help please :need a new Vacuum Cleaner

*debbie*

Bah, don't talk to me about Henry!!! We've one at work, we all find it a pig to change the bag, and it is useless at picking up anything larger than a crumb. After all, dried mud shouldn't be a problem.... should it? Henry just goes over it, and there it still is, crushed into smaller bits. When it is the correct size, up it finally goes. By which time, I'm FED UP!!!
Only thing I can say in it's favour, it has never broken down, and of course, it is better than using a brush!

mcclim

Graded electris shop on ebay is

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Graded-Electricals-Direct_W0QQsspagenameZL2QQtZkm

THey are good, customer service is excellent and the stuff they sell appears to be quite good.

Testee

I bought the half price Morphy Richards upright bagless vacuum cleaner off the Morphy Richards' site - http://www.morphyrichards.co.uk/wizz400/index.pl?ORPGM=productOverview&ORPGT=perl&ORPRD=73323&ORGRP=R03&ORCAT=SR02&ORLID=ENG - it was £45.40 including delivery and came within two days by DHL courier. I'm really pleased with it. My Dyson is in the bin cos it was nothing but trouble from the day I bought it.

sloughflint

I've been looking through argos catalogue. I hate our dyson. Have noticed they don't give wattage but every other make does. In my eyes, higher watts, better machine. Do people think that is a correct assumption? I noticed a 2500W machine. I wonder if you can go too powerful. Luckily I have no carpets to worry about but 2500W might damage pile, I thought

ormus

i know a guy who runs a plant hire company, they only ever buy henrys, both for internal company use, and to hire out.
reliable as hell, he says.

verynewmoneysaver

roses wrote: »

This Bissell is excellent, several of us on MSE have bought it. The suction is much better than a Dyson:

The Bissell Lift Off (reconditioned with 1 year warranty) £50
https://www.bissell-secure.co.uk/site/products2.php?cat=6

Stay away from Electrolux. Their customer services are terrible.

Thanks for this. Have sent for the reconditioned one. My Dyson is terrible. Its only about 18 months old but I can't open it to empty it as it keeps getting stuck, and it so heavy!

roses

Did anyone else who bought the Bissell lift off reconditioned have as many problems as me?

I bought mine at the beginning of January. The back pedal which you push to start using the cleaner to bring the handle towards you broke after a month so they sent a replacement.

I got a new (reconditioned) one but 1 month later again now it has started to make a really loud screeching noise whenever the brush bar is turning around & I can't find what is causing it!

home_alone

I have just bought a new vac cleaner and like you I wanted an upright but after reading reviews on just about all of the current crop I was dischanted most came out as rubbish. A friend recommened the Miele Cat N Dog (cylinder) It is the greatest I have used its quiet powerful and light (no more breaking my arms with uprights), it also cleans in the most difficult places, try one and see. I paid about £159 delivered.

gary

kwatt

Hi,

For an unbiased trade opinion...

Uprights are far more prone to breaking and don't lift as well as a good cylinder cleaner does.

We don't much like Dysons either, but please keep buying them as they keep us ticking selling spares and repairing them.

Bagless cleaners, most are a waste of space. Instead of bags you end up changing filters or washing them out. But generally, IMO, the performance is far better with a traditional bag, despite what the adverts say.

HEPA filtration, there's several levels of HEPA filtration, most people don't know this and some (nameless) bagless cleaners only just make the grade... the bottom one!

If you want a good cleaner look at Miele and Sebo machines, you can't go wrong with either but, as stated, I would avoid an upright cleaner like the plague as they are too problematic in general.

K.

msjj_2

I think that my Miele is fab...thought I was going to have to get rid of it as for a while I couldn't find bags easily but now I use www.vacuumcleanerbags.co.uk and usually get them delivered the day after I order!