Vacuum cleaner recommendation

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My parents business was floorcare.
Can remember a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman trying to sell my Dad one at home.
The salesman did the black bag in the Kirby trick, "look at all the dust and dirt it has picked up from your carpet" as he unfolded the black cotton bag to show all the dirt.
My Dad asked me to get him the Hoover Senior vacuum cleaner from under the stairs. He disassembled the bag and fitted the same, but clean black cotton bag to the Hoover Senior. "Look at all the dust and dirt your Kirby vacuum cleaner has failed to pickup from the same bit of carpet"!!!
 
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If anyone is looking for a good car/garage etc. vacuum I highly recommend this:

www.screwfix.com

Titan TTB776VAC 1400W 30Ltr Wet & Dry Vacuum 220-240V - Screwfix

Order online at Screwfix.com. Wet and dry vacuum with power take-off facility. Ideal for cleaning up dust, debris, sludge or water. FREE next day delivery available, free collection in 1 minute.
www.screwfix.com www.screwfix.com

It's full of innuendos - sucks up wet stuff, has a really long hose and also has a blow function - it sucks harder than Katie Price at a swingers club! It features an additional socket to plug in sanders etc which the vacuum can be attached for dirty and dusty jobs. I've had mine for a couple of years and really rate it.
 
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I can’t believe that I have just read this thread all the way through.

for what it’s worth out Dyson light weight elec thing is priced for rubbish.

The Vax version is 1/3 price and much better
 
Alan Surrey

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conaero said:
We have a £200 wall hanging battery powered one from one of the big guys (Hoover I think) and they are all **** IMHO. They are convenient for quick clear ups but if you want the job done properly out comes the Henry, pre Euro legislation de powered one comes out and tries to pull the carpet off the floor. Brilliant.

It all reminds me of the petrol to electric car thing. They tell you they are better but they are not.

“There is no substitute for cubic capacity!”
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Spot on Matt. But my daughter wants a battery model.
I expect she will learn in due course.
We have a pre-euro legislation mains powered Dyson at home. it, too, tries to suck the carpet off the floor and I wouldn't swap it even though its quite old now.. I've stocked up on spare parts for it (from the Dyson website.)
I've seen the SportsItalia Henry doing its stuff and realised immediately that it was a recommendation for old school mains powered big suck vacuum cleaners for cars :)
Sadly I don't have a convenient power socket for vacuuming my car at home so I have a battery handheld Vax with powered brush head that neatly fits between the pedals in the drivers footwell. Its probably as good as it will ever get and makes a reasonable job of cleaning the lovely beige carpets (under my transparent rubber floor mats.) It's also handy, so the vacuuming gets done more often than might otherwise be the case.
 
Alan Surrey

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CatmanV2 said:
We have a Deebot. Bloody ace

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That looks very interesting.
How does it get on with the chair legs under the dining table?
Is it ok getting from one room to the next? There is sometimes a slight level change. Has it ever fallen down the stairs?
Do you just switch it on then leave the house and let it get on with it?
 
Alan Surrey

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GeoffCapes said:
Having been through countless Dyson, I have concluded they're just over priced tat living off their brand.

We've had a Shark thing for the last 3 years and it's pretty good, and has lasted longer than any of the Dyson's we've had.
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Whatever do you do with them Geoff? We've had our corded Dyson for donkeys' years and it's still fine. To be fair, I do service it every couple of years.
 
Felonious Crud

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Alan Surrey said:
That looks very interesting.
How does it get on with the chair legs under the dining table?
Is it ok getting from one room to the next? There is sometimes a slight level change. Has it ever fallen down the stairs?
Do you just switch it on then leave the house and let it get on with it?
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We have a Neato Botvac which is pretty good trundling from room to room. It can clamber over steps up to about 1cm, and gets under sofas ok but can get stuck due to a quite powerful drive motor letting it wedge itself under low-ish objects from time to time.

I find myself strangely interested in the mopping abilities of Chris' Deebot.
 
CatmanV2

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Alan Surrey said:
That looks very interesting.
How does it get on with the chair legs under the dining table?
Is it ok getting from one room to the next? There is sometimes a slight level change. Has it ever fallen down the stairs?
Do you just switch it on then leave the house and let it get on with it?
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I was cautious initially, but am an absolute convert now. Our has full LIDAR mapping. For chairs and stuff he(1) basically bumps into them and increments his way around. We have threshold strips between all our rooms. Sometimes he needs a run up, but has never failed to make the transition yet. Never fallen downstairs but he's on the ground floor (2) so that's not likely. I can either tell Alexa to set him off, or I can fire up the app and start him off. You can also schedule regular cleans. We had them in the small hours but gave up as he always woke us up. I think the biggest hassle is he will eat coasters, charging cables, laptops, small children and so on.

What amazed me (coming from a Dyson) is the sheer amount of **** he picks up. We only have one rug (he as built in rug detection) but every day can pretty much fill his dust bin. Oh and he does mopping and I got him on eBay for <£200 new.....

C

(1) OK, so I ran a pole on a hyper nerdy sci-fi facebook group which decided he was to be called Obi-wan Cleanobi
(2) Runner up was Annaclean Skywalker. When we get Annaclean, he will have the ground floor and Obi-wan will be moved to the first floor. Because it's over. He has the upper ground..... (Sorry. My coat is the rather fetching, full length, navy blue, woollen overcoat with the scarlet lining, if you'd be so kind? Then I can see myself out....)
 
CatmanV2

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Felonious Crud said:
I find myself strangely interested in the mopping abilities of Chris' Deebot.
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We have not quite risked the mop yet. I rather felt I'd wait for him to spread some cat puke over the floor first.....
Seriously, wooden flooring. I'm not 100% convinced that I'd want an AI driven (it simply will not stop) bowl of water un-attended over that. I got the one with the mop mostly because it had the smart navigation (which was a must for me. First time out he built a map and you can see exactly where he is and where he's been on any given clean) and it was silly cheap for a new, unopened device on eBay

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CatmanV2 said:
We have not quite risked the mop yet. I rather felt I'd wait for him to spread some cat puke over the floor first.....
Seriously, wooden flooring. I'm not 100% convinced that I'd want an AI driven (it simply will not stop) bowl of water un-attended over that. I got the one with the mop mostly because it had the smart navigation (which was a must for me. First time out he built a map and you can see exactly where he is and where he's been on any given clean) and it was silly cheap for a new, unopened device on eBay

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Not the same type C, but I would not be without our robo-vac... He runs every day picking up the dog hair and I am surprised the dog is not bald given the amount of it the vac picks up!

Ours did tumble down the stairs once, but not sure if the dog pushed it... it has turned into her nemesis when it's at work!
 
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