How long can you go with out vacuuming?

[chillipenguin]

Before it becomes a health hazard to have so much dust.

Wait - you have a lion, @BooksAndHooks?! 🦁😉

Everyday. Without fail unless on holiday.

5 cats here. I hoover everyday downstairs and every other upstairs

I can go a month or even two, but I do sweep downstairs most days.

Until they make one I can ride on!
I attempted to hoover when the cleaner wasn’t allowed to come during covid crazy time but I couldn’t work out how to empty it

I don't think it would ever be a health hazard.
But we tend to hoover the main areas once or twice a week. Some of the bedrooms haven't seen the hoover for months and I think it may be around a month since the stairs and landing were last done. They look fine still.

We have an eufy and I send it out everyday. Wooden floors and 2 dogs. Cleaners do the stairs every two weeks.

OP said health hazard. Let us know how your experiment goes & then you can tell us the answer, OP. I sometimes go up to 2 weeks, floor looks awful at that point but I'm sure it's not yet a health hazard.

No pets, old dusty house with carpet, and a teenage boy who drops crumbs no matter what rules I set......a week maximum. Two weeks if ds is away with the school.

I hoover upstairs about once a month (carpets)
I mop downstairs once every two weeks, but sweep crumbs up as we go.
We have DH me and toddler.

"There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”

― Quentin Crisp

Several times a DAY?! What on earth are you doing to them?

Easily a couple of months. We are very healthy. We have a summer cottage with no electricity which has never been vacuumed in 53 years of spending summers there. No one ever gets ill.

I'm clearly grim.

Me, 2 teens, 1 cat. Haven't hoovered for about 3 months. I get the hoover out if there's noticeable things to hoover on the carpet.

I was with ex for over 20yrs and I'd hoover about once every 6 months. He'd never hoover. Or clean. It formed a habit in me as I thought I'm not going to bother if he isn't.

We'd give the house a proper clean if there was something to clean up, or it was his mum's annual visit.

It rarely looks unclean.

And we're all very rarely ill.

I'm trying to cut down on all energy costs everywhere i can in the house

Good shout. My nan had one of these. She was on to something.

I had a dog that shed a lot, so have an automated vacuum robot that vacuumed daily. Since she passed away, my other dog is not a shedder do we do every other day

We only have carpets on stairs and in bedrooms. Dh hoovers twice a month. Wooden floors get swept weekly, kitchen floor daily. Washed weekly.

They have a lion. I'd imagine they shed quite a lot.

I last dysoned at the end of July. No shoes or pets and lots of hard floors. Doesn't look too bad.
Ideally it needs doing every 2 / 3 weeks.

We have cars so even after 24 hours it’s desperate again. We leave cats at home when on holiday and someone just comes round to feed and sort litter. The house is always disgusting to arrive back to. Literally the first thing I have to do is get the vacuum out, you can feel the cat hair under foot there’s basically a layer of it throughout the house.
Still could never send them away though.

I'm going to sound like a MN clean freak here, but I would sooner sit in a cold house and never eat a warm meal again that cut down on the hoovering. I couldn't go longer than a week, it would be grim.

Have to do twice a day.......I have a fog that sheds it's own body weight in flipping hair.....

What is the “health hazard” associated with dust?

I borrowed one from someone elderly to see how their carpet sweeper worked on our carpets.

Passable. Just. For some occasions.