NotoriousREV

Can someone recommend us a vacuum cleaner?

Not too expensive
For use on carpets and Amtico flooring (roughly 50/50)
Must be lightweight (wife has a dodgy arm)
Not a Dyson 'cos they're rubbish
Actually picks stuff up off the floor

rgv_stu

henry

michaelro

Miele

Recently did the 1 month for a £1 for 'Which' access.
Miele hoovers fill 7/8 top spots in the Best Buy category.

We bought a S4211 Gold Edition - 5 Year Warranty, Good on all surfaces.

Sonic'

Get a heavyweight then you can do it instead of the wife

Why does she have a dodgy arm

NotoriousREV

Pfffftttt, you don't have a dog and bark yourself.

Paul3446

I'd go for a Dyson.

NotoriousREV

Why? They're rubbish. I've never used one yet that I was impressed with.

Matteeboy

Sebo - best made on the market and last for ages.
Oh and they work well too.

WRX_Dazza

just bought a "Hoover" got about 500 filters on it and it even picks up thread!!

standard upright guise and was about £130 i think.

dysons suck (or dont suck)

Nido

Dyson seem to have done a very good interpretation of "The Emperer's new clothes"

Everybody thinks they are great because they are told they are, whereas in fact they are ****

Bluie

From a no cost option I would recommend Miele, have just bought a new one, after making the mistake of buying a Sebo, very disappointed with that. Have had 2 Mieles previously and would highly recommend them.

Also bought Henry at a reasonable price for a couple of shops, seem to be good suckers and easy to use.

Abdabz

Henry for me bought only 3 weeks ago and he's so cool, I like to "feed him" the dust and carpet bugs for his tea etc
Seriously, a quality bit of engineering.... Bag gets full put bag in bin, unlike dysons and the likes, cylinder gets full, spend 3 hours shaking it violently into your wheely bin
Plus, in our local paper, there are always dozens of reconn'd Dysons for ~£40... So they either fall apart far too often or get stolen to order by joyhooverriding mamas

Matteeboy

Eh? What did you get?
Our X5 upright has been utterly brilliant.
Lifts the most ingrained of dog hairs (black dog, cream carpets!!(=), adjusts automatically the the right height and is equipped with all sorts of attachments.

Abdabz

Ah but did it come with a little Henry beach ball?

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Aww cute, just for girls



BTW Henry rocks!!

Paul3446

Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul3446
I'd go for a Dyson.

Why? They're rubbish. I've never used one yet that I was impressed with.


Er, because my one's been excellent, I run it over carpet, it picks up anything that's there, call me old fashioned if you like, but that's good enough for me.

Bluie

It was indeed the X5 Extra, when compared to the 2 Mieles we had didn't think it was any where near as good, hence the reason for buying a Miele Solution Hepa S5280

GazTheHat

x2

Don't get yourself a Dyson.

lordretsudo

Same here. We've had a Dyson DC07 for several years and have had nothing but trouble with it. A really shoddy piece of kit IMO, and expensive too.

pslewis

Overpriced crap .......

BOSCH or VAX .....

Scooby-Doo

Another vote for Sebo

michaelro

Vax

Devildog

LOL

For amtico (now having an entire house full) the brand is unimportant, just make sure it has an all brush head.

We had dyson cylinder DC0 something for 7 years. Utterly reliable, excellent results and wouldn't hesitate to recommend. And thats as an owner of two big hairy black and tan dogs that live in the house.

Soft brush head for hard floors, rotating brush thingy for he rugs and carpets. Great machine. Survived being chewed and attacked by a juvanile rottweiler as he was growing up. Pups will be pups

Wife fancied new cleaner for new house, wanted an upright and based on experience we bought a DC14 Animal.

It is extremely clever, sucks like a demon and is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC for the rugs - all of which are light in colour. The way it picks up the dog hairs is brilliant.

What is utterly annoying about it, is that small bits of grit on the floor can get caught between the floor and the head causing surface scratches on the amtico. It simply doesn't have enough ground clearance. Its not that bad, but as its dark amtico, they show up. To avoid this, you use the the flexi hose and a brush head - but the pain in the **** "feature" is that the telescopic hose is one large spring, and there is too much tension in it, making it unwieldy as the fecking thing won't stay put when hoovering with the hose.

The cylinder dysons are also too low to the ground with the same issues, but a lot lighter to carry about.

For amtico, get something with big, soft wheels and good ground clearance and a sofy brush head.

For carpets I would have no hesitation in recommending a DC14, notwithstanding everyone (many of whom probably have little or no practical experience) jumping on the "dysons are crap" bandwagon.

GazTheHat

Sorry devildog, have had 3 dysons now, each one has had problems. There are better vacuums out there for less money. Miele for one.

Jamie

Miele

Tam the bam

Get yourself a SIAL vacuum cleaner, they work wonders, just look how they sook all the **** from the internet and dumps it all here. Fantastic

MikeCardiff

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Morphy Richards performair 2000w Pets - best hoover I've ever had - actually picks things up rather than just moving them from one place to another, has the HEPA filters and loads of attachments etc... - was about £85 IIRC#

It is quite heavy though, but most uprights seem to be these days.

Tart Man

I have to agree about Dyson, compared to Hoover or Electrolux, the Dyson wipes the floor. Electrolux and Hoover really are rubbish vacuum cleaners.

Our Dyson 0something has took some abuse, it was £140 new and is an upright, so cleans carpet far better than cylinder vacs which I noted to leave crap behind and never clean as well (Henry and Meile owners take note). Unless it has a motorised turbo-brush attachment thingy.

It's been dropped down the stairs a number of times, latest incident has broke the clip that holds the crevis tool which is part of the handle...checked up spares prices online : £20 for a whole new handle/hose assembly - not bad! I looked at other parts prices, and evrything else from motors to chassis is fairly priced - quite surpising, so if it did go wrong, its cheap to fix. So if they do break so often- why don't people fix them, parts are cheap ( compared to its Electrolux predacessor)

The dust canister is easily cleaned out - just wash it out under the hosepipe every few months. Comes up like new.

Whats so desperately wrong with them?

Inccidentally with messy bagless cleaner - I just had to strip down and wash out a Philips cylinder vacuum used at work after the dust bag burst. Christ did that make a mess. In addition to that, the impeallar dropped off teh motor shaft resulting is it gouging out the casing and smelling like it was on fire, fortunately I stripped it down and repaired it before it became terminal. Any other idiot would have used it until the motor burnt out or until the impellar self destructed. So based on that, don't buy a Philips.

Devildog

Begs the question though, if you had problems with the first one, why buy another two? Especially if you had problems with the second one as well