#tineco

I’ve had some people asking how I still like my Tineco cordless vacuum and whether it’s worth the price point so I thought I’d post an update. Here it is handling paint chips and plaster dust.

Ideally, I should be using the shop vac for this, but it’s too cumbersome and hard for me to move with my disabilities, so Tineco to the rescue again.

I still can’t comment on how it handles pet hair because Holly doesn't shed, lol. But I will say it’s never struggled with anything I’ve thrown at it. Cleaning it out and maintaining it is easy too, which is the key to keeping it working well. The filters are easy to clean in a way that is safe for my anaphylaxis-risk dust allergies, and I still get good mileage out of the batteries on a full charge. Compared to our old, much more expensive Dyson, it’s still miles ahead and I’d replace it with another Tineco in a heartbeat.

I really love mine -- I have Tineco PureOne X Tango and for me it works very well. The research that I did said, essentially, "A Dyson is the gold standard, but if you can't afford a Dyson, get a Tineco." I wasn't sure if I'd like having a cordless vac, so I went with a Tineco-on-sale rather than blowing like, $700 on a Dyson.

It is true that the batteries on stick vacs aren't great. Mine suffices to vacuum a 1000-sqft one-bedroom condo that contains one clumsy human and two small cats. It has variable suction power, which normally is controlled by a little sensor in the vacuum itself, but if you set it to "full power suction no take backsies" it really chews up the battery. The one time I did that, I had to recharge it halfway through vacuuming. If you have a large house, toddlers, multiple pets, etc. you may still like having a stick vac but I'd look for the one with the longest battery life.

I think it works as well on my (vinyl, not wood) flooring as any vacuum would, which is to say it does an adequate job of getting the dirt up. There's no real substitute for regular mopping on hard surface floors, but I only mop every few months and still have reasonably clean floors. It's great on carpets, and pretty good on upholstery too.

For me, the real point is that I can vacuum any time, for any length of time. The vacuum hangs out on the wall, and I don't have to get it out, plug it in, wrangle the cord, re-wrap the cord, put it away -- I just pull it off the wall, zip it across the mess, dump the bin, and put it away again. I vacuum way more often, which was the whole point. And because the stick part (the long tube and floor-brush) is easily removable, it doubles as a "dustbuster" style vac -- I can vacuum the sofa with it or clean up a small mess without having to fuss with the full stick. Great for hoovering up catnip, for example, or the massive pile of spilled chopped bacon from last weekend.

Dumping the bin is rather messy -- you pop the bottom off the handheld part, but then after shaking the bin out you have to pull out the filter and give that a good tap as well. That said, it's still less of a pain in the ass than trying to empty the bin on a robot vac. I loved my robot vac, but a) it took way too long, b) it broke constantly, and c) dumping the bin was a giant pain.

I was attempting to film a demonstration of the Tineco’s “headlights” and how they illuminate dirt on floors to help with vacuuming, but the way I filmed it makes it look like the world’s first hoovercentric shortform horror film. 

Hey! Good timing! I posted about it last week under my #Tineco tag when I showed it picking up paint chips and plaster dust out of wood grain.

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