I am in need of guidance.
If you accidently vacuum up a lego piece, do you go through the vac bag/barrel to find it?
Do you knowingly vacuum up lego pieces because you just CBFed?
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I am in need of guidance.
If you accidently vacuum up a lego piece, do you go through the vac bag/barrel to find it?
Do you knowingly vacuum up lego pieces because you just CBFed?
:rofl: :rofl: Not up to the Lego stage yet but yes I would!
It depends if it was an important piece, or just one of those ordinary run of the mill lego pieces.
DS1 has quite a few 'sets'. As in, one makes up 3 different dinosaurs, and another makes up 3 different dragons, so if it one of those pieces, yep, I would be ripping that baby to shreds to find it.
I have also used the vacuum as weapon, "if you don't clean up those lego pieces, this vacuuum will!"
Depends on the mood of the vacuumer (sure to be bad if she has stepped on lego or been had her requests to tidy lego away ignored), the prevalence of lego pieces, the attitude of the owners of the lego towards picking it up themselves, the location of the lego and what is already in the bag.
Haha Heather I can see me using that line too as I allready say put it away or it goes in the bin!!:
depends how far in advance I notice said piece of lego. We have mainly random lego not specific sets so not a huge issue. If I can see it across the room then I pick it up in advance, but if the first notice I get is the clinking up the tube.....nu-uh.
However, I do regularly ask DS1 (8) and DS2 (6) to pick up their Lego because I'm vacuuming. They learned that I was serious, the first time I did it. Everything went in the bin. I figure it's their loss.:
Mind you, I do have the biggest collection of Lego you've ever seen. I mean, the boys have the biggest collection...
The girls get a warning or three before I turn the vacuum.
Then if its not picked up then it gets sucked up, its kinda fun sometimes to watch them panic and clean up all their toys in a hurry.
Same happens when they are asked to clean their room. They get a certain amount of time to clean before I start the vacuum at the beginning of the hallway, they have until I get to their room to clean it, then whats left on the floor is fair game. They're starting to get the idea that mummy means business when she asks them to do something.
So, yup lego would be sucked up.
But if it were something of mine or something I really loved, the vacuum would be in pieces with me trying to find it! ;)
Slightly OT but is there anything worse than stepping on a piece of Lego with bare feet??
Nope, there isn't.
Yes there is. Sitting on a triceratops! :o:
God love you! :ROFL: oh and Ouch!!:
Haha you are funny!!! ouch:
You'll be suprised at how many people request when their vacuums are in for a service for us to open up the bag or bagless compartment to find missing lego pieces... :yuck: or they get blocked up in the machine. I actually had a customer not long ago with this problem. The lego piece broke the bag and she didn't have her filters in place and it got stuck in the motor. Eek.
:o:
Reminds me of fusilli Jerry (Seinfeld) :lol:
Can you vacuum up triceratops???
Oh been there....:
Not the Fusilli Jerry!! OUCH!! ETA N2L you and I are on the same wavelength!!!:
To the OP question.... this is where a bagless vac comes in real handy, much easier to get out!
:hide: The mixture of horror and sublime satisfaction on hearing the clickity-clack-clickity-clack sound of a fireman’s helmet visor going into the head, up the hose and around the barrel took me by surprise.
Treading on a ball from magnetix :o
If Im in the mood to vac I will suck up what ever is in my way and I bend over to pick up NOTHING :rofl: I was heading to the shops one day to buy a new vac when DH called and said he fixed the problem :rofl: a whole cheezel had caused a traffic jam :rofl:
Evil :rofl::
You're terrible Muriel.
Ah beansbeans I love that panic look they get :ROLF:
We don't have carpets in any room, so haven't had to vacuum up a piece. When sweeping though I make the boys sift through the pile to pull out any wayward lego bits. They have sets as well.
I used to have a rule that if the Lego wasn't put away by the time I was going to vacuum their rooms I would vacuum it up. I only ever vacuumed it up once :rofl: