the best nozzle for cleaning hard floors

[n0oxy]

Hey everyone, I thought I would pass along some info on what I think is the best nozzle for cleaning bare floors. It's the Wessel Werk quick clean nozzle. It actually does not use brushes at all. Instead, it uses 2 rubber squeegees on the bottom, and it gets the suction much closer to the floor than regular floor brushes. It has large wheels and moves across the floor very smoothly. I'm including a link to a site that sells it, but wondering if anyone else has used this tool and if so, did it work well for you. I would suggest anyone that has a lot of bare floors to clean with a canister get this nozzle, I really think it's the best floor nozzle you can get.

http://www.vacdepot.com/products/440

 

[vacuumfreak95]

Riccar/Simplicity.

Has THE best floor nozzle I've ever used! My whole house has dark color hardwood floor and my Riccar Moonlight canister with this nozzle is th best thing EVER! The micro fiber dust pad underneath makes all the difference in the world!

 

[appliance_att]

Looks like a good idea

I had a Miele Revolution 700 as my daily driver for 10 years and the one thing that really disappointed was the fancy parquet brush - most of the fluff and dust seemed to stick to the bristles rather than getting sucked up. I now have a Miele S8000 series with the normal carpet/hard floor tool and that's a bit better, but not much; I'm still forever having to vacuum the floor brush with the end of the hose.

Way back in the mid-90s, an old boyfriend of mine has a Bosch cylinder cleaner with a floorhead with rubber strips rather than any brushes, which seemed to work quite well on carpets and hard floors. Don't know the model, but it was full-size, a fetching burgundy colour with an amber-coloured LCD display.

 

[kenkart]

COMPACT!

They have short bristles that lets the air get right down to the floor.

 

[blackheart]

Well....

When i think of all the bare floor nozzles i've used i can really narrow it down to these.

Lindhaus wheeled floor tool. while it looks a little bulky this tool glides very well over surfaces, it's edge pick up is great, and it utilizes both a brush strip and a squeegee to me it really seems to do a good job.

I'm actually unsure of the brand on this other one i've got two variations of it though one with a castle cut brush, which came with a royal airopro 1000, and the other with a higher center opening. It's narrower than most tools at about 10" but it's shorter width also seems to give it better pick up as the airflow is more concentrated.

 

[miskini]

Sean I agree with you on the simplicity/ riccar nozzle. It is the best one I've ever tried. Even the build quality is superb. The shark hard floor genie does a wonderful job too, although it does feel kind a cheap.

 

[n0oxy]

wessel werk nozzle

I've actually never had to clean off the nozzle I mentioned in the first post of this thread. I think that was kind of the idea, to make a floor nozzle that would not clog or have to be cleaned off. The only other floor nozzle that comes close to this one is the one that came with my sebo airbelt d1, it's a bit heavier but really glides across the floor and cleans well. I've used the wessel werk nozzle to clean my girl friend's floors which have cat hair on them since she has a pet cat, and the nozzle did not have any hair stuck to it at all. Considering how well this nozzle works, I wonder why floor nozzles with brushes are used so much? Do they offer any advantage, or do most people just not know there is an alternative?

 

[human]

I just use my Electrolux floor tool, flipped so the bristle side is down. That way, it sort of sweeps as it sucks. For quick jobs, I use my Hoover Quik Broom Supreme, again with the bristles extended. It doesn't work quite as well and I have to periodically clear it with my finger, but it serves its purpose of convenience.

 

[floor-a-matic]

Aerus/Electrolux
Compact/TriStar

 

[eluxfan71]

Philips twistoclean

I use for my wood floors the Philips twist o clean. It cleans perfectly the floors and the very fine dust is sweep away with the microfibre pads. At the same time the floor is lightly polished as the pads are rotating when pushing the brush.

 

[pr-21]

Aerus/Electrolux Horsehair Floor Brush or an equal to that would be the Rainbow Horsehair Floor Brush. They both have the castle cut and pull dirt in from all sides. The next best in my opinion would be the ones that are cut shorter in the front to allow debris to be sucked in. With the Aerux/Lux, they will work with the metal wands for eureka and they will also fit on the Kirby G Series extension tubes.


PR-21

 

[moderneezer]

I had a crappy floor brush and wanted a better one. I was looking into this thread to get an idea on what floor tool I should get. When I went to the Chapman boutique, I saw two nozzles similar to the one you, N0oxy, was talking about (which is the model RD 285). I considered buying one of them and when I went to the cash register, one of the employees told me that I should get a nozzle with bristles for the bare floors. So I just decided to buy one of the floor brushes with bristles.

I don't know if it's the best kind of floor brush but I do like it and it sure is much better than the other floor brush I got with my canister. I chose a kind with a large opening on the front since I don't trust the models with castle-cut styled brush strips. Now what if there were a floor brush similar to the SBB 300-3 model from Miele but with the large front opening instead of the castle-cut brush strips? I would have liked to get one such brush. Would any of you like to get one too?

 

[n0oxy]

floor nozzles

I have tried nozzles with bristles and I don't like them for a couple of reasons. For one thing, hair tends to cling to the brush and you have to clean that off. Second, a nozzle like the rd285 gets the air flow much closer to the floor than a nozzle with bristles does. Neither one is right or wrong, it's just personal preference, but I find the nozzle with no bristles is much easier to work with. I do have several floor nozzles with bristles but couldn't tell you the last time I used them. The first time I tried the RD285 I was sold on it.

 

[moderneezer]

Then Should I have trusted the shopowner who recommended me to get one of the nozzles with bristles?

 

[sebo_fan]

The problem with the RD285 is that there are no bristles to speak of. Hoover offered me one when the hard floor tool on my Hoover bagged stick vac was so awful and I declined the offer. I went with the secondary option of having their Parquet Caresse floor tool which is just a conventional hard floor brush with horsehair bristles.

The other problem is that the RD285 has only been on the market for the last couple of months, if barely that. I note that Hoover Europe products elsewhere sells the floor nozzle but may well be added to the tools that were such a disaster in the UK.

I would go with old faithful though I may add that I am probably wrong for suggesing it - however - you'll hardly go wrong with a bristle added floor brush. Yes you'll have to clean off the bristles but I just wouldn't have bare plastic pushing against a floor without at least some bristle agitation to protect the floor as the floor head goes over it.

Apart from which, bristles add air flow to go through the bristles - the Wessel Werk has a thin dust channel on the underside but a relatively flat edge. I can only assume that it will clamp down on a hard floor and not offer as much gliding despite having wheels fitted to it.

 

[n0oxy]

rd285

Actually, that nozzle has been out for at least a year or more, I got mine last year at this time. And, even with a central vacuum with very powerful suction, it glides accross the floor smooth as butter, no problem at all. It would be interesting to take some dirt and compare that nozzle with a nozzle with brushes.

 

[sebo_fan]

Well you must have got a prototype, N0oxy because Wessel Werk only officially released the product in March 2015!

In any regard this floor head might just be suitable - I've only noticed that it has angled velour strips on the underside where its function has obviously replaced bristles. Time will however tell whether it is worth this IF the Velour stays there and doesn't need replacing.

(PS photo taken from Wessel Werk website showing off another floor tool)

 

[sebo_fan]

The other reason to why I suggested a conventional hard floor tool with bristles is simply because they're so practical. I have used mine for cleaning cobwebs off walls. They make great tools for cleaning flat surfaces above the floor line too, provided of course that the surface is vast and flat. Even on glass - provided again that the wheels are removable. Most Wessel Werk floor heads have removable wheels.

 

[eurekaprince]

Personally, I think any bare floor nozzle that combines a disposable or washable electrostatic pad with a front edge suction channel is the most efficient way to vacuum bare floors while wiping them clean of fine dust. Right now, it seems only Shark, Tacony, and Filter Queen offer such bare floor nozzles. Dyson, Dirt Devil and Swiffer also sell stick-vacs dedicated to bare floor cleaning which also offer a washable or disposable wiper pad in combination with one or two suction channels. I think the Bissell Symphony does this as well.

The configuration is excellent in removing both regular litter and fine electrostatic dust.