Long story short, I own a pet care/boarding facility w/attached vet office, and we've gone through lots of vacuums for end-of-shift/day cleaning. I've spent months researching and then buying and testing different models (both residential and commercial); none have made the cut, so I'm asking for advice on brands, models, etc so I can hopefully stop wasting money. I really want to do this ourselves (bc we care) as opposed to hiring some pro services company that brings meth-heads near my clients' dogs. Have tried multiple models of these, so far:>Shark>Bissell>Henry>Kenmore>Black+Decker>just about every suitable knockoff Amazon/Chinesium brand>roomba (for the small areas, already almost wrecked by german shepherd hair)>a few wet-dry vacs from a local vacuum shop (don't remember brand, they sucked ass)Biggest issue we have is throughout the day, hair gets wet and mixes with the dry hair we have to suck up. The hidden wet hair chokes the vacuums, a lot of the time we don't know we've sucked it up until going to empty; over time, this kills them. Any advice on vacuums for this scenario is welcome because a good vac makes it all so much easier to keep pristine.
>tfw the answer seems obvious, but burgers don't seem to have a proper word for itWell them Nass-Trocken-Sauger, lit. wet dry vacuum. You'll see them mostly in context of construction sites or cleanup of them.Looks like pic rel and sounds pretty much like what you're looking for.
>>2814759thanks, we've tried a few wet dry vacs and the dog hair bested them. I will check out the picrel brand (have makita tools already).
>>2814806Sorry, that shouldn't have a recommendation for Makita. In that regard i can only say i got a Fein machine at work and a smaller at home. Pretty happy with those, although not a cheap brand.That said if you bestet multiple wet dry vacuums you may consider slight change of tactic by spraying/wetting your furry hairs in general if they thicken up that much, or use more stops while getting a taller model with sieve where hairs can fall down in between.However that's just my thoughts, my hardest enemy is wood dust, so take my advice with a salt of grain.
>>2814846>use more stops while getting a taller model with sieve where hairs can fall down in betweensounds promising, could you elaborate on this? I know fuck-all about vacuums.
>>2814867First, sorry for my terrible English. It's late here and I'm just writing aeway.Second, it's about filter area. Air gets pulled into your machine, dirt needs to be sperated somewhere along the way and then air gets exhausted. Now in a bag machine, the bag is also the filter needed to seperate dirt or in your case dog hair out of the airflow. Now hair is fine, but continuous, unlike dust, and tends to build walls, becoming more and more airtight till machine tries to pull an invisible wall, the illusion of a full bag. In this state the machine is running full power unable to actual pull air, actively reducing motor's life. Now we get to chamber machines, think a modern Dyson. They pull air over a longer tube and dirt falls off due gravity and force difference by room volume changes, but again, a dry hair doesn't fall so easily. It likely will flow through the tube and end at the last resort, a small mechanical filter. Now we're back to aforementioned case, an air tight barrier will build up and your machine seemingly run full power while accomplishing very little. Now we get to big sieve machines. The principle is the same as before, but instead of a small, last resort mechanical filter, we got a big mechanical filter at forefront. The idea is simple, even if dirt clogs up a certain part of the sieve, it is still big enough to pull more air around the sides. Now, those are usually build as vertical cans as depicted above, so if you stop airflow, all remaining dirt at the sieve will fall down due to gravity, just like in a normal trash can. That's where my suggestion of wetting the dogs hairs comes in as these kind of machines don't mind a bit of wetness, they rather profit from it. Albeit your can might get very heavy to empty if you're just filling it with water.So yeah, my experiences with vacuums.
hmm, hair and plastic is used for many triboelectric demonstrations, i would wet the inside of the can with an electrolyte and try to ground as much hair as possible. on my dry wet vac the head unit contains the motor and ground circut so i would expose ground connections into the can ideally they would be on/in the inlet hose and in the can. needless to say exposing a ground connection is not underwriters lab practise so it is deff a diy and the connectors would have to be brush so i do not damage ease of use.alternatively you might be able to fit a electrostatic air filter to the over pressure valve and ionize the air instead of the hair less fussy but much higher voltage.inb4 there is no over pressure valve it is a under valve
>>2814880line the inside of the can and inlet with a different material something that the hair will stick to better than the plastic of the motor mouth. but ya double checking the ground both in the machine and for the building might go a long way. building ground is often done by attaching it to the copper water lines and repair plumber often break the ground with pex and do not braze on jump leads to fix it.
try a liquid-filter vacuum> meth-heads near my clients' dogschillout, goddamn furdaddy
Look into small cyclonic dust separators, they help remove all kinds of debris including hair from the airstream of a shop vac and dump it in a cannister before it can clog the vacuum proper. Lots ofcsmaller ones are marketed to woodworkers and it wouldn't surprise me if there were units designed for people like pet groomers and hair salons that generate lots of loose hair.https://airscrubberhq.com/workshop-dust-collection/best-add-on-cyclonic-separators-for-dust/
>>2814744>vacuuming wet hairbad humanno biscuit
try >>2814970 but with half quarter of water inside and the hose that sucks the pet hair being submerged all the way into the water (do not mix the hoses or your vacuum will suck up wayer and its all gone)everytime you vacuum pet hair, it will get stuck on the water and only air will go inside the vacuum
The vacuum from finding Rocko's Modern Life turned me gay. Im not kidding. I had the show on DVD growing up and I would always get this weird feeling in my stomach when the scene with the vacuum came on. Something about the way the vacuum's mouth is animated makes it seem so inviting and welcoming. The scene also invoked a sense of domination as rocko and heffer are sucked inside the mouth and then to the back of the throat and are unable to resist it. Turns out I had a vore fetish but did not understand it until I discovered vore online when I was entering high school. I used to grind against my henry hoover when I was little pretending it was the suck o matic and I would always end up hard but unable to cum since I was unaware of masturbation at the time.Eventually I outgrew vore and started watching normal porn although I believe this scene warped my psyche and caused me to have a domination fetish.The vacuum in the show is male so I would always imagine a male vacuum in my fantasies and somewhere along the line I think that turned me gay.
>>2814744yjk
>>2814744I'd buy a plastic barrel with a lid then install a cyclonic separator atop that and use the most powerful shop vac I could score as the vacuum source after (this is important) covering the shop vac filter with a cheap panty hose leg which I do to all my vacuums.A common cart can hold other grooming items and being plastic the industrial carts do not endanger woodwork. I have several in my home and shops.Line pastic barrel with trash bag and inspect for hose clogs periodically.
