Spec me a vacuum cleaner

chris_h

chris_h

chris_h

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As the title suggests, I need a new vacuum. My 10 year old dyson doesn't suck like it once did, and needs replacing!

I need something which has some serious suction, with the usual detachables.

Cheers!
 
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Dysons are pretty easy to repair. It could be the motor is on its way out. I replaced the motor in my (now 18 years old) DC-07 last year and it's now good as new again.
 
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Henry or Miele Cat and Dog.

If you want something you can lug around and knock over buy the Henry, they're awesome. I used mine to suck up half the stone rubble in my loft :).
 
I've got a Hetty (henrys sister) for diy jobs and the car and a Gtech cordless for whizzing around the house (animal version as it's got metal gears and not plastic one's which tend to strip)
 
Miele C3. Has different levels of suctions depending on what is it you're hoovering with various detachables and even a turbo one.
 
VincentHanna said:
Dysons are so easy to repair, I'm surprised they sell so many new ones!
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Because people would rather drop £400 on the newest model then spend an hour and £40 repairing the one they have. Disposable society and all that.
My DC-07 is probably going to end up like Trigger's broom eventually.
 
They sell new ones because people think theirs is dying when so many years down a block or something is causing it to lose suction and then they go 'Its had a pretty good run' then do a trade in with Dyson for the latest model.
 
Funnily enough I used my new hoover this weekend - a Shark NV680UKT (I think), it was remarkable the amount of dust and dirt it picked up from the carpet that my previous Dyson missed.
 
Miele - they suit all budgets too from £60 to £500

bags are pretty cheap and last for ages. had a dyson before and this miele was only only 1/3rd of the price it's better IMO.
 
I've had a Dyson and a Vax and prefer the Vax. A lot cheaper and, for me, much better than the Dyson. I've heard good things about the Miele brand but that was more historically. Not sure how good the new stuff is.



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I've ordered up a Miele C3 Cat n Dog lots of OCUKers have been raving about on these forums (I'm not the OP).

This is the highlight of an evening that has also involved pizza, motorcycles and heavy metal. I worry about myself sometimes.
 
Bought a top end Miele c3 Allergy brand, the roller wheels on the bottom of it were terribly designed so much so even for a strong bloke I found I had to pull it constantly as cleaning the flat. Even the £30 vacs have giant wheels and are more easily to roll along the floor, such poor engineering and designing from Miele it had to go back for a refund.

I hear bagged vacs are the best and according to that reddit bloke they are but once you go bagless or even cordless its very hard to go back to the old style, the speed and ease of use just outweighs going back to a corded bagged vac imo.

I wish Dyson or other stick vac producers followed suit with dyson into a more easy waste disposable system and improved weight or unit and battery life but they are still a bit behind. Hopefully Dyson V9 arrives with bigger battery or swappable battery.
 
VincentHanna said:
Dysons are so easy to repair, I'm surprised they sell so many new ones!
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I have no idea if Miele cleaners are easy to repair on not because they never break. My current one is at least twelve years old and works perfectly. The one it replaced was twenty-two years old, and that only got binned because the hose split and you could no longer get hoses with that old coupling. The rest of it was just fine.
 
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