Cordless vacuum cleaners

joeyowen

We got the top range Dyson v6 (in a sale) 

It's awesome, I almost enjoy vacuuming now... Almost. I hate it a lot less. Doesn't take long to vacuum at all, as no pissing around with sockets. Charge is fine for most our house, we have quite a few rooms though 

I wonder how I managed with our old shitty one 

FelineGuitars

joeyowen said:

We got the top range Dyson v6 (in a sale) 

It's awesome, I almost enjoy vacuuming now... Almost. I hate it a lot less. Doesn't take long to vacuum at all, as no pissing around with sockets. Charge is fine for most our house, we have quite a few rooms though 

I wonder how I managed with our old shitty one 

I got the newer Dyson V8 Absolute after both a friend (with 2 cats) and my aunt got one.
The thing is a revelation ...albeit somewhat more expensive than the V6, but the results are stunning.
I'm a bit of a vacuum cleaner freak - especially because of the trying to keep the workshops clean , and my favourite to date had been the Miele ones from before they banned the more powerful motors.

When I first tried the V8 the carpets were pretty clean (or so I thought), but I was keen to play with the new toy.
I was shocked at the amount of very fine soot and dust the V8 lifted from my carpets - especially on the "turbo" mode.

I went through the entire house over the next week and pulled container after container of ultra fine soot/silt from all my rooms - it's almost like the road dust you get - the house backs onto a seriously busy road.
Needless to say I was very impressed. 
Stair carpets were super easy finally with the small powerbrush.
What I like about the Dyson is that it supplies power to the brush heads via hidden cable runs in the pipe (I'm sure other makes will do this too)

What is interesting is how the cordless cleaner has changed my vacuuming habits and it is so much less of a chore where you feel like you might as well clean the whole house if you have to get the hoover out.

Now I grab the Dyson in the same way I would grab a dustpan and brush and give a quick "whizz" over the room or area in question. If guests are coming over I can just give a quick run through the office or lounge in no time at all.

Not used it on the girlfriend's car yet , but I bet it would be good.

Whilst it seems a lot of money it has been proving to be good value so far

Power-wise I think I'd get about 20-25 mins on the regular setting and abut 7-8 mins on continuous "turbo" mode.

RandallFlagg

We have looked at going cordless. Where do you guys mount yours for charging? The concern we have is that we don't have anywhere discreet to put it for recharging it would have to be on a wall, in full view, in a room. With our Henry, he gets slung back in the cupboard under the stairs, but there's no plug socket in there.

gubble

We have a Henry.

I bloody hate that guy. His smug smiling face every day looking at me. It's not even a decent hoover.

I really don't understand why professional cleaners etc have a henry - it's rubbish

(sorry to hijack the thread but I really do despise henry the hoover)

57Deluxe

is the low Bat life that kills all this cordless stuff...

FX_Munkee

gubble said:

We have a Henry.

I bloody hate that guy. His smug smiling face every day looking at me. It's not even a decent hoover.

I really don't understand why professional cleaners etc have a henry - it's rubbish

(sorry to hijack the thread but I really do despise henry the hoover)

Professionals use Henry's for the same reason you still have one smuggly staring through you.
You can't break them.

RandallFlagg

FX_Munkee said:

gubble said:

We have a Henry.

I bloody hate that guy. His smug smiling face every day looking at me. It's not even a decent hoover.

I really don't understand why professional cleaners etc have a henry - it's rubbish

(sorry to hijack the thread but I really do despise henry the hoover)

Professionals use Henry's for the same reason you still have one smuggly staring through you.
You can't break them.

Agreed, completely reliable and solid, most parts easily replaced.

Clarky

Fretwired said:

I have a small Dyson which is brilliant. Battery has a good life and the suction is great.

sure that's not a sex toy??

octatonic

FX_Munkee said:

gubble said:

We have a Henry.

I bloody hate that guy. His smug smiling face every day looking at me. It's not even a decent hoover.

I really don't understand why professional cleaners etc have a henry - it's rubbish

(sorry to hijack the thread but I really do despise henry the hoover)

Professionals use Henry's for the same reason you still have one smuggly staring through you.
You can't break them.

I broke one.
Took 12 years and 5 house renovations but it broke.
We replaced it with another Henry.

57Deluxe

/\ I had a yellow Henry that I used to vacuum the garden. It died in the shed over winter though.

I now have a George that I used to call George Michael, cos it sucks anything and falls over a lot... I might have to change his nick now though...

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PolarityMan

Vaccuum cleaners suck.

RaymondLin

I have a Dyson V6 too, love it.  I also have a Henry, the most annoying part about vacuuming is not the vacuuming but how cumbersome it is, how I need to pull that thing around? Heavy machine that make you feel like chained to it.  Got to unplug and replug about 4 times to clean the house and move it up and down stairs.

the v6 means I leave it charged on the side simcenit takes up very little space and I'll vacuum when I have spare 5mins.  Super quick, super easy.

grungebob

We have just bought a Dyson cordless v6 absolute and all I can say is it's bloody brilliant.  One charge does a 4 bed house and it's got so much power we'd hoovered the day before with our older "Hoover" Hoover and the stuff the Dyson pulled from the carpets was an eye opener. The carpet particularly on the stairs looks and feels like a brand new carpet. 

Takes 3 1/2 hours to charge empty to full. 

Emp_Fab

Wow.. has battery and motor technology come that far ? Really ?  My experience (albeit decades ago) of cordless anything was that it had the power of a child's toy with a leaking HP11 in it.  I've been watching all these ads for cordless vacuums and scoffing 'what a load of crap that'll be - how can they even advertise it ?', but, it would appear I'm not up to date with the tech on this.

grungebob

Emp_Fab said:

Wow.. has battery and motor technology come that far ? Really ?  My experience (albeit decades ago) of cordless anything was that it had the power of a child's toy with a leaking HP11 in it.  I've been watching all these ads for cordless vacuums and scoffing 'what a load of crap that'll be - how can they even advertise it ?', but, it would appear I'm not up to date with the tech on this.

yeah that was my thoughts too but so far ive been proven wrong.  Im guessing the chap earlier in the thread that says he only got 6 minutes out of it was because he left it on max power ( it comes that way as a default it seems) and whilst this does allow you to suck like a black hole it does drain the battery.  The day we got ours i was disappointed the charge ran out so quick until I did the unmanly thing of reading the manual and realizing what the blue light on the back signified.

like I said earlier we/I can do a 4 bed house on one charge with ease, the only thing you have to keep stopping for is to empty the thing as the chamber is small and it fills fast.

its made vacuuming a very easy and almost not chore like. 

EricTheWeary

Still not decided.

Almost forgot that we used to have a Dirt Devil rechargable that made a noise like a vacuum cleaner but without any of the actual cleaning power. 

We are lacking an obvious storage place where we could mount it on the wall but reasonably out of sight. Ideally we'd be able to take the charging unit with us in the camper as well but that can't happen if it's screwed to the kitchen wall. Rather too pricey to have one for home and one for away. Starting to think a slimline Vax for £99 to live in the camper and for use on the car might be fine. Or just wait until our upright dies and rethink then. Hmm.

WezV

grungebob said:

Emp_Fab said:

Wow.. has battery and motor technology come that far ? Really ?  My experience (albeit decades ago) of cordless anything was that it had the power of a child's toy with a leaking HP11 in it.  I've been watching all these ads for cordless vacuums and scoffing 'what a load of crap that'll be - how can they even advertise it ?', but, it would appear I'm not up to date with the tech on this.

yeah that was my thoughts too but so far ive been proven wrong.  Im guessing the chap earlier in the thread that says he only got 6 minutes out of it was because he left it on max power ( it comes that way as a default it seems) and whilst this does allow you to suck like a black hole it does drain the battery.  The day we got ours i was disappointed the charge ran out so quick until I did the unmanly thing of reading the manual and realizing what the blue light on the back signified.

like I said earlier we/I can do a 4 bed house on one charge with ease, the only thing you have to keep stopping for is to empty the thing as the chamber is small and it fills fast.

its made vacuuming a very easy and almost not chore like. 

I carry a bag with me when doing the whole house...it's still more convienient than using a normal vacuum.

i was totally skeptical, but have been impressed so far.

Emp_Fab

WezV said:

i was totally skeptical, but have been impressed so far.

You'd better be American if you're using spelling like that on here.

WezV

Or too tired to correct the autocorrect

BigMonka

@EricTheWeary in the words of Royal Mail, "saw this and thought of you" : Dyson cordless sale with a free tool (*snigger*)
 http://www.dyson.co.uk/shop/vacuum-cleaners.aspx?subcat=Cordless&utm_campaign=uk_en_dyson_brand_cord_free_range_free_tool_xsell_upright_onwer_v8_profile&utm_source=silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Shop_now