Maybe this is the reason some can't keep a vacuum very long

[kirbysthebest]

Yesterday afternoon I was just getting home from work when I saw the new neighbor across the street come home as well. She unloaded a box with a new Shark Vacuum from the back of her SUV.

Later I was waiting outside for my daughter's school bus when I see said neighbor on the porch with her new Shark. She was cleaning the porch. OK, not too out of line, I have been known to vacuum the door mats myself. Where it gets funny was just as the bus arrived, I look over and now the neighbor was vacuuming the sidewalk down to her driveway.

Maybe this is the reason people have their vacuums fail so early in their useful life.

 

[suckolux]

Common sense, I miss you! Seems to be more and more rare these days. Damn I sound old

 

[n0oxy]

vacuuming outside

I live in an apartment building and I will vacuum the hall outside my door, and at times I will vacuum the stairs of the building. I was never asked to do this but I don't mind and knowing that the floors are clean is a good thing. I usually use a backpack for that purpose.
I remember at the vacuum collector's convention a couple of years ago, several people worked on cleaning up a Kirby that someone had vacuumed up mud with, it took a while but they were able to completely clean it up.
Mike

 

[dysonman1]

I use the Vacuflo along with the 15 inch bare floor brush to vacuum my garage floor and driveway. Vacuflo can handle anything. I love to hear the rocks and stuff go through the long hose and pipes to the central unit.

 

[kirbyvertibles]

Harley,
this is the result of drug use in good ol Kansas lol I'm kidding but seriously who the hell vacuums their sidewalk with an upright? A central vac I can see no big deal but the shark!!!!!

 

[bryan1980]

The Legend II I just cleaned up looked like someone used it to vacuum a restaurant or something. There was this waxy buildup all inside the rug nozzle, the fan housing, and in the EmTor. It took forever to clean off, but I managed to get just about all of it.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Maybe she's odd, peculiar, or perhaps

just stupid. Maybe she forgot her twin sister's birthday!!
This IS America. One may vacuum the street if one wishes. As Johnny Matthis said, "It's not for me to say".
I, too, amazed when I see what people do with costly vacuums.

 

[huskyvacs]

Watch, soon there's going to be warnings in the manual "NOT FOR OUTDOOR USE" lol.

 

[kirbysthebest]

I'm just thinking

She will be one of those that takes it back, or post a poor review because the filter plugged up too quickly, or the cord wasn't long enough.

Bless her little heart.

Of course, in 1951, Filterqueen vacuumed the Indianapolis Speedway. (they must have had longer cords than they do now.)



Starting in 1951, FilterQueen® played a role in the pre-race cleanup of the brick straightway for the Indianapolis 500. In 1958, Distributor E.L. Baker Jr. gained national attention with his team when they took to the Indianapolis Speedway track as part of the annual clean-up event at the Speedway. Baker and his team organized an attack on dust, dirt and tiny pebbles between the bricks of the famous raceway. The FilterQueen® handled the debris to help ensure the safety of the 33 drivers who were to drive over 100 miles per hour in the 500 mile race. In 1953, they removed 1800 pounds of dirt! Through the years, FilterQueen® continued to play a role in the pre-race cleanup. It was an honor to be a part of the festivities and some Distributors even used it as a contest for their sales representatives to help with the pre-race preparation. Famous race car driver Wilbur Shaw thought so highly of the FilterQueen® role in protecting the lives of the 500 track drivers that he wrote a letter stating that the use of the FilterQueen® Sanitation System was one of the most important safety measures ever introduced to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

 

[quebecois]

Ha ! That post made me laugh a lot!

 

[mike811]

That's very hilarious
Sounds like your neighbor is that kind of type who cleans his car interior like this:

 

[rolls_rapide]

Reply #7

That looks like it's some nutcase from the UK. The car number plate looks British, as does the wheelie-bin. Hell, even the pavement and road looks British!

 

[honestjoe68]

I guess Fuller Brush (Tacony Company) has dealt with Sidewalk vacuuming people before?

THIS Label is Prominently placed on my Fuller Brush Mighty Maid Vacuum!.......

 

[panasonicvac]

I would only use a leaf blower to clean out my driveway and pressure wash it about once a year.

 

[kirbylux77]

Mike - I totally agree! I lived in a apartment building years ago myself, & whenever I vacuumed twice a week, I would open the door & just vacuum right in front of it in the hallway. The way I see it, it's helping me stop track the dirt in in the first place.

Tom - I do the same thing right now with my Simplicity Gusto. I have a spare wand with a Wessel Werk RD285 rug/floor nozzle, that I use on a large wool area rug that cannot have a powerhead used on it, & I also open the basement door & clean the mat outside & just in front of it so I don't wind up tracking in dirt off the concrete from my landlord's car.

Rob

 

[fan-of-fans]

Surely she didn't read the manual as I don't know any household vacuum that doesn't say not to use outdoors. Lol

I have vacuumed the threshold and concrete step outside the front door when I was vacuuming with my canister. But no further.

Sometimes I use my canisters outside in the car and I've even put the floormats in the driveway and went over them with the powernozzle. But that's as far as I go for vacuuming outside. If i was going to vacuu outside I would use a shop vac or one of those outdoor lawn vacs.

 

[human]

Isn't that what they make shop vacs for?

Yeah, people do a lot of stupid stuff. I teach a technical writing course at a community college and I have students bring in instructions to analyze. One time, a student brought in the owner's manual for his new flat screen TV that had a warning on the first page not to throw objects--including the remote--at the screen. Really?