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Wow Dan your Platinum still looks brand new. Are you supposed to polish the stainless every now and then to protect it? The Art Deco based styling cues are so clear to me... I'm surprised more haven't taken notice. I can also see that the style of the canister is closer to the Lux Renaissance/Guardian "bullet" style than the older "boxy" style of Lux International's last one.
 
Christopher

That's how everything I own always looks brand new .
I've done nothing to it but use it I guess I'm just very careful and have been taught well to take extra good care of every thing I own .

You'll never find a scratch or paint from rubbing along baseboards .
I am the same way with everything even my cars people always ask
if I just bought my cars because they always look like they just came
off the sales floor at the Benz dealership 😁

Dan
 
Dan ... Another question for you. I see that you also have a kenmore intuition. Mine will be here tomorrow and I'm wondering how you like it, if you have used it all that much? Can't really complain considering I got it for 45$ on eBay lol ... So if it "sucks" I will use it for my cleaning biz 😃
 
Jay

I like mine I may have used it 4 times but it's a very good quality vacuum for being sold in a department store . I did just buy the newest Kenmore Elite upright .
I used it for 10 minutes so I will have to try and use it a few
more times to see how it really compares . Seems like we have
similar vacuum tastes 😛

Dan
 
LOL yea looks like we have the same tase in vacuums and in cars! I tend to use some of my vacs for a little longer then a few minutes, especially if I need to use them while cleaning a home. Love Love Love my Sentria and did wonderfully in a two story home when my hoover windtunnel was in need of bags. So, I will have to give the kenmore a run for the money to test out how good it is. Like the detachable hose/wand, such a pain in the ass on the hoover fiddling around with everything. But its such a powerful vac it makes it all worth the fiddling LOL

Ill drop you a few lines and let you know how it goes, especially interested in the direct dirve brush roll!
 
Very nice collection. I like the Aerus canisters way better than the upright. The upright is not sealed or well constructed that it blows 500,000-695,000 on a scan. A good amount of air leaks through the bottom duct. The side HEPA filter does get 0. To anyone with allergies, not a great machine. The lux legacy is much better, no leaks of air and the electrostatic filter gets close to HEPA standards. At the negotiated price point, Riccar canisters and uprights are superior in every way I feel. The performance of a Radiance is so much better. Quality, Quality, Quality
 
George

Thank you for your opinion but that does not matter to me one bit .
All this nonsense about totally sealed machines and sealed homes
is in my opinion why so many people have allergies and various sicknesses
today . You never heard of all this vacuums blowing 0 on some stupid scanner
someone invented to sell all those sealed vacuums . My grandparents and
parents NEVER had allergies and they used cloth bag Kirby and Hoovers that
blew a million percent on that scanner your so into .

Aerus uprights are QUALITY George so is every Aerus product the uprights
are a top choice in my family and of all the uprights back to the very first Discovery I
Purchased for my family members to their newest Legacy uprights are all still working problem free they are the most reliable/user friendly upright Vacuums since my family gave up their Hoover Convertibles .

You see how many different brands I own I can give them any machine they desire but they all chose Aerus uprights except two aunts who prefer Aerus canisters . So you enjoy your two vacuums and my family will enjoy their Aerus uprights .

Dan
 
The point of a vacuum is to pick up dirt and dust and contain it, not send it back into the air. Allergies aside. Its 2014, technology has come along way
 
Thank you

Once again George enjoy your two vacuums and I will enjoy my hundreds .
I have no idea how I've made it in my vacuum collecting of Hundreds of vacuums for over 40 years
plus managing a vacuum shop owning my very own vacuum shop plus working for Kirby Aerus
and Rainbow without your experience of going to a few vacuum shops trying some
vacuums for a few minutes and owning two vacuums .

Dan
 
The very act...

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of vacuuming kicks up dust.
I am allergic to dust and feel the only really significant development in vacuums in many years has been better filtration.
That said, at a certain point the background level of dust in the air is far higher than what comes out of most vacs. I read it some where, here on VL maybe, "our homes are not clean rooms" like in a chip fab. Carpets, mattresses, furnishings, all harbor some dust even after the best vacuums are used.
Forced air heating is bad news for me, as is a vacuum with regular unlined paper bags.
But when you get down to these parts per zillion meter reading worries perhaps you shouldn't have carpets or a vacuum at all. A recent study concluded just that, i'm too lazy to find the link right now.
I do not really know enough about the Electrolux/Aerus brand so i won't comment specifically there. But i will say one of the coolest looking vacs i have is this sweet orange and deep green Prolux2000 upright.

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Thanks Jon

Just like I wish we had more Juniors here I especially
love the Dirt Searcher ones . Ours never had headlights
you guys were so lucky to have so many different models
of what I think would have been a very popular Hoover had
they pushed it more here especially as a competor to Oreck
Touting its light weight and deep cleaning ability compared to
Oreck .

Dan
 
Your welcome Dan

Shame you didn't have more Juniors, I'm sure your right it would of been more popular if pushed more. Especially against the Oreck. It certainly was a very popular model over here in all its forms including the Dirt Searcher ones.

My Mother had 2 when I was young, both all metal bodied unlike the later plastic body ones. I used to love using them, specially loved being able to vacuum the stairs with them without having to use the tools. Something you can't really do with todays vacuums. They where light, simple and effective vacuums and easy to maintain. Hoover should bring them back I'm sure if marketed right they would be popular again!!
 
Dan

I would love to see a picture of them that would be great look forward to seeing that. When I think back the Juniors where light very light.

Very true, why would they.
 
Yes Dan...

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that is my flagship Electrolux vacuum. I have another grey Prolux and an older Discovery which i plan to sell soon as they are redundant and i too am buried in vacs. Oddly i have not come across a canister Lux yet other than an old metal straight suction model i found in the trash. I plan to use that as a shop vac soon.
I know you like the newest models but what might be a stand out Lux from the not too distant past, a Renny perhaps? I was considering that model but the electronic hose gave me pause.
 
Robert

I had the Rennisance NIB and stupidly gave it to
a friend which I now regret because he hired a house keeper
and she totally scratched it up so bad . Had I known
he wanted it for a housekeeper I would have given him
a Kenmore canister instead .

The first day she used it he gave her the instruction book
So she could learn how to use it well she spilled a glass of
red wine on it and I knew from then on that machine would
be destroyed :(

Get one you can always go to Aerus and they sell replacement
handles with new controls and the hose Carcus is also sold seperately .

Dan
 
I LOVE that Prolux!

While I don't think it's "silly" to worry about filtration, I do think vacuum companies prey upon the deep-rooted American fear of dirt. We do not live in sterile environments for sure. It's also true that brushrolls stir up dust also and even central vacuums stir up dust. Having said that, I still think that I agree with strictlybojack that filtration is the best innovation to come out of the industry in many decades. A vacuum should keep what it picks up inside. I don't think that carpet is responsible for allergies. There are many studies that show allergies are not correlated to carpet use. There are studies that show hard floors cause more dust to become airborne and that carpet acts as a filter. A study from Sweden showed that while there is almost no carpet, there was an increase in asthma and allergies. HEPA filtration is the best thing to come along in generations. Aerus is said to be updating it's canisters by putting HEPA/carbon filters behind the bag in ALL canisters, soo that is a major upgrade. They should also follow suit with the uprights. If someone can put a meter on the Aerus Guardian and it reads zero, then that's the most important thing. I don't think it makes a vacuum obsolete if it lacks sealed filtration but the public thinks so... There will be technological progress, either we get on board or get left behind. We don't ride horses anymore, we drive automobiles.
 
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