer II. It was their first home and first vacuum in 1985. Fast forward to the early 90s I remember her brown sculptured carpet was very thin in the living room and all of the seams were coming apart. I don't know if it was just cheap carpet or over vacuuming but I can tell you she vacuumed 3 to 4 times daily with a vibragroomer II
When they replaced that house in 1996 with another new one her husband told her not to vacuum it to death and of course she limited it to once a day.
in 2000 or 2001 I got the Eureka for my collection and shes since had a plethora of walmart vacuums. They just bought a new double wide this year and as a house warming I gave her a sanitaire blue line. She was so excited because it was just like her old Eureka that she loved.

 

[dysonman1]

While I'm not a fan of dust belching Hoover cleaners, which would be ANY Hoover made before the launch of HEPA bags, I have to give the company a round of applause for an advertisement they placed in 1921. It was called "Is 80 Years Of Proof Enough?". At the Ohio State Fair, they had a Hoover 105 attached to a mechanical arm. It ran 24/7 during the fair. At the end of the fair, the carpet was examined and it had absolutely no wear. When counting the strokes the cleaner had made, it was determined that the sweeper had run the equivalent of 80 years of vacuuming over that single piece of Wilton carpet. In response to the folks who claimed the Hoover wore off the rug nap, Hoover claimed that even after 80 years of vacuuming, the machine wouldn't have damaged the carpets

 

[sebo_fan]

That's all very well in an exhibition but what about the average home nowadays that is either susceptible to dampness or where the carpets have been constantly washed? Or even a busy family and pets running through it?

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I'll certainly run my vac in the dark....

and see what happens.  I guess I'm lucky to live in a belch-free zone.


  I just traded a Compact Tri star with Joe Kassock for a Windtunnel 2 . He brought it here once before.  The cord is extremly long... and,  who doesn't want a nice long one... that can really do the job??


  That cleaner, if plugged in at the center of the house,  will reach from the front door to the very back of the house!  What a POWERFUL cleaner !!! Yikes.  I'll post a pi and report. 


 A nice belch-free zone.  I just won't allow it.


 J.

 

[kirbysthebest]

A Maintained vacuum usually doesn't "belch". 

 

[floor-a-matic]

I own Electrolux, Compact/TriStar & Rainbow (including the new Onyx) vacs + shag carpet from 1973-74


 


That shag carpet is still in immaculate shape

 

[alexhoovers94]

Microscopic dust? You do realise by trapping this in your fangle dangle hepa filter vacuums is actually whats causing your allergies, if you eliminate this fine dust it will weaken your immunity to it and thus cause allergies, why do you think allergies were not really a problem back in the day? Because people didn't restict themselves from these tiny particles...

 

[sebo_fan]

I actually agree with you Alex.

The problem isn’t HEPA filters but all the science and lies behind things like antibacterial soap and hand gels. We’ve become so fastidiously obsessed with keeping clean that we have forgotten to allow our bodies to fight infection.

Studies have proved that antibacterial gels and soaps don't eliminate bacteria and that the triclosan additive in these products used over a prolonged amount of time heightens the body's attraction to developing allergies such as asthma and nut allergies.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Antibacterials dont kill the bacteria, they reduce it down to a "safe level" to reduce the percentage of bacteria that could make you ill, I guess a cloth with soap and water may still get it clean enough to be safe, but I am no scientist.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

First of all......................

My Convertibles, Dial A MAtics, etc have headlights, thus eliminating the need for a flashlight. I believe the late Henry Dreyfuss took care of that need. Second, I taught science,and believe that anything microscopic would thus require the use of a microscope... saying a definite "No" to the flashlight. Third, microparticles escaping into the air,would not be included in the term"belching".I've always associated" belching"with someone who has eaten too much,of rich foods,or who has consumed mass quantities of alcohol. Perhaps one should vacuum up a litle Bromo-fizz: a bicarbonate. 


 Just trying to help in any way I can. All this talk of belching.... it's so disturbing.