A royal pain in the ass.

Mikey P

Mikey P

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Ive had a bunch of dusty, long hair, neglected jobs this week.

I can get through a job with out the end caps on the Royal's brushroll jamming up so bad with hair that the damn belt can't spin it.

It's a constant fight to just try and get thorough one job...


I'm going through a belt a day.

I'm going to try my other Royal, which as a different cap design for a while but I'm about to give up..

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BIG WOOD

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Hey Mike, I just recently discovered that my Royal has a much better performance with the nozzle guard taken off. The only disadvantage is it eats up a cord if you run it over. So just watch your cords. Your belts might last longer without the guard on
 
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I agree, it's a stupid word for a part. But Royal came up with it, not me
 
Russ T.

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I have the same issue Mike. At $26 from Jon Don, replacing the brush roll is getting old.

If you take off the guard, won't the belt be spinning against the carpet Matt?
 
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All this farting around with belts and brushrolls is expensive.

Really expensive.

I bought my Royal because I didn't want the bells and whistles. Just a beasty vacuum that dominates residential carpet.

I really like it on Commercial because it's so large and doesn't have those clogging issues as much as it does on residential.

But we are a mostly residential carpet cleaning company...

http://www.jondon.com/proteam-proforce-1500xp-upright-dual-motor-vacuum.html

I chose the Royal over the Proteam a couple years ago. I have questioned my choice in the past but haven't brought myself to test with another $450 vacuum.
 
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Just taking whatever vacuum i can get...i would have never bothered with it unless it was free. I figure kirby make a good vacuum for all the prevacum. Been using shark but i use for regular house cleaning so I rather use that only in that manner.
 
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Love my red and chrome 16 inch Sanitare. Looks like a sports car and the beater bar is perfect. No issues with belts ordered on Amazon...yet.
 
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Doug Rice

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Mikey P said:
I just ordered something totally off the MB grid for testing..

It'll be here Monday.
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A New Shark Rotator Lift Away which is now the old school way. Love my Shark. Done another job last week for a girl from my church who had just vacuumed with her Dyson ( They leave them out so we will be impressed) When I finished vacuuming and went into the kitchen to ask her where I could empty my canister she was asking what kind of vacuum I used.
 
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