When I set up apartments in my house five months ago I left some stuff behind. The thing I miss the most...a couch. I have my eye on some things at Ikeabut for now that must wait. The other thing I left behind was the vacuum. Because it is not mine. Mine is a irobot Roomba. I have been setting it free to roam and suck up detris for a couple of years. It always picks stuff up and it had a filter that catches that fluffy stuff too. Well, it has been having battery issues and so I bought a different vacuum. It is lightweight and small. I THOUGHT I had made a mistake and got a sweeper that does not pick up much. Well! I was wrong. I had to empty the dust cup in every room. And there are only three. Well, there is a hallway too. Amazing.
My Uncle Bob sold Filter Queens just after the Second World War. He had a few things to say when I wanted to buy a Kirby. First, it wan't a Filter Queen. I still have that but it does not have a beater bar and does only a fair job on carpet. Although it does pick up the dog hair. I had it refurbished at a vacuum repair place and the guy was quite enthusiastic. He was appalled that I was going to trash it. When I got it home it sucked so hard it would have sucked up a small careless dog!
So, where I was going with that...Uncle Bob said that the same experiment that the Kirby salesmen do with the fliter and going over and over the same spot on your carpet to prove the quality and ability of the Kirby can be done with any vacuum. You just have to vacuum over the same spot repeatedly like you are a Kirby salesman.
It works with a Shark too.
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