"Where does the dust come from?" - the question is eternal and rather rhetorical. Nobody knows the answer to it, and you have to deal with this scourge almost daily, especially in urban apartments. To carry out this mission without a vacuum cleaner is extremely tiring, and sometimes even unrealistic - if there are carpets on the floors and upholstered furniture in the rooms. Everyone wants to breathe clean air, not just allergy sufferers, for whom dust is their number one enemy.
Modern household appliances market
It is very diverse. Today it is difficult to imagine life without household appliances. It is designed to facilitate and improve the process of housekeeping, thereby freeing up time for other, more enjoyable activities.
The production of modern household appliances is constantly being upgraded, models are improving, new convenient functions are appearing. If earlier the device had one task, today these are multifunctional devices.
Choice andBuying household appliances is not an easy task. It is necessary to take into account a lot of mandatory parameters and characteristics in order to make the right choice.
Questions faced by the consumer when choosing household appliances such as a vacuum cleaner
The variety of devices that make life easier for people is constantly growing. It's easy to get lost in the home appliance market today. If it is not difficult to determine the price category, you can find a device for the money available to the buyer, but what's next? Choose a vacuum cleaner with a standard dust bag or container? Or maybe splurge on a device with an aquafilter? Do you need only dry cleaning or wet cleaning too? What power is considered optimal? How many filters will best help you clean and maintain your he alth? What additional nozzles are offered by modern manufacturers? All these questions require careful study if you are thinking about which good vacuum cleaner for your home to choose. Let's try to answer these and other questions.
One of the main parameters that you should pay attention to when choosing a vacuum cleaner
What should be considered first? The power consumption of a vacuum cleaner characterizes the energy class of a household appliance, but not its efficiency in any way. This indicator should worry housewives only in terms of the load on the power grid and the subsequent payment of electricity bills. With equal power consumption, suction powervacuum cleaners can be completely different. The quality of cleaning directly depends on this value. The maximum suction power, which is sometimes indicated in the product data sheet, is the power with which the vacuum cleaner could work in ideal conditions. In reality, it is observed only a couple of minutes after it is connected to the network. More close to reality, and therefore of greater interest to consumers, such an indicator as the average effective suction power. This figure is 30 percent lower than the maximum value and depends on the degree of fullness of the dust container. Note that this is not applicable to all models.
A little about the numbers of home appliances
Any device has its own power consumption. It is very important to be aware of this indicator of your household appliances in order to correctly calculate the simultaneous load on the electrical wiring. The power consumption of vacuum cleaners can range from 900 to 2000 W, and the suction power can range from 250 to 480 W. These indicators can be found in the passport of the device or on the official website of the manufacturer. What power of the vacuum cleaner is the most acceptable - it depends on the size of the room and the degree of its contamination. Here it is necessary to consider for cleaning in which room and how often the device is used. For frequent use in a small apartment, 250 watts of power is enough. If cleaning is done only “on holidays” and in the shortest possible time, you will need a more powerful vacuum cleaner. Here it is worth considering the option where the best suction power of the vacuum cleaner will start at 350 watts.
It is often difficult to find information about this parameter, because the consumed value of the unit is usually written in large numbers on the device case. From a marketing point of view, this is understandable, because the last characteristic is a more impressive figure, but there is absolutely no information about how good this model is in cleaning. Therefore, you will have to study the instructions and the product data sheet, and if among the characteristics you find a line not just “vacuum cleaner power, W”, but namely “suction power”, then we can say that you are lucky. You don't have to look for information on the model you like on the net or ask the seller. It is worth noting that not every manufacturer indicates this characteristic.
Good are those models that provide power adjustment of the vacuum cleaner.
This can be either a lever on the device body, or, if the unit is equipped with electronics, a button on the control panel. This function will allow, if necessary, to increase the dust suction efficiency, but not to overload the device and the electrical network for no particular reason.
Household appliances with cyclone system
The suction power of vacuum cleaners depends, as already mentioned, on how full the dust bag is. But this applies only to models with a bag. In those of them that are equipped with a container, such a dependence is not observed. We are talking about cyclone vacuum cleaners. Suchdevices, due to centrifugal force, dust particles are pressed against the side walls of the tank, and clean air passes further. Some loss of suction power due to the swirl of the air flow, of course, occurs in this case, but not significant.
What makes these vacuum cleaners so attractive?
Plus of the cyclone system is not only constant suction power. They won the love of consumers due to the absence of those same dust bags. Well, if they are paper, and you can just throw them away. And if the supply of paper dust collectors has run out, and in order to save money and time, you had to use a reusable textile counterpart? Not only that, such bags do not hold fine dust well. Cleaning them is truly a dirty business, and any housewife knows this. The plastic container, although it needs manual cleaning, is an order of magnitude simpler. The disadvantages of vacuum cleaners equipped with a cyclone system, except perhaps in the creation of additional noise during operation.
Aqua filter vacuum cleaners
Are popular among consumers at present. According to the type of dust collector, vacuum cleaners come not only with a bag or container, but also with a tank filled with water. Water, precipitating dust, is an excellent cleaner. Therefore, a vacuum cleaner with an aquafilter has a high degree of filtration, and at the same time it also humidifies the air in the room. Such devices are characterized by impressive dimensions and high cost. After cleaning, the water from the flask is poured out, and the tank itself is washed and dried. Vacuum cleaner with water filtermust be equipped with an additional filtration system. Actually, any model has such a system, and it is worth talking about it in more detail.
Vacuum cleaner filters
Another important parameter that you should pay attention to when choosing an assistant in the house. We have already talked about the first stage of filtration - this is a dust collector, no matter what type it is: replaceable, reusable or water. The next step is the motor filter, which, as its name suggests, protects the appliance's motor from clogging. Most often it is permanent, it is only necessary to clean it periodically. The third stage is represented by fine filters.
Everyone knows very well that after cleaning with the help of old models of vacuum cleaners, the smell of dust is clearly felt in the air, because part of it, mainly the smallest particles, is simply thrown back with the air flow. Modern models do not have this disadvantage. It is the filters for fine cleaning that perform the function of cleaning the air at the outlet of the vacuum cleaner, trapping the smallest particles of dust, allergens and even microorganisms. The suction power of vacuum cleaners with a lot of filters can suffer a little, but it might be worth it. To maintain this parameter, it is necessary to keep the components of the device clean.
Washing and dry vacuum cleaners
Vacuum cleaners for dry cleaning are most in demand among consumers. Indeed, if the room is not so large and does not differ in particular pollution, then with the help of such a vacuum cleaner it is equally possible to clean bothcarpets on the floor, and just an uncovered floor, upholstered furniture and even clothes. In most cases, dry cleaning with a conventional vacuum cleaner is more than enough.
When such household appliances are useful in the house
Washing vacuum cleaners are designed for general rather than daily cleaning. They spray moisture and collect it back: in this way, you can wash carpets, floors, tiles, and collect spilled liquid. The degree of water supply is regulated, but surfaces that do not relate well to excessive moisture should not be cleaned with their help - after cleaning they will remain wet. This applies to natural carpets, parquet. Any carpet, by the way, will also have to dry for some time after cleaning, which causes certain inconveniences.
Models of vacuum cleaners with the possibility of wet cleaning are much more bulky than their "dry" counterparts. And this is understandable, because they contain not one, but two reservoirs. The first container is designed for clean water with the addition of detergent, and the other is used, dirty liquid. Caring for such vacuum cleaners is also more difficult: they must be disassembled, washed, and dried. Their cost makes such devices not quite affordable for everyone, and they will also require additional costs, because you have to buy detergents and pay more for electricity - these are high-power vacuum cleaners. For owners of large houses, such vacuum cleaners will become serious helpers in the household, as for small apartments, these units are unlikely to be appropriate there.
Types of nozzles for vacuum cleaners
The standard for a vacuum cleaner is consideredwide nozzle for floors and carpets, equipped with a switch that pushes the bristles of the brush, then removes. In cheap models of vacuum cleaners, this may be limited, but, as a rule, there is also a flat crevice nozzle and a small round brush with high bristles in the kit. The first is suitable for cleaning hard-to-reach places, and with the help of the second you can clean furniture, both upholstered and polished, or clean, for example, the spines of books on the shelves from dust.
Additional brushes
There are special nozzles for parquet, vacuum nozzles for washing vacuum cleaners, special nozzles for cleaning vertical surfaces. A very good option for carpet lovers and pets are turbo brushes. The bristles on such brushes are located in a spiral on the shaft, and it, in turn, spins in the air stream. Due to this rotation, the suction power of vacuum cleaners is somewhat reduced, but such brushes are able to overcome dirt that is not amenable to conventional nozzles: animal hair and hair are wound around the turbo brush with ease.
Suction power will not be affected if the vacuum cleaner is equipped with an electric brush, because in this case, the rotation occurs not with the help of air, but by electricity. But here you have to put up with additional wires on the suction pipe.
Additional functions of modern vacuum cleaners
Producers in a competitive environment always strive to interest consumers with something new. Nowadays, however, it is difficult to surprise the consumer, but some additional functions of modern devices are very useful andcurious. So, during long-term cleaning, it may be useful to have a function that protects the vacuum cleaner from overheating, which will turn off the device in time. The aromatization function will save the household from the specific "vacuum cleaner" smell that appears due to the heating of the dust. For this purpose, there are plates, there are granules, and there may be special carbon filters.
Automatic cord rewinder is beyond anyone's imagination, as are the storage compartments for additional nozzles, but the presence of a safe rubberized bumper on the vacuum cleaner will save your furniture from damage. So that the device does not suffer from your forgetfulness, it would be useful to refuse to turn it on if there is no dust collector, or if it is full to capacity. And the bactericidal lamp that some models of home cleaners are equipped with makes them multifunctional devices that help maintain not only the cleanliness of the room, but also the he alth of its inhabitants.
