Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner - High Air Watts?

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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.

[Deleted User]

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.