Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner - High Air Watts?

rachelandgromit

My Hoover machine has stopped working, or rather sucking, no power at all, changed bags and it is growling and making funny banging noises. Typical that it is 2 month beyond the standard 12 month warranty, and whilst I did register it on Hoover website, so there is free parts for 5 years, they want £70 call-out fee!! :mad: So, I'm thinking for this I might be able to get another vacuum cleaner rather than pay the £70 call-out fee.

I'm after anything with a good suction, so high air watts. It must be cylinder and I've always had bagged as I believe the suction is better. We have carpets and a cat (not a good combination) so needs to be powerful. We also have hard floors too, so if it has adjustable power that would be good. Can anyone recommend anthing with a good amount of air watts (upwards of 320 which is what we previously had) and cheap as possible.

Thanks

ormus

get a red henry.
never mind the salesmans talk about air watts, its a meaningless term.

rachelandgromit

Really, I thought air watts was what I was suppose to consider as this indicates suction?? I've heard good things about Henry, but this only has around 220 air watts?? *confused*

ROY47

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.210-0900.aspx

got one similar to this

bagless and much much better than the dyson cr.. I had before it !!!

CKdesigner

Hi

If you can afford it Miele - everytime! They have the best suction rates in the vacuum cleaner market and this does make a difference. All Miele vacuums use bags as well as they are far superior at capturing dust particles than any bag-less cleaner!

CK

Metalwrath

Another vote for Miele here, my mother is a compuslive vacumer and she swears by hers.

davethetaller

ormus wrote: »

get a red henry.
never mind the salesmans talk about air watts, its a meaningless term.

Or a Henrietta which is the same in pink !

Builders use em, sucking up plaster and bricks etc.

Previous one was a Miele, electrically fine, but lots of cabinet parts became loose or broken, and the auto rewind...didn't.

Huge dust bags, which can be emptied many times, using pointy nosed pliers.

£90 ish.

Evil_Olive

Henry (or Henrietta)
The cleaning contractor at a massive shopping centre I worked in used them to clean the entire mall.
They suck anything up, never wear out and bits don't fall off when you bash them into concrete walls a thousand times a day.
Plus they're cute

ormus

pressure is measured in pascals. Pa.
ie
a vacuum cleaner would be in the region of 80 kPa. compared to the standard atmosphere at approx 101 kPa.

you actually measure vacuum in Torrs. (ie 600 v 760 torrs).
try asking the salesman for any of the above so you can compare products. and make sure the info is at the hose end.

heres a clue. you cannot get the info.