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!

@wannadisc0

I always hoover the kitchen.

However I never wash the teapot with anything other than plain hot water. Otherwise you take away the build up of tannins which is why tea tastes better out of a pot!

Oh God no! I use washing soda like my grandmother before me. Tea tastes better out of a clean pot.

I don’t like hoovering so usually sweep the kitchen with a brush and use a carpet sweeper on the carpets in the rest of the house. When I do vacuum I do the kitchen.
I don’t think the question arose when I was a child because you couldn’t use a vacuum cleaner (not ours anyway) on hard floors.

The bonkersness on here sometimes knows no bounds, I've never heard such a thing. Of course people might prefer to broom a hard floor but nothing to do with food in the vacuum bag, that's just mad. What is going to happen?

Bit of both. Brush and pan to get the big bits and hoover to get the small bits it misses. I have lots of messy kids and dog that sheds loads.

Tea tastes better out of a clean pot

them's fightin words...

[quote FelicityBeedle]@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[/quote]
Tip out the limescale? I need an ice-pick to get it out of mine so I occasionally use some 'stuff' that loosens it but I still have to encourage it!

Yes

My hoover has different settings for carpet and hard floors. A lot of hoovers also have brushes for hard floors so I thought that it was normal to hoover them!

I’m always amazed that people have food that manages to hit the floor without being eaten on the way down.

Yes OP get a dog (or a cat…he’s just as bad)

Very rarely hoover the kitchen, I normally use a brush and then a steam mop. I bloody love my steam mop - it’s so quick and easy to use.

I brush after every meal so there's not much food on the floor. Then let the Eufy roll around every day or two. But it needs a proper hoover before you wash the floor.

My big Hoover is useless in the kitchen even though it has a hard floor setting so I bought a small Hoover just for that floor and give it a run over each night. Load dishwasher, wipe surfaces, Hoover up and wipe any messes then mop at the weekend.

Blimey, I've been known to hoover the worktop before wiping

@marqueses

The bonkersness on here sometimes knows no bounds, I've never heard such a thing. Of course people might prefer to broom a hard floor but nothing to do with food in the vacuum bag, that's just mad. What is going to happen?

I dont know, thats why its dawned on me that it isnt normal!!

I just trusted that it was a housework rule without really questioning it until today, and when i started to unpick my reasoning, i realised that it was insane haha

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

I only use it for water but the limescale builds up quickly over time where it has to be almost chiselled off. We have a new kettle but it is heavy duty glass and you can see the limescale building up in as little as a week so I put the kettle on with a glug of white vinegar added to the water and let it sit for 15 minutes and then rinse. Works better than most descaled you get in the shop imo. I do this once a week.

Never mind @ChatterMonkey
Humans are the most imitative apes! It’s normal.

If the food is moist, then it could clog up the vacuum cleaner somewhere - filters, brushes etc. Dry crumbs are fine, but I'd rather sweep as all sorts end up on the floor with 2 young children and cats that like to take the cat food out of the bowl and eat it off the floor!

You need to apologise to your partner for telling him off for suggesting a perfectly normal thing.

@wannadisc0

I always hoover the kitchen.

However I never wash the teapot with anything other than plain hot water. Otherwise you take away the build up of tannins which is why tea tastes better out of a pot!

We had a stainless steel teapot when I was growing up, it was never scrubbed out! It had a patina of decades of Tetley on the inside. Not for me though, we are a strictly Yorkshire household.

I do sweep as well as vacuum, but my dustpan is rubbish so I end up sweeping into a corner and then using the Shark to get the detritus up. A rubber broom is fantastic for sweeping up hair of all kinds, I have a rubber brush for getting the cat's hair from fabric as well. Works better than a vacuum does (although I use the vacuum to get rid of the hair pile thus removed).

Yep I do!

OP you've given me a much needed smile! Bless you. Yes. Hoovers are only for picking up clean dirt!

I wonder what batshit stuff I do because I've never questioned it. I bet there's loads!

Have to Hoover, the brush doesn't cut it with cat hair or get in the corners properly.

OP - I was the same as you until I read this thread and my bonkerdness dawned on me too.

My husband "Dysons" the ceiling. Regularly.

We have a Karcher window vac in the shower for cleaning water droplets after showering. Seriously

I would never hoover the kitchen. Eww, gross! Sweep with broom and mop.

I dyson everything, the dinner table after dinner, sofas, books on a bookshelf, etc xxj gonna get my money’s worth