Oh, frell, we don't suck.

[unixronin]

More accurately, our vacuum doesn't suck any more.  Well, that is, it still sucks, but not floors any more.  The power head broke (the second time this replacement power head has broken, and in the same manner in which the original power head broke for the second time).  It's clearly an inherent design flaw of this vacuum (a Fantom Lightning).  After the first head died, we paid $90 for a refurbished replacement head; I'll be damned if I'll throw another $90 down the same hole.  We'd decided we wanted to get a Dyson next time we replaced our vacuum, probably a DC11 Full Gear; but we sure weren't planning on replacing the Fantom this soon, and certainly can't afford one now.  Best we could possibly do on a Dyson right now is a new DC08 from SuperPawn for $299, if we had $299 to spend, which we don't.

Oh, frell.

We'll probably have to go with some kinda cheap-ass piece-of-shit stick vacuum like a Eureka or something as a stopgap until we can afford to replace it with something decent.

Comments

Have you considered a shop vac?

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

Home Despot is selling reasonably good shop vacs for about $69 now, or they were last week. They suck well, and yea verily do they blow. I got them because we need to clean up cat litter and corncob and occasionally rainwater blown under the basement door, but they'll also clean carpet if need be. Think about it.

Re: Have you considered a shop vac?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, we have a shop vac. But (a) we find it doesn't work very well on carpeted floors, and (b) it has a rather coarse filter that blows a lot of fine dust back out the exhaust. It's great for garage and workshop cleanup stuff, but I bought the Fantom in the first place because the ShopVac just didn't work well as an indoor vacuum.