Aibu to not hoover in the kitchen?

[ChatterMonkey]

Do people use their hoover in the kitchen??

I had always not, as my mum doesnt. She says that you dont want food inside the hoover.

I've told dp off when hes suggested hoovering the kitchen, and got out the old brush instead.

But after seeing a video on facebook of someone hoovering their kitchen i wonder if its me thats strange? We eat in the living room so when i hoover in there, there are food crumbs so i suppose my argument is gone...

Mumsnet consenus, do you hoover the kitchen??

YABU - of course you hoover in the kitchen
YANBU - no way, you have to use a brush for the kitchen floor!

@Daisydoesnt

Crikey OP I think that's bonkers. How much food did your mum used to have on the kitchen floor?!! Of course you vacuum, but if it's something wet & squishy on the floor surely you just pick it up with some kitchen towel and bung it in the bin?

It reminds me my parents always had this rule that you should never wash up the teapot, because you would never be able to get the suds of fairy liquid out of it. Isn't that bonkers too?!

My FIL insisted you should never wash your frying pan. It was a normal, sealed,Teflon bottomed one ,not some fabulous chef type wonderment. The fat from a thousand cooked breakfasts festered away in it and more lard was added each day . Absolutely minging

@phoenixrosehere
You clean the kettle? Does yours not only get used for water and regularly reach boiling temperature? When I lived somewhere with harder water I would tip out the limescale a few times a year but that’s all

Yes.
I sweep in the week and hoover once a week.

@ChatterMonkey

Oh my goodness im shocked at the replies!! 😂😂

It's amazing the things you think are normal because your parents do it, and dont realise until you are an adult that they are strange...

Makes my life a lot easier if I can whip the hoover round instead of the crappy broom me have!

Theres never masses of food on the floor, just crumbs, maybe a strand of grated chese etc that I cant be bothered to pick up while cooking. But yes hoover gets emptied regularly..

Still a bit in shock about this weird belief ive had for 30+ years!

And to the pp above, same about the teapor and soap suds... I remember getting told off for washing the teapot along with the dishes. I think my mum actually bought a new one...

Lol there are so many things we do on auto because our parents did it

I have a broom and a hoover, sometimes a quick sweep is all it needs

I sweep the kitchen every day (have a dog) and I Hoover it and steam mop it every weekend.

Get a dog. And then hoover.

Ds lobs his porridge and stuff on the floor, so it obviously gets wiped first. I don’t just hoover up yogurt and Bolognese

I sweep because i find it easier to get into the corners (where the crumbs go) but I’m surprised you told your dh off for hoovering- each ti their own surely? Dh does things differently to me and I couldn’t care less.

I have to keep telling DH not to vacuum when there are 'wetter' crumbs and food spills on the floor! Clogs up the vacuum and rollers.
I sweep and use a Bissell Crosswave on the hard floors. Will vacuum up normal crumbs, dust etc though.

Don't hoover in the kitchen. I use a sweeping brush daily to gather any crap and mop the floor (but not daily mopping - that's madness!).

If its dry food it gets hoovered. If its wet food it gets left to dry

You told your partner off over this??!!

I never use the vacuum cleaner in the kitchen. Not because I am afraid it won't be able to cope with food particles* but because I have different cleaning techniques for hard floors v carpeted areas.

In the kitchen (and bathroom too) I sweep up with my broom and then switch to a dustpan and brush to collect the pile of crumbs and other detritus and tip into the plastic rubbish bag hanging on the back of the cupboard door where I also store my vast array of cleaning tools including the the mop and bucket I use after sweeping. After that I find a final going over with a vacuum cleaner to be overkill but I admit I am a bit sluttish** I wash my sheets only once a week (even if we have had sex - another recent Mumsnet thread) and use towels more than once.

The rubbish bag is thrown out every day or two depending on contents. I use the bin at the end of the street rather than waiting for rubbish collection at my house. I don't have a kitchen bin. That's unconventional, I was told on a recent thread about household waste management, as well as possibly illegal but yesterday I confirmed with Ricky, one of my regular bin men, that this practice was acceptable. "Public bins are free for all," he noted.

He might have said "a free-for-all" which would have changed the meaning but I will continue to dispose of my potato peelings, yogurt pot tops, hair from my brush* and other non-recyclables in the bin at the end of the street.

I usually favour Sainsbury's own brand all-purpose cleaning liquid in Cotton scent to mop the floors and clean other hard surfaces. I've never noticed that cotton has a particular scent but it might refer to a field of actual cotton plants. Anyway, this liquid has a light floral smell, is blue and reasonably priced. I find it does the job as well as the more expensive Flash.

• I would never use my vacuum cleaner to collect any debris from decorating and building work or sawdust from carpentry. I was advised that by a builder. He was very serious about it. If you look closely they always have dinky little dustpans and brushes and Henry vacuums. Apparently the Henry can cope with fine building dust and flaked paint etc. That kind of thing is death to Dysons. I have a Vax Family And Pet model but the principle stands.

** I never deliberately take bundles of hair from brushes (human or cat) up the vacuum cleaner. But it sheds almost imperceptibly all over the place. I frequently check the roller on the vacuum for hair and cut it off before the roller stops turning. I do this because I got a burning smell once which is not what you want in any household appliance. I have long hair and the amount I cut off is alarming. But I haven't noticed bald patches so I try to remain calm.

* Inspired by Mumsnet hygiene threads I decided to up my game and bought a steam cleaner. What a waste of money and space that was.

Yes I do. I stupidly chose a flooring that shows up every single crumb so I hoover daily. I have a cleaner once a week and she does too.

I mostly use a soft broom - gets into the corners better than the hoover.

I have a cunningly chosen kitchen floor that very rarely actually looks dirty, so might add that instead of mopping, I often spray some Flash on to a sponge cloth and push it over any obviously dirty marks with my foot.
Not that I’m a lazy cow or anything. 🙂

I hoover the dining room. Why not the kitchen?

I do most sweep it though as its quicker than getting the hoover out.

We always hoover after smashed glass as we find it gets the smallest bits.

I have never hoovered my kitchen.

Maybe I am your mum
I was going through Hoover after hoover literally 3 or 4 a year and didn’t know why.
One day my friend was over and my baby had dropped cereal and milk over the floor and I hoovered it up and she told me you shouldn’t Hoover wet stuff! I didn’t know!
Proud owner of a 1.5 year old Hoover now

I sweep then hoover then mop then sweep then hoover again every week. Just because crap always gets missed. But most days just sweep into a corner and get the dust pan and brush out.

Yes always hoover the kitchen. There’s no food on the floor so it’s not going to get into the hoover. If any did drop I’d pick it up before hoovering

50/50 in this house, I sweep and dh uses the dyson 😁

I messed up my asterisks there but hope you all get the gist of my cleaning regime. That's a condensed version. I have many more fascinating tips including my policy on teapots, seasoning cooking pans (it doesn't mean leaving gunk in them) and kettles in a hard water area.

Yes! I even hoover the garden decking, so much quicker than sweeping!