Pictures of dirt experiment

I felt bad after the oatmeal incident, wondering if I had just blown a stack of money on a vacuum only to have a lame model on my hands. It is powerful enough? Is it weaker than the old one?

So I sprinkled potting soil on my carpet. Wouldn't you?

Here they are, facing off. I whistled some Old West whistley music and thought about tying bandannas on them somewhere, but I don't have any.


Each one was passed through the dirt once and straight back again. Obviously, the Hoover did better than the Bissell, but I'm still not insanely pleased with the Hoover.

Each one cleaned up one side to gauge overall pickup ability. Still, the Hoover wins. Maybe it is just in my head.


And now I'm using spot remover for the spots that the Bissell left over. We love and use tons of ChemDry spot remover. It got dried strawberry mush out of the carpet today with just a spritz and a dry rag.




So, in conclusion, it's doing great for the amount of money I'm willing to spend on a vacuum. There are better ones out there for twice the price but isn't that the way the world works?

-le sigh-