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    Please explain

    I vacuum regularly, and then use a Lindwash with an alcohol based cleaner in it every so often. I don't have the time or patience for this three bucket nonsense. But I don't really like bare floors over carpet. I don't find carpet overly difficult to clean, a good vacuum will remove the pet hair...
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    Vacuum FIltration Poll

    No, my allergies are too severe to just imagine they're gone. It could be something like how when I leave the house, I rarely experience allergy issues, because the vast majority of the time I'm at home (sleeping) I no longer am inundated constantly with crap in the air, so my body handles...
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    Who really invented the cyclonic vacuum cleaner?

    The Rexair, from the very beginning always used the spinning separator to fling dust to the outside of the pan. The water was added because the separator was incapable of separating fine enough dust, had it been a cyclonic design, you could not have simply added water to it and got the amazing...
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    Vacuum FIltration Poll

    This guy does an extremely good job of explaining how these air purifiers work, this is a newer design than my two older Living Air machines, but I’ve got two newer ones that do have the UV/photocatalytic thing in them too, which makes hydroxyl, and those I usually don’t bother turning the ozone...
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    Who really invented the cyclonic vacuum cleaner?

    I don’t really consider the Rexair to be cyclonic really, it doesn’t spin the air around to separate dirt from it, although the original design did rely on centrifugal force, it wasn’t generated by a cyclone. Filter Queens, in my eyes, are cyclonic, but a very basic form that only flings the...
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    Vacuum FIltration Poll

    I don't actually consider it a pollutant. Its created naturally by both the sun and by lightning, and is present in all air at low levels, and naturally raises in levels when pollution does, as its a natural reaction to the pollution, because it does actually oxidize and break that down. I know...
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    Hoover Conquest

    I've worked on those dual machines, honestly what a pain. I'd much prefer one of those machines that are just huge and wide, but all one machine with one wide brush and nozzle.
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    Vacuum FIltration Poll

    It depends for me, I run all kinds of vacuums through the house that use cloth bags and mediocre filtering paper stuff, but when I'm actually cleaning seriously, I do tend to prefer something with better filtration, or the central vac. I do have rather severe allergies too, but I chose to deal...
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    Please explain

    No vacuum cleaner is cleaning dirt from under the pad, that's just not the truth. Most never carpet tends to have a layer in the backing that doesn't let moisture through very easily, and not much dirt will be going through that either. If you have a carpet where the backing is more open, you'll...
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    Prices...

    There are very very few machines that I'd ever consider paying more than $20-30 for. Even things I want very badly, I always will eventually fin in excellent shape for a price I can actually stomach. Naturally I don't buy this stuff off of eBay, as I feel like those prices are the greatest...
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    Prices...

    I got one of those for free, traded it in when the hose went bad. I need to find a new hose still.
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    Vacuum demos (idea)

    How would a central vac company put on a demo. I have actually thought quite a bit about how I could come up with some form of a demo setup that one could take places, but the most portable design that will actually show off all the options is more of a home show booth type thing, not something...
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    RIP old Vacuumland.

    I figured it was a new vBulletin version, it's hard to know. Would have been hard to know on my site too, as I paid the extra and had all the copyright stuff removed so no one knew. And from my end as just a member it's also so similar I wouldn't know! But its nice, I don't feel like I'm having...
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    The Fault Of The TTi Hoover Products

    You wouldn't put any kind of big expensive filter on a central vac, as you should never have a central vac vented back into the interior of the house, doing so defeats a whole half the purpose of the central, not venting anything back into the home.
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    Hoover Conquest

    I stand somewhat corrected, the Turbomaster, not Turbopower is what it's called, you'll have to excuse my lack of familiarity! Here's a video of someone taking one apart so you can see the similarity.
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