Vacuum cleaner hire on sites. A good idea?
Does anyone else think that sites should have a small vacuum cleaner for hire ? Many times I have needed to clean the van carpets before returning the van to storage after a trip or after spilling a jar of coffee or something etc and ended up on my knees
with a brush doing a not very effective job. I do not want to carry a weighty vac and the hand held ones are usually just not up to the job. A compact reatively quiet machine could be made available to hire and use between sociable times. (E.g: Not at 6
am when the early birds pack up to head off home!) I'm sure it would pay for itself quite quickly. What do others think?
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Sorry, WS, but as CC no longer let us loose with irons and ironing boards on H&S grounds, I fear you have no chance of them supplying vacs.
I find my rubber soled shoes do an excellent job of cleaning the van carpets.
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The ever practical Germans sold us a caravan with loose carpets in sections. Pick them up, take them out, bang them about a bit, shake them, then take them back in.
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The ever practical Germans sold us a caravan with loose carpets in sections. Pick them up, take them out, bang them about a bit, and shake them.
Lunar sold us a caravan with the same type of carpets and Avondale did it on the last one. We have a very stiff brush to use on site and when we get home we take the carpets home and clean them there. Hiring a vac while away is not for us but there are plenty of rechageable and light weight models if we needed one.
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Tinwheeler , sadly you are probably right, there will be some inherent fatal danger to hoovering up fluff that the club will worry to death about. The static idea like at service stations is not ideal, don't fancy hitching up my caravan and taking it to
the service point to hoover up a spilt bag of sugar etc and then having to repitch again. I might buy a hoover myself instead and hire it out on the sly on sites....might be a nice little earner ..Wink :-)0 -
Ditto, worth the investment according to senior management.....
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Likewise - brilliant piece of kit. Ours alternates between house and van - light, doesn't take up much room and very effective. We also took out the proper carpets because we have a dog and relaced them with three cheap runners from B&M or somewhere similar.
If they get really bad (which they haven't so far) - we'll just bin them and start again.0 -
There is a huge difference in the performance of handheld vacuum cleaners. The one I have in the van works fine although I also have removable carpets which mostly are stored in the house. The van floor is much easier to keep clean without any carpet at
all. A quick sweep is all it takes or if you spill anything it is easy to wipe up.I wouldn't use an on site vacuum cleaner.
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The ever practical Germans sold us a caravan with loose carpets in sections. Pick them up, take them out, bang them about a bit, and shake them.
Lunar sold us a caravan with the same type of carpets and Avondale did it on the last one. We have a very stiff brush to use on site and when we get home we take the carpets home and clean them there. Hiring a vac while away is not for us but there are plenty of rechageable and light weight models if we needed one.
We have a Lunar with loose carpets too and they never leave home, we replaced them with cheap "runners" and shake them out or brush them as needed. When they get grotty we buy some more, when the van gets PX'd the carpets will be prisrine.
We do have one of those hand held vacs though which usuallly only comes out when we smash a wine glass or I give the car a bit of a clean after a few weeks.
Like others we too have removeable carpets, and they are treated to the same 'shake 'em outside' treatment, but at the end of each season they are brought home and power washed (I know, I know, but they are polypropylene backed, and a 'weave' top surface rather than fluffy pile, and they're tough as old boots). I've been cleaning them this way for fifteen years, and they still look good as new!
There are some new 'Magic Stick' type hoovers, in our local Factory Shop, for not very much at all, and they are very lightweight so if I wanted one, I'd pay £19.99 and stick it under the fixed bed, rather than hire one. Vaccuum cleaners always seem to carry a smell and I wouldn't want to be sniffing someone else's wet dog when trying to get my carpets clean.
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The reality is that there are very few domestic cleaners that would stand up to the sort of use they would get on a campsite and they would likely be high maintenance for Club staff let alone the regular PAT testing required. The cleaners that would have
half a chance of survival like Miele, Sebo and Henry are all quite large beasts so perhaps not what people would like to use. By far the best option is what many of us already do and that is to buy a small handheld, we use a mains Dirt Devil, and keep it in
the van. When we get home we take the carpets out of the van and give them a good clean with the Sebo. Oh the beauty of removeable carpets.David
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Our carpets are removeable and, if I'm away for more than a week, I'll give them a quick sweep every few days but I'm on holiday and don't make heavy weather of everything looking pristine. It all gets a good clean when I get back home.
We keep a small brush and pan on board for 'accidental spillages'. We also have a cordless Dirt Devil but, to be honest, I don't even bother taking it now and I wouldn't hire one.
A vac for hire would have to be extremely robust and I can't see it every happening due to H & S etc.
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I see no reason at all why the club should go to the expense of providing a vacuum cleaner on sites, along with the associated cost of maintaining it and the extra work for the wardens to empty it. We carry a small mains vacuum that we purchased years ago
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We invested in a Chilli lots of attachments light and powerful a few minutes job done
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We have a small lightweight hand held 700 watt vac, not Dyson, that we have had for about 8 years. Works well as it has a rotating brush as well as suck. It is no longer available, so when it packs up will almost certainly replace it with the animal, as mentioned above. Our carpets are also sectional, so remove them yearly and use the carpet cleaning VAX on them at home. That and taking our shoes off when we enter the van works for us.
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This thread sucks.
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yes, it will soon be gathering dust
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I just use a handheld vacumm which charges in the van. Dont see the need for extra expense on installing vacuum points. Will be asking for jetwashers next !!
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I just use a handheld vacumm which charges in the van. Dont see the need for extra expense on installing vacuum points. Will be asking for jetwashers next !!
They have jet washers at several sites I have used, coin operated
...So thats where the damp caravans come from
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I just use a handheld vacumm which charges in the van. Dont see the need for extra expense on installing vacuum points. Will be asking for jetwashers next !!
They have jet washers at several sites I have used, coin operated
Well that's one way of doing the washing up
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