"Selling because we got rid of our carpet"

[fan-of-fans]

I notice a lot of Craigslist ads have people selling their vacuum because "we got rid of all our carpet." Some of these ads were not just upright vacuums. I guess they only vacuum the carpet and nothing else.

 

[tolivac]

What about hard floors,furniture,cars,rugs???Are they going back to brooms and brushes,dust rags?Hate to see those houses in a few years!

 

[parwaz786]

I dont see the point in using a broom, except when something like glass breaks, otherwise I would much rather use a vacuum on even half flooring, curtains, and in the car and my furniture + stairs.

 

[rainbowguy17]

They're crazy...

Okay, I live in a 4,300 square foot house in KY and we don't have even ONE stitch of carpeting in our house. It's all 100% hardwood floor and tile. We do have 3 area rugs. Two of the area rugs are of very good size. A lot of people think I am absolutely crazy for dragging out my Rainbow SE everyday to vacuum the hard floors but they really do not understand how dusty they get from day to day traffic and from normal wear and tear. The hard floor brush on the Rainbow is wonderful because it has no wheels to worry about scratching your floors and only soft horse hair brushes to really get down in the cracks and crevices to get your floors clear of dust and dirt and back to looking shiny new again. We have always vacuumed our hard floors and always will!

 

[sebo_fan]

Well, I think any consumer has the right to say what they want when they are selling any appliance, let alone a vacuum cleaner.

There are many reasons - some are genuine and some are a bit far fetched. I have come across the slogan before, but some people generally either have a new vacuum to replace the old one that requires to be sold, OR someone in the family has donated an old vacuum cleaner that still works, thus cutting down on costs (if required) compared to the newer one.

A lot of people I have come across do have second thoughts later on though or may be lacking the knowledge of what they are selling.

One woman I kind of saved from was when she was advertising a Miele cylinder vacuum on Gumtree. She was regretting selling it, but had bought an upright vac because her Miele wasn't picking up hairs from carpets. She wasn't aware that Miele sold the turbo brush online and didn't like the new upright because it was too heavy, too noisy and a bit cumbersome.

In the end she sent me a gift certificate as a big thank you, took the ad off Gumtree, bought the turbo brush and then took the upright vac back to the shop to get her money back.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Out here in the desert paving tiles are a popular flooring because they are cool in the summer and can be mopped to remove the ever present dust. While I usually use a vacuum with a nice horse hair floor brush because I like vacuums, most of the flooring stores out here would give me an arched eyebrow and ask why I don't use a mop. On my wood flooring in my other place I use a microfiber mop and a spray cleaner expressly designed for wood floors. The vacuum there is only used on the bedroom carpets and in the garage. If we eventually put wood flooring in the bedrooms, we only need a vacuum for the garage.

 

[suckolux]

I think often on CL we got rid of carpets really means I found it in the dumpster. A guess but I bet it fits at times

 

[ultralux88]

I still would vacuum my furniture and need it for other jobs around the house. I also prefer vacuuming hard floors as opposed to a broom that I think stirs up all the allergens as sweeping is basically a slow fanning motion. I think vacuuming before using a swifter or similar mop is good too, if you get rocks or gritty stuff picked up on the bottom of the mop the. They get swiped over the floor until you change pads, which can scratch. We have vinyl floors everywhere that's not carpeted, I just use a combo brushless floor and rug tool on it and the throw rugs.

I also so prefer carpet to bare floors. Carpet feels so much nicer on bare feet and it dulls sound. Thankfully Tim is like me there! I also think carpet is better for allergies because as dirt settles to the floor in a room, if it settles on carpet the carpet will trap it until you come along with a good vacuum. Bare floors can let anything microscopic stir up easily with a tiny breeze. Bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms and entry areas I think should never be carpet though.

 

[sebo_fan]

The only time I have ever disliked carpet is when I lived in central London in the 1990s. The 2 up 2 down flat I was in (a bit like Ab Fab as it was above a wine shop) had the thickest of carpet that made the whole flat unbelievably hot to live with, particularly in the summer when the heat was something like 30 to 35C.

When we eventually got hard floors throughout, it was a major relief though it made a lot of sense to keep a stick vac on one floor for dust capture on one floor and a proper vacuum downstairs with a turbo brush floor head attached for any rugs in the rooms or the stairs that had small bits of carpet on them.

 

[floor-a-matic]

<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">always</span> use a vacuum for vacing <span style="text-decoration: underline;">ANY</span> surface</span>


<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">tile floors</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">carpet</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">upholstery</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">furniture</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">kitchen countertop (unless its wet)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">refrigerator (coils & shelves) (freezer done with shop vacuum or Rainbow)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">oven/stovetop</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">car interior & exterior</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">walls</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">ceiling</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">light fixtures</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">bath fixtures (with shop vacuum or Rainbow)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">mattresses</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">& the list gos on</span>


 


<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">NEVER</span> would I use a Swiffer, broom/dustpan, dusting rag or feather duster.  I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">ONLY</span> use floor brushes & dusting brushes (Electrolux or Compact) with natural horsehair bristles; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">NEVER</span> with plastic bristles</span>

 

[tolivac]

I WILL NOT get rid of my vacuumsno matter what flooring I have.My preset place is all carpet except for the bathrooms and kitchen.No,I don't want carpet in those places.Kitchen-food spilled on the carpet will not clean up properly no matter what you do.Bathroom-imagine if your potty overflows???Happens.And when you get out of the shower-the bathroom carpet feels like you steppted into a bog.I just wonder what cleaning tools these folks use when they get rid of their vacuums.The bare floor tools WITHOUT wheels or rollers are the best-really easier to push-pull and easier on the flooring-no matter what it is.I HATE that Kirby tool that they include now!!Please for what you are paying for that machine they could throw in BOTH the carpet surface tool and a simple hair bare floor tool.

 

[fan-of-fans]

We have both tile and carpet and I use a canister on both. Have never used a Swiffer but would like to try it. I can't imagine sweeping as much tile as we have. It would take forever and leave dust and dirt in corners. Also use a vacuum for most above floor cleaning. Rags and cleaner just turns the dust to a muddy mess.

I think a lot of people vacuum only the carpet. Hence why uprights with crappy hoses and attachments comprise so much of the market now. Oh well it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

 

[man114]

You'd be surprised, people often use just a Swiffer if they've got all hardwoods and often just have a tiny hand vac for furniture and stuff. You would be surprised how much dirt accumulates in those tiny cracks in a hardwood floor without a vacuum. Some of the people at out local Rainbow office did demos in such situations and it was quite surprising. The one guy managed to pull a bunch of cloths on straight hardwood floors that were merely dusted with a Swiffer.

 

[MikePdx]

Me....If I had hard flooring, I would keep a good commercial dust mop with a treated head for day to day sweeping. I would still have a canister vacuum for the area rugs, upholstery, with a good floor brush to suck up the stuff out of the cracks on occasion.

 

[daknx1994]

I am like MikePdx... A dust mop for the day to day sweeping and a canister for cars, furniture,dusting, and the weekly going through the house and getting all of the dust and dirt out of corners and other crevices.

 

[vacuumman206]

I might be strange for saying/doing this, but my house is all floors and I have 3 large rugs; one in the living room, kitchen and mud room. and what I do is once or twice a week swiffer or sweep everything onto the living and mud room rugs and then vacuum the rugs every other week.Then monthly I go around every baseboard and under everything with a crevice tool to suck up what the swiffer might have missed. I only do that because I hate my floor brushes getting caked up with cat hair and whatever may be on my floor.

 

[nycwriter]

Swiffer ...

... is not really CLEANING.

It's almost like cleaning, but not quite.

 

[floor-a-matic]

<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I'd take a "Swiffer vac" or "Swiffer vacuum attachment" instead of just a regular Swiffer

</span>

 

[marks_here]

I have been in people's homes here that don't use a vacuum & all I can say is that they stank, not clean, you can see dirt between the wood floor planks, the tile grout is dirty, it's just awful, I will not be visiting them again. Oh & they say they swiffer 3 times a day...now what does that tell you?? They are the save the planet people if you know what I mean & they have money!!! I just don't get it...don't flush the toilet until it gets filled..with what??? Disease??? They actually scared me which is really hard to do, I never sat down or leaned on a wall, I stood there feeling like things were crawling on my legs but there wasn't anything...yuck!! I finally ran when they went into the laundry room, boy did I bolt out the door, that was an overload to the system.