My Simplicity Verve is back!!

Less than 3 weeks ago I sent my Simplicity Verve off to Tom Gasko at Tacony owned Vacuum Cleaner Museum. It didn't take Tom and the Tacony team long at all to get it fixed. It was the 2 Fedex trips that were about 6- 8 days each way with the weekends included.

It needed a thorough go over that I didn't have experience of checking as I've never serviced Riccar/ Simplicity units before. The issue was that it was opened up at some point by someone else inexperienced and some of the gaskets got ruined. I tried to mimic faulty repairs done by someone else not realizing at the time those repairs were faulty!! So I decided to look into various repair venues.

Tom being a generous gentleman did a complete servicing of the system and shipped it back to me at no charge!! The only thing I paid was the Fedex trip from me to the factory.

The machine arrived back to me on Tuesday. I used it on my bedroom. It was a quiet, and very powerful machine.

As my doctors office has been treating me the past 2 weeks for symptoms of liquid in the ears, dizziness, mis-coordination and Vertigo I have been doing very limited activities and limited noise exposure. I go many days of having the apartment in complete silence as there are times I can't even bear the music on my computer playing at low volume. I went 10 days straight of not driving my vehicle at all. I am thankful to have made some new friends at the college I'm attending that drove me to classes during the final week of the semester this past week. I am hoping that my condition greatly improves for when the next semester starts up on March 15.

That being said I can currently do only short bits of vacuuming with a machine for short periods of time, even with a machine as quiet as the Verve. The airflow is EXTREMELY powerful on high speed. The height adjustments on the power nozzle are wonderful. From past experience of these nozzles, I find they can get closer to a rug than Kenmore nozzles and many Hoover power nozzles as the Hoovers are automatic height adjustments. The Verve also has the ability to rise above for those rugs that are more of a yarn like texture. This nozzle is able to handle a wide variety of carpets that a Sebo ET-1 despite trying various suction and height settings was shutting off or just completely unable to manuever over.

I don't know the exact color but it matches the former 1996 Chrysler Concorde that I had years ago and that was called Candy Apple Red. Simply a gorgeous red. I wouldn't mind if my current Subaru Forester was closer in shade to the Simplicity.

If you've never tried a Simplicity or Riccar, then I highly recommend it!! It's a shame they are currently not offered in the UK, but perhaps in time that too will change!

Here are nice features of the unit:
-- Lifetime Serpentine Belt
-- large capacity-- pack like a brick, HEPA cloth bag
-- 360 easy swivel hose. This is one that really swivels with the user rather than the user having to help the hose swivel which I've had to do on some Eurekas and Panasonic Jet Flo machines
-- 5 Speed settings!! Most cleaning can be accomplished on setting 3, Setting 5 could practically take dried paint off a wall!!
-- Tom mentioned 105" water lift!!
-- brilliant headlight
-- comfortable handles on the suction unit and hose handle for user
-- No cords to mess with on the hose or wands or power nozzle!!!!! Everything is incorporated into instant connections!!! LOVE THIS!!!
-- HEPA post exhaust!!! This is awesome because it captures carbon brush emissions from the motor. It's also a sealed system
-- Protection sensor for power nozzle-- this is good because with my coordination lossage, I caught a sock in the vacuum on Tuesday and the sensor shut it down!
-- Metal vacuum base plate
-- Rubberized wheels
-- Large wheels on Power nozzle wheels and handle release pedal positioned to allow nozzle to tilt back and wheel it around the house on the wheels. Being a power nozzle canister user, I love this feature and glad Tacony thought to make a nozzle with that capability. There are so few on the market with that ability!! This is a feature that the Hoover Quadraflex and Celebrity nozzles had but not the PowerMax or Windtunnel models. You can kind of do this with a Eureka Express nozzle but not as easily and wire will interfere. All Panasonic/ Kenmore power nozzles make this very difficult to do because of the position of their handle release which is directly below the elbow. Filter Queen nozzles won't do this well as the current version has very small wheels. Can't do this with a kirby either, you'd have to slip it into neutral, lift the height all the way up, lock the handle button and the weight of the machine and non rubberized wheels would fight the user the entire way!
-- Long hose
-- Long cord that is of good texture that doesn't fight the cord winder like the very stiff cord found on my Hoover PowerMax canisters. I do love the Hoover PowerMax series still but there are many things Hoover could have done to make them better and currently Hoover does not offer a decent canister vacuum that I would buy!! Very sad!
-- Brush roll on/off at fingertips. It's a large button and easy access to users thumb. You don't have to look down at the hose to figure out which which button it is on the Verve!! Great thing cause on some other vacuums a thumb can be faster than a sensor when running over the wrong object!

Here is the Verve!!

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Post# 346924 3/10/2016 at 02:30 (2,963 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)
Checkrate/Likes 1 Less than 3 weeks ago I sent my Simplicity Verve off to Tom Gasko at Tacony owned Vacuum Cleaner Museum. It didn't take Tom and the Tacony team long at all to get it fixed. It was the 2 Fedex trips that were about 6- 8 days each way with the weekends included. It needed a thorough go over that I didn't have experience of checking as I've never serviced Riccar/ Simplicity units before. The issue was that it was opened up at some point by someone else inexperienced and some of the gaskets got ruined. I tried to mimic faulty repairs done by someone else not realizing at the time those repairs were faulty!! So I decided to look into various repair venues. Tom being a generous gentleman did a complete servicing of the system and shipped it back to me at no charge!! The only thing I paid was the Fedex trip from me to the factory. The machine arrived back to me on Tuesday. I used it on my bedroom. It was a quiet, and very powerful machine. As my doctors office has been treating me the past 2 weeks for symptoms of liquid in the ears, dizziness, mis-coordination and Vertigo I have been doing very limited activities and limited noise exposure. I go many days of having the apartment in complete silence as there are times I can't even bear the music on my computer playing at low volume. I went 10 days straight of not driving my vehicle at all. I am thankful to have made some new friends at the college I'm attending that drove me to classes during the final week of the semester this past week. I am hoping that my condition greatly improves for when the next semester starts up on March 15. That being said I can currently do only short bits of vacuuming with a machine for short periods of time, even with a machine as quiet as the Verve. The airflow is EXTREMELY powerful on high speed. The height adjustments on the power nozzle are wonderful. From past experience of these nozzles, I find they can get closer to a rug than Kenmore nozzles and many Hoover power nozzles as the Hoovers are automatic height adjustments. The Verve also has the ability to rise above for those rugs that are more of a yarn like texture. This nozzle is able to handle a wide variety of carpets that a Sebo ET-1 despite trying various suction and height settings was shutting off or just completely unable to manuever over. I don't know the exact color but it matches the former 1996 Chrysler Concorde that I had years ago and that was called Candy Apple Red. Simply a gorgeous red. I wouldn't mind if my current Subaru Forester was closer in shade to the Simplicity. If you've never tried a Simplicity or Riccar, then I highly recommend it!! It's a shame they are currently not offered in the UK, but perhaps in time that too will change! Here are nice features of the unit: -- Lifetime Serpentine Belt -- large capacity-- pack like a brick, HEPA cloth bag -- 360 easy swivel hose. This is one that really swivels with the user rather than the user having to help the hose swivel which I've had to do on some Eurekas and Panasonic Jet Flo machines -- 5 Speed settings!! Most cleaning can be accomplished on setting 3, Setting 5 could practically take dried paint off a wall!! -- Tom mentioned 105" water lift!! -- brilliant headlight -- comfortable handles on the suction unit and hose handle for user -- No cords to mess with on the hose or wands or power nozzle!!!!! Everything is incorporated into instant connections!!! LOVE THIS!!! -- HEPA post exhaust!!! This is awesome because it captures carbon brush emissions from the motor. It's also a sealed system -- Protection sensor for power nozzle-- this is good because with my coordination lossage, I caught a sock in the vacuum on Tuesday and the sensor shut it down! -- Metal vacuum base plate -- Rubberized wheels -- Large wheels on Power nozzle wheels and handle release pedal positioned to allow nozzle to tilt back and wheel it around the house on the wheels. Being a power nozzle canister user, I love this feature and glad Tacony thought to make a nozzle with that capability. There are so few on the market with that ability!! This is a feature that the Hoover Quadraflex and Celebrity nozzles had but not the PowerMax or Windtunnel models. You can kind of do this with a Eureka Express nozzle but not as easily and wire will interfere. All Panasonic/ Kenmore power nozzles make this very difficult to do because of the position of their handle release which is directly below the elbow. Filter Queen nozzles won't do this well as the current version has very small wheels. Can't do this with a kirby either, you'd have to slip it into neutral, lift the height all the way up, lock the handle button and the weight of the machine and non rubberized wheels would fight the user the entire way! -- Long hose -- Long cord that is of good texture that doesn't fight the cord winder like the very stiff cord found on my Hoover PowerMax canisters. I do love the Hoover PowerMax series still but there are many things Hoover could have done to make them better and currently Hoover does not offer a decent canister vacuum that I would buy!! Very sad! -- Brush roll on/off at fingertips. It's a large button and easy access to users thumb. You don't have to look down at the hose to figure out which which button it is on the Verve!! Great thing cause on some other vacuums a thumb can be faster than a sensor when running over the wrong object! Here is the Verve!! View Full Size

Post# 346942 , Reply# 1 3/10/2016 at 07:41 (2,963 days old) by Miskini (Northville, Michigan )
Checkrate/Likes *Nice piece* I love my Tacony vacuums too. I purchased a prima off tom last year. Taconys canisters will out clean 99% of all uprights out there, including my kirbys. I've always been a upright guy, but the prima has swayed me to canisters. Enjoy that verve

Post# 346944 , Reply# 2 3/10/2016 at 07:45 (2,963 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *Verve;* It's vervatious!

Post# 346955 , Reply# 3 3/10/2016 at 10:06 (2,962 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)
Checkrate/Likes 1 Lovely machine! Good luck with your health.

Post# 346961 , Reply# 4 3/10/2016 at 11:08 (2,962 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)
Checkrate/Likes 5 I'm very happy that you like your Verve. It was an honor and a pleasure to make it work properly again. If I can ever help you in any way, please don't hesitate to ask. Vacuum collectors should strive to help each other whenever we have the ability to do so. I've been very blessed to be helped by other collectors and I try to pay it forward when I can. Hoping you get to feeling 100% again very soon.