Originally Posted by
mike'sgirl
I bought an older Rainbow from an auction and I love it not only because its light, but it picks up hair and sand like nobodies business! I have several dogs and cats, but it's the dog hair that gets in the carpet.
We have a Rainbow, too. Ours deposits the dirt into water and when we dump the water, we are amazed with the gunk it picks up. It was expensive, initially, but we've used it 18 years. Still works fine and no repairs. It also has a hose in case you need to extract water from your carpets. Never used that, but it was a package deal.