Kirbys are expensive, but a mate has one, the thing sucks anything and everything up. Even had a go at a coat that was on the floor. However, in terms of which hoover to buy, I like to look at it like this: Dysons are not very comfy to sit on, and they're all science. Henry makes a great impromptu seat, and does cocaine. I know which one I want haunting the under-the-stairs cupboard.
What are you on about? We bought a Henry to use during our flat renovations and it pisses all over the Dyson performance wise and sucks up stuff that would destroy a Dyson. Hell I've sucked up rubble with him and he is still going strong. Dysons build quality is also poor imo. Cheap plastics that don't fit together well and break. We have a mini Dyson Ball which is great in our small house but if a major clean is needed Henry comes in from the garage.
We use a Dyson for our house but also have a Henry too. He is mainly used in the Garage for sucking up dust that comes off the saw bench while sawing Basicly he's sh**. So gets the crap jobs lol. I think Dyson are quite expensive but they do a good job.
We have two Dysons (I know, I know), one being an older DC32 Animal with allergy filters, and the other a handheld DC34 Animal (again with allergy filters). I'm allergic to dust, so yeah... The Dysons have been excellent, but they do need the filters cleaning every 6 months (washable for the win) and the bins cleaning at the same time. This means you don't get a loss of suction, which even on the handheld is impressive, and the turbine heads suck up cat hair like nothing else (even the stuff on cushions that most hoovers won't shift). For a one bed flat, I think the cylinders are the best, as the others are too big.
LOl that made me laugh. It is almost true but to call a vacuum cleaner the king of another companies vacuum cleaner is funny. You'd be surprised how many people call their Dyson's hoovers. As an ex-Dyson design engineer I can say only this. They suck, in a good way. Much better than most of the cyclonic clones out there. The one thing that always confused me about the whole bagless approach was to claim that it had 100% hepa filtration only to leave you in a cloud of dust, some of which is skin, when you empty the thing. I have a DC04 and no carpet in my flat.
I've worked at a hotel for 10 years and we went though Dysons like underpants their crap! Henry's on the other hand last forever and I can't remember the last time we had to buy a new one plus they do a miniature one for your keyboard ;-) Only complaints from the cleaners are they get rather heavy when they fill up but that's life I guess
Quite right you are. Miele really are the best. I once heard a quote from the Miele MD, something along the lines of "We don't offer extended warranties with our vacuums, because that implies that they break. Our vacuums don't break."
Everyone knows that Dyson are the Apple of vacuum cleaners. Neat, innovative and overpriced, but ultimately not the best choice for the true vacuum connoisseur.
say NO to dyson! However the new tangle free brush head of theirs is like no other, very impressive Miele all the way, cheaper or as expensive, nsane build quality and pretty much lifetime guarantee - fantastic manufacturer! Mr Dyson decided to move the majority of the factories over to Malaysia... Miele however, are made in Germany and let's be honest, German build quality is like no other it's a no brainer!
When we were looking a few years ago we tried all the usual brands, Dyson etc. I too worked in the hotel trade for a few years and we used henrys. The reason being price/performance ratio. They are cheap and do a mediocre to OK job in my opinion. We ended up buying a Panasonic. The thing is a beast at the time I bought it we got a cash back deal and 7 year warranty IIRC. It is upright, bag less and I have seen it literally vibrate the dirt from our old carpets (they were a hideous waffle type pattern that just loved to hold dirt in.) In the past 2 years it has broken once, I called Panasonic who after diagnosing the fault said they couldn't send an engineer to the house as we live outside the permitted distance from the repair centre. So they arranged a courier to collect it, it was back 7 days later working like a trooper again. Thoroughly recommend.
Went with the Dyson DC24 in the end and it is awesome! Very compact, moves around really well and is stupidly easy to empty. Oh and it sucks well!
I'm aware that hoover is a brand of vacuum cleaner, but in the UK that's just arguing semantics. Hoover is just one of many such words that has taken on additional meanings and now is commonly used to simply refer to any and all vacuum cleaners not just the brand Hoover.
I have a Vax with an animal hair cleaning head that came with it and it leaves my rug down on my living room floor looking like new. The filter pretty much needs washing after every third use and because it's mainly dog hairs I'm vacuuming it needs emptying at the very least after each use, sometimes it'll need doing mid-use. That's using it once a week (or so).
We've had a Kirby for like...years and years. All metal. Super strong and super suction..but we get annoying phonecalls from the kirby office pestering us about upgrading or whatever.
