New Vacuum recommendations please

JuzaMum

I have a Dyson, it's crap. The hard floor head sucks up some bits and redistributes the rest. The carpet head doesn't seem to get into the edges at all. I've had it serviced, cleaned the filters and it's still crap. What is a good alternative? I prefer cordless and have a largish house so short battery time is no good. tia

grumpy_codger

Cordless Dyson?
IMHO all cordless vacuum cleaners are poor - simply because of lack of power.  Before 1.6kW (electric) power limit was introduced in 2014, good corded vacuums were 2kW+. 
I don't like some things in my 2kW Samsung VC20F70HDER, but it does its job well. Its air power is about twice as much as cordless Dyson's.

moneysaver1978

We have a Shark cordless (IZ300UK) which does a great job on both hard floor and carpet areas. My parents has a corded heavier Shark and its power is much better - as grumpy mentioned, corded vacuums will always trump over cordless version just for power.

But we have no complaints with our cordless Shark.

jinsta

Still a fan of the normal plugged in vacs really. Replaced our old dyson for a miele boost cx1 (£230) and its been solid. Having work done in house at moe and needed a bit of a beater vac, so picked up amazon brand basic cyl bagless vac for like £30 - honestly for the money its pretty impressive. Cant really comment on cordless, still using old dyson v7 handheld - modified it to use 4.0Ah 18V battery and get crazy run times now.

mta999

Avoid Dyson, go with Shark

subjecttocontract

Henry Vac cleaners are excellent. Plug in, 2 speeds, long cable, long hose, large capacity. We have one downstairs, one upstairs and install them in all of our rental properties. Highly recommended.

EssexExile

My Dysons are great.

Ectophile

My mum has a Bosch cordless, because it is really light.  Seems to work fine.

I have a Henry.  Really heavy (I can understand why @subjecttocontract has one for upstairs and one for downstairs).  The standard floor brush is rubbish and doesn't work at all well on any surface.  The optional Airo brush is a big improvement.  But when the Airo brush isn't fitted, the great thing is that it will suck up anything that's dry and fits up the hose.  No worry about damaging the mechanism if sucking up dirt or gravel.

subjecttocontract

Ectophile said:

My mum has a Bosch cordless, because it is really light.  Seems to work fine.

I have a Henry.  Really heavy (I can understand why @subjecttocontract has one for upstairs and one for downstairs).  The standard floor brush is rubbish and doesn't work at all well on any surface.  The optional Aero brush is a big improvement.  But when the Aero brush isn't fitted, the great thing is that it will suck up anything that's dry and fits up the hose.  No worry about damaging the mechanism if sucking up dirt or gravel.

Got a large house, lots of rooms....we have one up and one down to help the housekeeper.

Savvy_Sue

I have:

• a corded upright Dyson, probably an antique, has all the attachments, love it, except it's heavy, so best for large flat floors
• a cordless upright G-tech, light and lovely but no attachments and horrible to empty the dirt collectors (you have to turn the d*mn thing upside down over the bin and it makes a mess), good for large flat floors
• a cordless upright / canister Shark, light and has attachments, but it just doesn't feel stable when the canister is on the handle and the canister falls over when it's not on the handle, probably best for cleaning the stairs but I'd never buy another
• a Roomba! probably my fave, although only good for large flat floors, it doesn't clean as thoroughly as I do but it does it a lot more often than I do

If you have a local vacuum repair specialist, then I reckon it's worth chatting to them about their recommendations. Ours has not long closed: lovely chap who would no longer sell Roombas because they wouldn't sell him spare parts. He also didn't recommend Dysons, but I can't remember what he did recommend (and I was asking for someone else so didn't make a note!), although it was neither Henry, Shark nor G-tech. 

I don't like Henrys, or any cylinder vacuum cleaner, but then most of my vacuuming is large flat floors, and having to tug the cylinder around irritates me. 

mlz1413

Henry Go the new cordless hoover came out recently.   My fella has it and swears by it. It had a bag so is heaps easier than the bagless type.

I have a shark bagless but with cord, the cord is long, I plug in once downstairs,  including the stairs, then re-plug in upstairs,  its s medium sized 3 bed house. Only thing i find is the filter needs washing out every 2 or 3 uses or the motor gets really hot.