20 April 2018 - How Not to Suck When Cleaning

Caring for and Using a Vacuum Cleaner

"You can avoid many problems with a vacuum cleaner by knowing practical points about its care and building these points into your cleaning routine."

Today's Almanac reading is about being smart with your vacuum cleaner.

We had a small entry about this in the March Mix blog where I definitely said don't use your vacuum to clean out your fireplace.

So let's go over a few more vacuum care tips.

Before vacuuming your floor:

Make sure you pick up any objects that could damage the vacuum. Pins, clips, or sharp objects.

It might be tempting to vacuum up a lego that your kid has left on the floor for a week but maybe you shouldn't. Also, don't run your vacuum over the cord. You risk ruining the power cord and making a dangerous situation for yourself.

Additionally, unless you have a wet vac, you should never try to vacuum up water or wet surfaces.

Empty the container.

You can overheat your vacuum by letting it get to full. The motor a vacuum is cooled by the air flow. Not enough air flow equals bad news for your vacuum.

Whether it is a bag or bagless vacuum, a clean vacuum will be more efficient.

Remove hair and thread from the rotating brushes.

It happens to the best of us. Hair gets wrapped up in that thing and you rotating brushes wont rotate anymore. Just take some scissors and carefully cut away threads and hair to clean up the brushes.

Adjust the nozzle for your carpet type

This should be easy. Check your manual for tips on how to best clean shaggy carpets, thin rugs, or bare floors.

Clean the parts and filters

There are some amazing people who do YouTube videos that show how to take apart your vacuum to clean it. I have done it! Those guys are the real MVP's.

There are usually instructions on how to do this on your vacuum. I am a visual learner and YouTube instructors have helped me so much over the years.

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Now it's also 2018 and the future is now!

We can buy a little robot vacuum to do our dirty work for us.

It can be easy to forget about little Roomba at the end of the day. If you have one of these you need to make sure you are taking care of your little cleaning robot.

It's almost the same with regular vacuums with emptying the container and cleaning the parts.

A big advantage to Roomba are the upgrade options!

Yeah,

DJ Roomba

Playing sick beats

Keeping the floor clean for your feets

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