EXPENSIVE VACUUM CLEANERS VERSUS CHEAP

[♔Chello]

EXPENSIVE VACUUM CLEANERS VERSUS CHEAP

In 1979 I had just moved into my own apartment in another village, 17 and a half years old.
My other family lived a few kilometers away, in a family collective that I had grown up in.

My grandfather ruled everything with a decisive hand, and one day invited us all to a demonstration:
He was thinking of buying a new vacuum cleaner, and a representative of the manufacturer demonstrated how effectively it sucked up dog hair from the carpets.

This was the most expensive vacuum cleaner on the market; an Electrolux, and it was able to "read" the surface and adjust the motor power ideally to any surface.
You could also vacuum curtains, without them getting stuck.
Fantastic !
It cost a small fortune; 2 months' salary.

Nevertheless, despite this, I thought my newly purchased vacuum cleaner (VOLTA) was better, went home to my apartment and picked it up to prove it.
Both my grandfather, the demonstrator and the others were very surprised when it turned out that I was right - my vacuum cleaner for less than half a month's salary was better !

ALL hair disappeared, and I could also vacuum curtains by reducing the power steplessly with a built-in sliding potentiometer.


My grandfather did NOT buy the expensive vacuum cleaner.

The most expensive is not always the best !
My vacuum cleaner worked flawlessly for 25 years until it was broken in an accident that was my own fault.

Ha! This is so true and we experienced it here too. I had a Pyrenees/Pointer who moved about in a cloud of floating hair but was the best-dog-ever so that was fine. But the vacuum now mattered more than ever. 
Husband was enamoured with the new Dysons (claimed great for pet hair) and I said no, I'd tested one a friend had and it was useless for our hair situation. I wanted to get a much cheaper but far more effective one (can't remember the brand). So husband bought the Dyson, and in a few days he had to admit it was useless and instead of buying the little one I wanted he changed it for a Nilfisk. They had Nilfisk at his workplace so said it would be good for us... it wasn't. Eventually he bought my little vacuum and the hair situation was sorted. Maybe it was a Morphy Richards .... I wish I could remember, it was a terrific little thing yet only cost a fraction of what the others cost, and lasted well too.

I was on crutches so wasn't driving at the time which is why husband was doing the to and fro, he learned a lot I think. LOL

✪aprilla

Thank you for your interesting comment, which gives me the opportunity to elaborate on the topic:

Dyson makes useless products, but is marketed as if they are the market leader.
Why are they useless ?

Because the dust chamber is too small; usually only a few deciliters, which gives a very small total internal area - if you vacuum fine dust, this settles on the walls of the chamber, which results in zero suction power, because the chamber has to "breathe" to be able to collect particles.

Even if you vacuum coarse particles, the chamber becomes full quite quickly, and thus the suction power ceases.

The power size also has little importance, because it is the size of the chamber (bag) (larger internal area) that is decisive for efficiency.


So if you want a good vacuum cleaner, look for one with a large chamber.

Nilfisk was the best industrial vacuum cleaner on the market for many years, but the later models do not live up to this.

I have a Bosch industrial vacuum cleaner with a chamber of about 15 liters, and it sucks up both water and dust like a monster - without a bag.

And there are only two things that can really ruin a regular vacuum cleaner, and that is that the walls of the chamber are clogged with fine dust so that the motor runs hot, and the other is moisture (water spills) which causes the motor to rust and be destroyed.