Hello, I’m thinking of purchasing Dirt Devil Vision vacuum cleaner that has a HEPA filter. I realize those filters are very expensive….how long do they last? (in terms of years, and in terms of how many times you emptied the cup approx).

I’m new to vacuum cleaners, open to suggestions! Thanks! (100-200 price range)

12% frail asbestos removed improperly with vacuum cleaners. Yes it was wetted but fine layer of dust everywhere. How do we clean air in the home now? Do hepa filters filter out asbestos, what filter would you recommend? Thanks. And no we’re not living in the house atm until this is resolved.
Oh and I realize this isn’t going to be an instant process its going to take weeks or months to get to a safe level probably. Cleaning dust with wet disposable rags everyday, but we need to know what a good filter is.
Its not violating the law when the homeowner removes it themselves.

BTW all the contractors in the real world laugh about asbestos and think its a joke. Hence why we weren’t too concerned about removing it.

I’m sort of on the side of the asbestos panic is blown waaaay out of proportion atleast the crystallite type. (the blue stuff from Australia maybe is another story) but i’m staying out of the house until we know more.

My girlfriend and I have suffered from allergies for several months. We both have a post-nasal drip and cough often from it. We use a hepa-vacuum, plastic coated our mattress, have air-cleaners, removed carpets, and did all the common stuff to remove home allergins but are allergies are still there. Our family doctor can’t even figure it out. And ideas??

WAIT! Don’t report this Q! This is a serious question. I am in business selling vacuum cleaners and air purifiers with HEPA filters. These filters are efficient enough to remove odors and fumes from the air, so can HEPA enabled undershorts really be far off? You better not steal my idea…

It’s 9 Cnd., and there’s a 9 pet dust model, too. 24 cyclone tech, 17 ft. stretch hose, furniture attachments. Not to be confused with the earlier Shark models. It promises to do same job as competition twice the price, but y’know….Vacuum Cleaners.
I just don’t feel like doing the ‘buy, try, and return’ routine, so opinion from someone will be appreciated.
OK, I bought one. Soon I’ll be able to answer my own question.

Just a couple of the many tips that I have for vacuum cleaners.
So, what’s the clogger king?
HAIRPINS, BOBIPINS!
I service vacuum cleaners and the number one thing I find in the hoses of clogged vacuums are the hairpins that end up lodged sideways there because the spinning brushroller underneath the vacuum separates the pin and everything that follows must somehow travel around the pin. It’s usually a small piece of cardboard, or a matchbook cover.
REMEDY?
Get yourself a magnet and skim the floor first. You can also get a magnetic strip that goes across the front of the vacuum online at any vacuum cleaner parts supplier.
Now, for the filters.
Hepa’s CLOG! FAST! The vacuum cleaner manufactures know this and they screw you out of your money. PERIOD!
Hoover uses ELECTROSTATIC MEDIA to make their filters. So you know what they do. 99.97%…
SO DO THESE:
A TEN PACK OF 4" X 11" ELECTROSTATIC REGISTER VENT FILTERS- cut-STACK-glue
COST?
.79
where? Lowe’s in the furnace filter section.
Thank You!

Now as far as the long blond hair? If you get a carpet rake available at an online store called Hesco ( at hescoinc.c..) they happen to have a very nice carpet rake that has a cool "icee" blue 18" wide plastic front with several flexible metal tines and a wooden handle. I get their catalogs and this rake is on their "big savings type page" I think it is around -. These rakes work great to pick up hair and other small fuzzy build, especially from brand new carpet. In the end it will save your vacuum cleaner too.
While I’m here I’ll also mention the best ways to clean your carpet.
(the Kirby owner will like this)
The BEST way to MAINTAIN a carpet is with a Kirby shampoo set-up on a Kirby vacuum cleaner. If it’s very dirty,I clean carpet for a living & use a big heavy SPIN-BONNET cleaner (looks like a buffer- BONNETS are "SLOWSPEED" machines, where as buffers are typically "HIGHSPEED".
For the BEST CLEAN always call a company that 1st Bonnets THEN Extracts

I’m shopping for a new bagless vacuum. I’m not worried about allergies, but I don’t want dust flying back out of my vacuum. While one that uses a micro-filtratation may be cheaper than one with a HEPA filter, will it meet my need?

We’d all be lost without our vacuum cleaner, right? From the kids walking in all kinds of things to those routine spills and messes, wouldn’t our homes look terrible without that trusty tool to help us out? And while we all recognize the value of the vacuum in getting our homes spick and span, this is a multi-purpose device that shouldn’t be condemned to the confines of your home. Can you think of anywhere else that could do with a bit of a sprucing up? That’s right – your car!

Though most of us probably don’t spend as much time in our car as we do in our homes, there are many of us that come close – or at least it feels that way! With the commute to work, the grocery shop trip, and picking the kids up from all kinds of events and occasions, it is little wonder that our vehicle soon begins to feel like a second home. And since we spend so much time in them, shouldn’t we invest the same time and energy into keeping them looking good as we do on the other places we spend our time?

There’s little doubt that our environment has a huge impact on our wellbeing, both in terms of our physical and our emotional health. Haven’t you ever felt overwhelmed in your home when everything seems in chaos? Cluttered counters and worktops make us feel stressed, reminding us of all we haven’t done yet, and refusing to let us feel at peace. While many of us make a concerted effort to keep our homes as nicely as we deserve, it seems the other places that spend our time get just a little neglected.

So it’s time to take the vacuum out and do a job on that car. With all the time we spend it there, it’s easy for the mess to build up without us even consciously noticing it. But you can be sure it has an effect. A car can be a dangerous weapon if we use it in the wrong frame of mind – and you can be sure that our ability to drive safely is impaired when there are piles of junk around our feet.

While you can purchase a special vacuum just for your car, you don’t need one of these to get started. Just drag the vacuum out of the house, using an extension cord if necessary. Get rid of all those candy wrappers and dust and dirt and just wait to see it the difference it makes. Soon you will find a sense of peace in this important place, helping keep you and your family a whole lot safer.

Like a lot of inventions over the years the invention of the vacuum cleaner is also surrounded with great debate as to who came up with the first vacuum cleaner. We have to go as  far back as the 1800′s to try and understand what people had in their homes and how they went about cleaning.

Firstly we can trace one of the earliest and better known devices back to 1860 when David Hess came up with a way to solve a problem which housewives were having at the time. In those days people used rugs on the bare wooden floors to try and keep the dust down to a minimum. Of course all the dust remained on the rug and the only way off was to hang the rug and whack it with a stick. Shortly after came the rug-beater, which resembled a tennis racket.

However, it was only David Hess who thought there must be an easier way to do the rug cleaning and he came up with a Carpet Sweeper which had a rotating brush with a bellows system which provided the suction. Is or was this a ‘vacuum cleaner’? The machine also consisted of two water chambers which collected the fine dust and particles. The only problem with this invention is that there is no proof it was ever produced.

Then along came Melville Bissell, who’s surname will sound familiar if you know your vacuum cleaners, who also came up with a carpet sweeper that picked up dirt and deposited it in a pan behind the sweeper head.

But it wasn’t until 1899, when what can be described as the first ‘motorized’ cleaner, was invented by John Thurman and it was another few years before Hubert Booth of London came up with the first electric vacuum. The only problem was that the vacuum was so big it was stored on the back of a
trailer outside the house and a very long hose was run inside to do the cleaning.

As time went by more and more inventors had a go at coming up with the ultimate cleaner and one which could be used in the home without much fuss and was portable. Then along came James Spangler in 1908 with the first portable suction cleaner. This cleaner proved to be extremely popular and for some reason he sold the patent to William Hoover. Yes, the man who’s name has become synonymous with house cleaning. The fact that the Hoover name stuck was a testament to how good and popular the early cleaners were and now nearly 100 years later the vacuum cleaner can still be best described a clunky, noisy piece of hardware. Although innovative designs such as the Dyson and the next generation robotic Roomba are starting to give us some idea of what we can expect of 21st  century vacuum cleaners.

Whoever is responsible for the invention of the vacuum cleaner, of which I believe there are many, would be proud to know that the principles of their early day designs still remain in vacuumcleaners in millions of homes around the world.