Quiet vacuum that works well!

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http://www.amazon.com/Fein-9-20-27-TURB ... B00K69ILFQ

Many of us have issues with loud vacuums. Fein makes shop vacs that actually work quite well--I've been using a earlier model of this for years--works great.

A cheap option is to wear earplugs.

What sucks is that it's all psychology.

People equate "loud" with "effective." So, they deliberately engineer vacuum cleaners to be noisy.

I'd buy a silent one in a heartbeat.

Would it vacuum dog hair, do you think?

This review is from: Fein 9-20-25 Turbo-II 9-Gallon Wet/Dry Vacuum with Auto-Start
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Fein also cleans dog hair out of vehicle with no problem, almost impossible with other vacuums. My employees are so happy not have to listening to a loud vacuum and the recon guy said it is the best cleaning vacuum he has ever used. Thanks for save my hearing, Scott Reagan(Star Motors)
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While the vacuum does have a lot of suction, it won't pull cat hair woven into fabric--I find a lint remover to be more effective for doing that.

I just wear industrial-grade ear defenders when hoovering. I have a rather powerful hoover but I can't hear much of it when I have ear plugs and ear defenders on.

Panasonic vacuum like I liked.

We do not have one now but in the past I have found that Panasonic vacuum cleaners are reasonably quiet and yet effective. They are also available as the Sears Kenmore Progressive line of vacuums, so better buy now and stock up on bags because who knows how long Sears will be around? If you own a house, (Parents of autistic kids take note of this) a central vacuum system can be located from the living space and exhaust outside which keeps the noise down. When it comes time to sell the house, a central vac is an extra selling feature.

Stay away from Dyson, Eureka, and Oreck. Orecks are not only loud but shrill too [quote][/quote]

I find that the noise of the vacuum doesn't bother me when I am vacuuming, but bothers me a lot when someone else is doing it in my presence. I ackshuly enjoy vacuuming, sucking up stuff into a bag is verry merry berry satisfying, and all vacuuming duties were assigned to me when I lived with my parents.

I HATED the sound of vacuum cleaners when I was a kid. They used to scare the living crap out of me. I don't fear them anymore, but the sound still bothers me somewhat.

^^^^^ NOOOOO! DO NOT get a Roomba!

My mother has one and we stopped using it after about a month. It sounds like a toy train and drives me nuts and it does so for hours. That, and it really does not clean carpeting well at all. If you have to make a lot of noise, you might as well the get carpet as clean as possible.

I suggest the Panasonic I linked above as it is less than $100 and consider investing in a central vacuum system for the long term. Yes, it may cost $1000-1600 but so would a Kirby (which is actually also one of the better choices as they don't sound as obnoxious). When you sell your house, it is a selling feature and you can recover the cost. Also, central vacs work really well on pet hair with the hard surface attachments as well as the power nozzle.

Other possible choices might be the "classic" Hoover and Eureka uprights that your mother probably used that have the soft bag and the large blower and have a lower "note" than the bagless uprights they make today. Unfortunately, it will probably be a used vacuum. Eureka does make them new under the commercial Sanitaire label but you have to buy them through janitorial supply houses and they are expensive.

The other alternative is to hire Merry Maids and have them vacuum when you and the kids aren't there.

Here is a link for Kenmore Panasonic vacuums too. Link for Kenmore vacuum

Why not just wear ear defenders...

Click here for ear defenders I use

Holland, see if there is a mom and pop specialized vacuum store in your area. They usually carry lines like Panasonic and some even carry central vacs as well. Stay away from the Oreck store, all of them are terribly shrill!

We have three hovers, a roomba for hoovering daily, a Henry and a Dyson.

We have the Henry to clear up after OH's DIYing, as we did quite a lot of work to our house. It's reasonably loud but I never had a problem with it so long as it's me that's hoovering.

The Dyson was our house Hoover pre DIY but we don't tend to use it anymore as its loud and requires effort to get out and put away (with all the attachments etc) to vacume a lot as we have 4 dogs.

Our main Hoover now is a roomba robot Hoover and we find it brilliant, we do have hard floor coverings but it seems to work really well and we only get hair under the places it can't get under. It's fairly noisy and does go for ages (it did do my head in when it went off when we were watching TV), but we set ours to do its thing after we go to bed so it doesn't disturb us and we can come down to a clean house every morning.