I have a bagged bissel - it cost me $30 bucks at wal-mart. I love that thing. We actually have two, one for upstairs and one downstairs.
I think the next vacuum I get will be the Bissel Healthy Home, I need the pet hair attachment!
I also just got a SHark steam mop for the hardwoods, cleans the wood like a dream with NO chemicals, just steam. Plus it has an attachment for me to go over couches and rugs with so I can steam my furniture and carpets. I LOVE IT.
It steams them, it doesn't put water into them and then suck it out like most cleaners. But I have to say after a steaming, my couches feel like new and smell great
Vinegar and baking soda are fun times. I still stand over the toilet when we "bomb" it to watch the fizzies...
So, my grandmother is kind of, well, social? She wants what other people have, but in the best intentional way. So, she had this perfectly functional Oreck (which now belongs to my happy mom!) but a few of her buddies had Dysons, and she kept seeing commercials and felt that her 8 rugs needed a dyson (her WHOLE house is hardwood floors with area rugs here and there). She got the DC17 (I think?) so that thing SUCKS big time. My frail little grandma was using the hose part to get under her dining room table, and the thing got stuck sucking up the fringes on her rug, she repositioned to get to them before they pulled, and BAM - hose recoils and smacks her in the head! She had a black eye for 2 weeks.
So, I'm a bit afraid of that power. That's not to say when she retires it I won't be first in line... but still. Eeks.
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I think the next vacuum I get will be the Bissel Healthy Home, I need the pet hair attachment!
I also just got a SHark steam mop for the hardwoods, cleans the wood like a dream with NO chemicals, just steam. Plus it has an attachment for me to go over couches and rugs with so I can steam my furniture and carpets. I LOVE IT.
http://www.sharkclean.com/cgi-bin/livew/site.w?location=b2c/product.w&product=S3101W&frames=no&target=main&sponsor=000001
That is the one that I have. I use the carpet glider attachment to do my couches as well.
So, my grandmother is kind of, well, social? She wants what other people have, but in the best intentional way. So, she had this perfectly functional Oreck (which now belongs to my happy mom!) but a few of her buddies had Dysons, and she kept seeing commercials and felt that her 8 rugs needed a dyson (her WHOLE house is hardwood floors with area rugs here and there).
She got the DC17 (I think?) so that thing SUCKS big time. My frail little grandma was using the hose part to get under her dining room table, and the thing got stuck sucking up the fringes on her rug, she repositioned to get to them before they pulled, and BAM - hose recoils and smacks her in the head! She had a black eye for 2 weeks.
So, I'm a bit afraid of that power. That's not to say when she retires it I won't be first in line... but still. Eeks.