lynn_r_ct Congrats on your Kirby! I had the Dyson canister and took it back to Sears. As to your question to the 2 speed motor, the motor goes into a higher speed when the hose is attached for above the floor cleaning. The CFM is increased. You never posted as to what type of house you have as to your various floor surfaces and cleaning needs. The only reason that came to mind as you purchased a Dyson canister and then the Kirby. I have a G-3 and a G-4. 1 on each floor. I also have central vac and don't ever use the hose or the other stuff which comes with a Kirby. It takes way too long to do the switch to the canister mode. I know how to do it and it still takes time that I don't have. I use my Kirbys every day on the carpet and the CV comes out on the weekend to do everything else. Kirbys are great vacs and do a great job. We just don't have the June Cleaver time these days. LOL I would just purchase a Eureka Mighty Mite to to the detail cleaning. I think they are around $100. The shampooer takes some practice and does leave the shampoo in the carpet. I either use the Kirby or my Lux/Areus 3 brush carpet cleaner. I still extract all of the cleaner out with a Hoover Steam and Vac and have a pro come in with a truck mount once a year. They have water heaters on the truck and the water pick up is much higher so all of the cleaner is removed. I then have them apply Teflon stain protector. The carpet is white. No comments as I ask no 1 to take off their shoes. They just do it anyway as it is intimidating! LOL I could care less as I just replace it every 5 years as all carpet just gets gross. It is always white though. Let us know about you cleaning problems and you might get more suggestions.

Okay, I've been reading this thread and not responding to it b/c I don't want to have it come out wrong. I can't keep quiet any longer. I agree with many statements above. I would like to say these things: If you haven't already filed bankruptcy-DON'T do it. Your husband is like a child and you are not teaching him any good sound financial responsibility by bailing him out all the time. You've bailed him out 2x already and then signed for a loan for someone who has no credibility. Doesn't pay bills and loves to spend....HELLO that was not a smart move but you have to move ahead...can't look back. You guys created these debts you have to pay them. Your biggest expense next to your mortgage is your student loans....in almost all cases they can't be discharged. So you will still end up having to pay that. You've already stated you need your cars, so you'd be keeping those. You have to pay back your 401k loan...So basically you'd be trying to file off your 60k in CC and your SBA loan? Good luck.....you are going to ruin your credit....for a very long time IF you even get your bankruptcy granted with the new laws, you still may have to pay some of that back. What happens if you file and then have poor credit, no credit cards and then your water heater goes, or your furnace? You have no cards to pay it, no savings to pay it and no money to pay it. So you skip car payments to pay it then can't catch up and car gets repo'd and you have no way to work, lose your job, lose your house. Sounds extreme but it could happen. There are lots of people that are ONE crisis away from poverty and homelessness. I would set a budget, stick to it. Kick DH a$$.....if he's a photographer, start going to bridal shows get some clients offer better package pricing. Brides are bargain shoppers, if you have the best price and great photos you are hired. Hit the road and take photos of things when he isn't working. Enter photo contests w/cash prizes. Put your name out there. Free advertising is everywhere!!!! Stop crying over it and FIX IT!!!! Also, if you can sell stuff.....like 10 chairs to buy 4...then be smarter with the money. Sell 6 keep 4 and pay some bills. Take ALL the cards away from DH and give him a weekly allowance and that's it. If he's unhappy with that let him know that he did it to himself and needs to learn the hard way. Money doesn't grow on trees and the credit tree just got cut down. NO MORE MONEY......no more excuses. You made these bills now you have to lay in the "bed of bills" for a while. Once you recover from this you will feel a sense of relief and feel like a better person that you "took the bill by the horns" and paid everything down. You did the right thing and not the easy way out. Anyway, I'm all fired up, I hope this doesn't come across as insensitive. It's time to put your husband in his place and if he's not on board then he's got to find someone else to take advantage of financially b/c it's not gonna be you.

quote" Even though the economy is down and work is more scarce, the cost of materials is still going up. You may have some room for negotiation but, not as much as many people think. It now costs them and their subs almost twice as much to get back and forth to your jobsite as it did 2-3 years ago. The contractor is not going to subsidize your pool build. You may find that if you wait too long, your same pool may cost even more factoring in inflation, steel rebar, concrete etc. "quote This statement is fact in every respect. It's currently costing me 100 per fill up on my gas rigs and 150 per fill up on my diesels. Don't ask about the price of my steel and plumbing pipe. My steel supplier called me at the end of the week before last, effective 5-7 my new price would be 3.88 per bar on number three on truckload quantities but I could place an order now for my current 3.10 price. This is the same number three that I paid 99 cents per bar for four years ago. I made the purchase on two loads, Minutes later my pipe supplier called me too. His price on two inch is going up twelve cents a foot, also effective on 5-7. Again I had to make a major purchase. The sum of these two purchases was 50000, I'll have 30 days to pay after delivery. I currently pay over ninety per yard for ready mix concrete delivered to a jobsite compared to the less than forty I used to pay a few years ago. If you wait your pool will cost more. My current bids are already incorporating the price increases. The only reason I made the large purchases is so I can honor my existing quotations. These fuel prices are fixing to drive up many other prices to because of cartage. My quarry operator just called this week to announce the new delivery prices. Each truckload of rock delivered from Oklahoma will cost 250 more. I won't cry you members a river but I'll tell you guys this, Pool builders are selling the pools for more money than ever, but the costs of construction have escalated more than the resell price reflects. I currently have to build 13 pools to earn the same profit dollars I earned on 10 pools a few years ago. This will be a very tough year for the weaker companies in my business. I, unfortunately, foresee buyers and subcontractors getting burned by builders who've been hanging on by a thread. This makes it very important for the buyers and subs to watch who they conduct business with. See Ya, Kelly

infodivamary wrote: when the concessions get big, like your $25K giveback, it makes it hard to know what is really going on when looking at comps. Well, the good thing about that, for buyers anyway, is that our local MLS does record the concessions for Solds on a line called "Subsidy". It also records "List Price" and "Close Price". My Realtor cautioned us to pay close attention to the Subsidy line when looking at the sold comps, so I would "assume" that any competent Realtor would advise his/her clients accordingly.