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Originally Posted by Cleo
I had carpet. In this humid climate it turns into a mildew breeding ground.
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At the risk of sounding like a scratched record: That is because you use a broom.
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good powerful vacuum cleaner will suck up the spores before they germinate enough to grip on. A broom never will.
Although NB "good" and "powerful", cheap and crappy won't be much help. Also note that you need different attachments for tile floor and carpet floor, use the wrong one in the wrong place and it won't do a good job (I know this because when I was a kid we had both types of flooring, and sometimes I tried to save time by not changing heads - my mother always knew).
Bottom line, a customer can be an idiot, they can complain about the stupidest thing. But they don't tend to make stuff up. If they turn up, look at your floor, and say you "need to vacuum the bedroom more" it means they have stayed in places better cleaned that your place. And assuming you had swept the floor before they arrived, the reason this "other place" did a "better job" was because they had one of these magic machines called a vacuum cleaner.
When I went on holiday this year I did not use Air B'n'B but I looked through and considered them. When you are a customer they really push their superhost rating, and although they don't say so, they infer "If you book from a non super host, don't be surprised if your accommodation is shit". So you really do not want to loose that rating. The cost and inconvenience of getting a really powerful vacuum is a small price to pay to keep it!