Cleaning & Organizing
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Vacuum for Hardwood Floors
Hi, we're looking to purchase a vacuum for our hardwood floors. Any suggestions? We currently only use a dry swiffer with Bona hardwood floor cleaner. I'm scared of scratching the floor so I've stayed away from vacuums. Thanks!
Carly Ann 11/30/12 (5 weeks early)
Re: Vacuum for Hardwood Floors
Whatever vacuum we had when we moved into our house is what we use on our hardwood. It is some type of Hoover, but that is all I can tell you. The vacuum itself has never scratched the floor (one time a phone charging cord got caught in it and that scratched the floor as it rotated around the brush-thanks DH for that one!). I think almost any vacuum in good condition (meaning no broken parts dragging along) would be fine for wood floors.
We also have a Roomba that has managed well on the wood floors without doing any damage.
We just bought a Eureka pet vacuum (with bags, not bagless). On the "bare floor" setting it turns off the beater bar so there's no scratching - DANG that thing cleans well!
When I was doing my research I was considering a Dyson and seeing if it was reall All That and something I should save up for. There was quite a lot of feedback that Dysons aren't great on hardwoods and a lot of people felt they weren't worth the $. For more moderately priced vacuums, Eureka and Hoover generally came out best (except the Rewind, for some reason).