Speakeasy forum: im looking for a bagless vacum

Although I like most of their products, their heppa filter/bagless models are very heavy to move around, and construction regarding lowering and raising the brush is whacked as it doesn't make the connection to work properly. I hate mine......and went back to using my old bagged type Hoover from 15 years ago.

TONI

I have the same problem, Mark The canister is not only so heavy to drag around, it's so heavy getting out of the closet!

Toni is right about the Dirt devil My son bought one, and it was lousy.

Consumer Reports isn't too thrilled with the bagless models because so much dirt flies around when they are emptied.

I had a lightweight upright with attachments called a "Housekeeper" (I forget who made it), and it was awful, so stay away from that one.

I suggest you test the weight of some uprights that have attachments (most do) and find one that is easy for you to handle. Some of them are self-propelled,

Good luck!

Angeline
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I have heard good things about the Oreck vacuums. They are also known for being lightweight.

Here's some of them:
http://www.epinions.com/hmgd-Large_Appliances-All-Vacuum_Cleaners-Bagless-Oreck

--Marcia

P.S. Are you feeling better, Mark?

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They weigh about 8lbs as opposed to the 8 kilos for the Dyson bagless vacuum.

I liked the Dyson, particularly because of the "on-board" tools, but didn't like that it blows air in front - i.e. the air blows the dirt under things.

It put my shoulder out carrying it up the stairs.

The Oreck, by comparison, is lightweight, has excellent filtration (i.e. it doesn't blow more dust out of the back than it collects up!), has a longer ergonomic handle and flex(lead?) and has equal if not better cleaning power. It's just a nuisance that you have to use the "hand-held" alternative vacuum (that they supply) to do edges etc.

You will gather that I am happy with my Oreck, having tried both types, but you can't get it for $70 I'm afraid. Over here, they retail at over 300 (plus you have to buy the bags.

My two cents.

Mark, you really do need to take care of yourself - forget about the muck and put your feet up.

Regards
Mo

I whizz over my computer air vents and keyboard with a mini-vac - one of those little things that started out as a car vacuum? (About 15 inches long x 4" that run off a charger.)

Thinking about cat hairs, I wonder whether one of those rubber brushes might help, rather than a vacuum. You know, those sweeping brushes which have rubber prongs rather than bristles. These pull up the hair quite happily, so you can then use your existing vacuum without fear of it getting clogged up.

Just a thought.

Regards
Mo

that maybe you shouldn't worry too much. I know you have moved recently, so perhaps not everything is in its rightful place. When you get time, perhaps you can put ornaments onto upper shelves and also hang photos in frames onto the wall so that it helps keep the surfaces clear (for easier dusting).

To my mind, it isn't a case of solving the problem, it's more a case of working out what problem it is that you are trying to solve, and getting that down to a minimum. I've lived with this in a big way as my son had very bad asthma so I had to try to keep the place dust-free. An impossible task, so I can only pack away the unnecessary bits and bobs and take it from there.

We have an expression in the UK, that almost every practical problem will be solved by "A quick rub over with a damp cloth" dating back to the thirties. There is method in the madness, in that it's far better than chemical aerosol polishes.

OTOH my friend once told me that if he didn't dust today, or tomorrow, he would not notice the difference on the following day. By the converse, if he DID dust today, it would drive him dotty because it would all be back again no more than 3 hours later. Wisdom comes in all shapes and forms...

Regards
Mo

swiffer dry dusting cloths to a lightweight stick vac!

Really, they had your problem in mind when designing this machine. Accepts other brands of dry dusting cloths.

See the Sanyo website for detailed info and ordering information if interested.

I posted a mini-review elsewhere in this thread with Rotosweep in the subject header again

no evie its a permanant thing as my back is lets say going south
i need to do the wall to wall plus high.

was gonna go out to sears today but weathers real bad flooding every ware i was with out eletric 5 hrs allready.

had a couple of surguries on the same L5S1 disk. Your problem is probably totally different and maybe worse than mine, but there may be hope.

From my experience: it takes years to see the full benefit from a surgical experience. Of course, back sufferers do well to avoid surgury if at all possible.

A chief reason to avoid surgury and its risks, is the tendency for scar tissue formation at the site of the work. Can create pain pressure of its own.

Today is not 12 years ago, when i last had a disk job done. Risks today are less, and general surgical techniques further improved over the "laproscopic" method my guy, a neurosurgeon was using thing.

If your back pain is inoperable, and owes to dengenerative changes in the spine at localized points- good cheer and good tidings to you! Seriously, the degeneative process is not all bad. It brings GOOD effects, too! I know because I asked my neurosurgeon friend a few years back:

"It's been nine years since you last cut me. I had a hard time with pain for five year out from the surgury. But in the latter years chronic pain is steadily absenting itself. And for this past year or two I'm feeling good so long as i don't sleep on my back or try to stand more than fifteen minutes at a time. WHY am I still improving?"

ans: you're not. the bone at the surgical site is undergoing natural, degenerative changes. Those two vertibrae in question aren't shifting about so freely as years ago. Arthritic changes in the bone-on-bone contact are locking them up and so you don't get nerve root pressure so often or easily as five years ago.

You know what- that makes sense! In fact, my back never "goes out" anymore. And it doesn't hurt me so long as I work within my limits of time standing, time sitting, and reasonable weightlifting is permissible.

Downside though: i may be one of the few folks here who sleeps in a swivel chair! Worth it to wake up flexible instead of doubling over with the cramping pain so many of you must live with.

My friend added to his advisment this factoid: Many of his elderly patients develop debilitating back pain so severe they beg, and even surgeon-shop to find a doctor willing to operate. Many, many causes of back pain are hidden, invisible to diagnostic scans. In these cases of genuine pain, but no clear-cut cause a surgeon will decline to operate. In -most- of these phantom pain geriatric cases the trouble resolves itself in a span of time without medication, surgury or even exercise. The natural cure is our secret friend, osteo degeneration! What shifts subtly today, causing excruciating pain will some day stop moving (if the disk be worn away entire). Without realizing it, the elderly sufferer cures himself and everybody wins but the surgeon's tax accountant, grin.

So I hope you can expect a cure man's way or natures way. Either one takes a lonnnnnng time!

well as i have 100 bucks ill have to look around im gonna go to FRYS tommorow if its not pouring will look and see

At Fry's the Hoover U5167 or Panasonic Mc-V5481 both right at $99.99 may be what your are looking for. Check the last URL.
Then again there is the 'Refurbished' Eureka R5857A at $89.00.

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I've seen houses that had a master closet with the vacuum equipment and hose ducts to each room. You just plug in the suction hose to a quick connect in each room. No lugging around of a heavy vac.