Please help me choose a vacuum!

[durango159]

Best of luck with your new Riccar SupraLite. I think you made a great choice! You have a great upright for your wall to wall carpet, and your Miele canister can do your upholstery, hard surface floors and what ever else if you want if your in the mood for a different machine.

 

[vegassucks]

Old post but wanted to Putin my 2 Cents

I understand There is no perfect vacuum and many do a great job. Just wanted to add my 2 cents to the many who had negative views on Sebo vacuums. There is a reason why The Marriott hotel chain and the White House use Sebo/Windsor, they last for ever are simple to service and clean very well.

It is about balance, those extremely aggressive power heads so many like, might be dong more to destroy your carpet than clean it. Sebo vacuum cleaners are built Better Than any machine made and are extremely well balanced. You really do not need to beat the heck out of carpet when u have 114 CFM of air flow, you only need a balanced agitation. When I worked for Sellling Kirby's, none of the sales people including the owner owned one. Most vacuum shop owners who sell Sebo's actually use them in their own homes.

 

[sebo_fan]

A funny little thing happened with my Samsung...

Well, the SEBO X series in the U.S is available with a manual height adjuster known as the G2/Essential. That should beat those who moan about the SEBO X4 not going deep enough.

Frankly I've never had that problem with SEBO vacs though.

But then I learnt the hard way, destroying a wool carpet when I first started out as a collector and thought that my Dyson was tops. Then I discovered that the suction and hard brush roll was taking off more than just the top layer of dust on the carpet. Now I no longer care about "deep cleaning" a carpet because part of me thinks "am I destroying the carpet by over-cleaning the textures," or "does this carpet really require a proper vacuum run over it, again?"

As some of you know I lost my mum last year and I just knew that she was around the home - just had a feeling, I'm sure those who have lost parents would probably agree - anyway, I did a video in my room with my Samsung Galaxy phone. My own video camera via my SLR camera never picks up what I thought were dust balls flying around the room. The dust balls however were not dust balls, but orbs!

However, when filming parts of the home during the day before vacuuming and in normal daylight, my Samsung phone picks up flying dust very easily. It is more apparent if I walk with the phone in my hand and walk over carpet, only to see the dust flying up and at times have hit carpet patches with my hand. I don't need any more proof that despite my obsession with cleaning and either using a dirty fan vac or a clean air vac that even after cleaning, there's still dust in the air that I can't see and thus settles on the carpet that requires cleaning up yet again.

Thus I don't think it is that important on whether a vacuum cleaner can deep clean carpet or not - because at the end of the day, there's always dust settling on the carpet and it is impossible to keep going over the carpet to ensure all manner of dust is taken up - at the cost of ruining the carpet as well if you over-vacuum. If the top layer dust that I can see is taken away, I'm quite happy with that and in addition, if the pet hairs and anything else gets sucked up, I'm one happy kitty!

 

[nycwriter]

Well ...

"There is a reason why The Marriott hotel chain and the White House use Sebo/Windsor, they last for ever are simple to service and clean very well."

****

MAYBE.

But most likely not.

As someone who's been a corporate director and has extensive connections inside the federal government, I can tell you a thing or two about how corporations and governments work in terms of their vendor contracts.

Most of the time, it has nothing to do with the merit of the product, and everything to do with:

-- money
-- money
-- money

And maybe:

-- political favors.

I'm not doubting the merits of the Sebo. But if you really think CFOs and government officers are really worried about deep-cleaning their carpets, you're deluding yourself.

 

[sebo_fan]

Mmm well, as you say, Money money money - as a contract cleaner in the 1990s with a contract cleaning firm to see myself through university, our company were a small outfit who were taken on by a lot of different franchises because we were cheaper to hire than larger contract commercial cleaning teams. The choice of machines that we had were the Numatic vacs and the SEBO vacs - both of which at that time weren't cheap to buy either singularly AND bought in bulk numbers.

Other teams that we knew of had old Hoover Seniors and tub canisters etc but the decision to buy Numatic & SEBO was largely down to the fact that they lasted though were expensive to buy initially.

 

[ilovevacs]

here's what is great if your still looking

Get a royal metal vacuum. If you don't mind the noise of the brand new royal everlast that is a great vacuum for deep cleaning but if you don't like the noise get a used model like a model 994 I have one and love it it is light weight but does better than kirby riccar ect. If you want a used model like a model 994 its about $111 to $170 if you wants an everlast its about $600 or $700 that's what I would reccomend too anyone. Here's is a picture of a brand new royal everlast mry 8300.