Vacuum Cleaners
 

I need to buy a new vacuum cleaner for my apartment. It's not going to live as tormented of a life as my high school shopvac lived, but I'm still going to need it to be able to suck up everything from popcorn seeds to my pubic trimmings.

I'm sure Joe Perez is going to chime in with some Star Trek-inspired hover cleaner that he made in his garage with prison-tech tools but I'm just looking for something basic that I won't have to clean out every week.

What do you have? How do you feel about it?

Kenmore progressive intelliclean bag. I hate bagless vacs personally, I'd rather change a cheap bag every few than get the face full of dust emptying the canister. Heavy cleaner that has it's own motor for the brush that shuts off automatically when you lock it upright. 3 speed suck motor that you can control manually or automatically with the intelliclean button. Has sensors that tell you when your shit's clean. Works insanely well on animal hair.

I had to reengineer the limit switch that turns off the brush motor but that was assembly error in chingdong and realtively simple to fix.

funny, i was going to say get a bagless...
what's even funnier - i have a vacuum that requires a bag.
mine's an oreck

I've got a Dyson and like it so far. It's got great suction, easy to clean, washable filters, the little ball thing it rolls around on that holds the motor is actually really handy for corners, sucks dog hair up well, and after joking around with it sucking on cheeks I'm terrified to put my dick in it. Still miss the old Kirby's. Those things will suck the nails out of the walls.

I wanted to buy an oreck; we have one at work and Paul had one when he was my roommate, worked well enough and is lightweight. Seems like a piece that's "built like they used to be", i.e. no redoing internal electronics. But consumer reports never rates them high unlike my kenmore-bitch. The inlaws have a Dyson; I hate that spokes person so I'll never own one. Their impellers do look like plastic turbo compressors however.

i got my oreck from my dad for free...so it's ok if the ratings aren't as high.

dyson. so fucking win.

i can prove it too.

please datalog your next vacuum session and post the results

i just have to show before and after of the dust bin.

Went I first got mine to replace my eureka, i vacuumed with the eureka, then dyson. dyson was full afterwards where the eureka had diddly in the bin.

Hahaha.

No, the only vacuum cleaner I own is my big ole' shop-vac: the original bagless vacuum cleaner.

I bought a Miele white pearl for my wife. It uses bags, but has been going strong for well over a dozen (14?) years. One of the first hepa rated vacs, we had to get it because of my wife's alergies.

I did have to repair it once, replacing a bearing. Cost me more to ship it than the bearing itself cost. Very well built.

Kirby Sentria here.
http://www.greatvacs.com/media/kirby...0010.sized.jpg
Probably out of your price range tho

You should see what's on my debit card, I can buy your credit card.

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you are obese and clumsy so you probably spill a lot of food, your advice is weighed heavily

Ok, Hustler

My parents bought a Kirby. My question is why would somebody ever spend almost a grand (I think) on a vacuum cleaner? :facepalm:

Congratulations, you have rich parents that give you money. Get another shop vac.

Man, I could buy whatever the latest rage is but the boring Eureka Bravo from Walmart for $69 has been getting it done with two labs in the house for several years. It is a bagless which my wife loves. Zero dust after emptying.

pockets aint empty cuzz:noob:
The salesman came over and sucked my dick for like 8 hours.
After knocking the price down to 800 with every bell/whistle included we bought it.

Probably don't need half the shit it offers, but it is a damn decent vacuum. And will last for at least 10-15 years minimum. In retrospect it was a shitty purchase though, lol.

I'm with the Dyson crowd, ours works great. The best thing is it's a sealed system. Don't know how they do it, but it only sucks air in from the top of the handle, it doesn't blow it out like other vacuums, blowing dust around. That being said, the main issue with non-sealed systems is non-carpeted floors, when it can easily blow the dust around before it vacuums it up. My girlfriend and I have still found it easier to sweep it into a pile and vacuum it up with the handle, or sweep it into the carpet and pick it up there.

We have a 100lb chocolate lab, and cream colored carpets. We vacuum a lot.

Well that sucks. (Vacuum joke)

epic datalogs:


started with an empty bin.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1314634309


started with my living room carpet 5x7'
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1314634309


what it collected after 1 week since last vacuuming.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1314634309


after second 5x7' carpet
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1314634309



lots of cat hair.

LOL, my two dogs would fill that if my wife went a week between vacuuming. I don't know how they have any hair left on them at all. It's like I could build a dog with the offcasts in a month.

you should see what accumulates under my dresser.

Filter Queen. We've had one for over 20 years now, and minus a yearly belt on the head and a few replacement hoses, its worked GREAT. Its typically run daily.

Dyson for me but honestly my next will probably be a Kirby. The Kriby sale guy camped out at our house for nearly 5 hours and cleaned the crap out of the house. The back to back tests he did between the Dyson and their's made me want to throw the Dyson in the dumpster. He had me go over the same spot 20 times with the Dyson and then he hit the same spot with the Kirby and it pulled up more dirt than the Dyson did in 20 passes. Plus it can steam clean. Only problem was the d@mn price started off at ~$1500... I quickly showed them to the door.

dyson + BBB 20% off coupon = bang for buck.

We have a love/hate relationship with our two carpet cleaners.

Vacuum:

We replaced our crappy Bissell CleanView Helix that was constantly clogging one of it's 4 filters with what we thought was a better option...a yellow industrial Eureka Sanitaire that looks like something hotel maids use. It sucks. It won't suck up confetti, much less dirt. It literally just flings shit at your feet.

I'd rather still have the old bagless that I had to maintain every time it saw carpet than this shit that cost twice as much($150) and literally does not work.

Our next one will be a Dyson Powerball.


Steamer:

Bissell 9500 Proheat 2X CleanShot Upright Deep Cleaner

. (period)

I now consider this a must-own for anyone with carpet. If you do one room/area a month you basically cover the whole house twice a year which is about right for medium traffic.

You will be amazed at what comes out of your carpet.

Easy to use, works great...gets you blow jobs from the wife.

There is a marked difference in the way the carpet and the whole room "look" before and after.

We feel much better watching our daughter play on the carpet knowing we actually steam clean it occasionally. We were literally ready to just replace the whole carpet in our <5yr old house when we bought and used this.

My wife was so impressed I got Tein suspension for the Miata the following month.

This shit just plain works.

I am getting a new apartment with all parquet (i know.)

for the small throw carpets, is a decent priced vaccum really worth it?



i have already answered this in my head, but answer anyways.

The Dyson gets my vote. It is almost worth the money. I always bought cheap $40 vacs from Walmart and they never really worked great - I just thought most vacs were shitty. My girlfriend hounded me for months to get a new vacuum.

Then, one night as I was pulling up to my house, I noticed something tall and yellow standing on the curb. It was a Dyson, and the lesbians across the street were throwing it away. My gf texted them to ask what was wrong with it - they said it had a "hole in the hose AND it had lost suction". I betted (correctly) that the loss of suction was due to the massive fucking hole in the hose. Duct tape = free Dyson.

win!

If they had a man around maybe they wouldn't have thrown out a perfectly good vacuum cleaner.

Also, who know vacuum had 2 u's?

Another Dysoner here. It really does get a lot of shit up. Works great on carpet and hardwoods (I regularly vacuum both). The handle is win at cleaning baseboards, behind shit and under shit.

Anyone that finished pre-school?

We have a $400 Dyson and a $40 Dirt Devil. I like the Dyson and it works great, but I swear the Dirt Devil does just as good of a job.

The Dyson looks nicer and it's 100x quieter, thus 10x the price. For a baller like you that's nothing to bat an eye at. I think you should get one for each hand actually.

Another vote for the Dyson ball here. I avoided them for a long time because I didn't feel like they were worth the price. But, I got sick of dealing with bags in our old Hoover - talk about a face full of dust - and our current place is two stories. That Hoover was a beast to drag up and down stairs.

We use it on carpet and wood laminate.

The Dyson "feels cheap" in a lot of ways, but that's probably because it is so light weight. Once you use the sphere system, you will love it. Also, the bin emptying process is so simple and easy to do each time you vacuum.

Our little short-haired dog (~35 pound Corgi mix) boggles my mind. In the summer, you can literally watch the hair spray off of him as you pet him but his appearance never changes.

By the weekend, we have little dog hair tumbleweeds blowing around the wood laminate floors. :ugh:

I bought some Dirt Devil thing with a bunch of attachments I'll never use.

It's OK but I accidentally vacuumed up some of my roommate's Risk pieces so he's been a little irked lately:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZWTHcYcc-1...00/Juggalo.jpg

Just get 80's brown carpet. Shits dirty... I can't tell...

Hoover Silent Power. For $140 (and a free Hoover rechargeable portable cleaner), it does the job. The cheapest Dyson we could find was like 3x the price.

My mom always had a Kirby, the things were bulletproof (and heavy). My ex bought a Rainbow back in the '90's (she never told me how much it was), it did a good job but it was a PITA because it used a water-filled canister to collect the dirt and provide the seal for a good vacuum. You can imagine what happens when you put dirt into water.

Myself, I prefer the old style canister vacs that use bags. They suck up things pretty well (currently have a Hoover in the proper shade of maroon). My wife bought some Bissell bagless that was advertised as being for pets (it has some felt type bar at the front to collect hair) but it's almost as much of a PITA to empty out properly as the Rainbow was. And I'm the only one in the house that does that.

From what I've gathered on mt.net, pusha sucks better than any of those other vacuum cleaners.

And no bags to change!

I'm sorry, who are you again?

Dyson Animal at home. Girlfriend has a Kirby Sentria. The Sentria is great all all, but several times the price and much more difficult to use in tight spaces compared to the Dyson. They both do a decent job of vacuuming, but the Sentria does the steamyz.

Just some dude with a miata.

Sweet nunchucks bro.

I have a Miele S2111, it's great for a garage or apartment but doesn't have a power head. It is awesome considering the price. For a big house with lots of carpet I wouldn't recommend it though.

It's funny that they're $20's.

Your GF gives power head though.

fuck yeah a 3 page thread on vacuum cleaners on miataturbo.

dyson.

wait for it to come up on WOOT.com
and just get whatever model they have. because who the fuck cares if it's white or purple or yellow?

it was cheaper to buy the yellow and the get the attachments that come with the animal seperately....

I have an old Dyson I bought used from a vacuum repair shop. Would buy again.

If you want to really freak yourself out, run your Dyson over your bare mattress the next time you change your sheets.

Don't say I didn't warn you... :ugh2:

dude, I just did this. I'm still on edge about sleeping on it again.

for anyone who may be interested, I found a pink Victoria's Secret thong under my bed, it's a small size so it's probably only good for sniffing. hit me up if you want it.

How much for shipping up to 62704 assuming no man love is on them. :rofl::laugh:

I've got one of the Kirbies that came from my grandmother's house - apparently the Kirby salesmen liked to swing by frequently and sell her a new one because she could never remember that she already had a couple in her hall closet. Fuckers. Anyhow, it's the best thing I've ever used (never used a Dyson). Not sure I'd buy one new since they cost about the same as a beater NA, but my free one sucks like a champion Kazakhstani whore.

I've also got a cheapo Panasonic canister vac for the wood floors. My only requirement was that it had to have a retractable cord, and it was the cheapest one at Fry's that did. It sucks up cobwebs, dog hair, crumbs, dog hair, dirt, dust, and dog hair like a pro.

Guys I have "as good as dyson" for cheaper.

Shark Navigator.

Amazon

Amazon

It is fantastic. And purple.

you have a pm and no, there is no male ejaculate on the thong

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Looks like there's only one answer.

Was re-reading this as I'm pondering a good vacuum for Christmas for my wife.