Ideally baglesss due to the amaount of crap
the amount of shite it gets out of my carpet is prodigious.
These issues are probably better addressed through training your pets better...
Our Henry must be 15 years old now and its been faultless. Plus it has a smiley face.
Miele. Just so much better made than most.
Something robotic. We have a Roomba and it's bloody awesome. Yes, it doesn't get into every nook and cranny, but getting the tight corners takes all of 5 mins.
make sure the floor is clear of the rest of the kids crap and hit the button. An hour later and the whole downstairs is done and it parks itself back on charge, plays a little song and sends you an App message to say it's done and if it needs anything from you. Brilliant.
Robot steam mop next.
I killed the motor in my Henry after using it to suck up plaster rubble without a bag (****ing stupid I know, even stupider was listening to my Dad who recommended not using a bag). It was 13 years old though I think.
I bought a Screwfix Titan fake Henry which has been equally good since.
You can buy Sebos off eBay for buttons if you are patient. I bought one for £16 which just needed unclogging and a new cable. I bought another for £20 which had just had a new cable, they are easily rebuildable and I’ve got spares for years now....
If you are going to be using it frequently then I'd recomend a cordless one. We've been very pleased with our Dyson but appreciate that others don't like them. Wouldn't go back to a corded one again....
I killed the motor in my Henry after using it to suck up plaster rubble without a bag (****ing stupid I know, even stupider was listening to my Dad who recommended not using a bag). It was 13 years old though I think.
I bought a Screwfix Titan fake Henry which has been equally good since.
Weirdly we bought ours on the reccommendation of a builder friend who did exactly the same as you and never had an issue in years and years of not using a bag to clean up after himself!
If you are interested in Cordless, go to Currys where they’ll have all their cordless options lined up in order of cost. When I went in they were all pretty asthmatic (inc Shark and Dyson V8) next to the Dyson V10 which was in another league. According to their ‘air watts’ numbers it has nearly double the suction power.
It's not just about air watts though, I gave away our corded Dyson Animal after we got a Shark Cordless. The Dyson has a far bigger motor and probably 10x the Air Watts but the Shark gets more cat hair out of our carpets - just a better designed brush head.
If it's just dust / hair on a hard floor then they both have enough suck to get it all up.
Skimmed the thread so forgive me if going over old ground.
We have always had a Henry in the house, brilliant for DIY but not an ergonomic everyday tool, years (or is that decades ago?) we had an original Dyson, never liked it, it was quite frankly shit, heavy & cumbersome with poor performance so I bought a Sebo which is good, so good I think we had had it for about 10 years before the better half wanted a new cordless & bagless model. I was totally against it & completely dismantled & cleaned out the Sebo, fitted it back up with all new filters & a new bag to make a point, vacuumed the house (we have one Boarder terrier) & went out & bought a Shark cordless with 3 (yes 3) batteries with a 14 day money back guarantee, came home & filled the container up within a few rooms, one nil to the wife! The downsides to the Shark are a much reduced cleaning head which means more time per room, but on the flip side the cordless means less time switching sockets & avoiding the cord, we'll call that one even then. So get the the Shark, it's a no brainer unless your better half uses all 3 (yes 3) batteries without charging any of the depleted ones, in which case you can't vacuum at all, & I'm calling that 2-1 win to me as the Sebo always worked, even if the bag was full it still made a good enough job of the house, convenience is the new to our old of that reliable just works.
Still, that was £350 well spent as she loves it.
Weirdly my trusty shark caught fire today. Loads of electrical smoke. I’m happy that is due to my continued abuse of it after months of cleaning up builders dust rather than any sort of manufacturing fault. New cordless shark ordered including Blue Light Card discount. Will report back.
completely dismantled & cleaned out the Sebo, fitted it back up with all new filters & a new bag to make a point,
It probably needed a new brush bar which is swapped in a few seconds. Most vacuums suffer from the bristles wearing down and not touching the carpet deeply enough, but most vacuums you can’t buy spares for as easily.
Went for a Miele Blizzard CX1.. Seems to work very nicely according to mrs cloudnine.
Im still unqualified to use such complicated high powered machinery so i'll be leaving it to the experts for now.
Weirdly we bought ours on the reccommendation of a builder friend who did exactly the same as you and never had an issue in years and years of not using a bag to clean up after himself!
😀 ! Well - I hope you have better luck with yours (or just use bags...).
Horsey/dog people generally all have a Shark, for a reason. 4 horses and 2 dogs here. We have a corded Shark. They're great.
4 horses and 2 dogs here
Do they all live in the house?
I’ve been thinking about buying a Henry. Use lots of vacuums at work, my faves are Henry/Miele.
Somebody told me to buy an old second hand one if possible. Something to do with them not being as powerful as they used to be due to EU regulation. Any truth in that?
