Vacuums

It's amazing we have had 654 views on the topic of Vacuums and I doubt that most of you carpet cleaners even own a vacuum. Things must be a changin'.

Hooboy you may have started a trek to WalMart. I would like a piece of that but just can't get my price that low.

Remember you can buy oats for two different prices. One before it goes into the horse and one after it comes out of the horse.

What did you like about the Sanyo Commercial? (I see they're available at Sams for less than $130USD.

The G4 Kirby we have is still a hard unit to beat. True, its heavy and not a commercial vac, but it sure is durable and it really cleans well. I've been very impressed ever since my wife brought it with her when we got married. Its a bit of a pain to change out the beater bar for the hose and other accessories, but the number of attachments really makes it worthwhile. I plan on using the shampooer along with some encapsulating WHAMM shortly. I think it should work well on our home carpet.

I'll check out that Sanyo vac sometime when I'm at Sams.

I  currently own a bissel in my home.  its the clearview bagless model.   well I have owned it for about 1 year.    At first i was floored by its performance.    It would litterly pull itself across the carpet.   Well after about 8 months the moter now sounds like a 747 and the performance has dropped in half!    sounds like a piece of sh*t  to me.       I  have been looking into the dyson It really is a well built vac. sure it might not have all the fancy smancy chit on it. but we dont need that anyway.  I  talked with a dyson rep and was pretty impressed.   I  would honestly feel cofortable throwing a dyson down a flight of steps and am pretty sure it would not hurt the dam thing really thats what the testers are doing to these things.   the hoses are high quaility. the heppa filters are liftime units, how sweet that is.    the pre-filter can be washed out in the sink every  month or so.    another neat feature is the clutch system on the beater bar, that keeps you from frying a belt if you get somthing wrapped around the beater.   call it what you want, I think the brits did their homework on this machine. YOu can pick this vac up for 250 if you look on ebay.       I am by no means knocking any of the previous vacs listed   I think they are all good units exept that dam 747!      I think it would make a good light duty vac.      

HooBoy,

I have said it on this board many times in the past. Don't ever take into a clients location an article or chemical that they can buy domestically themselves. For the very simple reason the next time they won't need you.

Fifty percent of this business is show business. Good job old Sam Walton is gone or he would have beat me to PROXI and your customers would be buying it in WalMart for $2.99 a bottle and not needing your services.

Hold your head high and be a pro. A Bissell will bring you down.

I do like the comparison chart but only to get you brownie points when giving it to your customer who is contemplating on a vacuum purchase.

The good news is that four minutes after I posted that you should look at my $300.00 Kirby it sold.

Thanks

Doug,

Why buy good when you can buy the best? Sure, the Bissell works, but if something works much better, that's the better value.

Adwa,

I bought the Bissell because its so highly esteemed and talked about on CC boards. I would have thought any other model would have been as highly touted if it were better. I don't know why the Bissell has received so much acclaim from the CC world, except that it may have attained a high level of performance before the others, but has now fallen back of the pack as the others have improved so much more. I really don't know. Can any of the veterans attest to why the Bissell has garnered so much acclaim by CCers?

My bro-in-laws Kenmore was $150 higher than the Bissell, and I had forgotten I had a subscription to CR before I made my purchase. (Its a common behavior, though, to investigate the veracity of one's purchase only *after* the deal has been made. Something about how we're trying to affirm our intuitive abilities. )