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Thread Number: 30692
/ Tag: Brand New Vacuum Cleaners
My Vax / TTI nightmare and now ruined carpet |
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| Post# 339680 , Reply# 3 12/20/2015 at 14:06 (3,043 days old) by kirbymodel2c (Nottingham, England) | ||
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| Post# 339690 , Reply# 8 12/20/2015 at 15:10 (3,043 days old) by matt8808 (Teesside - North East - UK) | ||
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I should probably add..... that Vax have also refunded the money I spent buying the machine in the first place as well | ||
| Post# 339735 , Reply# 9 12/21/2015 at 10:09 (3,042 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 339745 , Reply# 10 12/21/2015 at 12:44 (3,042 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 339748 , Reply# 11 12/21/2015 at 13:12 (3,042 days old) by matt8808 (Teesside - North East - UK) | ||
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Carpet company have been today to measure properly. It's ordered. We're going tartan LOL Comes to £700 exactly without the underlay. The guy took a look at our current underlay today and agreed it was pointless replacing it. Gets fitted on 6th January :) I'll be glad once it is fitted and I can forget the whole saga! | ||
| Post# 339765 , Reply# 12 12/21/2015 at 19:35 (3,042 days old) by henrydreyfuss (Ohio) | ||
Great investigative work | ||
| Post# 339793 , Reply# 13 12/22/2015 at 04:52 (3,041 days old) by citroenbx (england) | ||
vax are not like they were back in the day
byebye good vax vacuums
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| Post# 339794 , Reply# 14 12/22/2015 at 04:56 (3,041 days old) by matt8808 (Teesside - North East - UK) | ||
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I suppose if the machine was at fault they have a level of responsibility to rectify the damage caused. And Citroen....how can you call those machines 'good'? They had poor filtration and gave a poor wash performance due to the lack of a powered water pump! | ||
| Post# 339809 , Reply# 16 12/22/2015 at 11:22 (3,041 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere) | ||
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Why not get a new Rainbow E3 Onyx? The AquaMate will do MUCH better than a carpet steam vac ever could | ||
| Post# 339850 , Reply# 18 12/23/2015 at 04:35 (3,040 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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I like my new Vax tub. Yeah it is noisier and it takes a bit more effort to wash carpets with..
But, the more important factor I've realised is that I am no longer wearing out my carpet. Carpet textures are not always the same; yet whilst they may require a moving brush roll to remove dirt when DRY, in my experience aggressive brush rolls can cause more damage to carpet when WET. I know from experience that my old Bissell upright used to rip out a lot of wool when it was used to wash my carpets. I can't afford to keep replacing carpet for the sake of keeping it clean. Ive returned to using suction only wash heads, and at times where it requires, the Vax Spinascrub brush floor head. It does a good job and it alleviates the pushing when using the standard floor head. | ||
| Post# 339854 , Reply# 19 12/23/2015 at 06:13 (3,040 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 339856 , Reply# 20 12/23/2015 at 09:30 (3,040 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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Post# 339898 , Reply# 22 12/24/2015 at 01:45 (3,039 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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Fishtail nozzles were meant for spot treatment, cleaning-not doing a whole floor.Oh my aching back if I tried to use the one on my Rainbow for a complete room.The powered carpet cleaner tools are best! | ||
| Post# 340180 , Reply# 24 12/29/2015 at 19:47 (3,034 days old) by delaneymeegan (Mary Richards lived here) | ||
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| Post# 340800 , Reply# 26 1/6/2016 at 14:45 (3,026 days old) by Matt8808 (Teesside - North East - UK) | ||
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New carpet got fitted today... Very pleased with it :)
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| Post# 340805 , Reply# 27 1/6/2016 at 15:48 (3,026 days old) by Marks_here (_._) | ||
OMG  | ||
| Post# 340808 , Reply# 28 1/6/2016 at 16:45 (3,026 days old) by oliveoiltinfoil (England, UK) | ||
Very well done to you chap. I do not like Vax products, have never got on with them. Since TTI took them over, they produce cheaply made crap quite honestly. I did not see for example the hype about the air cordless. I had one for a couple of days but took it back and order my dyson dc59 at the time. I know its about twice the price but it is more than twice the machine.
Vax carpet washers are possibly the worst. I have a thing about keeping my carpets washed and cleaned. We have had several carpet washers over the years and they all have not been powerful enough. Water extraction, as you say, is the main problem. If you are ever interested in a machine which genuinely scrubs carpets back to brand new, which extracts nearly as much water as it puts down, get the bissell big green. Amazon sometimes have them at around £350. They usually retail for around £450 but they are damn worth it. They are commercial grade. They have a huge rotating brush and an extraction nozzle which is spring loaded to make maximum contact with the floor. They are fantastic. Increasably well built and are much better than the rug doctors as well. | ||
| Post# 340826 , Reply# 29 1/6/2016 at 20:44 (3,026 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere) | ||
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Do U have the Rinsenvac there in the UK? They are/were great machines; especially the RV-85 with PB-850 Power Brush | ||
| Post# 340973 , Reply# 30 1/9/2016 at 04:47 (3,023 days old) by Madaboutsebo (Midlands, UK) | ||
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| Post# 341023 , Reply# 31 1/9/2016 at 20:15 (3,023 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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