Vacuum 2

I just vacuumed the apartment again. after the livingroom and the small bedroom, the 9 inch diameter, 9 inch high cylinder was 1/3rd full of fiber. I checked out the filter. Why does a vacuum have a filter on it! This filter is before the stuff goes into the canister. How insane! The filter cavity is so recessed, I cannot see well all the way to the back. So I use a flashlight. Wow! Behind the filter carriage was tightly packed fibers - which I did not clean out last week. It has started backing up into the external hose of the vacuum - so I cleaned that all out. Had to use a set of needle nose plyers to get back that far into the filter caivty.

Then I took the sponge out of the filter slider. I didn't want the vacuum clogging up anymore. I started over at the livingroom. I filled the canister again, just like last week. As I think about it, I think that the rotating brushes in the vacuum intake suction head are actually pulling fibers out of the wall to wall carpet. The fibers do look like cotton - or synthetic - not like hair.

I emptied the canister after doing the whole apartment, and started over in the livingroom a third time. This time I pulled up a chair, and vacuumed a 4 foot by 10 foot section very, very slowly. I filled the canister about 1/10 th full, with a bit of grim and dust, too. So I emptied that, and started over in the same area, vacuuming very, very slowly. This time I got no grime/dust, but I still got a ball of fiber about 3 inches in diameter.

I think I am going to vacuum again tomorrow and try to get as much of this up as possible. Yuck!