Thanks everybody for your input!
We wound up getting a Bissel bagless "cyclonic" type. Interesting how the
spoilers at the bottom of the chamber work. It has a foam pre-motor filter and
a paper(?) post-motor HEPA filter. It does not have the removable canister
vacuum, but the hose is part of the regular path. The power switch is
convenient (unlike the Hoover) and has a secondary switch so you can vac
without powering the brush. The accessories include a turbine-powered brush
head for the hose. The one thing I think is designed wrong is that the crevice
tool is too short and too thick. I guess you have to have wide shallow
crevices...
It seems to work OK and be pretty-well built. Sucked up a lot of fluff the
Hoover has apparently been missing. It was abut 1/4 of the Dyson price, so we
can afford to experiment.
My wife went out and bought a belt for the Hoover anyway, and I put it back
together last night. She wants to give it to Daughter #1.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
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----- Original Message -----
> From: bjshov8 at tx.rr.com
> To: shop-talk at Autox.Team.Net
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:19:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] vacuum cleaners (non-shop)
>
> We needed a new vacuum last year. (My wife was getting sick every
> time we
> vacuumed, so I decided to try a vacuum with HEPA filter.) I
> researched
> everything with a filter on BestBuy's website, and bought a bagless
> Bissel
> lift off. It is not light or cheap but it works well and has some
> interesting
> features. It has all of the hoses and so forth on the machine so you
> just
> pull out the main suction hose, stick an attachment on it, and go.
> When
> finished you stick the main hose back into its normal spot and it goes
> back to
> being a standard upright vacuum. The main suction canister can lift
> off of
> the upright base and you can carry it like a canister vacuum with a
> hose. I
> can vacuum half of my house and the tank will fill up with pet fur.
> It is
> easy to dump, and I keep going. My wife has not gotten sick when I
> use it. I
> read all of the user reviews for the models I was interested in and
> picked the
> one that I thought was best. Interestingly I read a lot of complaints
> about
> the expensive Dyson machines.
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