Rainbow Cleaning

[chris]

Just wondering how often a rainbow should be tore down a cleaned inside? Its only 8 years old but it gets used everyday. We do heat our home with a woodstove but I use a Kenmore canister with heap bags to clean up the wood dirt and ash dust but i'm sure some ash dust makes its way into the rainbow and past the water. It doesn't look to bad for 8 years old but its by no means spotless inside.

 

[mark40511]

Hey

Actually, that doesn't look bad at all!!! Mine's older than yours and I've always wanted to take mine apart, even though it looks pretty clean inside, but I'd totally screw something up. Besides, I think these are OK with a little dirt on the fans. Obviously, they must be designed to have a little dirt on the fans since any escaped dirt that the HEPA catches has to go past the fans first.

 

[chris]

I would love to be able to take it apart and clean/service it myself but that $400 computer scares the crap out of me. That's what happened to my 5 year old E2 gold the computer or the circuit board blew while I was using it. I have two rainbow places within a 2 hour drive from me one wants $100 for cleaning, $72 for new HEPA. The other wants $75 for cleaning, $30 for new HEPA. Just don't want to spend the money if it doesn't need it yet.

 

[dysonman1]

You can buy the HEPA for less than $20 with free shipping on eBay brand new.

$72 for service is a steal. I charge customers $150 (includes HEPA filter).

 

[tolivac]

The Rainbow fancase shot there isn't too bad compared to some that come to the vac shop.Good you collect most of the ash with another bagged vacuum.

 

[chris]

Yes

I take extremely good care of my rainbows. Separators go in the top rack of the dishwasher every 3 days, water gets dumped twice per floor, and they never go within 5 feet of the woodstove. Would much rather destroy a $180 vacuum vs a $2600 vacuum

 

[honestjoe68]

Here is something I thought of that might help anyone who has a wood burning stove or fireplace! $50 bucks and save your Rainbow or any other high end vacuum. If you have a lot of ash outside of the fire box or fireplace hearth.. buy an inexpensive vacuum with washable HEPA filters to get the surrounding floor or carpet, empty and wash the filters often.. problem solved.

Hope this helps.. if this vacuum isn’t what you want.. just google “Fireplace Vacuums” and there are quite a few, like this one in my link, that will also eliminate the risk of a fire from ashes or tiny embers accidentally vacuumed up.

http://https//www.amazon.com/dp/B00...pone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl=&hvloci