"Graham Saad" wrote in message
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I've recently moved house into a place with hard timber floors. It's a big
difference from my previous sprawling shag-pile covered place which had
compelled me to splash out on a new Dyson.

Problem is, in the new environment, I just don't need it. It was a
fantastic
cleaner and picks up so much dirt and dust (and carpet fluff!), but it
scuffs my new floors when I'm not careful and seems like overkill given
the
task at hand. Accordingly, I'm planning on giving it to my mother (it'll
stop her from coming round to borrow it once a month) and downgrading to
something more suited to the task at hand.

Can anyone recommend a decent mid-range vacuum cleaner? Only provisos are
that it should be bagless (I'm a convert) and have decent performance on &
not scuff, hard timber floors. All suggestions appreciated.

I gnereally just use a dust mop. I like the Swiffer Max, but they can be
hard to find. I usually just put a microfiber cloth on the Swiffer Max mop
head. I recently got a Swiffer Sweeper, actually a mop made by Dirt Devil
that has been re-branded and is selling under the Swiffer name. It is
cordless and sucks-up pet hair and larger particles and the Swiffer cloth
gets the rest. You don't really need much of a vaccum for hard flooring.
My recommendation would be to get a good dust mop. If you have a lot of
debris, then a soft broom can be helpful. You can probably have the foor
dusted in the time it takes to unwind the cord on the sweeper.