bags or bagless

Bagless or bagged

The great debate

Back in the early nineties when James Dyson released his Bagless vacuum in the UK it turned the world of vacuum cleaners on its head.

Up until then you either bought a vacuum with a cloth bag or a paper bag, the choice was really that simple.

Now you can buy Bagless vacuums of all varieties
Infact on the South African market you will be hard pressed to find a vacuum cleaner witch still uses paper bags. In most department stores their aren’t any, its only in your more selected departments stores that you will find Mielè , bosh , Siemens ,Nilfisk and One AEG model. All of these machines are priced well over R2000.00 missing the R700.00 average that a South African will spend on a vacuum.

You will hear allot of USA based vacuum cleaner stores saying that Bagless vacuums are bad and useless especially the dyson.
Most of these stores have been selling brands like Mielè for years wit the more lesser brands along with brands like riccar and simplicity and they had no real competition until dyson came along and stole all there sales.
Mielè hates the dyson brand so much that in most cases you as a dealer will lose your Mielè dealer agency if you start to sell the dyson products as well.

But there is a reason they hate the dyson so much and hear is why

With every other brand of Bagless vacuum you have to physically clean the filter, up to once a week every time it gets clogged. This is a messy and dirty job and if you don’t do it your filter will clog and your motor will burn out.

The Dyson is different, due to its highly efficient cyclonic system that is heavily patented the majority of the dust and dirt is flung out of the air inside the cyclone chamber leaving just fumes like cigarette smoke and very fine dust to get to the filter.
The result is that you need only clean the filter once every six months or so.
It is a easy job to do as well just simply squeezing a sponge under some water and letting it dry.
There cyclone actually works making bags obsolete and there for cuts your running cost.

I had a customer bring in a 14 year old dyson which “wasn’t performing like it used to”
When I asked if they had cleaned the filter they exclaimed, “It’s got a filter?”
14 years and they had never cleaned the filter and it probably would have gone on even longer if the builder who was renovating there home had not used it to suck up mounds of spilt cement powder.


Here is the just of it

If you suffer from severe allergies you can either get a Mielè with a bag or a Bagless dyson but steer clear of the other Bagless machines.
They will be to much for you to handle.

Many people don’t realize that most Bagless { except a dyson }machines need much more maintenance and cleaning that the older paper bagged machines

Water filtration vacs

Water Filtration vacs
To rainbow or not to rainbow

I decided to write this due to the high number of people who ask about it and the equally high number of rainbows I see advertised or that we trade in on surprisingly ordinary vacuum cleaners.

The theory

The idea behind water filtration is that the dust gets sucked up from your carpets into a tank filled with water (do not confuse this with wet vacuuming were you actually wet the carpet) the water then traps the dust and just clean air is released

The reality
You are sucking dirt mixed with air up a pipe into a tank with water in it.
Air bubbles are produces witch trap some of the dirt and release it back into the air
On machines like the rainbow se this is only a very small amount on other rip-offs it is much worse.

Rainbow fixed that problem on the E series vacuums buy fitting a Hepa filter at the exhaust now it works properly ………………………

Just as well as any other exhaust Hepa filtered high end vacuum IE Mielè ( up to R 6000.00, a dyson Up to R 5000.00 a AEG ultra one ( up to R 3000.00)

And you just paid R 20,000 for your rainbow

My problem is not the machine itself, It is well built and with servicing should last you about 10 years or more
It the sails men
They con people into buying there product because they or there children have allergy’s.
They dupe them with gimmicks and shows of how powerful the machine is compared to your average household vacuum cleaner.
That’s my problem
Why not compare it to something that is of the same quality, this is were the consumer is taken in by the sales person who convinces them that nothing else will compare.

Rain bows are good but they are no better than machines that cost a quarter of there price.
Some of those machines will put the rainbow to shame on suction power alone yet alone ease of use.

Just remember every time you want to vacuum you will have to fill the container with water, use the machine and them empty the container and wash it out and dry it so it doesn’t stink.
Just a point