I knew someone was going to spew something about it.
Of course a tm is going to get a portion of that and vacuuming isn't going to get it all. BUt the majority of that hair and dust will be stuck on the fibres as soon as you get it wet. You get a lot of junk on your TM filters esp if you're not using a
glide, as its pulling up more fibre. I tested that theory, that a TM will pull all the soil, at MF in SanDiego. I dumped a lot of sand and carpet deodorizer into a carpet and worked it in, then let the Genesis go at half the area. Yes, it pulled up some of the sand, but it left significant amount of sand and most of the powder, which we saw coming into the vacuum after it was dry.
Video is on youtube.
And if you run the vacuum properly you don't need a pre-
crb. And they ran a vacuum over that carpet before we arrived.
I've got some good pics from a room vacuumed 5 times before we came to clean. One room, 100sf at most, and still filled the canister. Have to get them off my phone. I once got more than a gallon of soil (sand) out of a square yard of carpet. You would have gone over it in 3 swipes and called it "clean".
And the odd time I find myself caving to the thought that I can clean a carpet without vacuuming first, just to help out a client with price. Oh sure, I got it looking clean, looks fantastic (I've a vid of that as well but its on my phone, having a challenge syncing it) But I KNOW I could have removed far more and since I was using a holed glide, there wasn't much in my filter. If you saw what I've seen come out of carpet (I've been vacuuming longer than you've been cleaning) you wouldn't be shooting me this BS about how great the TM is at removing dry soil.
And Silver rated? Hell, that rating is as bogus as the Rug Dr getting a GOld SOA. If they are going to test a vac it would be better if they knew how to run one. Almost all of the vacuums that "rated higher" I've out cleaned in people's homes. If I haven't out cleaned it I most likely haven't been in a home where a client had one.
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Not to mention the FACT that it just makes sense to remove as much dry before getting it wet. All I have to say to justify my method is simply explain it.
Maybe if you prevac'd a little more efficiently or used a silver rated vacuum your truck filter wouldn't be getting "slammed".
Connections is over, did we keep things livened up enough?? 8)