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Hi. This is Travis on behalf of Expert Village talking to you about today about vacuums and
vacuuming and all the things that go along with that. And now that we've talked about
the types of vacuums, and the bags, and the no-bags, and on and on...what we want to do
is actually show you when you actually turn on the vacuum, how you want to adjust a particular
upright vacuum to fit the carpet that you are vacuuming. Whether you are vacuuming a
*** pile carpet (that's a longer carpet), a medium grade carpet, or whether it's a commercial
grade carpet (which is really, really flat and thin), there's a couple of things you
want to look for and do when adjusting your upright. With this particular machine, what
you are going to do when you turn the machine on...(of course this is going to be loud,
so I'll explain it first)...when you turn the machine on, most uprights have an adjusting
feature. On this particular one, you press it and it goes down and makes contact with
the floor. You press behind it and it raises that head. So again, what we want to do is
we want to depress this as many times until we actually hear the pitch of the motor change
and then we want to go one more beyond that pitch change. That will be about the best
proficiency setting for that vacuum. So, I'm going to go ahead and turn the vacuum on and
we are going to drop it down until we hear the pitch of the motor change and then we
are going to drop it down one more. You'll see what I mean when I turn it on and you'll
hear that change. Ready? Here we go. And then one more and we can start vacuuming. So you
heard the pitch of the motor change and then I went one more. Then, if you'll notice, before
I shut it off, you want to raise that head back up to its highest setting because that
is going to promote the life of the motor. If I was to shut it off while the head was
in contact with the carpet at it's lowest setting, it just wears unnecessarily on the
motor. And over the period of years and years, those little things add up and it's going
to wear on the motor and cut down on the life of the motor.