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

I don’t even know what a vacuum head is

Unless "vacuum head" is a euphemism, no.

The thread does exist, that’s what prompted this thread. Lexie is upset because I didn’t actually quote directly from the thread, rather I summarised the gist of it.

I have a Vax cordless stick vacuum cleaner and I probably remove the trapped hair from the rotating roller once a week or so (there's 3 of us with long hair) I'll empty the bin every use because its tiny. I give the whole exterior of it a wipe down occasionally but the only parts I wash are the bin and the filter, but that's once every few months I think. If I dunked the head in water, it would never work again!

I have a DC with a dustmite allergy so I probably vacuum more than most people.

I don't even wash the filters let alone the head. I mean, what components of a vacuum head can you wash? its just a piece of plastic and a brush.

I did used to have to regularly cut DD's tangled hair out of the brush at one time, but I bought a pet hair one and she moved out so no longer a problem.

I have never cleaned a hoover and never will unless I accidentally hoovered up cat poo or something which I have never done.

Thank you I’ll take a look x I have 4 short haired dogs- white fur 😧

Every day?!

Your home must be very clean! I do mine several times a year, but I've got a dog.

Has never crossed my mind.

I will unravel hair or anything else wrapped round the rollers.

I do wipe the see-through bin out on a fairly regular basis, but that is mainly so I can see what's in their easily and whether anything needs to be retrieved when I empty it. (Lego etc).

I have a Miele Cat and Dog, I don't think anything is washable. I remove the hair from the spinny thing, change the bags (they seal up, and I have a dust allergy so I can't be emptying anything where it's loose) and change the filters. Any cleaner I've had uses my vacuum cleaner so no chance of any cross contamination. I'm good with that

Doesn't your machine have filters? They're the bits that you should keep clean and wash regularly to keep the machine doing its job properly.

I throw the whole Dyson in the washing machine on a boil wash everyday. It does mean I then need to drag the washing machine down to the laundrette to throw it in their industrial sized top loading machines but saves me a fortune on tinfoil hats.

I don't even use my vacuum cleaner everyday, let alone wash the head.

Good call!

Not once in 30 plus years.

It never even occurred to me that you could do this.

I only vacuum on a full moon. I’ve never washed it

Yet again I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe. My mind is blown that this is something that could ever enter someone's head. Happy to see most people on the thread are not clinically insane don't do this either.

I've just dusted for the first time in 2 months.

No, never have. I’ve got more important things to do, such as looking at interesting shaped clouds or wondering if dinosaurs sang a dawn chorus and what it might have sounded like.

It isn't a hobby, it's part of a cleaning routine, usually done when I'm planning on having a fairly relaxed day/evening, in my apartment. I don't have a full house to clean anymore.

Of course they did. The Land before time taught us that, then Jurassic Park confirmed it.

Good point. Science.

Because it misrepresents the thread entirely