To think hoovering is a never ending job?

[bamboothrough]

When I hoover our bedroom I get nearly a full hoover each time. It doesn’t matter how often I hoover. I used the carpet cleaner to wash the carpets this week and hoovered the day after and still got nearly a full cylinder.

We have a cat but a lot of it is dirt/ fluff not cat fur. I have 3 different hoovers and same result with them all. Carpets are around 2 years old and no shoes upstairs so can’t see where all the dirt is coming from?

Are you sure it is all dirt and fluff? We moved into our house 6 years ago and the previous occupant had just had a super new, high quality wool carpet put in downstairs, which we kept. It has shed fibres every time we hoover since then, and continues to do so - we can tell because it’s quite a bright colour so shows very distinctively from the dirt and fluff in the chamber on the hoover. Could this be the case for you if they’re only 2 years old?

You really shouldn't get full cylinder of dust from 1 room when it was cleaned the day before. Agree with PP, it's most likely carpet shedding.

That doesn't sound right OP. I only hoover whole house once a week (lazy mare) and only fill the (small) container twice !

If it's not the carpet fibres being sucked up, could it be the backing material (foam backing breaks down into a fine powder over time)

I think washing a carpet will cause a short term increase in shedding..

We got new underlay at this same time so wouldn’t of thought it was that. Might be the carpet shedding though, its not looking as fluffy as it was 😢

I hoover every day up and downstairs (usually it'd be every few days but as we're all home it seems the house is never quite tidy) and can fill the cylinder. We have 4 humans, 2 dogs, many many cats and a couple of rabbits, though, so it's understandable.

I didn't realise what was in our carpets until we got a Shark hoover. I swear it's picking up dirt that was there since the house was built . Previous hoover hardly seemed to fill, but this one gets emptied daily.

Are you using a Shark? The suction on ours was so unnecessarily powerful it was destroying our poor ol’ carpet by ripping up the fibres before their time. The carpet cleaner we bought in knew what vacuum cleaner we had within 5 mins of starting.

No I’ve got a dyson, a Henry and a robot hoover

We get a lot of hair from a long haired dog so have to hoover every day, although no shoes indoors so hopefully no dirt from outside, but I always do upstairs as well where the dog is banned and still manage to pick up a lot! Mystery!

And I agree about the Shark, it's a great hoover but there's one room I have to use a different hoover in as it tries to unravel the carpet, it's a big room so there's a necessary join in the carpet and it literally starting stripping it all away!