How easily does it push across thick carpet with the beater bar off? We have friese carpet and it's recommended not to use a beater bar on it.
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It does not, you should pick up at Home Depot a 5 hp small wet dry vacuum. It is powerful with no beater and works.
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did a little research on frieze carpet and it seems to be non loop..meaning strings i guess...overall i think that it is more tough to push without the beater bar on...just like a regular vacuum that is not self propelled... more muscle strength is need but it is doable...dont know if that is your whole house or not... more strength to push forward overall
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Less easily than with brush on, as rotating beater bar "self-propels" the vac. Would be true of any upright. Maybe you need a cannister for your delicate carpet? I love mine. Great for cat hair on oriental rug (with beater bar on, of course!)
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Mine does not. It's really easy to push and glides easily across my carpet.
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I don't have thick carpet but works well on mine. I use it mostly for my cat hairball spots.
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This sweeper has a rotating beater bar, it works great on carpet and area rugs, not sure I'd use it on a hardwood floor.
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Super easy to push! I can vacuum throw rugs and while it has amazing cleaning power, it doesn't suck up the rugs.
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Yes it is hard to push on some carpets. The fix: Remove rubber wiper blade from underside of powernozzle. This blade does nothing for carpet cleaning but only creates a lot of friction when on carpet (hard to push/pull). The drawback: This blade is in place for sweeping sticky/stuck dust from hard floors (a sort of broom if you will). And so once the blade has been removed, the sticky dust therefore will not be knocked off/scraped when on hard floors. This is the trade off. What I do: Use Dyson's hard floor nozzles attatched to the wand/hose when vacuum hard surfaces (if wanting to knock off the sticky dust) otherwise using vacuum without blade is no different than some other Dyson's and many other uprights. How to remove: Using a small screwdrive. At one end &gt; pop up and out one side of blade and pull and slide out sideways using your fingers. This way blade does not get damaged if you want to put back. This fix has worked great for me. I love the Slim! This is one of my first posts here and so if you can post saying my tip was helpful then I will encouraged to return and help some more (what Dyson knowledge I do have) with posting. Please reply and let me know if this helps.
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Not really, but you have to put pressure on the carpet roller attachment (I think its called the "beater bar"?) to get it to move. I have the same problem as you so I usually vacuum the carpet with the floor attachment. It is a little more labor intensive, but it does work. Maybe even a little better.
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what kind of carpet do you have? you're probably not going to have great luck pushing this on any carpet as it's a brush attachment. it works great while pulling over "low pile" rugs or floor mats, but my place is 90% tile.
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Hi Margaret. I'm not quite sure what you mean, but it sounds as though the belt you purchased is too large if it's not tight enough around the "beater bar" (Which is what I believe you mean by "the roller" - We are talking about the brush roller that "beats" the carpet, right?). That fit, from the drive pulley/wheel to the beater bar should be very tight. I hope this helps.
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I read one review from a long-haired woman who said that she had to cut her hair off of the beater bar regularly, but when she did, she had no trouble with belts breaking or loss of suction. I have long hair, and four daughters with long hair, so I can relate - and I can fix a vacuum to make it last way longer by changing out the belts and beater bar as needed as well as clearing any clog (sometimes they are hard to find). I think I'll try this vacuum since the beater bar replacements are less than 20 bucks =)
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It's easy to push when new but my wheels wore out in a couple of years now it's a real bear to push. And no, I didn't abuse it, we have bare floors everywhere except the bedrooms.
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No off switch for beater bar. However, the setting on low allows you to vacuum throw rugs without much problem.
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It shouldnt (we dont have laminate floors ); you can shut of the beater bar when on floors other than carpet
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No. The beater bar does not spin well. It requires a lot of passes to get pet hair up.
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OK, we have three completely different and contradictory answers. I hope a few more people can chime in to give us a majority vote. Does it have a beater bar that is powered by a motor. We have so far 1) a beater bar that is powered, 2) a beater bar that is not powered, and 3) no beater bar at all. Getting good agitation is essential to cleaning carpet. Most people focus on just the air flow, but you need both.
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Our carpet isn't that thick but when we turn on the witch at the top of the handle to clean the carpet the carpet is so clean. You can see all the gathered dust later. But if have carpet throughout your whole entire house I don't suggest this vacuum. The switch that you turn on for carpet makes the vacuum heat up if u leave it on too long. We have carpet and hard floor so we only use the switch when we have to vacuum carpet. When I used this in the beginning the machine would over heat and shut off. So then I didn't use it for hard floor (but don't need to). Anyway, I've had this vacuum for about a year and half and it works way better than the dyson that my friends have. Our carpet isn't that thick but when we turn on the witch at the top of the handle to clean the carpet the carpet is so clean. You can see all the gathered dust later. But if have carpet throughout your whole entire house I don't suggest this vacuum. The switch that you turn on for carpet makes the vacuum heat up if u leave it on too long. We have carpet and hard floor so we only use the switch when we have to vacuum carpet. When I used this in the beginning the machine would over heat and shut off. So then I didn't use it for hard floor (but don't need to). Anyway, I've had this vacuum for... » Read More Our carpet isn't that thick but when we turn on the witch at the top of the handle to clean the carpet the carpet is so clean. You can see all the gathered dust later. But if have carpet throughout your whole entire house I don't suggest this vacuum. The switch that you turn on for carpet makes the vacuum heat up if u leave it on too long. We have carpet and hard floor so we only use the switch when we have to vacuum carpet. When I used this in the beginning the machine would over heat and shut off. So then I didn't use it for hard floor (but don't need to). Anyway, I've had this vacuum for about a year and half and it works way better than the dyson that my friends have. « Show Less
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Our unit is on commercial carpet.. I went and looked and appears it would sit on thicker carpet without a problem. If it is an issue, lay down a piece of gym rubber matting and problem solved. The unit is really very nice, company staff have commented on how it is as just like their doctors office scale.