Can I vacuum curtains with this, or is the suction too strong?
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It has an upholstery brush attachment, but I do think the suction would be too strong for draperies. Hope this helps.
408598
A regular vacuum works great. The shop vac hose will be too big in circumference.
1788977
No, I used it with my Shark vac. It is very thick and almost cat litter texture. It was hard to vacuum up
1305253
Just push lightly from the center. A suction will be created....better and more green than foil or Satan wrap.
704483
I would buy some of those thick storage bags that you can attach a vacuum cleaner to! You know, the ones you can put clothes in etc...This would do a great job of removing all the air and would only take a few seconds to do. I should probably patent this idea!
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It's not strong enough to do that in my opinion. But it's a great little vacuum. If you read my review disregard it. I had a mouse eat through my chord.
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I have 20 years experience with Panasonic uprights in my cleaning business, all with the automatic height adjustment. If you have height adjustment, if you set it too low you may run into "drag" from too much suction. More often, I have found the problem of "hard to push" occurs more from the construction of the carpet than from the vacuum cleaner. Specifically the way the backing is constructed on the underside of the carpet. Try this: if you're getting too much drag pushing the vacuum "lengthwise" on the carpet, try turning it 90 degrees and go "crosswise". Sometimes the backing on the carpet is inhibiting the gliding. That's all I can offer and I hope it helps.
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It has more suction than I have ever used. Set on half is the strongest for me. Even at that I have to be careful to keep it moving or I end up with hickey spots.
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I think it depends on the thickness of the cord, most of the time my Roomba will try and run over a cord and get stuck on it because it couldn't get past it but I have seen it try to suck up smaller cords. I just make sure they're pulled up or blocked so that I don't have to worry about it.
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You shouldn't have to do anything but I think the vacuum has to be upright when using it.
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I've found that you can adjust power of the suction using the lever valve. By doing so, you can create enough suction to remove the mulm but leave the finer media behind.
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I've noticed its fine on carpet or wand-only even w attachments... bur no vacuum on earth seems to have suction in "floor" mode. I have no answer for this! Otherwise I do love this Kenmore and have never found any vac that does well in floor mode
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Maybe- can you get over the wall and straight down? The vacuum is better for larger pieces, such as leaves, not good for very fine dirt.
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I use it on carpet, use a putty knife or cardboard to scrape up as much as possible, then vacuum. I wouldn't vacuum before scraping it up as much as possible.
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I used a dry vacuum and it wasn't effective. Maybe if you used resolve and then used a regular (wet) carpet cleaner it might help. I don't know. For me, it wasn't effective.
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I love the machine for stains, and rated it very high. However, I used the hose/attachment to spot clean my couch and the suction left A LOT to be desired.
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If you use it properly, yes. What I mean by that is that this vacuum really sucks, in a good way. So you need to use the little door in the handle to bleed off some suction when you vacuum your area rugs. If you don't do that it will actually pick up the rug and move it around.