denverpilot
Tied Down
We've got a thread on the vacuum robot overlords but not a regular vacuum thread.
We decided I've repaired our two uprights enough times and they just never seem "quite right" after you have to replace beater bars and other stuff.
I noticed that our newest vacuum, a Sharp, which has served extremely well -- well, Sharp stopped making vacuums in 2004. And it's the newer of the two. And it's had a number of repairs but I just couldn't get the beater bar to behave anymore.
Plus we knew that although everything is lightweight (and in the cheap end, non-reinforced so don't go too cheap...) plastic on most of them, and there's some worry about longevity compared to the old heavy beasts, that these days that the vacuum tech has gotten better. Lots better.
And we wanted a bagless.
So we trundled over to the gettin' spot tonight and bought a middle of the road across all brands and prices, but top of their lineup, Hoover. Bagless and their "Windtunnel 3" system. It has decent reviews online and I wasn't going to get a Dyson or Shark or anything like that with TV ads galore and their own cable TV channels 24/7.
I should mention that the robot overlords have been lying down on the job lately (they both need another battery replacement -- when we run them we run them a lot, batteries only last just under two years, and I haven't gotten around to ordering some) so it's the usual "weekly" vacuuming with the occasional missed week.
So I put the thing together and ran it.
Holy crap we needed a new vacuum! That thing pounded a quarter of a tall kitchen trash bag worth of dirt and about the same amount of fine dog fur from the girl dog with blonde hair, out of the whole house.
Turns out, the "impressive" abilities of the robot overlords was probably partially due to the fact that their big brothers weren't picking up much. So they were picking up the slack.
Wow. That was a lot of dirt. Much of it incredibly fine dust we get from living out here on the prairie surrounded by wind and dry dirt and dogs who bring it inside.
This was all in prep for the fact that it's past time to do a pro carpet cleaning, but obviously I need to do the whole house about two more times or until that thing stops filling the canister after just one room. Sheesh!
The good and bad of having dirt colored carpet I guess. Couldn't even see any of that.
Someone remind me to not quite be so cheap and buy a new vacuum once every decade, would ya?
Funny thing was, Karen is the "must clean everything more" person in our house -- nurses do that -- and when she saw what it did, she just shook her head and said, "Looks like we needed a new vacuum."
She'd have been ON my butt if she thought the old ones were doing that.
Soooooo... two thumbs up on the Hoover so far.
(Yeah, she's OCD. She will re-vacuum that hallway just to get the lines straight. LOL.)
We decided I've repaired our two uprights enough times and they just never seem "quite right" after you have to replace beater bars and other stuff.
I noticed that our newest vacuum, a Sharp, which has served extremely well -- well, Sharp stopped making vacuums in 2004. And it's the newer of the two. And it's had a number of repairs but I just couldn't get the beater bar to behave anymore.
Plus we knew that although everything is lightweight (and in the cheap end, non-reinforced so don't go too cheap...) plastic on most of them, and there's some worry about longevity compared to the old heavy beasts, that these days that the vacuum tech has gotten better. Lots better.
And we wanted a bagless.
So we trundled over to the gettin' spot tonight and bought a middle of the road across all brands and prices, but top of their lineup, Hoover. Bagless and their "Windtunnel 3" system. It has decent reviews online and I wasn't going to get a Dyson or Shark or anything like that with TV ads galore and their own cable TV channels 24/7.
I should mention that the robot overlords have been lying down on the job lately (they both need another battery replacement -- when we run them we run them a lot, batteries only last just under two years, and I haven't gotten around to ordering some) so it's the usual "weekly" vacuuming with the occasional missed week.
So I put the thing together and ran it.
Holy crap we needed a new vacuum! That thing pounded a quarter of a tall kitchen trash bag worth of dirt and about the same amount of fine dog fur from the girl dog with blonde hair, out of the whole house.
Turns out, the "impressive" abilities of the robot overlords was probably partially due to the fact that their big brothers weren't picking up much. So they were picking up the slack.
Wow. That was a lot of dirt. Much of it incredibly fine dust we get from living out here on the prairie surrounded by wind and dry dirt and dogs who bring it inside.
This was all in prep for the fact that it's past time to do a pro carpet cleaning, but obviously I need to do the whole house about two more times or until that thing stops filling the canister after just one room. Sheesh!
The good and bad of having dirt colored carpet I guess. Couldn't even see any of that.
Someone remind me to not quite be so cheap and buy a new vacuum once every decade, would ya?
Funny thing was, Karen is the "must clean everything more" person in our house -- nurses do that -- and when she saw what it did, she just shook her head and said, "Looks like we needed a new vacuum."
She'd have been ON my butt if she thought the old ones were doing that.
Soooooo... two thumbs up on the Hoover so far.
(Yeah, she's OCD. She will re-vacuum that hallway just to get the lines straight. LOL.)
