I need to buy a Vaccuum cleaner. WTF should I buy? What's the sweet point between quality & price?
As long as it doesn't suck.
What do you need it for? Carpets or bare floors?
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 02, 2011, 01:16:57 PM
I need to buy a Vaccuum cleaner. WTF should I buy? What's the sweet point between quality & price?
Dyson Ball
Quote from: DGuller on October 02, 2011, 02:12:30 PM
What do you need it for? Carpets or bare floors?
Bare floors. Fuck Carpets.
I'd go with bagless Dyson small canister one. I have one, and it's good for what it does.
A housekeeper.
Quote from: 11B4V on October 02, 2011, 02:56:31 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 02, 2011, 01:16:57 PM
I need to buy a Vaccuum cleaner. WTF should I buy? What's the sweet point between quality & price?
Dyson Ball
Dyson sphere is cooler.
Find an old used one from the 1960s or 70s like I did (we 'borrowed' one from my mother-in-law and 'keep forgetting' to return it). ALL modern vacuum cleaners are shit, probably due to some hippie regulation or another.
Get a god damn broom and mop GF.
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 02, 2011, 03:19:34 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 02, 2011, 02:12:30 PM
What do you need it for? Carpets or bare floors?
Bare floors. Fuck Carpets.
I that case go out and get tou a 6 hp craftsman shop vac.
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Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 02, 2011, 09:53:08 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 02, 2011, 03:19:34 PM
Bare floors. Fuck Carpets.
Even in the bedrooms?
Yes. I'm allergic to house dust, carpets are a bad idea.
I have a swiffer, a broom & a mastercraft shopvac. First 2 take too much time, 3rd seems to not pick up everything.
I just bought an oreck...it's a little pricey but comes with a lifetime warranty
the maid loves it which is worthwile; otherwise the whining can be much
I looked at the dyson but they draw 11.5 amps vs 2.5amps on the oreck
my master suite only has 1 breaker (ergo 15 amp max for the whole schmear) with the result that 11.5 amps could overwhelm the breaker and be a pain in the ass to reset
so i'd say go with the oreck if you have any large rooms with a lot of electronics
otherwise dyson or oreck based upon my research (ie my maid told me whats good, but shes in the biz)
I have an Oreck too. Wife picked it up. She's small and didn't want a heavy one. It sucks, err it works I mean.
Quote from: Rasputin on October 03, 2011, 07:35:25 AM
I just bought an oreck...it's a little pricey but comes with a lifetime warranty
the maid loves it which is worthwile; otherwise the whining can be much
I looked at the dyson but they draw 11.5 amps vs 2.5amps on the oreck
my master suite only has 1 breaker (ergo 15 amp max for the whole schmear) with the result that 11.5 amps could overwhelm the breaker and be a pain in the ass to reset
so i'd say go with the oreck if you have any large rooms with a lot of electronics
otherwise dyson or oreck based upon my research (ie my maid told me whats good, but shes in the biz)
Yikes. Circuit breakers popping has only ever been an issue for me in the first tenement we lived in as poor immigrants.
Uh. Anything pulling eleven amps only needs four devices pulling one on the same breaker to trip it. A modern computer tower plus a decent sized monitor is almost enough to reach fifteen with a 11 amp vacuum right there. If there's a tv or something on it too, you're pretty much guaranteed to trip a normal residential breaker.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 03, 2011, 11:48:12 AM
Uh. Anything pulling eleven amps only needs four devices pulling one on the same breaker to trip it. A modern computer tower plus a decent sized monitor is almost enough to reach fifteen with a 11 amp vacuum right there. If there's a tv or something on it too, you're pretty much guaranteed to trip a normal residential breaker.
On the same circuit, sure. Modern apartments have multiple circuits, and often 20 Amp rather than 15 Amp ones.
Quote from: DGuller on October 03, 2011, 11:52:36 AM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 03, 2011, 11:48:12 AM
Uh. Anything pulling eleven amps only needs four devices pulling one on the same breaker to trip it. A modern computer tower plus a decent sized monitor is almost enough to reach fifteen with a 11 amp vacuum right there. If there's a tv or something on it too, you're pretty much guaranteed to trip a normal residential breaker.
On the same circuit, sure.
Well thats what Raslionnaire said.
I know that's what he said. However, that implies that all of his outlets are on the same circuit, and a 15 amp circuit at that. That sounds like an extremely outdated electrical system.
15 amps is standard code. 20 amps requires an whole new grade of wires & recepticles.
In one room, that isn't your kitchen, having only 1 circuit isn't that weird.
Quote from: DGuller on October 03, 2011, 12:00:32 PM
I know that's what he said. However, that implies that all of his outlets are on the same circuit, and a 15 amp circuit at that. That sounds like an extremely outdated electrical system.
Or just poorly wired. There's lots of house like that Jeff City.
Quote from: DGuller on October 03, 2011, 12:00:32 PM
I know that's what he said. However, that implies that all of his outlets are on the same circuit, and a 15 amp circuit at that. That sounds like an extremely outdated electrical system.
15 amps is standard for bedrooms
my master though includes a bath (with lots of lighting) a bigass flat screen, an hdmi splitter (because i was offended at the aesthetics of putting a sateelite box in my pool room where i have a flat screen cause no one wants to miss the ball game when they're shooting pool), a high intensity reading lamp for the desk, a computer, and the standard ceiling fan lighting combos one would expect in the master.
i suspect i draw 6 to 7 amps in the master which is fine, unless one plugs in a damned 11.5 amp sucking dyson ball or the vibrating stripper pole (6.9 amps).
Get a roomba Grey Fox.
I have an Electrolux and I like it. Get a modern vacuum with HEPA filter, if you have some allergies. Gets rid of more dust from the exhaust than Caliga's mother's vacuum.