Noncarpet floors, do you vacuum or sweep?
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I have a back-pac vac which we use to first vacuum all the moldings, then the floors. Then we clean the hardwoods with a Bona mop and the tile floors with a standard sponge mop & cleaner. My husband likes to use a dust mop on the hardwoods but I think that just pushes the dirt from one place to another. I prefer using the vacuum to suck it up.
Sometimes I wish the whole house was carpeted - w/be a lot easier to keep clean!
Sometimes I wish the whole house was carpeted - w/be a lot easier to keep clean!
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I clean the veterinary office I work at. We don't sweep... we use a high powered vaccum for all the non-carpet floors. Works MUCH better than sweeping. The few times I've tried to sweep (vaccuum out of order), I still found hair everywhere afterwards. ICk!
Most of the time at home I will sweep all the dirt, hair, etc into a pile, and THEN bring in the sweeper. I'm sorry, but trying to broom dirty and debris into a dust pan ALWAYS leaves little particles of dirt behind in a small thin line. ICK! So, I do a mixture of both!
Oh, and when it comes to bathroom floors, .. I don't like mops much. When it comes time that they actually need cleaned, I get down on all fours and scrub the old fashioned way. IMO, it gets the floor the cleanest, unlike the mediocre job that swiffers can do. Nope, give me a scrub brush, a bucket of hot soapy waters, and some tunes to scrub to.
Most of the time at home I will sweep all the dirt, hair, etc into a pile, and THEN bring in the sweeper. I'm sorry, but trying to broom dirty and debris into a dust pan ALWAYS leaves little particles of dirt behind in a small thin line. ICK! So, I do a mixture of both!
Oh, and when it comes to bathroom floors, .. I don't like mops much. When it comes time that they actually need cleaned, I get down on all fours and scrub the old fashioned way. IMO, it gets the floor the cleanest, unlike the mediocre job that swiffers can do. Nope, give me a scrub brush, a bucket of hot soapy waters, and some tunes to scrub to.
I have no carpet in my house and I vacuum all of my floors and it works well. The key is to buy a vacuum that is made for both types of floors. I used to have one that was for carpet and all it did was spread the debris on my hardwoods, but the one I have now has a feature to turn the spinning brush off and just use suction and it works wonderfully!
My mom sweeps and vacuums the hardwood. There's a setting on our vacuum for non-carpeted flooring, I guess it's more.... gentle? Lol I don't know but if you use that setting on the carpet, you can tell it doesn't suck up as well.
Man I wish we had something like that. Sweeping barely touches the amount of hair that collects in the exam rooms. I'll sweep, and it looks like I got it all... and then when I go in to mop, a ball of hair goes blowing by.
Man I wish we had something like that. Sweeping barely touches the amount of hair that collects in the exam rooms. I'll sweep, and it looks like I got it all... and then when I go in to mop, a ball of hair goes blowing by.
