Pet Hair and Dander? Which Vacuum Cleaner is Best For Your Shedding Dog Or Cat?

!±8± Pet Hair and Dander? Which Vacuum Cleaner is Best For Your Shedding Dog Or Cat?

We love our pets. They shed year round, and that creates problems when vacuuming you home. At our store, The Sweeper Store, in Wooster Oho, we have questions all the time about how to pick up bothersome dog and cat hair. Here are a few things to look for in a vacuum made specifically to pick up pet hair. We hope these ideas help you.

The most important feature on a vacuum cleaner, if you have pets that shed, is the type of brush roller. If your vacuum cleaner has a brush that revolves, you'll see that it picks up pet dander and hair better than a vacuum that has no roller. Roller brushes are not all created equal.

Natural fiber brushes are the best. They will comb through the toughest carpet, brushing out the pet hair. The big advantage of the natural fiber roller brushes is that the hair will not get trapped around the roller brush. Hair wrapping around a bush causes many problems. It slows down the roller brush, stretching the vacuum cleaner belt. Pet hair clogs up the brushes themselves, making the brushes unable to comb through the carpet fibers. Pet hair can get caught in the roller brush's bearing, causing then bearings to burn out. Frequent replacement of the roller brush is the result. All in all, it's better to use natural bristle brushes when possible. The attachment brushes for dusting, upholstery and bare floors should also be made of natural fibers. These fibers are advertised as "Horse hair" but are in fact boars hair.

Most pet dander and hair finds itself on the upholstery soon. The pet dander and hair will be found in the car upholstery even if the pet is not allowed in the family car. The pet hair it carried on our clothes, and it finds itself everywhere we live.

A good turbine driven upholstery tool, with a airflow driven revolving brush, will solve most dog and cat hair problems on your upholstery.

Another problem with pet hair is that it will clog up a vacuum cleaner hose if you pick up a hair ball or clump of pet hair at one swipe. The way to solve this problem is to vacuum slowly when using a hose with attachments. You should also vacuum slowly so that your vacuum cleaner is not "gulping" the hair in huge clumps.

Having a powerful vacuum motor will certainly help. Motors are ranked by the number of amps of electricity they use. The more important feature, when picking up pet hair, is how many fans the motor has. A motor with two fans, will pull the air, and also the pet hair, almost fifty percent harder than a motor with one fan.

There are many higher end vacuums that use natural fiber brushes, have motors with double fans, and even have turbine driven brushes for your upholstery cleaning. Most models of vacuums that have the features we talked about are only available from independent vacuum cleaner retailers. There is one in your area.

We hope these ideas helped you.

Pet Hair and Dander? Which Vacuum Cleaner is Best For Your Shedding Dog Or Cat?

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What Are The Most Common Mistakes When Purchasing A Central Vacuum System?

!±8± What Are The Most Common Mistakes When Purchasing A Central Vacuum System?

First and foremost, you can never have too much power. There is an antiquated rating within the central vacuum industry on the minimum power needed to clean a certain square footage of floor space. No two central vacuum companies have the same way of determining that rating. There are examples of two different central vacuum manufactures that use the same exact motors in their motor units and yet they rate them completely different with one rating their unit for homes up to 3000 square feet and the other for homes up to 5000 square feet. Please ignore such a rating that you will see on a central vacuum manufacture's brochure.

I am an owner of a small independent vacuum cleaner shop and I have never had anyone come in to buy a vacuum cleaner and requested the one with the least amount of power. These types of ratings probably came in to being because so many central vacuum systems are installed and sold by businesses unrelated to the vacuum cleaner business. So since the person installing has no knowledge of the central vacuum, manufactures came up with some type of guidelines for them. Consumers need to be more aware of who they are buying from and who is going to install and/or service a central vacuum system and not allow their builder to make those decisions for them when building a new home. Usually going to a small independent vacuum store in your area will give you the knowledge you need to make sure you will love your central vacuum when it comes to its performance.

Just as important as the motor unit is the attachment set that you need to choose when getting a system. If you have carpets to vacuum, no matter if it is one room or all the rooms in your home, you need to have a motorized power nozzle that has a motor dedicated to turning a revolving brush so that there is agitation created with grooming action to deep down clean. Cheaper central vacuum systems have air driven or turbine power nozzles that do nothing more than skim over the top of the carpet. I have seen tests that show the maximum cleaning effectiveness for an air driven nozzle is 35%. That means that 65% of the dirt within the carpet pile is still there. These same tests show that with the same central vacuum motor unit, a motorized power nozzle can clean up to 80% effective. That shows over 100% more effective cleaning difference can be determined with the attachment set that you choose.

If you are building a new home, it is prudent to go to your neighborhood independent vacuum shop and tell them the type of carpets and floors you will have in your home. Particularly with the popularity of frieze carpets (twisted carpet fibers that vary in thickness and length), motorized power nozzles are not all designed for such carpet piles. You need to have a manual height adjustment for frieze carpets and a few other carpet piles which most power nozzles do not have.

Consult a knowledgeable vacuum cleaner specialist that can steer you in the right direction when choosing your central vacuum system. Online reviews can be misleading. As each manufacture sells their motor units separately from the tool sets as well as each home is somewhat unique with the type of carpets and flooring they have. One person may love a system in their home and rate it favorably but the next person may rate that same system as a poor system because of these variables.

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What Is The Best Vacuum Cleaner Design For Your Home?

!±8± What Is The Best Vacuum Cleaner Design For Your Home?

Did you know that there are three different types of upright vacuums on the market; the direct air, the bypass and now the tandem air design each with their own advantages and disadvantages? If not, you may not be making the best decision when purchasing a vacuum.

The first ever upright vacuum was a direct air design. Direct and to the point, upright vacuum motors were positioned as closely to the floor as possible so the dirt and debris had less distance to travel to the bag. This type of large bladed fan motor actually pushes the air through the vacuum into the bag. Bags were after the motor and consequently could be even overfilled without doing damage to the vacuum.

The larger surface area of the bag system makes for better air flow and higher suction. This design meant excellent carpet cleaning ability for your home. However most but not all models of direct air units were made primarily for carpets not for bare floors, which might create a problem for the modern day consumer who has both. It's important to note that direct air uprights that clean both carpets and bare floors are available but are not widely sold.

Bypass upright vacuums are by far the most common and widely sold vacuum today. When you walk into a discount store that is mainly all you will see. Essentially the bypass design is a more complicated design that offered less in carpet cleaning ability. In these designs, the motor is placed behind a hose and filter system (bag or bagless). The hose was a feature that a lot of people wanted but in their quest to find the perfect vacuum that can tackle carpets, floors and above the floor cleaning attachments all in one, they are losing some vacuuming ability.

Think about this design where the motor actually has to pull the air from the floor through the distance of a hose then through a filter system (bagged or bagless) also through the dirt that is being picked up then finally exhausted out through the motor. Because of the distance the air has to travel, the carpet cleaning ability is sacrificed. It is important when deciding to go with a bypass unit to get one that has the powerful suction motor. This way you are making up somewhat for what you will consequently be losing in the end. Also most of these vacuums have the ability to clean both carpet and bare floor.

The most revolutionary design of an upright vacuum is a patented design by the Tacony Corporation. It is the tandem air design. It actually puts both a direct air vacuum motor and a bypass vacuum motor in one vacuum. For all around cleaning it is the only design that does not sacrifice but actually enhances the performance especially the carpet deep cleaning ability and also incorporates bare floor and above the floor tool cleaning.

In conclusion, when choosing a vacuum to buy, you need to concentrate on finding one that fits your needs and home. You can get a bypass that cleans well, you can also get a direct air that cleans well or you can get a tandem air design. You just have to know where to go and where to find them and be shown the differences. Odds are its right under your nose; your local family owned vacuum shop. They have the knowledge to help you find exactly what you're looking for so you can make the best choice for you.

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Five Levels of Selling

!±8± Five Levels of Selling

This past week, my wife inadvertently drop kicked our toaster oven and caused it to experience a catastrophic failure. The toaster oven, the microwave and my grill are necessary to sustain life at our house if I have to fix any food. The toaster oven is great because it works well for just the two of us and I don't have to fire up the oven to bake or broil something.

Since I wanted to fix some salmon in the toaster oven and we were without, it required a trip to our local discount store to find a replacement. Upon reaching the appropriate aisle, we were confronted with 6 choices and the only point of differentiation was price ranging from just under to slightly over . It was then that I started thinking about the different levels of selling and this was the lowest possible level.

Level 1 is self service. I even cornered an "associate" to get more information, but she really didn't have anything to offer.

It was about this time that I came to realize that there was boxed inventory above the display. Pulling down box after box, it became apparent that the manufacturers had outlined the features of each unit on the exterior of the box.

Level 2 selling is when the product features are provided. This information may be beneficial to a knowledgeable consumer, but it didn't mean a lot to me. It was then that I turned to my wife for help. She was able to provide me with an explanation for each of the features.

Level 3 selling is when the benefits associated with the features are provided. An option on one of the ovens we looked at was a convection feature. I had no idea what that was and my wife explained that it helped provide a more even heat. While I thought the even heat thing sounded good, I didn't really understand what that meant to me.

Level 4 selling is when the benefits can be turned into "You can" statements. What I really wanted was someone to tell me that because of the convection feature that I could cook my salmon better or faster. Maybe that the cooked food would be juicier or more flavorfull because of this feature. (Oh well, I can dream can't I?) I am such a sucker for a good salesperson that I can be easily manuevered from the perfectly adequate basic unit to a high end sale if someone will just help me justify that the high end unit will help me to do something beyond what the basic unit will allow me to do.

We finally decided on one of the toaster options, purchased it and headed home to fix the salmon. All the way home I kept thinking about the different levels of selling and it dawned on me that I had experienced another level of selling many years ago when I got my first appartment in New York. One of my first visitors was an Electrolux sales person and my first acquisition was an Electrolux vacuum. I had acquired an old cannister vacuum from my parents before I left for New York, but I remember the sales person dumping dirt on my carpet. I got out my hand me down vacuum and cleaned up the mess the best I could. The Electrolux sales person then cleaned where I had cleaned and demonstrated how much more the Electrolux picked up than my existing unit. I bought the Electrolux.

Level 5 selling is when the product can be experienced or demonstrated to outperform the other option or options.

When you think about how you market your product, at what level are you selling your product? Is there something that you could do to help move to a higher level and increase your sales and/or your profitability?

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