About Vacuums
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Why I typically don't supply a vacuum and why I recommend you not let others do so either.
I used to sell high end carpet cleaning equipment such as vacuums and steam cleaners for years. This information I am about to share does not apply to steam cleaners, only to household vacuums. And applies only to residential homes, not commercial, office or construction clean ups.
As I sold this equipment for years and now clean other's homes regularly, and have for years, I believe I may be more aware of some of these things in the cleaning field than others might be. Or at least I can maybe help you see things in a different light. You decide for yourself with the information I am about to give you.
First let me help you understand how a vacuum cleaner really works. Not that you may not know. It simply helps me explain my analogy. When you turn on any vacuum, the first thing that happens is, it starts cycling the air from where it is being used, your home, through the vacuum that is being used. It needs to transfer this air to bring in and collect the dirt. Most vacuums store their dirt in a plastic container or in a disposable bag. In either case, you are actually filtering (dirtying) the air in your home, with your (any) vacuum with the dirt that it's collecting and that's being stored in it. Because the air has to move through that dirt it's collecting and gathering to function. Essentially blowing back out some of it in the form of finer particles. Now this isn't so bad if it's your vacuum, used only in your home, as it's also only your dirt.
Which is why it's important not to let the collecting container get too full, emptying often. The more dirt the air needs to move through, the harder the vacuum needs to work and the more dirt and finer particles of that dirt are going back into your home. One can't see those typically, but one can smell them at times right after turning on their vacuum. Or if one doesn't wipe their vacuum off periodically, their vacuum cleaner will be the dustiest thing in their home and this would be why.
I've read many articles stating over half the dust in our homes is from our dead skin shedding. I am thinking they weren't in New Mexico testing those numbers. With the winds and dry air we typically have and the sand and dust that's very common here. Although that still makes some sense none the less. Just because we can't see the dirt, dead skin and bacterias that exist in our homes, doesn't mean they aren't there.
It's always also a good idea to check and clean out any addition filters a vacuum uses. At times, I spend more time cleaning a client's vacuum cleaner system out, than actually using it to clean their home. They not knowing too and/or ever checking the additional filters it uses. Or to examine and clean off the brush roller of the system. That at times retains much hair and debris. Getting trapped and wrapped around the brush roller. Never transferring to the collecting container of the vacuum. Not doing these things adversely affects the cleaner's system of effectively doing what it's meant too. Dirty and plugged filters reduces the airflow, which then reduces the amount of dirt the vacuum could and would retrieve.
So when anyone uses the same vacuum in many different homes, many things could be transferred from home to home. Especially if they are not cleaned thoroughly as I mentioned after each and every cleaning. I continue reading about bed bugs populating others homes. And this is one way this could easily happen and they be spread to anyone. Having a cleaner that's sharing and using the same vacuum from one house to another's. This is an extreme example to make and bring home a point. But also a very valid one. And if not bugs, who wants someone else's dirt (finer particles of dirt or their dead skin) in their home?
So as I am there to clean your home and you rely on my professionalism to do it right, this you and I should find unacceptable. Anyone sharing a vacuum among many different homes. With home cleanings I find most have their own vacuum and the need to carry or supply one is not necessary. I can when requested too. As I do have and supply them for my occasional construction/remodeling clean ups. But as large and bulky as a vacuum cleaner is to carry around and the limited need I have for use of one in others homes, I don't carry one.
Why I typically don't supply a vacuum and why I recommend you not let others do so either.
I used to sell high end carpet cleaning equipment such as vacuums and steam cleaners for years. This information I am about to share does not apply to steam cleaners, only to household vacuums. And applies only to residential homes, not commercial, office or construction clean ups.
As I sold this equipment for years and now clean other's homes regularly, and have for years, I believe I may be more aware of some of these things in the cleaning field than others might be. Or at least I can maybe help you see things in a different light. You decide for yourself with the information I am about to give you.
First let me help you understand how a vacuum cleaner really works. Not that you may not know. It simply helps me explain my analogy. When you turn on any vacuum, the first thing that happens is, it starts cycling the air from where it is being used, your home, through the vacuum that is being used. It needs to transfer this air to bring in and collect the dirt. Most vacuums store their dirt in a plastic container or in a disposable bag. In either case, you are actually filtering (dirtying) the air in your home, with your (any) vacuum with the dirt that it's collecting and that's being stored in it. Because the air has to move through that dirt it's collecting and gathering to function. Essentially blowing back out some of it in the form of finer particles. Now this isn't so bad if it's your vacuum, used only in your home, as it's also only your dirt.
Which is why it's important not to let the collecting container get too full, emptying often. The more dirt the air needs to move through, the harder the vacuum needs to work and the more dirt and finer particles of that dirt are going back into your home. One can't see those typically, but one can smell them at times right after turning on their vacuum. Or if one doesn't wipe their vacuum off periodically, their vacuum cleaner will be the dustiest thing in their home and this would be why.
I've read many articles stating over half the dust in our homes is from our dead skin shedding. I am thinking they weren't in New Mexico testing those numbers. With the winds and dry air we typically have and the sand and dust that's very common here. Although that still makes some sense none the less. Just because we can't see the dirt, dead skin and bacterias that exist in our homes, doesn't mean they aren't there.
It's always also a good idea to check and clean out any addition filters a vacuum uses. At times, I spend more time cleaning a client's vacuum cleaner system out, than actually using it to clean their home. They not knowing too and/or ever checking the additional filters it uses. Or to examine and clean off the brush roller of the system. That at times retains much hair and debris. Getting trapped and wrapped around the brush roller. Never transferring to the collecting container of the vacuum. Not doing these things adversely affects the cleaner's system of effectively doing what it's meant too. Dirty and plugged filters reduces the airflow, which then reduces the amount of dirt the vacuum could and would retrieve.
So when anyone uses the same vacuum in many different homes, many things could be transferred from home to home. Especially if they are not cleaned thoroughly as I mentioned after each and every cleaning. I continue reading about bed bugs populating others homes. And this is one way this could easily happen and they be spread to anyone. Having a cleaner that's sharing and using the same vacuum from one house to another's. This is an extreme example to make and bring home a point. But also a very valid one. And if not bugs, who wants someone else's dirt (finer particles of dirt or their dead skin) in their home?
So as I am there to clean your home and you rely on my professionalism to do it right, this you and I should find unacceptable. Anyone sharing a vacuum among many different homes. With home cleanings I find most have their own vacuum and the need to carry or supply one is not necessary. I can when requested too. As I do have and supply them for my occasional construction/remodeling clean ups. But as large and bulky as a vacuum cleaner is to carry around and the limited need I have for use of one in others homes, I don't carry one.
Thanks for reading.