A royal pain in the ass.

[D Luke]

Was gonna post my own thread but putting it here seemed appropriate.

I need a wider vac for higher production on commercial encap. Any reason to go with something other than this 18" Royal?

http://www.jondon.com/ea-5158z-royal-upright.html

 

[DAT]

Was gonna post my own thread but putting it here seemed appropriate.

I need a wider vac for higher production on commercial encap. Any reason to go with something other than this 18" Royal?

http://www.jondon.com/ea-5158z-royal-upright.html

A free vacuums like i got today...2 kirby vacuum. Just finished tuning the brush and now great untill it crap out on me..

 

[Old Coastie]

Good ol' Kirby will flog the daylights out of carpet. Almost makes you feel sorry for the dirt.

 

[Mark Von*Lay]

It doesn't matter...Royal and Kirby FOREVER

 

[DAT]

You missed my Kirby stage

Was that before or after you bought your first TM?

 

[Mikey P]

Worse thing about a Kirby is trying to use one on stairs.

The Royal works great when held just right.

My 1st Royal has a much better end cap design.


The one above is going to the dump.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Fookin carpet cleaners, you're concerned about the wrong end. Those old skool machines are trash. They had their day, just like smoking and asbestos.

That day is over, today you should be concerned not just about agitation, and recovery but FILTRATION.

You should never go into a home or business and put more particles (dust, dirt, mold, skin, dander, hair) into the air stream.

The old machines were not designed to capture this stuff. The micon size of these particles is just too small to be filtered by a paper or cloth bag. you need a HEPA filter.

Now if you clean rat nasties, it may not matter to you. However if you are in nice homes they have been educated in recent years to HEPA filtration.

When you whip out some dinosaur of a vacuum you're telling that client you don't know or don't care about what you are doing to their indoor environment.

Don't be that guy, you may be inline for a scolding from them.

 

[FB7777]

Yep

Go Dyson!!


Or in mArtys case... go die son

 

[Jimmy L]

Giggle!

18 inch hoover conquest here.....for commercial

 

[Mikey P]

Sounds like Chavez bought a crew's worth of the shitty Prochem Proteams that he's trying to justify.

Any bagged dirty air design hold in as much dust as a phoney HEPA upright

 

[hogjowl]

That hurt my feeling

 

[DAT]

Here's my two used kirby...the silver works great but the other was used alot for shampooing...gotta get that cleaned. Otherwise, suction is strong. Im happy that i dont have to buy anymore vacuum for time being.

 

[Mikey P]

both use the same style bag I hope.


amazon has bags for $1.00 and belts for a few bucks

 

[steve_64]

Fookin carpet cleaners, you're concerned about the wrong end. Those old skool machines are trash. They had their day, just like smoking and asbestos.

That day is over, today you should be concerned not just about agitation, and recovery but FILTRATION.

You should never go into a home or business and put more particles (dust, dirt, mold, skin, dander, hair) into the air stream.

The old machines were not designed to capture this stuff. The micon size of these particles is just too small to be filtered by a paper or cloth bag. you need a HEPA filter.

Now if you clean rat nasties, it may not matter to you. However if you are in nice homes they have been educated in recent years to HEPA filtration.

When you whip out some dinosaur of a vacuum you're telling that client you don't know or don't care about what you are doing to their indoor environment.

Don't be that guy, you may be inline for a scolding from them.

And don't point your stinking exhaust into the home.

 

[Old Coastie]

That hurt my feeling

Which one?

 

[Cleanworks]

He only has one left.

 

[hogjowl]

The one hang off the left side of my asshole

 

[SamIam]

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?

Whats that smell? Holy cow what burned the carpet?

 

[BIG WOOD]

Whats that smell? Holy cow what burned the carpet?

I haven't burned it yet

 

[Mikey P]

This is the good style of end cap..

 

[ruff]

The main secret with any vacuum is not to use them all too frequently.
That way, they last like champs!

The best ones are excellent dust collecting devices to be stored in the south east corner of the van.

 

[hogjowl]

Idiot

 

[Mikey P]

I think he's serious.

 

[Nomad74]

I broke my Proteam so I'm back to using a Kirby until the shop fixes it. I hate not having an edging tool! I may get a shark. If it's good enough for Dumpster Diving @TConway then It's good enough for me.

 

[BIG WOOD]

I broke my Proteam so I'm back to using a Kirby until the shop fixes it. I hate not having an edging tool! I may get a shark. If it's good enough for Dumpster Diving @TConway then It's good enough for me.

Don't be an idiot. Fix that Proteam. If you buy a shark, it'll break in the first month

 

[Mikey P]

Does the Proteam bag last for weeks?

 

[Nomad74]

Does the Proteam bag last for weeks?

I get about two weeks out of a bag. Nothing like a Kirby bag though. I will say this, the proteam jam packs the crap in there tight.

 

[BIG WOOD]

I get about two weeks out of a bag. Nothing like a Kirby bag though. I will say this, the proteam jam packs the crap in there tight.

That's why it broke down. I only get about 3-4jobs out of a bag on my proteam, NOT TWO WEEKS

DANG DAMON!

 

[Nomad74]

Not all

That's why it broke down. I only get about 3-4jobs out of a bag on my proteam, NOT TWO WEEKS

DANG DAMON!

Not all my jobs are transient hobbles under a freeway overpass. But there are some jobs where I fill a bag in one job.

 

[Mikey P]

The Proteam has a horrible carpet/ brushroll interface, which is why the bag last so long.