Thread Number: 32520
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
When Do Commercial Businesses Change Their Vacuum Cleaners? |
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Post# 356892   7/30/2016 at 22:08 (2,797 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Does anyone here actually remember when businesses like schools, libraries and doctors' offices and the like change their vacuum cleaners, trading in their old ones so they have a few bucks off of the cost of the replacement cleaners?
Do they do this kind of replacement schedule approximately every 10 years? Depending on the quality of the machines they buy, some of these may last for 15-20 years, especially the Royal metal uprights. ~Ben |
Post# 356894 , Reply# 1   7/30/2016 at 23:38 (2,797 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Public institutions like schools, colleges, and government agencies may not have the opportunity to trade their vacuums like consumers and other businesses do. The state agencies, colleges, and universities that I've worked for send their old equipment--including vacuum cleaners--to the surplus warehouse where they are stored for a period of time so others within the agency can claim them for free (for agency use, not personal) and then the warehouse periodically has a surplus property auction to get rid of stuff that is no longer needed.
Some equipment, like computers, have a set replacement schedule. The college where I teach replaces 25 percent of its installed base of computers every year so that no computer on campus is more than four years old, although some do occasionally fall through the cracks. For equipment like vacuum cleaners, that don't go obsolete as quickly, they probably just continue to use it until it's totally worn out. |
Post# 356901 , Reply# 3   7/31/2016 at 08:15 (2,797 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan)   |   | |
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companies use an outside cleaning service, and those people like lightweight machines. They may buy cheap ones, and just replace them. |
Post# 356959 , Reply# 5   8/1/2016 at 07:22 (2,796 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan)   |   | |
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brand commercial shop vac then. |
Post# 358215 , Reply# 6   8/25/2016 at 11:40 (2,772 days old) by sanitaire (anchorage, alaska)   |   | |
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I work for a school district as the janitor...vacuums and equipment do get surplused and put up for auction but after they are beat too nothing.....I got a nss m1 pig from a old supervisor.... |
Post# 358246 , Reply# 7   8/26/2016 at 09:51 (2,771 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)   |   | |
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Sadly 90 percent of business around here are now ordering bagless from Sam's club in bulk including the company I work for. They used to order from me but they said it's cheaper to replace every year with a new fresh vacuum. The company I work for is so cheap now that they won't even order bulk. They order one Bissell per facility until it dies..... Actually they never die. Stupid people don't change belt or clean filter thus landing the vacuum in the trash. well good for them.
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Post# 358254 , Reply# 8   8/26/2016 at 15:53 (2,770 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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And, because vacuums are not enough value to depreciate on a schedule, I doubt that they get put on a set schedule to reorder. Like Phillip said, I bet most of these government and private institutions are now buying plasti-vacs and beating them to death. There was a time when organizations would use their local vacuum dealers to order real commercial machines made for heavy duty use, but with the advent of outside contractors and non-existent budgets, I bet a lot of that business has dried up for local vacuum dealers. |
Post# 358257 , Reply# 9   8/26/2016 at 16:36 (2,770 days old) by Vinvac (Dubuque IA)   |   | |
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When I worked for the school district we used Royal Commercial Machines. My daily driver was over 10 years old. We had one tool set for every building. In the summer we started in the elementary and worked our way to the high school. We replaced brush rolls every other year, just changed the settings from 1-4.
When they decided to buy new (they built a new building) they went with Hoover Conquest machines. They were lucky to last the year. The old Royals were still going strong. I often wonder what eventually happened to those machines. I know where the Hoovers went... The last time I visited they were using Sebo Commercial machines with onboard tools. I asked the head custodian and he said they have had really good luck with them. He liked the paper bags, he said that the custodians tend to replace them and not complain about the shakeout bags and dirt cups on the Hoovers. They were also much quieter. He indicated they were going to buy a commercial Sainitaire Canister for bigger jobs like cleaning air ducts and bare floor areas in some of the classrooms. |