What happens to carpets that have only been cleaned with a stick vac...

[myles_v]

My boyfriend and I run a house and carpet cleaning business as we both enjoy cleaning. Today we started cleaning for a somewhat regular customer. He's had us do all of the carpets and the windows of a home he just purchased a few weeks ago and was happy with the results so he hired us to clean the home he is moving out of that he plans to rent out to someone. While doing the walk through and estimate we realized that the only two vacuums they have are a small wet and dry vacuum along with a Bissell Featherlite.

This is a four bedroom, 3 1/2 bathroom home with 10 large medium pile carpeted rooms along with two sets of carpeted stairs and they only have a stick vac.

You can imagine how filthy those carpets were....

During the pre vacuuming we filled two Royal style B bags, along with a full container on a Eureka canister that we only used for the edges of the carpeting.

I thought you all might like to see some photos of how much the Royal improved the look of the carpets.
These photos are just after vacuuming, no deep cleaning has been done yet.

 

[miskini]

Wow

What a difference.

 

[vacuumlad1650]

My grandparents run the Carpet Sweeper twice a day. Every other day they use the dirt devil, or Kenmore. Once a week I bring a Heavy Duty vacuum and fill a half to full bag! Took the Hoover 29 last week... DVC shakeout On It was brand new
Andy

 

[dartman]

love my Royal cannisters

I have a old Royal 413 and a newer Stark/Royal 4650 and I love what they do for the carpet and that I can get under and around most everything. Been wondering and considering a Royal upright if a good enough deal shows up and after seeing those photos maybe one would be a worthy addition.
The uprights show up a lot more often then the canisters and usually for a premium price though certainly not always.
I paid 200 for my 413 almost new about 90, and a few years ago found the 4650 for 25 needing a new hose.
I also use a cordless bagless upright for touch ups and quick clean ups and a Orek handheld with attachments for bigger but not quite main vacuum messes.

 

[dartman]

love my Royal cannisters

I have a old Royal 413 and a newer Stark/Royal 4650 and I love what they do for the carpet and that I can get under and around most everything. Been wondering and considering a Royal upright if a good enough deal shows up and after seeing those photos maybe one would be a worthy addition.
The uprights show up a lot more often then the canisters and usually for a premium price though certainly not always.
I paid 200 for my 413 almost new about 90, and a few years ago found the 4650 for 25 needing a new hose.
I also use a cordless bagless upright for touch ups and quick clean ups and a Orek handheld with attachments for bigger but not quite main vacuum messes.

 

[dartman]

Sorry, didn't think first time posted, maybe a mod can delete second one.

 

[myles_v]

Royal Uprights

I think they're amazing at cleaning carpeting. Light years better than a Kirby, in my opinion. I got mine for around $30 from a Goodwill.

 

[delaneymeegan]

 


That is an incredible difference. 


 


Are you going to Rug Doctor them?  That's bound to pull out even more yuck.

 

[human]

Yeah, those stick vacs are a joke, just a glorified Dustbuster. Those carpets definitely needed the 'heavy metal' treatment with your Royal.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Excellent results.

But, no one should really be surprised. Stick vacs, (any maker), were really made for hard floors, or 'quickies'. I'd never clean my place with one of my Hoover Handivacs. Maybe the kitchen or bathroom floor, and with attachments for the car, stairs, etc.
Congrats on the cleaning business AND for having a partner who enjoys cleaning as much as you do!

 

[stormcrash]

I hope you showed the guy these pictures so he'll take better care of the carpets in the new house

 

[durango159]

It's possible that the Wet/ Dry vac was used to do carpets too. I have heard and seen that done before!! Personally it's definitely not something that I would do cause I love a vacuum cleaners brush roll and agitation.

When I did Filter Queen sales one of my demos brought in a Shop Vac as their machine for doing their plush carpeted stairs. I did a special demo just for their stairs on what the Filter Queen could do and be much easier than their Shop Vac.


Congrats on the business and having a partner/ soul mate that supports your interests in vacuums and cleaning!! I hope your business continues to "BOOM!"

 

[vacuumkid47]

When my dad had a Bissell PowerForce

I still have it, but I don't use it as much though. Anyway, he got it with the house when he moved, since he is a carpet installer he put in new carpet. Couple weeks later he vacuumed with the same Bissell. Then I vacuumed the carpet with a Rainbow D with the straight suction nozzle and an Oreck Commercial Upright and I filled 3 bags with just dirt and hair. The Rainbow was filled with hair and the Oreck went through a belt just picking up hair lol I still use the Oreck to this day

 

[sebo_fan]

And yet my friend turfed her Bissell Powerforce upright only after a few weeks after the machine ripped her carpet to bits. She now owns an old Miele S7 upright of mine.

 

[myles_v]

I recently found out that my dad's girlfriend also uses a stick vac type machine to clean her home. My dad asked if I could help her since the "spinner stopped spinning on her vacuum"

She now has my Electrolux Renaissance, I was sure to give her a machine with a circuit breaker on the power nozzle so her "spinner" may continue spinning on this machine.

 

[myles_v]

Rob

We typically use my Filter Queen Majestic Triple Crown for general house cleaning, the high filtration of the machine is a good point for us to mention when we advertise our services, and I've received many compliments from customers on the way the FQ looks

 

[durango159]

I think that Bissell PowerForce was clogged or had a bad belt/ brush roll. Or whatever breed of dogs and cats are in your family really shed a lot and quickly!!

A bagged Bissell PowerForce upright really isn't that bad of a performer. It's not the same boat of performance as a Simplicity but really it should kick that Orecks but when working properly. So something is definitely wrong with it!!

 

[Mike81]

I just vacuumed my parents wool rug and result was disgusting. I almost filled the bin three times. Rug was previously vacuumed with suction only canister, never with upright or canister with the powerhead.

 

[sebo_fan]

That's the very stuff - i.e the cotton like wool - that I try to avoid with my carpets. When I have used constant aggressive brush rolls on my wool carpets, that's what I continually get and when I have felt it with my fingers, it is very clearly wool and not dirt. There's a lesson there to learn - whilst it may look like dirt, the powdery stuff clearly is but not the cotton wool stuff.

 

[Mike81]

Wool rug

Yes I figured it at the end. When the dirt was removed, all what came from the rug was that cotton wool stuff. So I stopped vacuuming after I emptied the third bin.

 

[luxlife]

If you ever get the chance.......

to use a Twin CRB machine (Twin Counter Rotating Brush), you'd be amazed at what any vacuum misses. Not long ago, I had access to a Host Freestyle machine which has a 120 CFM vacuum in addition to the twin CRB brushes. Carpet cleaning services who don't necessarily believe in the "dry clean" method still use these machine before vacuuming because these brushes really get into the fibers and remove dirt and grit. They allow a wet extractor to do a better job. I was appalled at what came out just from dry brushing! I also used the machine with Whittaker Crystal Dry because I always wanted to try an encapsulation cleaner. I could literally watch the dirt and stains come out of the carpet when I vacuumed it up.

 

[pr-21]

A friend of mines mom had wool carpet that lasted for years, the only reason it was replaced is they wanted a change. Anyway she always vacuumed with a Eureka model 260, Twin Power Automatic Upright. At the time it had two rows of brushes but no beater bar, that was later replaced with a wood brush roll with beater bars. Never did hurt her carpet.


PR-21
Bud

 

[sebo_fan]

Not all wool carpet is the same though; some have thin top soil wool that comes off little by little or huge great big balls of wool that you could probably make a wig out of!

The problem with mine is that it produces small amounts of wool when a delicate brush bar is used on it in terms of digging deeper into the carpet. This is effectively why I bought a SEBO SM2 / equivalent G1 upright with manual height adjustment. Everything I can see is picked up at setting 3 or 4; same with my SEBO Felix.

The X1 sensor is also good as it cleans gently as opposed to thorough and deep down., or will go threadbare the moment an aggressive brush roll is used. Note I haven't even mentioned beater bars. Beater bars in my experience aren't half as damaging as a stiff tufted bristle bar.

Turbo brushes are also less damaging, so they can also be used on my carpets.