Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

I was never very impressed with Oreck's dry carpet cleaner and I wanted to try the Host products and also the machine that Sebo makes. Do either of these work well? I'm not interested in using the wet carpet extractors of any kind. Are these dry technologies a lot of hype?

Thanks VacmanUK for your reply!

I'm actually using the Sebo machine with the powder. I like the idea of the weight applied on the brushes to help work the powder in. Besides, none of my other vacuums would have worked it in the carpet to my satisfaction. I've observed that with these 2 brush machines the powder piles in between the 2 brushes due to their counter rotation - each brush towards the other. Because the cleaning material piles up between the 2 brushes, it appears that the material distributes more consistently through the carpet. I've been having a ball with this machine and the product is really good at removing stains. As for whether or not all of the powder is removed, Who Cares? It's impossible to remove every bit of dust and dirt from any carpet and I've the rest of my life to keep vacuuming that carpet. I'm just pleased that it really removes stains with wetting down the carpet.

We rent both the Sebo cleaners and commercial extractors.  It's safe to say that once the customer tries the Sebo they very rarely go back to using the extraction machines....which is good because the Sebo is much easier for me to carry out to the car for them :-)

Dusty

Ive used the Sebo machine before and have been suitably impressed with it as you know it does have two counter acting brush rollers. However you can get similar results with the Sebo X or Dart commercial uprights simply by taking the hose off and the upright becomes a carpet rolling powder "machine." If Im doing large carpet areas I ran my mini upright cyclonic vac through the carpet to make sure everything is out but I usually find the Sebo upright vacs take out mostly all the dirt/powder solution anyway.

Ive used both Shampooers and Dry carpet cleaning and I can say that I prefer dry carpet cleaning due to the resoil factor of using a wet cleaning solution.I personally like Oreck's dry powder. I rented the Orbiter to clean my front room from pet stains and it worked extremely well. As someone posted farther up, the guy at the Oreck store told me to spray the carpet with a wet solution to break up the stain and then apply the powder to absorb the loose moisture and stain. I do three rooms of carpet about every 6 months, and use it mostly for pet stains. I yet to have old stains come back as they did when I used a shampoo machine, just new ones from the kids new puppy. im satisfied with the product, but I cant say ive really tried any other Dry powders.