Reply #43: Did you go back behind the Dyson with your old Hoover?

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I trained as a vacuum salesman for a short time (curse of being a history major :) ), and that's what they did. They would offer a free carpet cleaning, and would first clean the carpet with the customer's vacuum, then with the brand spanking new one they were trying to sell. The new one of course picked up a ton of dirt left behind. My trainer told me that if he went back over it with their old cleaner, it would again pick up a lot more dirt, that carpets are just dirtier than people realize and that no vacuum gets it all even after a few passes. He assured me he had never had nor heard of a customer asking to go back over the same area with their old cleaner again.

Just curious how the Dyson would do. I hear they are great machines, I'm not knocking it. Just, you know, in the interest of science...

I have a Dyson knockoff I got from Costco. Eureka, I think. It's pretty good, but the canister fills up twice in my living room. I can vacuum it three times a day (not that I do) and every time it will fill the vacuum with dust and cat hair and I don't know what else. You'd think my darned cats would be bald to create that much loose hair, but no, they just grow more.