Indoor Air Quality Specialists

One of the things we pride ourselves on at the Vacuum Cleaner Hospital is being the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) solutions specialist.  Whether it's a Miele vacuum with a HEPA filter, or the IQ Air line of air purifiers, we've got answers to the IAQ dilemma's in your home. 

For example, recently we were able to provide a solution to a grave problem a woman was having in her home she recently had moved into.  Her issues were mold spores and off-gassing of some furnishings.  She wasn't quite sure what the source of the off-gassing was, but it was giving her a scratchy throat and irritated eyes.  She was especially concerned about the mold and rightly so.  Our solution was the IQ Air Multi-Gas, which is a unique product in the air purification market.  The Multi-Gas can eliminate over 300 harmful gasses, odors and also does a great job removing dust, mold, pollen and other particulates from the air in your home.

Just this week I talked to someone from Sanford who is buying a house in Cary and he said they saw my homemade YouTube video of the  IQ Air Perfect 16 .  His wife told him it looked like "just the thing they needed to make their house less dusty" and indeed it will! I've had this one in my HVAC system for almost 5 years and our 56+ year old house is virtually dust free.

IQAir Perfect 16

VCH Launches Miele & IQAir “Try-Before-You-Buy”

Background

Vacuum Cleaner Hospital in early July 2017 launched a new Try-Before-You-Buy program.  Sound familiar? Costco, Whole Foods offer free samples.  Software programs give 30 day free trial as does HULU and Netflix.  Even Amazon launched Try-Before-You-Buy program for fashion in late June .  And Best Buy did the same thing for electronics about the same time.

The idea of short-term rentals has become popular in housing to fashion. Best Buy for example is capitalizing on the idea for consumer electronics in partnership with Lumoid, an electronics rental online business.  The customer rents for a while then can purchase the item with a rebate for a portion of the rental cost. Best Buy is providing these goods to Lumoid to rent out with the hope that their rate of product returns goes down.

Miele & IQAir Try-Before-You-Buy programs

For the Vacuum Cleaner Hospital customer buying an IQ Air purifier or Miele vacuum can be a big investment but we now have a ‘try before you buy’ opportunity.

Here’s how it works, you come in and let us demonstrate why the product is best for your needs.  If you’re still ‘on the fence’ about whether it will do what we say it will in your home, you can take a Miele upright or canister vacuum to use for up to 48 hours.  With the IQAir Healthpro Plus purifier, we realize that you may need to keep it for a little longer so we’ll let you try it for up to 5 days (based on availability).

We also carry the IQ Air Multi-Gas unit – developed specifically for those suffering from Multiple Chemical Sensitives (MCS).  You don’t have to be diagnosed with MCS for this product to work for you.  If you have notable off-gassing in your home and it’s irritating you (eyes, throat, general fatigue), there’s nothing else like it for residential use on the market. For the IQ Air Muli-Gas we’re also offering a brand new ‘White Glove’ Service, free home delivery, set up AND pickup.

With this program, it’s a NO RISK opportunity to see if these products work for you.  Contact us at (919) 968-0711

Learn more about the Miele Vacuums here.

Learn more about the IQAir purifiers here.

The Product 20 Year Club

The integrity of Vacuum Cleaner Hospital products has long been one of the hallmarks of our reputation during our 30 years in business.  I was recently telling a customer about how long we carried a particular product and it occurred to me that there are many products we have carried for 20 years or more.

Here are the other products of the 'Over 20 Year Club': Miele vacuums, Hoover, MD central vacuums, Sanitaire Commercial Uprights, Bona Hardwood Cleaner, Wool Shop dusters, Tech Stain Remover, Kleenco Chemicals and Hoky carpet sweepers.  Almost making the club is IQ Air purifiers at 18 years.

Surprisingly, the item we have carried the longest is the Eureka Mighty Mite compact canister; it's been part of vacuum cleaner line-up since we opened in March 1986.

Having products in the 20 year club means three things for our clientele:

• You can buy with confidence that we will continue to support these products because we don't want to carry products that are a 'flash in the pan'.  The three key people on our staff have been here as long as some of the products so they have a unmatched knowledge base of each product.
• We can match your particular lifestyle and cleaning needs to combinations of these products and other 'Essentials for Clean Living'.
• We carefully hand pick which products we feel are unique and you will benefit from. Case in point, we debated almost 3 years about bringing in the Lampe Berger air freshener lamps from France but they're doing very well in the 5 months we've carried the line. We should have done it sooner! Of course we've had a few picks that turned out as well as we hoped but that's retail!

We welcome your suggestions about what you'd like to see us carry. Our guiding principle correlates to our slogan 'Essentials for Clean Living'. If we feel a product would delight or improve someone's ability to clean their house, then we would certainly consider it.