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Bill, Congrats on the move!! Hopefully that means a pay raise with it too! I'm sure you'll do terrific. I assume there is a significant time schedule adjustment with that too since it's commercial might be more focused on normal business hours. Maybe you'll get your Sundays back!

Rob, I forgot to mention that is a great looking Spirit that you have their!! Spirit is one that have the least experience with. They were very lightweight easy to manuever around machines. I think the suction power varied with the models and might need to cause I would think the headlight equipped Quadraflex Powermatic would be much more powerful over the L shaped, in a way, Quadraflex nozzle where belt is on the end.

Josh. The IQ Air was proposed to me one point. I liked that the Defender was very powerful yet compact. I've never heard of the primary filter breaking down and I've seen a lot of the old ones come back to the office after they've been replaced. The Defender has a Neoprene rubber gasket on each side of filter too so it seals to the base and motor housing.

I want to try the Rainbow for a while. I've had no air cleaner so going from nothing to this is very helpful. I'm looking forward to not replacing any filters. My machine would run full time and looking at the average filter life span for the IQ Air looks like if broken down by yearly expensive it's about $130. Would be nice to able to save that!!
 
About washing the hepa filter

Yes

You can get them on Ebay for pretty cheap and they don't need to be replaced very often at all......My rainbow 2 speed is almost 8 years old. I've changed the filter ONCE........but I washed it a couple of times........but I did it differently than the instructions.....I filled it with cold water on both sides and shook the HE11 out of it several times, drained, repeated, shook, drained, repeated, then finally shook as much water out as I could, put it back on the machine, turned the machine on high......and the filter was completely dry in 20 minutes with air pouring out of the filter......

When I finally bought a new filter after about five years, I cut into the 5 year old hepa to see what it looked like.......and it wasn't bad at all......Here's a pic

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