worst vacuums?

[danemodsandy]

Stephen:

Why does your mom prefer plastic Walmart vacs to the Kirby?

It seems to be a housewife thing - many prize lightness in appliances. My own mother decided Walmart stick vacs were preferable to her Compact C-2. The fact that none of the stick vacs (there was a procession of them, about one a year) could do any above-the-floor cleaning whatsoever did not faze her in the least. She loved being able to whip eighteen ounces of cheap plastic out and wave it around and tell herself that she'd "vacuumed" - masses of fuzzy gray evidence to the contrary.

But what the hey - they were LIGHT. And that was what mattered to her. Jeez.

 

[tolivac]

Well-what happens to a vacuum left for the garbage collector??It only gets crushed in the trash truck-so--it smashed anyway.Picking up water with the Dyson--Bad idea-do this too much and the water gets into the motor-you have a shock hazard.and throwing vacuums down the stairs is bad,too,abuse.Vacuum lover-collectors don't pick up water in vacuums not designed for it and don't throw their vacuums down the stairs.Go to the website "Classic Refuse Trucks" and they have videos of vacuums being smashed in trash trucks.

 

[sebo_fan]

And the worst vac I've ever tried is...

The Bissell Easy Vac - far from easy. Difficult to remove filter tray, difficult to push across carpet unless the squeegee strip is removed and the hose pulls the vacuum over and the last time the handle hit me in the back of my head, I truly had enough.

 

[gsheen]

Not wanting to get dragged into what seems to be a mighty mess, one of the things I do is a consultant engineer to a vacuum company here in SA and I must say the worst part of that job is purposely damaging a good machine, I hate it, We have to take a brand new vacuum and drive it into walls, drop them ,over load the motors. It kills me every time we destroy a vacuum

 

[Jakesvacs]

A mighty mess it was!

We all got onto each others nerves over something silly, i would like to appologise to everyone who got upset in that argument. Hope we can all get back to collecting!

Anyway I agree; I would feel absolutly gutted pushing good vacuums into walls and testing them to their capabilities.

 

[sebo_fan]

gsheen - what a waste of money!

In the UK, companies often put the machines back on the market and tag the badge "refurbished" on them. Good way to recycle and make money.

 

[gsheen]

We recycle the machines when we are done with them, Its by no means a wast of money , we have found horrendous faults with vacuums that would have caused major problems if the vacuum had hit the market. In SA our conditions are allot harsher than in EU country's.

I could never with a clear conscious sell a machine we had nearly destroyed as a rebuilt vacuum that would not be right at all.

 

[sebo_fan]

Ah - that's good to know. You didn't say that initially.

 

[crazykirbydude]

I have smashed a Eureka Maxima. Good riddance. I'm Parwaz's age, too

 

[mike811]

This is easy.
I was visiting my sister and she gave me her vacuum to be serviced. That nightmare of vacuum was Volta/Zanussi ErgoEasy bagless canister.
Now to the problem. Horrible cyclone design. It was clogged very badly when I got it.
I cleaned the whole vacuum and filters.
Bin is in two part. Another part is cyclone chamber (pleated "hepa" filter in it). Second chamber is where the dust should be collected.
Cyclone system is designed to work the way that dust is separated in cyclone chamber and then it should enter the another chamber. Problem is that separation doesn't work. Almost all the dust just get wrapped around the pleated filter and it clogs the vacuum. To make it worse dirt can't enter the bin because it must first go through the cyclone part. Which gets clogged in a few minutes.

Overall vacuum is poorly made, hose and cord is very short and it's extremely noisy. That high pitched scream is pain to listen. No sound insulation what so ever.

So I saved the motor and I threw away rest of the vacuum.

As a return I gave my old bagged Volta to my sister and she has been very thankful about that. She said that it's the best vacuum she ever had.