Vacuuming And Lifestyle Facts

Vacuuming Can Extend the Life of Your Carpet

• The right vacuum cleaner and its proper use can double or triple your carpet's life expectancy. If your vacuum is performing poorly, the carpet nap will remain matted and packed down from foot traffic. Sand and grit cannot be pulled from flattened carpet fibers. Discolored traffic trails begin to appear in the carpet. As the sand and dirt build up, it acts like sandpaper, slowly wearing, cutting and destroying the carpet fibers as you walk across them. (Source: Vacuum Dealers Trade Association,www.vdta.com)

Vacuuming Improves the Appearance of Your Home

• The overall appearance of your carpet can be enhanced with regular use of a good vacuum cleaner designed to provide optimum airflow through the filter. If the vacuum cleaner you purchase has enough airflow and suction to lift the carpet nap to the brushes, the vacuum will brush the nap and help it to stand up properly. The result will be newer looking and easier-to-clean carpeting. (Source: Vacuum Dealers Trade Association, www.vdta.com)

Effective Vacuum Filters Can Cut Down The Effort Put Into Cleaning

• Poor vacuum cleaner suction can contribute to the concentration of dust that remains in carpet and coats furniture. Through normal household activity, that dust gets kicked up in the air, increasing the need to dust furniture more often. With effective filters, a final vacuuming after dusting a room will remove dust from the floor without recirculating it into the air-reducing the need for repeat dusting.

• CleanStream® filters, made with a space-age polymer and engineered with composite membrane technology, can stop particles at the surface of the filter while resisting permanent clogging. The particles can be easily tapped away clean from the surface of the filter, restoring like-new airflow and efficiency.

Consumers Claim a Clean House Counts

• A survey conducted by the Industrial Research Center on behalf of W. L. Gore & Associates in 2001 shows that most consumers use their household vacuum cleaner two to three times per week or weekly. (Source: Industrial Research Center on behalf of W. L. Gore & Associates, www.CleanStream.com)

Next Generation Vacuum Cleaner Technology to Save Time and Money

• Ordinary vacuum cleaner filters, also known as depth filters, can cost consumers time and money:
  • They can become clogged, leaving consumers with a filter that isn't efficient and ultimately resulting in additional time required for cleaning.

  • They can tear or become damaged while in use, allowing dust particles and debris to flow through the filter or scatter back out of the vacuum and recirculate into the air inside the home - once again requiring additional cleaning time.

  • They end up costing consumers time spent shopping for the right replacement bags, not to mention the actual costs of the replacement bags themselves.

• CleanStream filters' polymer surface cannot be easily torn or punctured, keeping more dust particles inside the vacuum and increasing the likelihood that the filter will last for many years. (Source: W. L. Gore & Associates, www.cleanstreamfilters.com)

• CleanStream filters mean no more messy bags to buy and no more hassles with difficult to clean reusable filters. The unique nonstick surface of CleanStream filters makes them easy to clean. Just remove the filter, tap off the dust collected on the surface, insert it back into the vacuum, and it works like new. (Source: W. L. Gore & Associates, www.cleanstreamfilters.com)