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Rainbow Vacuums?December 23 2005 at 11:04 AM |
Matt
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| I recently purchased a Rainbow Vacuum for my residential accounts, It is a pretty well known vac. and i can show the customer all the dirt im removing pre-encap. Anyone else use the rainbow? Any comments?
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Scott Warrington
| Re: Rainbow Vacuums? | December 23 2005, 12:24 PM |
You may want to see what Consumer's Report has to say about Rainbow vacuums. I think there are much better vacuums for residential carpet.
There are ways to show the dirt you collected with other vacuums. I like the dirt meter that fits some of the PowerFlite vacuums. You can put a white filter cloth in the air stream of many vacuum cleaners.
Scott Warrington
Scott Warrington
Tech support Bridgepoint & Interlink Supply
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Del Scrivner
| I use a Rainbow | December 23 2005, 6:03 PM |
Not only do I use my Rainbow very successfully on residential accounts, but I also used to sell them too (that's how I got mine).
Scott is correct about the cloth in the hose, in fact if you bought your Rainbow from an authorized seller and had the demo then you should have seen them do that during the Rainbow demo.
Commercial carpet and Rainbows are not the best mix however. The same reason why a RotoVac with brushes will not encap as well as a Sprint or Cimex- not enough weight. Also pulling R2D2 around a huge commercial account is a pain the butt. I use my Wally World Bissell Clearview for that.
The one downside- other then the high cost (I'd buy used- not new) is the extra time it takes to fill and dump the water.
Del Scrivner
Owner/Operator
Cowboy's Carpet Care
This message has been edited by CowboysCarpetCare on Dec 23, 2005 6:06 PM
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Del Scrivner
| What do they say Scott? | December 23 2005, 6:36 PM |
I don't subscribe what did Consumer Reports say about Rainbows?
You can e-mail it to me if you want at DRScrivner@hotmail.com
Thanks,
Del Scrivner
Owner/Operator
Cowboy's Carpet Care
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Rambo
| $$$$$ | December 23 2005, 8:03 PM |
Having owned 2 vacuum stores over the years, I have to say that
Rainbo falls in with 3 other overpriced vacuums. Kirby, Filter Queen and Electolux. I read the CR report a few years ago and agree with it completly. I am in agreement with that report about the amount of microscopic dirt spewed back into the air, even after it passes thru the water. Have you ever wondered why they are only sold door to door (I know Lowe's is selling the cheaper version of Electrolux) My son and I were doing a show in Atlanta last Feb. and there was a Rainbow booth across from us, and they were getting upwards of $1800.00 for them. $699.00 will buy you a top of the line Miele (oldest vac company in the world) that will outclean and outlast all of the above.
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David Hebert
| Re: $$$$$ | December 24 2005, 7:42 AM |
putting a spot light on a rainbow's hood will show some of the dust it spews back into the air keeping the unit in one place and putting white towels around it will also do this.
I used this when I was selling TriStars(formerly Compact) door to door
years ago
Meile did not get to be the oldest with out knowing somthing, they are very dependable
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