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In an early brochure(1915?) to convince travelers that The Grove Park Inn of Asheville,NC was a first class hotel they mention that the cleaning is done with The Hoover.GPI was later home to F.Scott Fitsgerald and remains a first class resort with much Roycroft furniture remaining.--Would todays hotels brag that you get a microwave waffle and they clean with the cheapest Bissel??
 
You know, I didnt see any filters when I changed the bag, I did knock the dust out of the liner bag. I never have time to do any investigation, just pop in a new bag and go. It fills a bag in one cleaning of the store, but it just seems like it should have more suction.
 
Anyone of you here remember using any of the 1987-92 household Royal uprights in a commercial setting? And if so, please post any pictures that you may have of these.

Model list: 881, 882, 883, 884, 885, 886/887, 889, 992/993, 994/995/996, 6000, 6005, 6500, 6800, 6805, 8000, 9000/9005/9089, 9100 and 9700?

~Ben
 
when I worked at a hotel for a few sumers we had commerical grade prolux and a few older advance brand wide area vacs. the cleaners at my dads office had a residential vac catch on fire....
 
And-OSHA frowns on the use of residentual vacuums in a commercial place-no three wire cord.But it is done everyday.At the places I shop--now I am seeing more household vacuums being used-usually cheap,bagless ones.We all know what happens to the vac when it is ready to die--into the dumpster!
 
The store I work at has 32,000 square feet of carpeting and has to get cleaned every night. We have a big cordless tenant vac but its horrible. They just bought 6 $100 eureka bagless units that will be dead in a couple months. I have to wash the filter and use an air compressor to clean out the dust bin every week on the one I use or it won't function, I don't know how the other 5 still work. I can't believe how much dirt gets on the vac itself, it's just gross. We used to have commercial hovers years ago, that worked well and lasted, but as they broke, they were replaced by no name backpack vacs, then $36 "relia-vac", and now the eureka.
 
I haven't seen a lot of vacuums being used in stores, so not sure. I did however see a Windsor being used at Belk dept store. At McDonald's I saw a purple Bissell Powerforce bagless being used to clean the rugs. At a gas station near my house there was a beige/tan mid 1980s top hose Kenmore canister sitting in the back hall. At a furniture store I also used to see an early 1980s beige/tan front hose Kenmore canister for a long time. I wonder if it's still there?

Where I work we have a bronze Bissell PowerTrak bagless upright that the cleaning people used to use each week. We now have a new cleaning lady but I never see her use the vacuum. There are also Dirt Devil cordless hand vacs for quick dusting.
 
This is an Epidemic

Like most people, business owners and managers don't know their rear end from a hole in the ground when it comes to vacuum cleaners. These people are not experts in vacuums, they're experts in their business. Furthermore, it's not their home. They're not worried about their little girl's asthma problem, or thinking about deep cleaning and grooming their carpet to extend the life. Further yet, most don't even know that commercial vacuum cleaners exist. Unless they literally walk into a vac shop and consult about their needs, they will never know the importance of a steel bottom plate or brush roll, heavy duty motors, kevlar fans, extra capacity bags, or steel handles and releases. They think all vacuums are the same, just like the average person, and they figure if they go to wal-mart and pick something in the middle, it will be a good choice. People, businesses included, are ignorant.
 
Eurekalux

My grandma had my dad drop off an "electrolux" they've been using in their work place when i heard electrolux immediately i was thinking it was one of the eureka made ones.

Well i wake up yesterday and find a dirty eurekalux versatility next to the door, the handle release is broken the handle is broken the hose has a large rip in it, the hepa filter is just black with filth and has little holes in it, pre motor filter and frame just clogged with fine dust, the turbo tool has seized up surprisingly the motor doesn't sound bad...yet but this seems like one of those cases in which people think don't think about the filters at all or just simply expect any household vacuum to hold up to the neglect and abuse a true commercial machine can withstand.
 
Dollar Tree

At my local Dollar Tree, they used to have a Sanitaire, but then the last time I went in there I saw in the spot that the sanitaire sat in a PUSH SWEEPER!!!! They ditched the upright for a sweeper!!! Not even a good one! The standard $20.00 bissell easysweep
 
My Dad's friend owns a massive Holy place of worship and he uses only ONE Dyson DC27 multi floor in there!
 
Dollar Tree

We have 2 crummy (or worn out) Royal rubber bladed push sweepers at our store, I have used both and neither works very well. I wish we had a sanitaire at our store. I vacuumed the store monday night with the Proteam Running vac (it is vacuumed every night) and ended up changing the bag twice. It starts out with good suction, then loses most of it as the bag gets around 1/4 full.. annoying to say the least.
 
Back in 1976 the holiday inn ft. myers beach used kirby classic III , they had a couple of them stolen so they had to bring them in the rooms when the cleaning staff went to lunch, then a few years later they got the hoover u4119 then I told them about the sanitaire which they used I guess until my last visit there which was in 1996.
 
At a local cafeteria they have used a dyson DC01 for as long as I can remember, they also have a dyson DC04 which is not used as often but still is quite old. Also a wilkinsons store near me used to have a non clutched DC04 but it was all hard floors lol
 
The Non Clutch DC04...

It was probably a Constantmax- the Wilkinson in Canterbury had one despite everything apart from the doormats being hard floor..
Seamus
 
Nah it wasn't, it was the green one, the constant max one was red, and was only 1100watts I think, and yeah they only have carpeted doormats, however I suppose it was always kept next to the door.
 
The misconception about commercial vacuums ...

... is that they're more powerful performers than domestic models, which is generally not true at all. In fact, many, if not most, commercial models do not perform as well as domestic models in the home because they're designed for *endurance* more than *performance*.

Most commercial carpets are made from barely-there nap; it's extremely rare to see the kind of plush carpeting we have in our homes in commercial settings. Commercial vacuums are generally designed, therefore, to handle this low-resistance carpeting. And the motors in these units aren't designed necessarily for more power, but longer endurance; they're designed to be run 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, as opposed to domestic models that are designed for, at best, an hour or two a couple times a week.
 
I was at a garden centre today, it was huge, and one person was using this numatic micro filter for hours, and she had no where near finished, also the micro filter have an extra huge filter round the motor so I imagine it gets incredibly hot. Also I imagine they were using it bagless as despite it having micro filtration it was starting to smell of dirt!
 

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