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.