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Pet Friendly CVS Floor Nozzle

Vacuuming hard floors covered with randomly scattered mounds of pet hair – good for cardio fitness, hard on your back. Follow along with these familiar steps: vacuum a room, stoop to pull off the hair clogged floor brush, vacuum clumps of hair off the clogged floor brush, twist the floor brush back on the wand. Vacuum the next area and repeat.

This exercise gets tedious fast.

Wessel-Werk RD285 Brushless Floor Nozzle

I would rather enjoy the vacuuming experience. (We can do aerobics later.) How nice it would be to smoothly glide through rooms, realizing a cleaning task efficiently completed. The hindrance? The floor tool’s bristles. They clog quickly with oily dog fur, preventing hair and dirt from reaching the vacuum’s air stream and getting sucked up. The answer? Remove the bristles, add some wheels.

The new tool becomes a powerful nozzle sans brushroll. It directly pulls dirt into its opening and away into the vacuum, whether it’s used on hard floors or carpeting. Yes, even on carpets. Although a turbine brush or electric powerbrush nozzle is still recommended to beat embedded dirt out of carpeting, this new tool can easily lift off spots of surface dirt from area rugs. This ability comes in handy. Any fur stuck to the edge of an area rug is quickly sucked up with the same tool, while vacuuming the hard floors.

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Christmas In July

Beginning in January a very unique phenomenon occurs in the vacuum cleaner business, starting in our repair shop for portable vacuums. With a rush of vacuum cleaners for repair the first week after New Years day we begin to find peoples christmas tree’s. Clogged in the hose, jammed in the nozzle housing, stuffed in the wands and tools. Thousands and thousands of christmas tree needles just exploding from peoples vacuums. Soon after the initial rush of portable vacuum the calls begin for central vacuum service request. Seems the vacuum system has “lost it’s pep”. Often after we remove a few pounds of needles from the system it is performing good as new.

I would say “don’t vacuum tree needles”, but I know my warning would only be ignored. In the rush to get the holidays over and done with your not about to get the broom and dustpan when you can just run the vacuum over it so much quicker. The satisfaction from the sound of all those needles being flushed away from your living room is magnetizing and nearly impossible to resist. Your vacuum was not made for such a task, but what the heck – you only live once.

As certainly there will be a rush of needle stuffed vacuums for repair the first week of January, there is always some poor soul that brings her vacuum to the repair shop in July. She tells us that she got the new vacuum for Christmas, but it never worked right and she thinks she ‘got a clunker’. A few minutes at the repair bench and you guessed it, Christmas in July.

Board To Death

There are many features in the new Wessel-Werk EBK360 powerbrush to be admired. LED headlight array, sculptured augured brush roller, 5-position step on height adjuster and redundant cooling systems just to name a few. But it is what’s missing in the new EBK360 powerbrush that gets us the most excited about the new design.

Like most other electronic systems these days the powerbrush has gone hi-tech. When the rubber belt was replaced with the geared belt it was technology that became responsible for the upgrade. While rubber belts are slow, underperform and often need replacement due to wear, they did have one great feature – they would break. Breaking the belt does not sound good to most folks, but the alternative would have been much more costly permanent damage of the powerbrush motor. Rubber belts are cheap & easy to replace. Powerbrush motors are neither cheap or easy to replace.

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D330 Turn & Clean Floor Brush

The new D330 Turn & Clean hard floor brush is now available on the Vacdepot website. The D330 is the latest invention from Wessel-Werk, the German vacuum cleaner accessory and cleaning tool manufacturer. The Turn & Clean is the first floor brush with a full 180° swivel & 90° pivot that allows for a nearly unlimited range of motion when cleaning. The D330 cleans both forward/backward, and also side-to-side for unmatched cleaning speed and performance.

Upgrade your cleaning experience, add the D330 Turn & Clean to your vacuum system.

Myraton Integrated Vacuum Wands

Myraton Industries has deployed the new Integrated Telescopic Wand, and eliminated the last external cord from wall inlet to floor on Wessel-Werk and Lindhaus quick disconnect enabled powerbrush sets. This sleek new wand is a work of art as much as a technical achievement. Available in two nozzle connection systems, the MYR67WW for Wessel-Werk nozzles features a spring button lock while the MYR67LH for Lindhaus QDC nozzles uses the pierce lock system.

Myraton has married their proven telescoping design with a new integrated cord system that covers the coiled cable from top to bottom. The new design also includes a much more powerful pivot design hose release system, replacing the thumb-saver tab with an even easier to use button.

The entire upper wand cord management system has been reshaped into a single part that aligns the cord management device, guides the button lock and holds the new release. Instead of multiple fasteners on the previous model wands the new integrated wand needs only two for the upper collar thanks to the one piece design.

Vacdepot is the only online source to offer all Myraton wand designs in the Inox Class 6700 series which are manufactured from environmentally friendly Stainless Steel. Often referred to as the “Green Steel”, stainless steel is more durable in the vacuum wand design and requires many fewer chemicals in the processing and manufacturer of wands. High quality stainless steel construction offers the strongest wand design available with permanent, life long stain and corrosion resistance. Beautiful brushed finish shows quality workmanship that will not rust, chip, scratch or peel and will remain functional and good looking for years to come.

Myraton is a leading vacuum wand manufacturer and build wands for most every vacuum cleaner manufacturer in the world. Myraton uses high quality tubing and precision shaping techniques to deliver quality and uniformity to exacting standards. Many of Myratons high volume OEM customers have granted Myraton tubes “straight to the production line” status. This advance qualification reflects the confidence in quality Myraton customers have in their products. For over 30 years Myraton has been involved in the design, development, and production of some of the North American floor care industry’s most innovative wand and handle tube solutions. The new Integrated Telescopic Wand design and the recent introduction of the Comfort Seal wand systems are only the latest innovations in three decades of superior service history to Myraton customers around the world.