Cleaning Service Blog

When choosing vacuums you should strongly consider finding out the following info before buying:

• Is there a beater bar that helps assist the vacuum by brushing the carpet and helping loosen and sweep up debris?
• Look for the widest hose vacuums with, preferably a direct “pipe” from the vacuum motor to the floor such as Dyson or Kirby uses typically. These by design always have the highest CFM (read on for more on this) and are far less likely to clog
• Check CFM stats on the vacuum. CFM or cubic feet per minute helps measure the how much negative pressure the vacuum creates and therefore how fast dirt/dust rushes into the vacuum head/attachment. 100 or more is strongly preferred.  Cheaper vacuums are about half that and just don’t work as well.
• Don’t pay as much attention to “lift” which is only a way of measuring the vacuum’s force when completely obstructed. Lift is far less important than CFM and is unlikely to be too low if the vacuum has powerful enough motors to give you high CFM anyway.

Vacuum Features To Look For

• Attachments – Pet hair, hard floor, and the usual nozzles
• More and more pet hair “beater bars” on the head of the vacuum are nice and actually do work pretty well to help with excessive pet hair when cleaning carpet