Rexair LLC - Rainbow E2

Rainbow is a good but bulky (and pricey) vacuum. It has a carpet shampooer and a smaller vacuum head attachment (for chairs n smaller things) you can purchase. Also doubles as an air purifier.

# Kirby, Oreck, or Rainbow. If those are out of your price range then this: [https://www.walmart.com/ip/BISSELL-Power-Force-Bagged-Upright-Vacuum-1739/104757366](https://www.walmart.com/ip/BISSELL-Power-Force-Bagged-Upright-Vacuum-1739/104757366) I agree with Mr. Oreck in that "bagless" is a dirty word. Bagless vacuums are nasty to clean out. Rainbow being the exception because of the water being the filter.

Rainbow Vacuum I have had mine for close to 15 years and it has seen lots of golden glitter, still works wonderfully

Depends on the needs. I’ve owned many premium vacs. Kirby, Rainbow, Hyla, Riccar, Sebo, Miele, and several cheaper vacs like Dyson, Shark, Kenmore, etc. This includes Riccar Tandem Air upright, Kirby Avalir, Rainbow E2 & SRX, Hyla N and EST Defender, Miele C3, Miele CX1 Blizzard, Sebo E3 and D4 Premium canisters. Canister - Miele Complete C3 Brilliant - easiest canister to use - best-filtering - most suction and airflow out of all canisters I’ve used - best-cleaning power nozzles - comes with my favorite hard floor tool - don’t have to bend over to do things with it Upright - Kirby Avalir - best-cleaning vac for carpet that I have used/ owned - highest airflow available (higher airflow = better carpet cleaning) - most aggressive power nozzle with firm brush roll - this is my heavy-hitter for maximum dirt removal from carpet - can do a ton of other things but carpet is where they shine - I do feel it does a better job cleaning than my Riccar Tandem Air did on our carpet. Water-based Filtration Vac - Rainbow E2 - when paired with the SRX PN3 v1 power nozzle, it cleans carpet very well. - like the Miele C3, it is H13-rated HEPA - parts availability is awesome - super easy to service - The Hyla is a little easier to use and pull around but it doesn’t have as much suction as the Rainbow E2.

If you can wrap your mind around the extra work because it involves a water filter system, look at Rainbow. We bought our first one used over 25 years ago and it is still running. We gave it to our oldest child a few years ago after taking it to the Rainbow dealer locally for a cleaning and tune up. We would not recommend buying one new as they are very expensive and you can always find them on Facebook or other local markets. The water filtering aspect is a bit of a pain, but as a testament to how well they clean, when we pulled up the carpet in our last house after over a decade, the floor and pad were CLEAN. In other houses we've lived in and done flooring replacement, the floor was gross when we pulled up the carpets. You see them used all the time because of the water filter, not because they are breaking. And yes, we still use one. We just saw a great deal on a newer used one and picked it up, so we gave the old one to our kid.

I like my 30 year old rainbow, fighting pet dander with any dry filter vacuum makes for odors. If this thing ever dies, I will be getting something else that has water in the filtering process.

I love my Rainbow vacuum and my purple pet dyson.

I swear by the rainbow. It’s a big investment but they last years and I love having the air filtered of the dog hair all day when I’m not using the vacuum. It also cleans unlike anything else, and I had a Bernese mountain dog, two Samoyeds and two cats 🥲 you’d walk in my house and never know I had any animals.

I have a golden returner, and two lab mix puppies under a year old. I bought a rainbow vacuum and it works wonders but also, I vacuum daily because no matter what I do, they still shed huge amounts daily.

No rainbow vacuums? Smh. They are way better than dysons

I hate my Dyson 28 for animal hair! It is cumbersome and the extension never pulls out without pulling the entire vacuum over! Can’t wait to get rid of it! I bought an ancient rainbow on marker place and really felt it did a good job but it crapped out. I’m looking for a new or lightly used vacuum with a water filtration similar to the rainbow because it excited me so much to see how much gunk it got out of my house. We have all hardwood floors with wool rugs. I had heard recommendations for the rainbow E2 Black and have been looking for one but haven’t for one in the condition and price that looks like I want. Now I realizing there are a few more options other than Rainbow. Advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated! I need one pretty quickly

Had a Dyson for years. Got 3 goldens in my house currently. I own a rainbow now.