A Polished Performance

Since I've been using this fellow quite a bit recently for Christmas cleaning, I thought I'd showcase him in his own 'featurette'. This is my GE floor polisher, bought for next to nothing from a local seller many moons ago.

I use this machine for scrubbing and buffing linoleum (kitchen and bathroom) floors, and for buffing laminate floors. It's an old*, homely, battle-scarred machine, but it works fine, and is just the right size for my relatively small house. The seller included a plethora of brushes/pads with it...steel wool, 'SOS pad', and wool, so it has an accoutrement for all of my requirements. I've even used it before cleaning carpets, to work in cleaning solution for stubborn stains. All in all, a worthwhile purchase, and, like my Shop Vac**, an important non-Electrolux/Aerus member of the cleaning team. I suppose I could get a Floor Pro, and use it additionally for carpet cleaning, but it'd be rather bulky on my relatively small bare floor area. By the by, if Aerus made a wet/dry vacuum, I'd probably have it, but Shop Vac does the job for me.

Ratings plate. I'm not sure how to read the date code*. It could mean 'May 1965', or something else, but at any rate, I'm sure it's seen more than a few years of use.

**Speaking of the Shop Vac, it gets daily, and often twice or thrice daily use cleaning up wet, slushy, snowy, and dirty front and back porches. I even vacuum off the bottom of boots with it.

Not Mine, but Worth Showcasing

I did some heavy duty Christmas cleaning for an old family friend yesterday and today, and this is her vacuum: the Aerus Lux Classic.

This is virtually identical to the previous flagship base models, namely the LE and Ambassador, save for the different, more powerful, and louder motor. I used the Classic for dusting, stairs, bare floors, and baseboards. For carpet (my friend has it almost wall-to-wall), I brought along my battleship grey Epic 3500 #2. 

Here is the only (external) difference I can see between the Classic and it's predecessors: this (permanent?) post-motor filter. I don't recall seeing one of these before.