Hello,
I'd love to replace my CT22 with the new CT26
Has any one convinced his wife to buy a CT26 for home cleaning ?
And seriously does any know if Festool vacuum cleaners are better for carpet and floor than the for home use ones.

Help me please

Yverof

The 26 is suitable for the job but a normal home vac is a lot better in my opinion. Especially if a woman has to work with it. It is no fun dragging the 26 up the stairs while home vacs are small and light. Also, modern home vacs have a stronger suction than the Festool vacs because they have 1800 to 2000 watt motors.

Bob, I'd like to see what you track in on your boots then.  I've used my Festool vacs around the house for years now.  It doesn't seem to put much of a dent in the filter bag. 

While the video is being uploaded onto youtube!   Ill give you my mums opinion.

She hates Dysons as they are awkward for stairs and to get under chairs and tight spaces she wish she never bought the dyson. She has a Cat 'n' Dog vacuum which she prefers.

She loves her new CT26 as it has ALOT more power than any Vacuum she had.  She says the Air powered Turbo head does as good or better job than the Dyson which has a Motorised brush. She has a 17Meter hose coming which I measured up for her as long as the CT26 is right at the bottom of the stairs she should be able to vacuum the entire upstairs of the house so no need to carry the CT26.

Festool told me that the CT26 wont loose suction up to 15meters I ordered 17meters as 15meters is just a bit to short really but if the suction drop is a lot I could always cut 2 meters of the hose.

She has used it quite a bit and the bag still feels empty to me. I also got her http://www.floor321.co.uk/Products/Spares/Numatic/NVA55B.aspx Grooming brush for the dog!  The dog loves it and my mum does lol! The hairs do get stuck on the pins but you simply pull them away and they get sucked up.


JMB

With these two I would go thru a lot of bags.  



I do use the CT-22 with a larger diameter hose with the Dyson head on the stairs occasionally.

Peter

Interesting. Is that the 36mm hose? Just cleaning the floor, my household vacuum seemed to have a more powerful suction than my CT26. I wondered if the 27mm hose would increase the velocity of the airflow and maybe make it pick up more.

Can't comment on carpet since I've got all wood floors. But, with the purchase of the 456736
Compact Cleaning kit and a dusting ball, the CT22 I've got has taken over completely all the vacuuming jobs in my apartment. I pay a friend's wife to come over and clean for me and she's given me permission to dispose of the other two house cleaning type vacuums I've got. Thought I'd get a scolding when I said I wanted to get rid of them, but she's perfectly happy to roll the CT22 around. I don't have any stairs in my place so there's no need to carry the CT22 anywhere and she likes the CT22's extra long power cord. She can do the entire apartment with it plugged into the same wall outlet.

Thats another thing my mum likes is the power cord nice and long!

JMB

My only complaint about it is the plug configuration. I'm not sure where it originates from and I'm sure it's been discussed thoroughly before with some practical reasoning behind it, but I've been tempted to cut it off and connect a regular three pronged Canadian/USA 120v plug. Agreed, attaching the adapter plug to it is a minor inconvenience, but it's still an irritating one.

Our household vac' died shortly after I got my demo CT 26. I brought it in, put the 36mm non-antistatic hose on it from the Universal Cleaning Kit, and put the Kit plus Turbo Suction Brush on top. I showed Veronica how well it worked and she just loves it. The cord and hose are nice and long, which is a big plus. We had an upright vac', which was always hard to get under things. Now it's easy.

I have to move it to change elevation but that's no big deal to me.

Now I have to schedule my demo's with her in mind also...


Tom

I don't recall reading any posts where someone said that there was no suction loss between the 36 and 27mm hoses, but I can remember reading people saying the opposite.

It seems obvious to me that a 27mm hose would restrict airflow more than a 36mm one...

I'm surprised Festool would tell you otherwise. Who was it at Festool that said that?

Sorry to hear it didn't work out with the 17 meter hose and that you were wrongly informed by Festool, JMB. I must admit I was a bit skeptical about the use of such a long hose. As far as I know I have always heard and read Festool state that 7 meter was the maximum length for practical use. Any longer than that and you'd loose too much suction, they said.

Perhaps those people who ordered 15 or 20 meter long hoses used it for sanding on a ladder. Sanding doesn't nearly require as much suction as cleaning.

Hope you get your money back.
 

Take a look at reply #5 in this thread, JMB. It shows the difference in a 27mm and 36mm hose pretty dramatically.


Tom

I just don't like vacuuming with a canister type vac.  I have the tradesman cleaning kit with CT26, but the floor brush just doesn't impress me that much and is kind of unnecessarily heavy. The dirt is collected all via a small central port, so if you have anything like a scrap of double-sticky tape backing, that won't get picked up because it won't fit through the dirt port. I think it would do well with fine dust and sawdust though. Dustpans and shop vacs still have their places.

I have a backpack-style vac that gets used for regular vacuuming around the house. (ProTeam brand). It's 150cfm  and 100 inches of water lift, so the power is similar to the CT26. The floor brushes are more like the Festool 'industrial' brush head. They're maybe 18 inches wide and there's more open space under there, with a 1.5 inch port where the dirt is drawn up into the hose. There is a super-long cord and I can vacuum my entire two-story house without unplugging if I use a centrally located outlet. Because the canister is worn on your back, it's easy cleaning stairs and the floor wand is very light and easy to move in and around furniture, or to use for hockey slap-shotting toys left out of place.

Ok, bringing it back to Festool - I've found that the Wand and attachments meant for the 1.5 inch anti-stat hose of my Proteam vac will also work on my CT with the 36mm hose! Using the proteam attachments on the CT made it a lot nicer for me, but I'll still use the backpack for regular cleaning.

I think the Tradesman set is still a pretty good value, but I haven't had the right opportunity to use it for what it would be best suited-to.

If you have a Miele don't assume anything about other 'decent' home vacs. The Miele line is about as good as it gets; powerful, quiet, easy to maneuver, etc. The bags are pricy but they pack pretty tight, much like Festool bags, and they are easy and clean to change. We have one that gets a good workout because of our German Shepard. I do use a CT22 with vacuum brush when I groom him. The AS hose makes that job much neater.