Finally a new vacuum I am impressed with

[n0oxy]

Numatics

I have a Numatic Henry, very nice machine. The newest ones use a 620 watt motor, that is very quiet and very powerful, it has as much power as the higher watt motors. They are often sold as either Numatic or Nacecare brand. The only thing I would change about them is to include an electric power nozzle. Only one Nacecare model includes that. You can easily add the Volt or Centec battery powered nozzle to it to get around this. Other than that, I cannot think of anything I would change about them, they are made well and clean well. There's also a Nacecare version of these machines that use larger bags than the Henry series does, same motor I think though.
Mike

 

[kenkart]

I bought it

BECAUSE it is straight suction,,The 620 watt motor REALLY has a ton of airflow.

 

[vacuumdevil]

This is why we don't have Henry Vacuums in the US.

@gregvacs2 I was unaware of the cocaine habit that some Henry's develop. Thank you for bringing that's manufacture defect to sunlight.

 

[royalfan]

@kenkart

Can we see a video of this ?

 

[n0oxy]

straight suction

It's great for a straight suction machine but those will never be able to clean carpet as well as a spinning brush, and the turbine brushes are always getting clogged or jammed. For cleaning carpet, you really need an electric motor driven brush roll.
Mike

 

[vacuumdevil]

@n0oxy
HHR200-2 Henry Hound
HVR200T-2 Henry TurboVacuum

Might make you

http://www.henryvacuumcleaner.com/henry-hound-hhr200-2.php

 

[kenkart]

Now everyone knows

im a fool over straight suction, I DO occasionally use uprights and power nozzle machines, but to me, all they do is make the carpet look good, I can go behind ANY revolving brush machine and get sand and grit with a good straight suction nozzle!

 

[tolivac]

ALL vacuum cleaners go by the laws of physics----NONE are perfect!

 

[luxkid1980]

@kenkart

...and you can go behind any straight suction vacuum with a revolving brush and still capture dirt that was left behind by the previous vacuum. No vacuum is perfect.

 

[kenkart]

I said that to say this

I get so tired of being told I don't know how to clean house because I don't do it like everybody else!!

 

[vacuumdevil]

NPC Sounds

@kenkart I know the feeling. I appreciate you sharing your new vacuum!

Just remember on Vacuumland #Kirbyisbestvacuum
Or the mobb comes out with pitchforks and fire.

 

[luxkid1980]

@kenkart

I'm sure your house is perfectly clean! No vacuum (that I am aware of) will capture everything. I think both straight suction vacuums and those that agitate the carpet with a beater bar are both good.

 

[kirbysthebest]

Technique is everything.

I see people on YouTube that are swinging that vacuum so fast, you would think you were on Indy.

Slow down, give the machine a chance to work, and you can get good results from an upright, power team, or straight suction machine.

My mother had a good friend for many years, up until her death, that cleaned her home with a straight suction machine. An Electrolux Model G. I would dare you to have found two grains of sand in her entire home.

Edit to add:
I want a Henry, but it will have to wait, unfortunately my check book says I have been buying too many vacuums lately. (I just won an auction on another Filter queen, a 360 for $66.) I have been on a Filter Queen kick lately it will be by fourth.

 

[rivstg1]

technique is important,

@kenkart its always enjoyable hearing someone obtain a vac that they really or have always wanted ( or just a new addtion actually), thx for letting us enjoy it with you !!haha

@kirbysthebest- what you said is SOOOO true!!!! vids on youtube almost always show the vacuumer moving the vac so fast....not much will prob be picked up. I know that b/c I've tested carpet with a Kirby dirtmeter going moving fast on the carpet....and going slow, no comparison.

 

[n0oxy]

technique and dirt left behind

You can certainly cleana carpet with straight suction but you will probably have to work at it more in order to get it as clean as a spinning brush would do, but it is possible.
No vacuum will get all of the dirt out of a carpet, if you go back over it again you will get more out. I'm not sure if this is still done but apparently that's how the Kirby sales people convince people that the Kirby is a much better cleaner, they will have them clean their floors with their own vacuum, then they will clean with the Kirby and show the home owner what their vacuum missed. Of course, what they don't tell them is that every vacuum will miss things. If the Kirby was used first and then another vacuum, the second vacuum would get dirt that the Kirby missed.
Mike