Thread Number: 27895
/ Tag: Brand New Vacuum Cleaners
Powerful deep cleaner or carpet destoryer? |
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Post# 311603   1/11/2015 at 13:02 (3,364 days old) by stricklybojack (Southern California)   |   | |
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I have noticed new vacuums fill with fluff fast. Is this the vacuum's cleaning ability or just an abrasive, overly aggressive brush roll? The rather incredibly short brushes on The Shark Navigator i recently traded got me to thinking on this point again. I wonder if high power and stiff nylon bristles have a lot to do with the apparent "performance" of today's modern vacuum?
This pic actually doesn't illustrate my point, that roll is choked with hair not carpet fibers. i just found it and thought it, ahem, eye catching.
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Post# 311604 , Reply# 1   1/11/2015 at 13:08 (3,364 days old) by bagintheback (Flagstaff, Arizona)   |   | |
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I would think the brushroll is more to blame. I've noticed vacuums with stiffer bristles tend to have a greater problem with pet hair collecting around it. The style and pattern seems to play a roll as well. As great as chevron brushrolls are, I have to clean my Aerus Electrolux brushroll much more often than say my upright Hoovers. Vacuums with beater bars rarely collect pet hair in that area. I would deem the bristles guilty. |
Post# 311623 , Reply# 2   1/11/2015 at 15:58 (3,364 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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My Vax Mach Air has a soft brush roll, yet it picks up a lot more than a lot of other bagless vacs. I don't think it is the brush roll to blame entirely but rather the shape and whatever may be on the sole plate that contributes to agitation. I note no difference where threads or pet hair is concerned - with both chevron style bristles verses conventional rolls, pet hair/threads still get wrapped around and require to be cut and cleaned off.
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Post# 311632 , Reply# 3   1/11/2015 at 16:30 (3,364 days old) by stricklybojack (Southern California)   |   | |
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good points about hair, but what about damaging good carpet with an overly aggressive brush roll and then thinking your vacuum is great cuz, "see look at all this stuff it pulled up"...but the stuff is actually your carpet being thinned by unnecessarily rough agitation and/or overly abrasive/stiff brush roll?
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Post# 311641 , Reply# 4   1/11/2015 at 17:03 (3,364 days old) by AlexHoovers94 (Manchester UK)   |   | |
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I have noticed that American Vacuums tend to have very stiff dense bristles that are very VERY aggressive, Vacuums in the UK tend to be Gentle on Carpets, although some of the old Hoover and Electrolux cleaners had stiff bristles.
However Kirby's have dense, soft bristles and they stiff provide a great deep clean. |
Post# 311663 , Reply# 5   1/11/2015 at 19:36 (3,364 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)   |   | |
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What happened to choice of brush rollers? How about all beater bars only rollers or rubber blade rollers without bristles for delicate rugs? |
Post# 311832 , Reply# 7   1/13/2015 at 11:14 (3,362 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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