Wall mounted vacuum??

redsonnylee

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I have two Henry’s one came from Beau, I keep one upstairs so the wife doesn’t have to hump it up the stairs. They are both much better than any vacuum cleaner we’ve had before and very reliable. We had builders in for two years and they kept all the dust to a minimum and still keep going.
 
CatmanV2

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We also have a Dyson (in the interest of balance) V5 fluffy I think. Works just fine. Biggest issues are
  1. Mrs C won't cut her hair to a suitable Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies length, so it gets wrapped around the brushes
  2. The dust container fills instantly if you have two cats (one of whom is quite fluffy) and a Mrs C
  3. The brush that's designed for hard floors is really **** on carpet and vice versa. No idea how they managed that but there we are....

C
 
jasst

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Henry's are very good, and the vacuum of choice for many a tradesman, used to have Dyson's but the suction was not brilliant, then i bought myself a Miele a couple of years ago, f*** me that thing can suck, grabs hold of the rugs on the kitchen floor and wont let go! had been considering a garage vac, but its really no effort to carry the Miele outside, plug it into garage socket and carry it around the car.
 
sionie1

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We have a v10 cordless dyson for general house cleaning and it’s great. i have purchased additional filters though, and there is a huge difference when I clean the cyclone funnel. For cars and as a dust extractor with my power tools it’s a Henry. He’s lasted through 3 renovations and numerous other projects involved saw, brick and lime plaster dust. He’s a full fat pre EU snowflake model..
 
rockits

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You can't beat the old full fat real old school manly Henry. This new low powered non binary thing isn't half the man old Henry is.
 
breezer

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2b1ask1 said:
The problem is the EU have limited domestic vacuums to 1,000w which has meant to get any serious suck the units have been scaled down hence the move to cordless as 1,000w is easily doable at 18v. Now if you plumbed that into your house it would be woeful with added inefficiencies if leaking sockets etc. I think the first time it blocked you would go spare.

personally I’m intending to keep my Hoover 612 going for another 70+ years! I believe I may have to make some parts for it sooner or later as they are getting like rocking horse poo!
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Sorry, but fake news.

“ We have tested thousands of vacuum cleaners over the years and found that more power doesn’t necessarily mean better cleaning. “ https://www.which.co.uk/news/2017/08/eu-vacuum-cleaner-ban-2017-everything-you-need-to-know/ - Which?

Vacuum manufacturers basically got into a dick measuring contest based on Watts, which is not a meaningful way to compare quality but is a big, clear number uninformed consumers can pin their hopes to. Wattage has no demonstrable impact on suction, and thus this is actually a sensible law that makes vacuums more efficient, not less.
 
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2b1ask1

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breezer said:
Sorry, but fake news.

“ We have tested thousands of vacuum cleaners over the years and found that more power doesn’t necessarily mean better cleaning. “ https://www.which.co.uk/news/2017/08/eu-vacuum-cleaner-ban-2017-everything-you-need-to-know/ - Which?

Vacuum manufacturers basically got into a dick measuring contest based on Watts, which is not a meaningful way to compare quality but is a big, clear number uninformed consumers can pin their hopes to. Wattage has no demonstrable impact on suction, and thus this is actually a sensible law that makes vacuums more efficient, not less.
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Bollox; I’d put my 70+ year old Hoover 612 up against any modern machine and it will knock spots off it. Absolutely the only thing I see modern machines do it doesn’t is reaching the very edges.

This vortex nonsense and endless filters just stifle and block constantly, if you have any pets you have to empty after every room.
 
rockits

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All I know is the new Henry isn't a patch on the old one. Ask Beau....he will know as is a Henry expert.

I remember years ago Apple jibbering on about their lack of CPU clock speed at the time in comparison to the Windows boxes. They claimed it was the architecture and not raw clock speed that was important. I do agree to a certain extent. However it was bu11sh1t from Apple at the time then but many bought it.

I guess it is the same now with cars as bhp doesn't make it a better car necessarily. It does make it a faster one though....possibly only in a straight line.

It is going to be hard to make a 800w Henry perform like a 1500w Henry with massive system design changes.

If you look at lighting now it took a long time before low watt LED was anywhere close to matching the performance of the old school non-led stuff. The early led stuff was laughable.
 
MarkMas

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breezer said:
Sorry, but fake news.

“ We have tested thousands of vacuum cleaners over the years and found that more power doesn’t necessarily mean better cleaning. “ https://www.which.co.uk/news/2017/08/eu-vacuum-cleaner-ban-2017-everything-you-need-to-know/ - Which?

Vacuum manufacturers basically got into a dick measuring contest based on Watts, which is not a meaningful way to compare quality but is a big, clear number uninformed consumers can pin their hopes to. Wattage has no demonstrable impact on suction, and thus this is actually a sensible law that makes vacuums more efficient, not less.
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Not 'fake news', since the EU did issue a new regulation limiting vacuum cleaner power (actually with a limit of 900W) in 2015, with effect from 2017.
https://www.which.co.uk/news/2017/08/eu-vacuum-cleaner-ban-2017-everything-you-need-to-know/

Although this was overturned in 2019 in a court case by Dyson, many manufacturers have already complied with the regulation.
https://www.which.co.uk/news/2018/11/dyson-wins-eu-vacuum-appeal-energy-label-annulled/

It may well be that 'more power doesn’t necessarily mean better cleaning', but that does not make the fact that the EU introduced a regulation (that turned out to be just as 'illegal' as Boris Johnson's prorogation of Parliament) 'fake news'.
 
midlifecrisis

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Eb nails it, let's change the subject to TVs... 48" Panasonic. What gets me is that the YouTube functionality has stopped working, which is very annoying. Either a license issue or a software upgrade issue.
 
SJX

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About £100 from machine mart, bought a cheap henry extension hose and can hoover cars on drive and all garage. Mate liked it so much he drove straight there and got one. Sorry to be boring!
 
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