Vacuum Question
October 18th, 2008Tired of Coffee Grounds Between my Toes
Help me out. What’s the best stick vacuum for wood floors? Has to be cordless, and has to be capable of sucking up the occasional dead 2″ roach. Should also be able to get into fairly tight spaces.
October 18th, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Glenn Beck.
October 18th, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Funny you should mention it.
My wife is having me buy her an Oreck today:
http://www.oreck.com/small-home-appliances/cordless_electrik_broom.cfm?keycode=DI445
She used it at our friend’s house and loved it.
I’m happy, because she’d never let me get an dustbuster and we always had to lug out her beloved Filter Queen, which granted, emits no dust (long before HEPA). But now we’re almost all hardwood.
I would rather get a unit I saw that is a swiffer/vacuum. You push the swiffer, when the crud builds up, you trigger the vac. But it won’t do the small patch of berber in front of the couch.
October 18th, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Thanks for both suggestions.
I’m leaning toward the Black and Decker Pivot, since I’ll only be using it for small problems.
October 18th, 2008 at 3:03 PM
My wife swears by her little new Swiffer rechargable.
October 18th, 2008 at 9:06 PM
Rosarita.
October 18th, 2008 at 11:41 PM
I have an Electrolux 2 in 1. It has the dustbuster type vacuum you can remove to get into the really tight spots. We like it. It is very good for the quick pickups in between the big cleaning days when I pay someone else to run the real vacuum. I can do the kitchen, dining room, living room areas around the rugs, and then go down the hallway to the big bedroom and it doesn’t even begin to run down. However, if I decide to run it on the rugs it has a lot more friction on the roller brush and does run down. So I just don’t do all that much. We take it with us in our travel trailer when we go on trips and it does that carpeting fairly well. I tried another of that type, it shall remain nameless because I’ve forgotten what it was, I didn’t like it and got rid of it.