Do you wash your vacuum head every day?

[Soontobe60]

Following on from another thread in Chat, someone commented that you should be washing your vacuum head regularly, at least weekly if not more. It made me think. 🤔 I have no recollection of ever washing the head of the vacuum cleaner unless I was doing a deep clean of the whole equipment - which might be once every blue moon.
So my question is
Yes you should clean the Vacuum head every week - choose AIBU
No, that would be madness and a waste of time - choose YANBU

Are they even washable?

Vacuum head? I'm not even sure what that is. I've never washed any part of a vacuum in my life.

Just wondering how on earth on I would be able to wash the head of a Shark vacuum and get it properly dry plus I think it may have some electrical elements inside it. Curious, and I hope this doesn't start me off me off on another chore I feel I should be doing.

No!

Won't happen.

Skank monster here - 27 years of vacuum ownership across 3 different machines and I’ve never washed the head, let alone weekly.

I give it a quick wipe down every week if that counts.

Liek you - once in a blue moon lol. I don’t even bacon every day?! Well not everywhere - sitting room and kitchen yes because I have a 4 year old who created the need to vacuum those rooms daily lol

I have washed the soft roller (hard floors) of my handheld Dyson about 3 times. I’ve probably had it 10 years.

I do actually wash out the collection cylinder pretty often - perhaps once a fortnight. I would like to clean in the head but I haven't figured out how yet.

I only vacuume once in a blue moon so washing any part of the vaccume cleaner wouldn’t even be on my radar. The obsession with cleaning on MN is off the scale. How do people have time for all these cleaning chores? They must have no life.

I remove hair that gets caught on it, but that’s it

What will happen if I don’t? I haven’t ever washed it, but have had to take out the little furry spinning bit in my shark where it’s got something wrapped round it. But I’ve never washed any of it.
Despite that, it still works. We have a cream carpet in our bedroom - the hoover has never marked it or made it dirty.

I remove all the hair that gets wrapped round it. I washed it once after accidentally sucking up some wet stuff. That's once in decades of vacuum-owning and using.

Yep, I wash the cylinder bits and pieces and change the filters, not every week, but the head, no.

One of the posters on the other thread that did disinfect regularly was a cleaner

We never wash the main head with the spinning brush (just pull out the long hair and fluff which gets caught).

If I'm going to use the crevice tool to vacuum the sofa or something, then I do wipe the crevice tool first. (But some people think I'm a bit weird about things like that).

It’s all the germs we can’t see is the worry by the people who disinfect the hoover regularly. Also you need to hoover the house in a certain order so you don’t spread germs around

The Venn diagram of people who do this and people with too much time on their hands is a perfect circle.

Christ no. Who are the people who have time to add to the existing mountain of obligations with pointless extra work like this?

Occasionally I wrestle the arsehole shark to the floor and dig out all the crap and hair that get stuck in it's no wrap roller, that has all kinds wrapped around it. Never washed it.

I avoid this problem by not licking the floors or inhaling the carpet 👍

But why? It's literally for collecting dust and dirt from the floor which then goes straight in the bin

Who said that?

I know I said every 4-6 weeks you should clean your vaccum to ensure good function. I also said professional cleaners like myself should be doing it between each client if they use their own machine and that includes changing filters and bags so it all gets very expensive.

Who said the average householder should do it every time they use it in their own homes?

I saw that thread. She’s gone perfect baby mad