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Now we are "lucky" enough to have guinnea pigs (OK, the kids love them) the Dyson keeps blocking up at the top where it enters the collector. Much as I dislike cylinders, I like a brush beating away, one might be the solution? Bagless is by far the most preferred type.
Sebo X4 Pet
Yes I have one.
Not unlike the ones we have at school, they aren't bad actually are they... If it comes to replacing the Dyson it's an option though...
Thanks for the fix mods 🙂 my birching is booked.
Errrrr....... Are you vacuuming straw?
Oh, you know the answer here
it may not be fancy, it may not have a brushed steel exterior or design by Phillipe Starck
but its cheap, will suck up sawdust, string, pens, plaster, lumps of brick and entire hamsters,
and its got two eyes on the front...
bigblackshed, basically, yes 🙂 They kick all sorts of sawdust, hay and bits of straw out, it's hovered up, then I later find the hoover pressure relief valve blowing as it's bunged up. I'd like to not find it like that 🙂
ninfan- that chipper little **** can * right off! Had crossed my mind though. Doesn't "he" require bags though? Something more like a cheap building site vacuum is probably more what we want...
Bags for the wonderful Henry are fine. Just as easy to empty as a bagless vacuum and dirt cheap online.
Mine has vacuumed up plaster, mortar, brick dust and is still going strong after 5 years.
officially needs bags, plenty of people who run them without though (my dads old work the chippies ran loads like that for hoovering up sawdust etc. properly used and abused) the bags are cheap as chips, easy to get and take ages to fill though.
pretty much only one thing to go wrong, all spare parts available and takes ten minutes to replace a motor (or even just the bushes)
Got Karcher workshop vacuum from their outlet which is excellent for this kind of thing. Our Vax upright is pretty good too and much better at getting up hair. Looks pretty beat up now but it keeps on going.
Our solution is to keep the little furry critters outside...
Tracker.
First point is guinea pigs shouldn't be on straw. It can splinter and damage their eyes. Sawdust, cat litter, and hay. Hay for eating too.
Have you got them in a hutch inside. If so a strip of ply wood or hard board about an inch high across the bottom of the door to raise the height of the door frame will keep lots more in.
Is it falling out when the kids get the guinea pigs out? If so then the kids can help pick it up. Their pets, their task to clean up.
* Oh, I just got all holier than thou and started giving out parenting advice. 😈
And like jeffl and ninfan said, that chirpy little red chap called Henry does a fine job without a bag. We run them at work without, not died in ten years.
Little red fella here. Sucks up all the building/decorating mess, plaster, brick/concrete dust, sawdust, the lot, and keeps coming back for more. Bought to save the lightweight upright the missus insisted on from getting knackered by the tough jobs. Was running continuously for three hours earlier today as dust extraction while I prepared the garage floor for painting, then hovered the floor prior to paint.
Looks like bloody Henry may be sneaking up, I suppose I could shove the little bugger under the stairs most of the time...
bigblackshed, the kids are 2 and 4 so not soley responsible, but the big one generally wields the hoover around the indoor cage. They also have an outdoor run. Sawdust on the bottom, hay in a hayrick but their little house thing is filled with straw as bedding. The stuff isn't as harsh as stuff you would pull from a bale on a farm and all the pet places suggest it, but you have made me wonder now...
Anyhow, the pigs kick up some mess, mainly sawdust and spilled hay, but the changing of bedding is when most of the messy damage is done, did I mention that they are 2 and 4 🙂
Henry recommended here to. I was very skeptical but I am a convert. I actually prefer the bags to the bagless
With indoor rabbits we knackered a couple of vacuums, especially with all the 'chocolate drops' scattered around that don't smell, but once sucked up though a hoover break apart and start making the hoover smell.
Get a large piece of ply or similar and use it under the cage/hutch, and give the kids a dustpan and brush!
I bought a Karcher wet and dry vacuum for the garage (mainly as it has a socket outlet so when you turn on the power tool it autostarts) which is good for bulkier stuff (and for drying out a flooded garage I found) but it has a K&N style filter in it which blocks up a treat with fine dust. However I think its 2700 watt so there won't be any new stock into screwfix etc.
Same situation here (outside guinea pigs). I bought a Nilfisk alto 26-21, mainly for workshop use but it's proved great for car cleaning and straw removal. Has a power socket on the front for power tool use (cleaner switches on and off with the tool), 3m hose which is really good and does wet as well, holds up to 8 litres. Does use bags, doesn't have to but like the little red one they hold loads and are cheap, also means the main filter lasts longer. Bit more expensive than the red thing but it's eyes don't follow you around the room.
Dont have guinea pigs but i challenge you to block a shop vac.
Titan from screwfix has been doing wonders at picking up random junk and dust having destroyed 4 or 5 housevacs for about 40 quid
trailrat- the small one is £30 at the moment, and does wet and dry, and yes it sucks, but it blows too! Who knows, we might even draw some little eyes on just to remind us how close we came 🙂
To be fair, shop vac to compliment normal house VAC makes the most sense, and the girls will find it easier to use as well. Thanks!
Nice i bought the big one with power take off. Not been in the slihtest bit dissapointed. Gets more use than th ehouse van. Great for cars and vans also works as a make shift pump if you were to say....flood the sub space under the floor with the heating pipes 🙂