Mid 60s GE Upright Information

[centralsweeper63]

No, there is even a couple of dedicated Persian rugs shops in Christchurch, 600,000 thousand people.

 

[cheesewonton]

No, there is even a couple of dedicated Persian rugs shops in Christchurch, 600,000 thousand people.

Sure today. But before and the decade or so after WWII when those flip over floor brushes were popular with vacuum manufacturers I don't think anyone other than a few really wealthy people in the west had Persian rugs in their homes. I was born in 1957 and didn't know what a Persian rug was until well into adulthood. Literally nobody in my family or circle of friends had stuff like that. That was stuff you saw in a museum or maybe in Hearst Castle in San Simeon on the California coast. They weren't in the living rooms of America.

 

[centralsweeper63]

We see a good number of them. Maybe 1 in 5 homes have them.

 

[cheesewonton]

We see a good number of them. Maybe 1 in 5 homes have them.

To this day I don't know a single soul who has a Persian rug.

 

[centralsweeper63]

Interesting.

 

[cheesewonton]

Interesting.

I have some expensive woolen rugs from Scandinavia I bought when I was single and heavily into contemporary Scandinavian furnishings but unfortunately those do not hold up well to dogs and kids so they are retired and need a good cleaning.

 

[huskyvacs]

I have some expensive woolen rugs from Scandinavia I bought when I was single and heavily into contemporary Scandinavian furnishings but unfortunately those do not hold up well to dogs and kids so they are retired and need a good cleaning.

I have a bunch of wool fiber area rugs in my house. I can't say as to their quality as I am not rich, but I got a few at thrift stores that had dog accident stains on them that I cleaned out, and I have one in my living room that was bought new at retail. They are extremely heavy rolled up, so I don't think they are the cheap kind. The key thing is they need fluffing every week at least. The fibers cannot withstand high foot traffic and will trample pretty quickly. If you dont keep the fibers fluffed they will permanently compress. Shampoo every 3-6 months, fluff weekly, vacuum every couple days or weekly, you should be good to go. Wool rugs are somewhat high maintenance if you care about making them last.

 

[cheesewonton]

I have a bunch of wool fiber area rugs in my house. I can't say as to their quality as I am not rich, but I got a few at thrift stores that had dog accident stains on them that I cleaned out, and I have one in my living room that was bought new at retail. They are extremely heavy rolled up, so I don't think they are the cheap kind. The key thing is they need fluffing every week at least. The fibers cannot withstand high foot traffic and will trample pretty quickly. If you dont keep the fibers fluffed they will permanently compress. Shampoo every 3-6 months, fluff weekly, vacuum every couple days or weekly, you should be good to go. Wool rugs are somewhat high maintenance if you care about making them last.

What do you mean by "fluff up". A power nozzle or good upright brush roll isn't enough fluffing? Curious because I have never heard of this before.

 

[huskyvacs]

What do you mean by "fluff up". A power nozzle or good upright brush roll isn't enough fluffing? Curious because I have never heard of this before.

When the carpet is really trampled and trashed/neglected, no a normal vacuum can't get it back up again, and you need to call in the heavy duty tools. If you are vacuuming your floor regularly then you should be fine. A lot of people do not, or have bad quality vacuums, or cheap carpet, and the carpeting suffers from it.

You can do it manually with a carpet rake by running against the nap if you need a workout and it's not TOO bad, but if it's really f'ed up you'd need to get it worked back out with a counter rotating brush. You want to bring the carpet fibers up out of their flatness, and coax them to get back standing upright again, which might take a few times of doing it to get them to lay right. You would do this on really wrecked carpet that's heavily smashed and just looks gross. They can also bring up embedded dirt and hair deep out of the pile which you can vacuum up. Think of it like when people thatch their lawn or aerate it by poking holes in it so it can breathe.

Commercial cleaners have used these tools for decades, and you can PROBABLY achieve the same with the floor polishing head on the old Kirbys. I haven't tried that yet. It's the same concept but I never used one so I don;t know which direction it spins but you could probabaly just change the belt around to make it go the opposite way if it doesnt counter-rotate.

Some of these scrubbers will have steam injection or you can use them with dry cleaning solvents to deodorize and sterilize before post-vacuuming.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I use my G6 with the shampooer in fluffer mode. That is what the thin bit of plastic is for. Avalir and newer machines can't do that though. If you have a buffer/fluffer from an older Kirby, make sure it was never used for waxing. There should be two separate brushrolls , one for waxing and one for fluffing. Using a waxy roller on carpet waxes your carpet!

 

[cheesewonton]

The nice rugs are rolled up and put away for now. When I finally get this garage finished I can pull out the Bissell SC or the Kenmore Power Spray with it's Spraymate wet power nozzle attachment ( oh my ) and give them a proper cleaning.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I hope it goes well when that does end up happening.

 

[paul]

And here are some photos and ads of Eureka's non-electric "Deluxe Carpet Sweeper" / "Carpet Sweeper". The company launched the design in 1965. In 1975 a new deluxe version was advertised as model 205; albeit any improvements were unidentified in it. There were other ads that listed the model C205, sans the deluxe designation. So whether there were two different designs or design features is hard to say; but a Eureka carpet sweeper was occasionally advertised from 1965 through 1986 according to advertisements I located.

 

[huskyvacs]

Hmm wow, giving them away as a free bonus, and another ad saying "limited supply available" makes me think they just had a whole bunch of overstock of them and just kept selling the same old stock or giving it away just to get rid of it.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I would agree, like the Shark steam mops. They likely were a closing tool.

 

[cheesewonton]

For ages growing up we had a Bissell "carpet sweeper" we could push around for quick clean ups. I kind of miss that and every so often threaten to buy an Oreck Hoky.