Vacuum Cleaner - recommendations

[DBlain]

Originally Posted by KazzyK810

I really like the idea of a cordless vacuum!

I walked through my last house with an electrician as it was being built and put plug points all over the place, taking into consideration where I might possibly place furniture.

Then I moved to this little house built in the 1950s and there are hardly any plug points, and of course, the few that I have are always behind furniture. I have never lived anywhere that I used extension cords as much.

I found the cordless ones don't have as much suction, I keep an extension cord on by my vacs and hardly every have to change plugs, the stick vac is so lightweight and not that loud that I don't mind vacumining and I have to say vacumining is the cleaning chore I hate and put off the most. LOL spell check is not working and for the life of me can not spell vacumining

[DBlain]

I think the industry has really made a mistake touting all these "bag less" vacs. I understand a lot about the air flow on these type of products because I sell industrial filters for dust collection and the premise is sort of the same. When you have a bagless vac you wind up with about 3 or 4 filters in various parts of the vac, sometimes you don't even have a clue where all these filters are. So while it might seem easy to just dump out the dust in the receptacle what is happening is there are pre filters before the receptacle that are getting clogged, when those filters clog it cuts down on the air that flows through the vac, the air flow is what gives you the suction you need to pick up the dirt. So in order for your vac to keep sucking you need those filters to be clean so you have to pull and clean them by hand, which is a PITA, I would much prefer to just throw a bag out every few months. In industrial dust collection the filters all have compressed air nozzles in the center of them that automatically sprays a burst of air to clean, our personal vacs do not have that, so you have to keep taking the filters out to clean them and if you don't you will continue to loose air flow/suction and then your vac will not pick up the dirt.

[crystalsmom]

Originally Posted by AZME

DC65 Multisurface, figured I didn't need the animal since the animal doesn't shed, but did need multifloor and something that will vacuum deep and get the dander up. I've only had it a month but it really cleans great!

Yes, I was going to add that as well.....the fact my Yorkie never ever shed.

[Cat2861]

QVC has the Dyson DC25 vacuum right now for $269.94 plus shipping and you can spread it out in 6 payments. Wow that's a great price!

[KazzyK810]

The good news...ended up with the Shark Navigator.

The bad news...the first time using it, it sucked up the cord and almost destroyed it. 20 mins old and it already has duct tape on it I like everything about it, but the cord holder that is supposed to hold the cord up near the handle is worthless. After almost destroying the cord, I had to wrap a hair tie around the handle and cord to keep it up and out of the way.

It sucks, in a good way. I cant believe what it pulled out of my "clean" rugs.

[capt_noonie]

Exchange it for a new one. This one was "defective". It's only been one day. Come on.

[GuinnessStout]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

The Animal. The purple one. We got it about a year after they came out. I'm surprised to hear a lot of people don't like them! I always hear people don't like them bc they think they are too expensive, but never heard about people who actually had them that didn't like them.

I have the purple canister one too and heck if a baby sock gets in my way I will suck it up and keep on moving and that thing never gives me any issues... The only problem was the price tag other then that it has been great!!
We rent the house we live in and even after steam cleaning the carpets and all always thought the carpet was one color after getting the animal and using it a couple times we found out the carpet is actually a completely different color... Which is rather gross to think about lol