Settle an argument

jester77 · 24-06-2013 09:17AM #1

So I was using the vacuum cleaner at the weekend to clear up some sand from the wooden floor and carpets. It is one of those styles that has a hose with attachments at the end and the main attachment has one button/lever. When you press it a little brush protrudes down.

Now, I always put the brush down for when I am vacuuming the carpet, the logic being that it spreads the carpet making it easier to vacuum up dirt, and that if you have the brush down when you are vacuuming the floors you are basically just pushing the dirt around in front of you.

However my girlfriend says that you put the brush down when you are vacuuming the floors so that you don't scratch the wood and that you leave it up when on carpets so that it is easier to move across them.

So what says AH, who is right?

caustic 1 · 24-06-2013 09:19AM

Up for carpets down for floors you fool.

Vicar in a tutu · 24-06-2013 09:22AM

Your girlfriends right..

smcgiff · 24-06-2013 09:22AM

caustic 1 wrote: »

Up for carpets down for floors you fool.

Agreed, very hard to vacuum a carpet with the bristles down. I remember this from the one time in my life that I've used a vacuum cleaner.

club goldgrain · 24-06-2013 09:30AM

take the top piece of and vaccuum the carpet with the nosel only

Systemic Risk · 24-06-2013 09:30AM

Your gf is right.

club goldgrain · 24-06-2013 09:31AM

Vicar in a tutu wrote: »

Your girlfriends right..

aren't they always?

Vicar in a tutu · 24-06-2013 09:32AM

Obviously !

:pac:

Dacelonid · 24-06-2013 09:33AM

Systemic Risk wrote: »

Your gf is right.

I prefer to phrase it as "The OP is wrong"

24-06-2013 09:34AM

Up for carpets or you'd never get anything done

monkeysnapper · 24-06-2013 09:38AM

I hate carpets, I always get burns on my knees .

Sergeant · 24-06-2013 09:58AM

The relationship is doomed to be honest.

You cannot brush such issues under the carpet.

JD DABA · 24-06-2013 10:39AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCC_b5WHLX0

Surveyor11 · 24-06-2013 10:42AM

I'm going to go against the grain on this one - I put the brush down on the carpet and helps to dislodge bits and bobs ground into the carpet. Agree it is slower though. In saying that, the brush on the hoover is fecked from doing this.....

kal7 · 24-06-2013 10:45AM

+1

I am for brush down on carpet, otherwise all bits don't get dislodged and then free to be sucked up.

club goldgrain · 24-06-2013 10:45AM

Surveyor11 wrote: »

I'm going to go against the grain on this one - I put the brush down on the carpet and helps to dislodge bits and bobs ground into the carpet. Agree it is slower though. In saying that, the brush on the hoover is fecked from doing this.....

thats why i use just the nosel/hose on the carpet...
just sweep the fecken floor

Badly Drunk Boy · 24-06-2013 10:51AM

I don't see why you'd need to clean a vacuum...

Candy_Girl · 24-06-2013 10:53AM

Your girlfriend is right, end of.

jester77 · 24-06-2013 11:08AM

I hate admitting to being wrong

Looks like I will have to retire from domestic chores.

Full.Duck · 24-06-2013 11:25AM

I go by the little symbol. The long one for carpets the short one for tiles and wooden floors

Cienciano · 24-06-2013 11:33AM

Tell your girlfriend that if she's such an expert that maybe she should be doing the hoovering. Then walk out and slam the door behind you.

The Backwards Man · 24-06-2013 11:34AM

You're all wrong.

Brush down to dislodge the dirt, brush up to suck it up.

McDermotX · 24-06-2013 11:35AM

Your other half is wrong, at least about this one thing anyway. Brush is there to agitate the fibres of the carpet/rug in order to dislodge any crap.
Having the brush down on the hard floor can tend to push dirt around in some cases, but if it works, fine. But it's always brush down on carpet.

Tell her to cop on.

Gran Hermano · 24-06-2013 11:39AM

RTFM

gramar · 24-06-2013 11:41AM

I would have thought the brush would have been more logical to use on the carpet but I'm a man so what do I know.

If anyone knows it's the shake and vac woman Jenny Logan.

T-Maxx · 24-06-2013 11:45AM

Up on carpet, down on hard floors.

Get the roto brush unit if you need the carpet brushed.

castletownman · 24-06-2013 11:50AM

The more pertinent question is: why wasn't she doing the hoovering in the first place? :pac:

caustic 1 · 24-06-2013 12:20PM

Looks like I will have to retire from domestic chores.

Not at all, everyone allowed to make mistakes, try again only this time do it right .tsk.

Soups123 · 24-06-2013 12:25PM

I'll ask the maid when I get in this evening and contribute to the thread tomorrow

shruikan2553 · 24-06-2013 01:11PM

I put the brush down because otherwise the bits stuck in the carpet wont come out. I am a man so cleaning isnt my expertise. My girlfriend doesnt know, I will suggest she cleans until she works it out.

Boombastic · 24-06-2013 01:15PM

jester77 wrote: »

I hate admitting to being wrong

Looks like I will have to retire from domestic chores.

Looks like your plan has worked and now you think you can rest up because you can't do the chores properly.....I know your game and it's more practice and training you need, not retirement!!

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