Don's Sweeper

Don's Sweeper sells vacuums, fixes them, and stocks the bags, belts and filters that keep them running. It's a shop with a counter, which is why the fastest way through most vacuum trouble is to walk in with the machine.

Your vacuum has quit

Before you replace it: a machine that's stopped picking up is more often a belt, a blockage or a full bag than a dead motor. What each symptom usually means, and what's worth bringing with you, is on the repair page.

You need a bag and can't figure out which one

Bring the old bag, the box it came in, or the machine's model number. Manufacturers reuse the same letters for bags that aren't the same bag — a "Type C" from one brand won't fit another brand's Type C, and that's the mistake that sends people home with a box they can't use.

You're ready for a new machine

Written specifications for thirty-five machines are on this site — uprights, canisters, handhelds and commercial. Price and what's actually on the floor are worth a phone call, because both change and neither is something a website should be trusted on.