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Jimmy L

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Here is a helpful carpet cleaner tip.............to clean the hair off a brush roll all you do is use your pocket knife and slash it sideways across...............that will cut the hair and you just pull it off!

And thats all I got to say about that.
 

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Here is a helpful carpet cleaner tip.............to clean the hair off a brush roll all you do is use your pocket knife and slash it sideways across...............that will cut the hair and you just pull it off!

And thats all I got to say about that.

Good advise if done often. However,
Some hair and thin tread still gets wrapped around the brush's internal metal bar if the vacuum has been neglected.
 

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I have had commercial panasonics, powrflites, proteams, sharks, Royal ,oreck XL and backpacks.
Royals are great if you love replacing belts as a hobby and own stock in the rubber plants. Panasonics and powerflites are ok, nothing great. Sharks have a lot of suck but crap out young. Proteams cost you big on parts but I love my 4 gal proteam wetdry vac that I use as a canaster vacuum. For serious vacuuming I use orecks. I buy them for $35-75 used on Craigslist, pop in a new beater bar & belt for like $15 and run the heck out of them. Great units


Couldn't agree more...
 
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I have had commercial panasonics, powrflites, proteams, sharks, Royal ,oreck XL and backpacks.
Royals are great if you love replacing belts as a hobby and own stock in the rubber plants. Panasonics and powerflites are ok, nothing great. Sharks have a lot of suck but crap out young. Proteams cost you big on parts but I love my 4 gal proteam wetdry vac that I use as a canaster vacuum. For serious vacuuming I use orecks. I buy them for $35-75 used on Craigslist, pop in a new beater bar & belt for like $15 and run the heck out of them. Great units
Can’t edge
 

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Haha my shark brush roll wouldn't come on at this nasty last minute job. I had to beat on it and kept trying but eventually it worked. I think its a short in the connection when you push the handle down.
Don't throw it away yet mike. Beat on it real good for about ten minutes lol.

The light comes on but no power to the brush roll. A couple times it started and died and I could hear the motor lose power so I kept at it and eventually it worked right.

I might have to take it apart sometime and figure it out for a permanent fix.

Truth is Genny came along and plugged it in.....
 

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So true, that's why you need a canister. I use the proteam wetdry as I can use it to suck up fuzzies and edge after VLM cleaning. Even with the beater bar I prefer the oreck for prevac.

That being said, my favorite prevac is the maid crew coming through before me.
 
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So true, that's why you need a canister. I use the proteam wetdry as I can use it to suck up fuzzies and edge after VLM cleaning. Even with the beater bar I prefer the oreck for prevac.

That being said, my favorite prevac is the maid crew coming through before me.
They never vacuum well
And they never edge
Don’t bother saying the ones where you live are different
 
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They never vacuum well
And they never edge
Don’t bother saying the ones where you live are different
Totally true but I still knock $10 off per room on my motels and hotels if they prevac, I got sick of watching their eyes glaze over trying to explain the importance of prevaccing as part of justifying my price... just mix it strong and rinse most of it out :shifty:
 
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I started charging my complexes $25 if it wasn't vacd well.

One complex I just raised it to $50 because they can't figure out how to do it half way decent.

Its always a battle.
 

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I believe there is a vacuuming certification class and patch you can wear to prove you're a professional.
Explain it to those maids that it takes 6 weeks of training to get it.

Mikey has his certification logo right on his truck.
 
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There is probably a market for a vacuum only service. Go in with a backpack vac and do all the high dusting, do the edges, then take a pile lifter and do the traffic areas. I have a ton of condo buildings when you move the fire doors, they haven't been vacuumed for years. I see a lot of maid services using flat floor tools only, no beater bar.
 

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They never vacuum well
And they never edge
Don’t bother saying the ones where you live are different

On commercial jobs the janitorial teams are indeed a joke (especially with unemployment under 2% here) with the exception of churches. They seem to have pretty decent crews as many are volenteers and partimers hired from within the church.

The residential move-out maids do a pretty decent job as they have 3-4 people to shoulder the work. and are charging $400-500.
THE REGULAR cleaning lady / weekly maid, do they even vacuum ? They are a joke.
 
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