Kirby Vacuums

All those who own or ever experienced the use of a Kirby vacuum cleaner or another of its cleaning systems would know how efficiently Kirby products work. No wonder then Kirby carpet shampoo and other cleaning agents are doing a good business and rising popularity charts.

Basic Kirby Shampoo Works Great

The basic carpet cleaner from this brand just does the intended basic job of a cleaner to scrupulously clean the carpet. Apart from making the carpet unbelievably clean, it also eradicates dust mite particles that tend to penetrate the inner layers of the fabric of carpet. Only one wash with this shampoo and you will experience the difference in the quality of air around the place, not to mention all those allergies from which you are saved.

Pet Owner Rejoice

Kirby believes in offering cleanliness all around the area of your house. We are all aware of the trademarks that our family-friends leave around the house in the form of dander and stains. So, here’s a shampoo for your dear friends. Its application leaves you place free of those trademarks, and the only time you realize their presence in the house is when you see then wandering around the house. Now you can caringly fondle with them without the fear of your upholstery getting spoiled. Not only that, it saves you of some labor while vacuum cleaning the place.

Remove Gum and Other Difficult Items

Surely at times you would have missed having something that was slightly stronger than your regular carpet cleaner. That pocket-sized atom bomb of the family, be it your favorite child or a teenager, was too carefree to dump the leftover gum on the carpet. How to get rid of that conspicuous sticky mark? Simply use Ice-N-Clean Gum & Residue Remover just introduced by Kirby and obviously becoming a favorite of everybody. It comes handy for removing wax and caulk, apart from gum.

Make Your Old Carpet Look Even Newer

In fact, Kirby offers a complete set of cleaners. Here comes Brightening Oxygen Additive to make you old carpet acquire a brighter look. It’s a pre-treatment for those areas of the house that experiences a heavy traffic and call for a slightly more attention. Apart from that they offer an upholstery protector that helps you deal with those really stubborn stains that may otherwise ruin your furniture. We truly have an all in one cleaning supplier in Kirby.

I hate confronting pushy salespeople. It is bad enough when you are in a store, at least you can easily walk away. But it is much worse when they are in your own home, especially when it is time to negotiate! Sadly, this is the biggest detraction to this great product. They played the “Let me call my boss and see what we can do” game with us. They must have made 5 phone calls before we came to an agreement. In the end it was worth it, though. I haven’t heard of anyone paying a lower price for a brand new G6.

We bought our Kirby several months ago after an in-home demonstration. It is undeniably a very well-made and extremely well thought out product. With features like soft rubber wheels so it won’t damage our hardwood floors, easy height adjustment with a foot switch, convenient belt tensioner, and a great drive assist mechanism, plus the HEPA filtration built into the bags, it is truly the best of breed. It really does everything that they claim it does and I am fully confident that it will last for generations to come.

I still can’t believe how new our carpets look and feel. After one use I could immediately see the difference in how it picked up the carpet compared to our old Eureka upright. I could hear the sand and grit that was being pulled out from the padding underneath. We recently got new furniture for our family room and I was amazed at the amount of dirt that came out of it. I was even more amazed and disgusted at the amount of dirt that was pulled out of our mattress! The best part is my wife no longer has sneezing fits when we fire up the vacuum.

Included in the package are the standard attachments with updated features, as well as some additional ones you don’t normally find, like the shampoo kit, a sprayer and an agitating brush. The best part is that the hose is nearly indestructible. You can twist and pull it and it always goes right back into its original shape. There are several extensions to reach high places or so you can stand while cleaning the floors. There is also an angled handle that has a suction adjustment so you can reduce the suction power for cleaning blinds or anything else you need to be gentle with. All the attachments have specially ridged and tapered ends so that they easily fit together and can tightly interlock with a twist. The attachments on our old vacuum would never stay together like these do.

The agitating brush uses the suction to spin a brush in the center of it. We mainly use this attachment for cleaning our couches and mattresses. It is more gentle so that it doesn’t damage the fabric with too much suction or too strong of a brush. It has worked well for us so far.

We haven’t used the sprayer or the shampoo kit yet. I don’t know how practical the sprayer will be for us. It is a little limited in what it can do. The shampoo kit was demonstrated for us in our family room and it honestly made a huge difference in how smooth the carpet felt. They repeatedly vacuumed an area of our family room until the vacuum stopped picking up much visible dirt. They then shampooed that area of the carpet with the Kirby shampoo formula and let it sit for a few minutes until the foam disappeared. Then they ran the vacuum over the shampooed area to pull up the dirt etc. The interesting thing is that the carpet was not as wet as I expected it to be. The Kirby actually uses very little water in comparison to most shampoo systems, in order to avoid causing your padding to rot and soaking the floor underneath. It left the carpet feeling better than when it was new and it didn’t have any sticky residue leftover from the shampoo either.

I like being able to dust our baseboards and crown molding with the standard brush attachment. It has turned the work into a lot less of an exercise and it takes less time. I also really like the attachment for cleaning our hardwood floors. It has soft rubber wheels and slots at the sides so that you can suck up dirt that is stuck right against the baseboards. I was glad to trade-in our old dinosaur, that really didn’t do much of anything in comparison.

It is strange sometimes how cosmic forces are at work among us, for as I was using my borrowed Kirby that week and deciding I had to have one, my doorbell rang and who should be standing there but a Kirby salesman!

He demonstrated his model which was several years newer than my girlfriends. He showed me the other things the vacuum could do and all the attachments etc. I was ready to buy this wonderful vacuum immediately. The only shocker was discovering the price! I was literally in shock for a few minutes. But I was determined to own one!

So, after some negotiation on the price, I signed a payment plan. I was very happy with the job that Kirby did. That was 20 years ago. It never failed me, right up to the day (15 years later) I upgraded to my Kirby G5. I have had the G5 for 5 years now.

The G5 was an improvement on the older model I had, in that it had a more powerful motor and some slight design modifications, but most notably it had a self propelled switch. The handle also detaches and the Kirby G5 can be converted into a portable cleaner for mattresses, carpeted stairs and automobiles.

The older model did give you a workout pushing and pulling. It is a heavy vacuum cleaner. Using the self propel feature, it takes very little effort to vacuum.

As I stated before it really sucks (lol). It has very strong suction. It will lift your carpet right up if it isn’t nailed down and beware not to get too close to small pets!

One sticking point for many people may be the price. It is expensive. I was willing to pay however because I know I will get every pennys worth & more. I have noticed on the internet that used Kirbys can be picked up for half of what I paid for mine. And, I would not hesitate to buy a used Kirby. They are very well built and I wouldn’t be surprised if mine outlived me!

The G5 comes with a variety of attachments, like the hard surface nozzle, duster brush, upholstery nozzle, crevice tool, wall & ceiling brush, massage cap,inflator/deflator tool,and a portable sprayer.

With some of the optional accessories on the Kirby G5, you can also shampoo your carpet, wax & buff a hard floor, turbo sand …turbo polish…and tubo scour, and give an orbital massage. With all these extra goodies, keep in mind though that the main job we all usually want done and done well is a good vacuuming.

When the salesman came to our house to sell the Kirby Vacuum to my parents, I sat and watched. I was really involved in the selling because the vacuum looked good even to a teenager. I’m the main cleaner in my house, so I actually had a big part in telling my parents what to spend this money on. We actually got a pretty good deal on the Vacuum. For $1,100, this Vacuum does the trick.

Attachments:
The attachments was one thing that caught my attention. There are so many things that you can do to modify your vacuum to fit your cleaning demands. This is a heavy vacuum, but I still find it useful to vacuum the car because of the many attachments. One attachment, in particular, a sort of thin, flexible piece, really helps in the car and in other small places and corners. Another attachment was a round brush that was really nice for reaching up and cleaning cobwebs or blinds. There’s a flat brush that is really a good attachment for cleaning stairs. I also liked the hose although it was a bit too short. Also, our hose was plastic and after a few months of use, required electrical tape. I don’t think the attachments should break when the vacuum cost over $1000. Also, you have to take the roller head off the vacuum in order to use the hose or any attachments. This is not difficult, but a little time-consuming. There are so many attachments to this vacuum that anyone can find useful.

Adjustments:
One of the key adjustments of the Kirby Vacuum is where you can change the height of the roller depending on the floor that is being cleaned. This is very helpful because my house has a variety of carpets. It also has a setting that can be used for cleaning bare floors. It’s an good way to sweep and get all dirt from the floor. We also have pets, so this adjustment really helps to get deep down in the carpet to get the fur.
Another adjustment is the way you can change the vacuum from “neutral” to “drive”. This is good because the vacuum would be difficult to move without the “drive” option.
This vacuum has so many adjustments, it can be a leaf-blower, an upright or a canister, it can also dust delicate things. Another function is that it can be set to shampoo carpets. But I found that this function did not work with my vacuum.

Weight:
I recommend not vacuuming barefoot. Many times, I got carried away in my excitement of cleaning, that I rolled over my toes. It is also quite awful for stairs. We have a lot of stairs in our house and I must say, I gained a lot of muscle by vacuuming.

Extras:
The Kirby Vacuum has a really good headlight which is useful when vacuuming in places that there isn’t a lot of light. It doesn’t have a rewind cord, so you still have to manually wind the chord. I have found many less-expensive vacuums that do have a rewind cord, and I would like this one to. The cord is really long, though, and that’s really nice. The bags are easy to change, but they are expensive. The only way I can buy a bag is ordering online, but hey are really good bags. This vacuum is really loud, but it really does the job on dirty floors.

The salesman wasn’t experienced, but the vacuum sold itself. He actually had us use our old vacuum on the carpet before he came. When he arrived, he used the old vacuum and made sure the whole carpet had been vacuumed. Then he brought out the Kirby. There were so many things that our old vacuum had never picked up. The Kirby seemed a necessity.