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Apartment Living

  • 06-04-2013 1:39pm
    #1
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭


    Just thought I'd get some ideas here..

    Now that I'm living in an apartment these days, the option of spending an hour or so hoovering and generally cleaning the car in the driveway isn't an option :( It's not filthy or filled with rubbish but it's annoying me (I'm a man who likes his car clean and tidy)

    Although I have a ground-floor apartment and the car is parked outside it, there's a footpath between the two that presumably would lead to much legal woes should someone not watching where they were going trip over it (ahh for the 80's when you tripped, cursed your stupidity and just got on with your life). Would a cheap flat mat to cover that part of the cable do I wonder?

    So does that really mean my only options are to either take it to a garage and use the hoover attachment there (not cheap and not ideal either as the attachments are a big one-piece slab of plastic that aren't much use in corners/vents), or pay someone more again to "valet" the car

    Using someone else's driveway is out as my friends are living all over the country at this stage or in apartments themselves.

    What do the rest of ye do?


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,076 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Dyson battery powered might be an option, probably easier than a normal vac as no cable to keep moving around...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hc69Wbp-Kk


  • #3
    Ronnie Beck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Ronnie Beck


    Cable_Protector_Cable_Cover_Cable_Bridge_MT06.jpg

    I wouldn't bother but you could get one of those cable bridges.


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    If you use of the those long door mats that would cover it on the path.

    Alternatively put 2 chairs over the cable to obstruct people somewhat. They'll notice the chairs and be more careful.


  • #5
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    cigar lighter plug-in vacuum?


  • #6
    aSligoDub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭aSligoDub


    in work, when stringing leads, we try to loop them off something above head level..

    Any trees, lamposts or railings around your car?


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  • #7
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Thanks for all the suggestions guys :)

    I had a look at the Dyson range but they're about €200 for that series which seems a bit expensive for this.

    I had a cigarette socket version previously at one stage alright but it wasn't much use in terms of suction power. Unless anyone has an experience with one they'd recommend up to say €75?

    Something to throw over the cable on the footpath may be the best bet then (no railings/lamps to suspend a cable from unfortunately). I may have a look in the local homeware store later as I've to go out anyway and see if I can find anything suitable.


  • #8
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    What about paying a local kid a fiver to patrol the cable for the duration of the hoovering?

    Or just have a friend there to keep an eye on it?

    Tbh Id wouldnt worry about it, people often hoover their cars where I live (apartment block) and they dont bother covering the cable, although I suppose it depends on how busy your pavement is, mine could go a couple of hours without someone walking by.

    Another option is early morning or very late evening car hoovering, when there are likely to be less people around?


  • #9
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Yea it's fairly quiet around here to be honest as well so it probably would be ok.. but I just know if someone DID trip over it it'd probably get messy in today's compo culture society :(

    It's more to cover myself than the cable really :)


  • #10
    keith-b
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭keith-b


    i got my car cleaned in cork street auto centre was €15 for a mini valet they washed it hooverd it and cleaned dash


  • #11
    Flesh Gorden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Flesh Gorden


    I've on of these babies

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    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DEWALT-Akku-Handsauger-DC515N-XJ-18V-Neu-OVP-/171007655253?pt=DE_Haus_Garten_Heimwerker_Elektrowerkzeuge&hash=item27d0d9bd55

    1m flexi hose, great suction

    battery life ain't fantastic, about 20mins with a fully charged brand new battery - or 2 uses per charge for me if the car is in a bad way


    If using a mains operated vacuum, I'd have to agree with the use of an old mat - works very well, especially if it's taped down



    I've ran cable across walking areas and normally if the path was dry I'd use a role of strong duct tape to make sure the cable won't move

    strongest I've found being the generic brand one found in plumbing stores
    (worst being b&q's own brand which was 2x the price)


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