WOW!! I'd never heard of a rubber broom before, so I did a little search on them, and here's what I learned.
http://www.ebizinc.us/RubberBroomWhy.htm
Why A Rubber Broom?
The Top 10 Reasons For Owning A Rubber Broom:
# 10. The Rubber Broom is made of solid rubber! There are no loose bits and pieces, so they don’t fall apart like a bristle broom or corn broom where you always feel like you’re sweeping up your own broom.
# 9. The Rubber Broom is easy to keep clean; you can even sanitize them with disinfecting liquids (great when using them around different animals in stables, etc.).
# 8. Bristle brooms also allow the finer dirt in life to go right through the bristles. The Rubber Broom, however, interlocks its bristles to form “a dry squeegee”: dirt doesn’t go through the bristles.
# 7. With the Rubber Broom, there is no “bristle effect”, where the bristles kick the dirt at the end of a stroke. The Rubber Broom never “sprays” its dirt: the dirt stays with the broom and goes in one pile: you’re not chasing the dirt all around the floor saving you lots of time! It means there is no dust in the air either! With the Rubber Broom you can sweep your entire house dust free, even on rough concrete floors (garage, basement, workshops with saw dust, etc.).
# 6. The rubber broom sweeps the floor clean on the first pass. This is especially true for uneven surfaces like ceramic tile: the bristles never loose contact with the floor and sweep through grout lines in any direction, so you don’t have to come back to sweep the grout in the opposite direction or work in zigzag patterns; again this saves you a lot of time! This also works on patios, sidewalks, uneven garage floors, etc.
# 5. Rubber has friction! This means the broom does not slide over dirt or past grass clippings or wet leaves like a bristle broom: the Rubber Broom ‘drags’ all those kinds of things in front of the broom; you don’t have to pull the dirt loose just so you can sweep it (yet another time saver!)
# 4. Rubber makes a great scrub brush. Use the Rubber Broom as a scrub brush on floors, patios, pool/boat decks, etc. The soft flexible bristles do not scratch and you can use almost any cleaning agent. You can even do the windows, vinyl siding, pool liners, hot tubs, etc.!
# 3. The Rubber Broom has a built in squeegee, so you can squeegee the floors or the windows after you scrub them. You can even use them to remove snow and sludge from your vehicles in the winter and squeegee the windshields dry (so they don’t freeze up when you start to drive).
# 2. The Rubber Broom is the only one that effectively sweeps carpets and rugs. It not only picks up loose dirt, but also things that the vacuum cleaner does not: pet hair, human hair, sowing threads, pine needles (from Christmas trees), etc. It even removes carpet fuzz, especially from oriental rugs, where it restores the sharp lines between the different color patterns (removes “the haze”). And the good thing is: the hair stays in front of the broom; not between the bristles of the broom. The rubber Broom is also a great carpet rake: it lifts the nap of your carpets and rugs and thus helps protect them against wear from walking on “flat” carpet.
# 1. And . . . the number one reason for buying a Rubber Broom is . . . the price!
We can just hear you think: “How can you say that; the Rubber Broom is more expensive than a regular one.” True, but consider these:
Think of the things you don’t have to buy: no separate squeegee for the windows, no (dirty smelling) mop for the floors, and no carpet rake: they are built into the Rubber Broom!
Ever hear the expression “time is money”? Think of the time you save by using the Rubber Broom around the house (see reasons 7, 6, and 5)!
And speaking of time: regular brooms are replaced “as often as you change socks”: the average life span for the Rubber Broom is 7 to 10 years!
Thanks!
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