alt Hacker NewsOk but the corded vacuum actually fucking works.
I keep having to get it from progressively more inconvenient locations to which it has been banished in order to humor my wife’s delusion that the roomba or the handhold do anything.
I can make multiple passes with the handheld to get 80% of the crumbs in a small area, troubleshoot why the robot didn’t run yesterday in order to hope it will get the crumbs tomorrow, or just get the corded vacuum out and actually clean a whole room.
Work involves cables. Any product that promises something different is a lie.
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Well... I have a (1000 dollar!!!) Dyson cordless vacuum, arguable the laser + the histogram for "removed particles of size X", make me clean more thoroughly. The things is pretty heavy and applies a pretty good vacuum, imho.
Bro the vacuum community is audiophile-level picky. I have a Dyson stick vacuum of some sort and I haven’t had any issue with picking up crumbs. I would rather manually bend over and pick up something it doesn’t grab than move around the heavy corded vacuum and plug it in 10 times.
Maybe you just have a shit vacuum.
Our cordless, on the highest suction setting, is bordering on unusable. The effort to move it across carpet becomes quite high. Trying to roll it on an area rug tends to cause it to drag the rug around, and if you pick it up while on it will pull the rug up off the floor.
I have done some _very_ scientific testing here, vacuuming a section of carpet on the lowest section (doing lines where each pass half-overlapped the previous so each part of the carpet got touched once in each direction), emptying the vacuum, then going back over doing the same on high. Didn't see anything else come up. Shop vac didn't pull anything else out either that I could see.
I used to be in a similar boat of "these are a stupid class of product", but end of the day even if it takes eight passes my wife was going to use it anyway. The effort for her to set the time aside to drag around the heavier corded vacuum which is a substantial effort for her, etc, would be more than doing eight passes with a cordless. So got a good one and I'm sold on it now--it is quite convenient, and it does work.
Only thing I will say is the battery definitely can't do an entire carpeted house on a charge. We don't have that much carpet, so don't have any problem cleaning all the floors and a couple area and entry-way rugs on a charge.