Speaking of vacuums

[alias_sqbr]

Since a few people mentioned having issues with little fiddly spaces: we're also very happy with our hand-held cordless Dyson, which is great for doing little cleanups of small spaces.

The closest looking one I could find on their website is the Dyson V7 but it's been a few years so they might not sell the exact model any more.

I don't know how well it would do with a full-scale clean of a big house with carpet etc, but we only have the energy to do at most a room or two of our small, hard-floored house at a time and it's great for that. It's relatively light (I do find it tiring to hold, but can manage for a little while), maneuverable, easy to empty, and easy to switch into a little dust-buster-y thing for cleaning benchtops and so forth.

We still didn't vacuum enough with this, which is why we got the robot, but it's the only reason we didn't totally drown in dust and fur during the pandemic after having to cancel our cleaning service, since our old vacuum cleaner was this heavy thing we got when we were younger and more energetic and had carpets. And it's still good for getting to the little spaces the robot leaves uncleaned.

Ok that's enough sensible product reviews, I should finish writing up my issues with Star Wars: The Old Republic or something...

Comments

[torachan]

Oh, I'll have to keep that in mind. I love our main vacuum (a Mielle) but the Black & Decker dustbuster we have is just not great. It doesn't have great suction and it also can't run for very long. I like that the one you linked can switch from handle to hand-held, too.