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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: yorky on March 18, 2010, 08:23:13 pm

Title: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: yorky on March 18, 2010, 08:23:13 pm

Hi guys

Looking for a new Vacuum cleaner for the commercial side. The Royal looks a bit of a beast, would this be a good starting point?

Title: Re: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on March 18, 2010, 08:43:43 pm

The royal is a fantastic vac but the only trouble is that it does get up to the edges.

Shaun

Title: Re: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: yorky on March 18, 2010, 08:50:10 pm

Quote from: Shaun_Ashmore on March 18, 2010, 08:43:43 pm

The royal is a fantastic vac but the only trouble is that it does get up to the edges.

Shaun

Shaun do you mean it does NOT get up to the edges ? The Karcher i'm using just now does not cut it with large dirty school rooms.

Title: Re: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on March 18, 2010, 08:53:44 pm

It gets so far but there's no pipe to detatch easily to pick up the bits, I'm sure Pete Sweeney has a number of teh guy who sells them direct.

Shaun

Title: Re: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: yorky on March 18, 2010, 09:00:38 pm

Thanks Shaun. I see you can buy second hand Kirby vacuumes on e-bay. Not sure how well these work but are they not the ones they used to sell door to door in the states back in the 50-60s.

Title: Re: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: Steve. Taylor on March 18, 2010, 09:18:21 pm

They sale sebo bs36 vacs on ebay second hand around £95 also worth a look have used these a while now no complaints as yet.

Consider quality spares & repairs vacuum bags prices on some models can be expensive

Title: Re: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: yorky on March 18, 2010, 09:37:36 pm

Thanks the Sebo look simular to the Karcher twin I'm using which is fine for domestic but not fantastic for low profile commercial. Maybe I'm just being too fussy, the royal just looks like it may have that extra power with the large bag.

Title: Re: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: Steve. Taylor on March 18, 2010, 09:43:23 pm

Yorky
sebo, karcher, diversy lever, ensign are all the same machine so i was told when having mine PAT tested 4 hight settings for carpet profiles.

Hope this helps steve

Title: Re: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: Simon@arenaclean on March 18, 2010, 09:45:34 pm

Quote from: yorky on March 18, 2010, 09:00:38 pm

Thanks Shaun. I see you can buy second hand Kirby vacuumes on e-bay. Not sure how well these work but are they not the ones they used to sell door to door in the states back in the 50-60s.

They have been updated since then. They are a good vac but bloody heavy and can be fiddly. Preety much bullet proof though and new cost a fortune.

Title: Re: Vacuum Cleaner
Post by: Joe H on March 18, 2010, 09:56:29 pm

I bought a Krby for £110, it must be about 12 years old and still good.
Its got the powerdrive which literally makes it as light as a feather to operate.
Trouble being, its a fiddle getting a hose on to it.