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

If I remember correctly from my own premmie relatives, they're considered vulnerable from an immunity perspective until around 5. Her extra care of her baby makes perfect sense, it's just how she is trying to address it isn't evidence based.

It took me 20 mins to de-hair the Dyson brush bar yesterday after it started smelling a bit burny. Probs gets done every 9 months... Washed the filters too, can't remember the last time. I've never washed anything other than the dust bin part of my vac.

I think you’re missing the point of the thread Lexi - obviously I didn’t directly quote from the other thread because that would then be a TAAT which could get me in trouble with MNHQ. The point about my thread is, who in their right minds cleans the vacuum head regularly.
Just out of interest, how do you manage if you clean yours between clients and have 3 clients in one day? Where do you clean it? How do you then use the vacuum as the head would surely still be damp?

No it gets quick wipe after checking for hair & fluff, it only grts a good clean when Im doing the filters

That's exactly why I only use my own machine for things like end of tenancy cleans and I rely on the client having their own.

Everyone should be wary of a cleaner who routinely bring their own vacuum or mop. Especially if they charge less than about £25ph in the SE.

I NEVER bacon, but I’m vegetarian… (sorry, I know it was a typo but it made me laugh!)

Washing bits of the vacuum cleaner never even occurred to me. I bet these people also clean under the fridge when they haven’t bought a new one or are moving house.

So instead of watching Tv you vacuum? Interesting!

No, I don’t need another pointless chore to add to my list.

"that you should be washing your vacuum head regularly, at least weekly if not more."

I was asking for proof that someone said thes words. I didnt see them

I swear some people invent chores to do just so they can feel productive. These people need to get a hobby instead.

I’d just be happy I didn’t have to clean my own floors tbh. 🤣

Haha omg bacon 😂
I will be moving soon and scared what’s under my fridge lol

Exactly. Performing chores like this is God’s way of telling you you don’t have enough to do.

You can spread fleas and bed bugs and things by using the same hoover in multiple homes so that's why it is actually an important thing to do (cleaning between each client). It's one thing I'd insist on from a cleaner if I didn't have my own (I'd always supply my own to them for that reason).

Washing the vacuum head every week doesn't make sense from any perspective. I've had my own vulnerable baby, but she wasn't my first, and just trying to stop her brother from hastening his own end plus keeping her warm and fed was enough work. Washing the vacuum didn't even feature on my list of things to do.

The baby will be fine if she just follows normal advice.

I’ve already explained.
You also asked this Who said the average householder should do it every time they use it in their own homes? but in my post I didn’t claim that someone had said this.

I cut the hair that gets wrapped around the rollers.

Never actually cleaned a vacuum cleaner before or come across anyone who does this.

I washed every removable part of my shark stick cleaner after having to use it when a bird dropped a stick down the chimney and bought a load of soot down with it. But I didn't use the power vaccum head, as that would have been stupid and expensive to ruin, so just the detail cleaner bit, pipes, chambers and filters.

She doesn't wash it every week. She washes it every time it is used. Your main source of infection for your baby was your other child. Hers may well be cross contamination in the home from things like the hoiver as you are individuals with different lives and therefore different sources of risk.

I’m pretty sure someone who goes to the trouble of paying for a cleaner is highly unlikely to have fleas and bed bugs knocking about the place.
Chill out - it’s Sunday and we have an extra hour in bed!

Bastard birds!!!

So is the you in the quote I provided? Who said anyone should wash theirs weekly? Where is the post saying it? It may well exist, I'm just asking where it exists.

I think that you are taking this very seriously and possibly a little too much to heart. Lots of answers have told you that this is over the top behaviour that you are justifying. You do things your way, that is fine. You might just have to accept that other people don't see the need - vulnerable babies or not.

Lexi… maybe you need to step away from what is supposed to be a light-hearted thread about mundane, unnecessary chores. Go for a walk, have a bacon butty, polish your appliances. Enjoy your day!

LOL. Is that what you think????

At least some of the people hire cleaners do so because they won't clean themselves for a variety of reasons. Or most of the people who live there will not clean.

Many have pets. They arent all up on fleat treatments. Some womt even routinely deflea their pets for another variety of reasons.

There is a mass outbreak of bedbugs atm. They're on the buses and trains!