Vacuum Cleanup

[durango159]

I'm still adjusting to the new townhouse. It's taken a while but the living room just got it's second carpet shampooing. The landlord said when I signed lease that carpets have been cleaned. However, all of my vacuum brushes were getting black and even power head bases gunking up.

Bedrooms got shampooed right away and seem to be ok. I was originally wiping some of the agitator brushes with a rag. However, tonight became the night to really do the works clean up!!!

 

[durango159]

Agitator brushes

Cleaning all the agitator brushes, wiping end caps, checking bearings, and checking anything else that stands out. All power heads were worked on not long ago so it's primarily just bristles that needed cleaning.

2 Hoover Quadraflex Powermatics
1 Hoover PowerMax Deluxe Power head
1 Eureka RotoMatic power head
1 Hoover Celebrity power head

Gonna start the other Celebrity power head in a little bit.

Sometimes I just use some hand soap and my hand to scrub them. Other times like tonight I find some multipurpose cleaner and a scrub brush. I have a surplus of Armstrong floor cleaner so I put some a sink, soaked some of the brush strips and hit everything with a scrub brush.

How often does anyone else feel the need to wash agitators? What does everyone like to use? [this post was last edited: 10/6/2013-21:28]

 

[vacuumfreak95]

Agitator cleaning....

I soaked my Elite II brush roll in bleach to sanitize it. That's after all the inside parts got removed of course.  I've also used those sanitizing wipes made by Clorox or Lysol with good results.

 

[kirbylux77]

Well, for cleaning my kitchen....stove, counters, wiping down the cupboard doors & cleaning fridge interior, I keep an old 1 litre dishsoap bottle of all-purpose cleaner diluted with water. I usually use a store brand, but sometimes Mr Clean or Pine-Sol is nice too. I find this works really good for cleaning up gunk in powerheads, & cleaning out the interior bag compartments of vacuums in general.

Rob

 

[hoovercelebrity]

I usually only clean all of those parts when I give a machine the spa treatment. Everything goes through the dishwasher - I have a dishwasher in the basement that I only use for running vacuum parts through. Sometimes the parts do need an extra hand-scrubbing with dish soap or Simple Green, to get all of the gunk off.