Lightweight vacuum cleaner

Doing more research I notice some of them have mech on the base and just up the handle and others have it all on the top of handle - Does having it on the handle make it top heavy or does it feel balanced.
This little Bissel one we have is just like having a hand held with a long handle as everything is all on the base.
Checked container and filter today - There wasn't a lot of room left for more dust and fluff and it hasn't had a great deal of use.
You have to be careful - was looking at Bosch and noticed some were 21v -25v and another more than 25v.
 
Semple said:
Get yourself a robovac and then just top up the cleaning once a fortnight with a deeper clean from a manual vacuum.
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Do they actually work though.. How do they cope with corner dust and dust close to a skirting board for example.

Especially when you live in a house where there's a step up into the kitchen from the living room...

Do they have modern dalek capability?

 
mattyfez said:
Do they actually work though.. How do they cope with corner dust and dust close to a skirting board for example.

Especially when you live in a house where there's a step up into the kitchen from the living room...

Do they have modern dalek capability?

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Most have wide sweeping brushes, so corners and getting under skirting aren't an issue. It won't go down a step though unfortunately, so will need a mostly flat floor - can go over door thresholds and thick pile rugs etc. You'll still need to manually vacuum tops of skirting and ceiling/coving corners etc though.
 
What a anti climax -Got to Curry's and they only has 4 makes on display and even the lightest one was much heavier than we thought it would be. It was advertised at 2.2kg where online they say it's 4.5kg.
We didn't buy anything but the worst was to come.
We went to Meole Brace retail park in Shrewsbury. - Never again. We were queuing to get out - I have never been in a retail park as bad as that one.
Now we are trying to decide if it's worth buying one in the first place .
One major question -Are they loud like our hand held vac's they scream and sound awful.
I did see a silverline in Lidl last week for £69. Perhaps I should have snatched it up as it was only one on shelf.
Why isn't anything easy these day's - In the old days you always bought a Hoover as it was the only one on market.
I try my hardest to spend money but it never happens.
 
|n the end we decided we wouldn't use a battery vac as the main vac so we looked for a middle of road one.
Ended up with a Shark IZ202UK from John Lewis -£149 down from £169 at Curry's - It came today so it's on charge then we will see if it does the job.
There is only two of us so it's mainly kitchen and dining room.
 
mattyfez said:
Do they actually work though.. How do they cope with corner dust and dust close to a skirting board for example.

Especially when you live in a house where there's a step up into the kitchen from the living room...

Do they have modern dalek capability?

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Recently many robo-vacs have auto extending brushes/mops that allow it to get in to corners, in fact the little side brushes that all employ will get slightly under any gaps in plinths/appliances (like our fridge/freezer), to a point they do the periphery probably better than any normal vacuum.

The step is a good point, you can build little ramps, but alternatively you can just lift it over the step as you have much flexibility in instructing it what to clean, people do this for stairs, you can have multiple maps, each map having multiple rooms and you can select which rooms and map its operating on at any time.. some auto detect you’ve moved it and know which map to use. The 9not available in the uk) Roborock Curv has a 3cm threshold capability but that is not a ‘step’ which I presume is at least 80mm+?

I finally caved in this year with the Dreame L40 ultra with the offer at Costco (online) and it’s impressive, the thing makes a good effort of getting in every nook/cranny, much more than I expected, the little dance it does around our dining chairs and bar stools is more than I’d do with a regular vacuum as it’s short enough to dive further under.. even the recliners in the lounge, if I just raise then before it goes in, it will get right under and remove any dust bunnies..

Nothing is perfect, but as the Mrs is recovering from a back op, it’s been very welcome for me having to look after the entire house for 8 weeks..
 
Been having a look for one of these for my mum.

Some people say the Amazon branded ones or chinese ones on Amazon aren't too bad.

There's a few on amazon that all look like they're from the same factory, this one is only £110 though, so thinking about taking a punt on it.

Or maybe this one, has a few thousand reviews, although price history on Keepa only goes back 50 days, which his odd.

It seems no one brand has a good overall reputation when you talk to people. Such a divisive subject. I guess a lot of them are crap when you're comparing them to old school mains powered ones.
 
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it must depend on your use cases, but I've got probably 60% hard floors with carpets/rugs for the rest, and find our 4+ year old Dyson V11 more than good enough that we retired the corded vacuum..

Corded of course can always offer 'more', but I only need 'enough', the V11 was really the first of the ilk that can replace a corded vacuum for a lot of people..

Spares are plentiful, I've tried to kill ours with concrete/plaster dust and got it going again, and don't have a battery life problem, but then we don't do the whole house in one go, it's spread over the week with high traffic being the hard floors.

But either way, their newer models (v11 onwards) review very well and dominate the top 10 in that category.
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Price wise, I only ever buy in the sales, the V11 Extra (revamped new design of the original V11) is £299 at the moment.

Each to their own, it probably might be that we have some ex-Dyson engineers here that are happy to keep buying their products.. its either that or a decent Miele corded..
 
DXP55 said:
|n the end we decided we wouldn't use a battery vac as the main vac so we looked for a middle of road one.
Ended up with a Shark IZ202UK from John Lewis -£149 down from £169 at Curry's - It came today so it's on charge then we will see if it does the job.
There is only two of us so it's mainly kitchen and dining room.
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Bit late to the party I know but the Samsung Jet is another one to consider. Think it weighs ~2.5kg. I've enjoyed using this, apart from a bit of hassle when the turbo head brush thing broke and I had to get trading standards involved to get a replacement out of Samsung. Apart from that hiccup, it has been a really good lightweight vaccum cleaner and continues to pickup and perform very well. But enjoy the Shark! :)
 
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Youi're basically going to get a long list of people who reckon the one they've got is the best thing that's ever existed.

But, for what it's worth - I'm very pleased with our Shark Stratos. Two batteries, and a charging caddy which is separate to the vac, so you can keep one on charge all the time and switch them when the one on the vac runs out. Each battery lasts me a few rounds of hoovering though.

If you wait for Black Friday, they always have a very significant discount too.
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I've got the same and have had Dysons before too. Shark is similar ish performance but cheaper for what you get, I think.
 
DXP55 said:
|n the end we decided we wouldn't use a battery vac as the main vac so we looked for a middle of road one.
Ended up with a Shark IZ202UK from John Lewis -£149 down from £169 at Curry's - It came today so it's on charge then we will see if it does the job.
There is only two of us so it's mainly kitchen and dining room.
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We have one of those and we should have stuck with our Lidl Silverline. The Shark has abysmal battery life unless you leave it on charge all the time and the suction is pathetic. Shark/Ninja customer service is useless and kept fobbing me off and tried selling me a new battery at over £80!! What I eventually discovered was that the battery even with the hoover switched off is continously being drained and removing the battery after charging doubles the run time. Awful bit of kit.
 
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