about replacing my carpets?

[knotpoodle]

have been struggling a bit to keep on top of housework recently, and mentioned to a friend I was thinking of getting a cleaner.

She was a bit about it and said 'I doubt you will find anyone who will be prepared to hoover like that, you'd be better off getting new carpets'

Carpets (8 rooms plus stairs/landing worth) were bought a considerable expense by ExH before he left a few years ago. You can't hoover them with the brush part of the hoover as that doesnt get them clean, only the nozzle (sp) and even then it doesn't get the fluff off completely (If I have time I go round picking it off by hand).

I assumed a cleaner might do a better job than me, not that I'd have to spend £1000s ripping out carpet! AIBU, or was friend having a dig (she has a cleaner herself, so I dont think its envy on her part!)

What are these carpets made off Knotpoodle It must take you ages to hoover with just the nozzle.

Don't you just need a better hoover? Mine wouldn't hoover properly with my multi floor head, so I bought one specifically for carpets and it's works loads better.

Have you got a rotating brush attachment?

You can find someone to do anything if you pay them enough. Is it the carpet or the vacuum cleaner that's the problem?

Personally I would get a new hoover.

You need a new hoover

You Hoover your entire house with a nozzle??
You definitely need a new Hoover!

Get a new hoover

Get a harry.. They proper grip the carpet although you need to be really strong to push some of them

Might be worth borrowing friends' various vacuum cleaners to find one that does work. Unless the expensive carpets are utter crap, I can't see why an upright with a rotating brush wouldn't work.

I lovemy harry

I spent weeks vacuuming with just the nozzle because the brush on my Vax upright wouldn't turn and even though I'd taken the whole thing to pieces, I couldn't work out how to make it work.

I was damned if I was going to buy a new machine so soon after I bought this one but eventually I realised it was taking years from my life and I was choking in cat hair.

Eventually I hit on the revolutionary idea of calling the Vax helpline . They told me of a button on the top of the cylinder that resets the roller. The button is clearly marked in the instruction manual. The woman from Vax was gracious enough not to point that out.

I throw that out there for you, OP.

Well if you are considering getting new carpets anyway then you might as well experiment with how long it'll take to wreck the old carpets by sticking the hoover over them. I suspect it's take a while....

I have a virtually brand new Henry. Before that I had a Dyson. Neither were any good.

Basically if you use the long part, it just skims the surface. The carpet is woven so doesnt exactly have a pile - the brushes on the long part simply don't work on it.

New carpets! Life is way too short to Hoover the whole house using the nozzle. How long have you been doing that for?

Saying that a cleaner will do it, but they are paid hourly so it will cost a lot and you might end up with nothing but the hoovering done.

The carpets are about 4 years old. They cost several thousand pounds, I really would struggle to afford to replace 8 rooms worth of carpet :(

I refuse to believe that there isn't a vacuum-cleaner that won't do carpets properly whatever kind they are. Eight rooms plus stairs and landing is a king's ransom's worth of carpeting and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to replace them when a different/more effective vacuum-cleaner would cost a fraction of that.

I really don't know anything useful but in the spirit of limited have you considered calling the place that supplied the carpet for their advice? Or even the manufacturer?

I'm really surprised the Henry can't cope with a carpet without pile . I have a Henry and a Miele and the Henry works better on non pile carpets and tiled floors. I just push the thingy ( technical term) on the brush bit .

The multi floor head on this works on woven carpet, tiles, lino and laminate but not on piled carpet

It's also a frekain' awesome carpet cleaner. The carpet cleaning head is even better on non pile floors than the normal one.

It's the hoover I have, it's incredibly noisy and very heavy, but has a really long cord, never blocks up and I've yet to find a surface it can't cope with or that I can't find a replacement head for.

Is this a wind up?

Try a Sebo. They are very good. Ugly as sin but they work a treat. I personally love my Dyson.
I still can't understand what is with these carpets that means that they are impervious to all vacuuming.

We were about to give up on our Henry but DH bought a turbo head. It's miles better.

need a cylinder hoover that does not have rotating brushes.

8 rooms worth of new carpet or a new Hoover? Bit of a no brainer IMO