Another +1 for Shark cordless - we have the Blade something or other and performance is good without being amazing*, but the convenience coupled to the performance makes the difference. It replaced or rather, has relegated a corded Dyson to the corner of the stairs cupboard** which performed really well but was such hassle to get out, unwind the cord, pick up a little bit, rewind the cord and put away whereas the Shark gets grabbed off its stand and job done.
The other area where it outperforms is stairs, with the pipe off and the smaller brush head it does a way better job than manhandling the full Dyson around - so stairs also get done way more often.
* that said, always amazed by how much it picks up on what we thought was a pretty clean carpet.
** where all it does is gather dust...... boom boom!
We've got one of DrP's Sharks plus a spare battery.
One battery does most of the house. The spare means we've no excuses.
We keep it in the hallway and the convenience means we can mostly just clean what needs cleaning, when it needs cleaning
We too seem to be collectors of vacuums!
The current fleet consists of:
Dyson V15 Detect Absolute
This is the daily 'quick once-over' hoover. It's very good and picks up everything on our mix of carpets and hard flooring.
Sebo Automatic X7
This is the big boy. It's an old-school style upright cylinder complete with bag and it's far and away the most effective at cleaning. Its suction power is amazing. It's quite heavy, but that isn't actually a problem in reality, as its wheels allow it to move very easily - even on carpets.
Miele S5211
A pretty old 'pull-along' bagged model. This is fantastic too. Really good suction power and its bags and filters can be bought nice and cheap on Amazon. This is relegated now to DIY cleanup duties and no amount of abuse will kill it. I've used it to pick up bag-fulls of plaster dust, sawdust, you name it.
If I had to pick only one of the above to have for general house cleaning duties, I'd probably be happy to live with the Sebo, though Mrs Nobbingsford would say the Dyson (due to its lower weight).
