best upright vacuum

shelly

We are currently looking to buy a new vacuum as our 15 year old dyson died yesterday.
We are swaying towards the Dyson 14 origin (which is the model up from our old one) purely because our old one lasted so long and never had a thing go wrong until yesterday.

I'd recommend them to anyone

Poppy9

I found the Dyson too heavy to carry up and downstairs. I have an old faithful Electrolux bagless back saver upright that has never broken down in 8 years but it's getting tricky to get filters for it now.

sparrer

shelly wrote: »

We are currently looking to buy a new vacuum as our 15 year old dyson died yesterday.
We are swaying towards the Dyson 14 origin (which is the model up from our old one) purely because our old one lasted so long and never had a thing go wrong until yesterday.

I'd recommend them to anyone

I agree, I'd also recommend them as my original DC01 is still going strong 16 years on. I bought a Miele Cat n Dog recently but only so I could have one vac upstairs and one down...the Miele being downtairs where the pets live. Can't decide which I like best :rolleyes:

Gambler

I can't decide between a SEBO X4 Extra (£200) and the Pet version at £225. We don't have any pets but do suffer from hay fever and asthma.

Is the extra £25 worth it?

shelly

Further to my previous post above...we decided to get an Argos Value hoover. On the Argos site it had brilliant reviews and having used it for a couple of weeks I am very impressed.
The suction on it is ridiculous

I think the Dyson was on its way out for awhile because the first use of the new one got loads of carp out of the lounge carpet.
The height adjustment on it is very good too. Can do everything from hard floors to plush carpets.

isofa

rosie383 wrote: »

Just a word of caution if it is your first upright.
We bought one about a week before putting laminate floors down in place of carpets. IMHO, uprights are rubbish on hard floors as the roller brushes just skite all the dirt across the floor. I can't wait until it breaks so I can go back to a cylinder cleaner again. I wish I had known before I bought it.

Most uprights have the ability to turn off the brush bar for hard floors, our Dyson does, our older Dyson does (both via a clutch foot switch on the brush bar), even a 25 year old Electroluxe upright, at a friends house, also has that feature!

I've had 2 Dysons (at 2 different houses), and have been very pleased with them.

The one in our house is a DC07 "root cyclone" with HEPA filters. I've had it 8 years and it gets used in a large house at least once a week. It's extremely powerful, nearly pulling the carpet up on the landing! Easy to empty, and filters do not need replacing, only one needs washing a couple of times a year, takes 5 minutes by hand.

The only issue I've had is the hose eventually cracking near the nozzle (after 6-7 years use), but it's been easily fixed with some gaffer tape. Replacement hoses are available from authorised stores (about £20) and from eBay for around a tenna.

Also it is a heavy cleaner to lug up and down stairs, but that's my only gripe. As a product it's excellent, very durable and most importantly, it's a powerful cleaner.

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isofa wrote: »

Also it is a heavy cleaner to lug up and down stairs, but that's my only gripe.

Shouldn't that be the wife's gripe

rfctabs

We got a Miele Cat 'n' Dog (cleaner, not animals - one's enough...) a year or two back to replace an old Dyson DC04 Absolute that we've had for at least 14 years (the Dyson is still in the garage doing duty as a car/diy cleaner).

This is our first cylinder cleaner and... we hate it! Nothing to do with the machine - just that we evidently don't like cylinders and prefer an upright.

We were also looking at the Sebo in John Lewis but they're £270 for standard or £300 for Animal version.

Tried the Dyson Ball and not keen, so maybe back to the DC27 (although mega bucks at £325).

I just checked the Dyson website and see that they still do this:

At Dyson we offer a routine service for £69.00 (inc VAT), €90 in Ireland. This is fully inclusive of labour and all required parts (excluding accessories and filters) as per the service engineer's inspection and electrical safety check. Parts and labour are guaranteed for 12 months. On arrival our Dyson Service Engineer will assess your machine and advise you of the correct course of action before any work is completed.

So if you've still got an old machine that you want to keep might be worth a go.

JasX

Checking the datasheets when I bought mine I noticed the Dyson compact models are more powerful then the uprights by a good 20-25% odd.

I went for the compact purely on raw power, I guess some people preferring using uprights and get a lower powered one for conveience or are there other reasons? does reliability come into it?

bob_a_builder

I noticed the Dyson compact models are more powerful then the uprights by a good 20-25% odd

or do you mean take more power (watts) - maybe it just needs more oomph to create its cyclone in the smaller models ?

Anyone know what the dust capacity of the old DC10 was, looking to replace, but some of the dust holders look a lot smaller now ?