To ask for a hoover that actually WORKS and will not SHOWER the floor with FILTH !

I would also say you cannot use a cordless/handheld as your main or only hoover. Thats just not what they are built for. They are built for spot cleaning, hoovering the car, hoovering the stairs etc.

You need a main corded hoover as well. I
For that I have a miele cat & dog which is excellent.

After years of not understanding the Henry Love i caved and bought a quick pet and OMFG I LOVE IT

he is a chunky dad bod of a cordless but he gets the job done and you feel like you are hoovering with a rocket launcher

I’ve a Hetty she’s great, very low maintenance. Occasionally when she needs a really good clean I take her to visit my parents Henry and he hoovers her out. I do need to treat her to a new brush though

I have an upright Shark with cord - really good. Powerful, cleans as good as when I bought it 4 year ago.

Dyson hoovers are shit. Quite intrigued about Henry - like their look, but they are HUGE! Always thought they are industrial type of hoover, for offices etc.

Ours was awful, had it 5 years and it was like trigger's broom it had been repaired so many times. We've got a Henry quick pro now and it's great also maybe not popular but I like having a bagged hoover again

I don’t have any recommendations but we have a Shark cordless and I hate it so I feel your pain!

We cleaned our shark until it gleamed inside and out. You could have eaten your dinner off it.
Little fucker still spat everything back out when it was switched off.

I also have a cordless Shark and it also does exactly the same thing. Useless bastard thing that seems to suck up every skin cell ever shed but anything larger than 5mm gets booted out either across the room or back at you. I have a Henry hoover buried somewhere in the spare room of doom that smells vaguely of wet dog despite us never having a dog and every time I use the crappy Shark I'm tempted to go rescue it.

I have a Hetty. My Mum bought her for me after my husband broke the cordless Dyson we had. My Mum has sworn by Henry et al for years. Yes, its heavy and does need to be plugged it but it does the job and boy, do we need one that does the job considering how much our cat sheds. We did used to have a robot hoover, affectionately named Noonoo it would do a good sweep of the ground hardfloors daily but it wasn't great on carpet and had to remember pick up the sheepskin rug or it would get stuck.

Yup you need a Henry. I’ve had Dysons, Sharks, Samsungs, Henry beats them all hands down

For a cheaper version for anyone looking, I have not sure the exact model but it's karcher yellow Henry style hoover around 60, it's an in and out, wet and dry, very powerful, much better than my Dyson, and it has a rubber or silicone tipping on the brush which is a lot softer than Dyson which chipped bits of laminate off! Never chipped any flooring/paintwork etc, so pleased with It did the price and would definitely buy another if needed

Love my shark. Had it years with no problems but it's a plug in version.

Yep ! Have tried various others and Henry is my fave

You have to clean your vacuum cleaner and maintain it. The lacking "oomf" aside, if its spitting out dirt... it's on you.

Whilst I acknowledge all the maintenance advice, I think it's important to recognise that some household appliances are just spiteful bastards.

I've had dysan, shark both cordless and corded, but nothing has come close to my current Henry. The power is outstanding. Granted a bit cumbersome to get upstairs, so I'll soon be having an upstairs henry and downstairs one.

Miele all the way! I have a similar one. Yes, it’s not very streamline and you have to drag it about… but it’s powerful with amazing suction. I’ve had 2 sharks in the past (one corded, one cordless) and they’ve both been crap by comparison.

We hate our shark too - it’s useless, and no it is not user error or lack of maintenance. And hahaha to the advertised anti hair wrap feature.

Much preferred our previous cordless vacuum cleaner.

I’ve got one of those robot hoovers which I do like and it’s good for a quick runaround and a Henry but I prefer the Henry and the cat prefers it too. The robot one freaks her out if she’s in the same room. She still hates the Henry but not as much!

The Henry with nozzle attachments gets all dust and cat hair from everywhere (right by stair edges, edges of walls, kitchen tile edges) when you want a thorough clean with a hoover. My mum’s cleaner recommended it to her. Downstairs is parquet flooring, carpet and red kitchen flooring tiles (ceramic) and the Henry with nozzle is excellent then too.

Years ago (early 90s) my mum had a brilliant German upright hoover, can’t think of name. Not your usual German brands. It really cleaned thoroughly and well as I used it once or twice when I still lived there. It only went from my mum’s house as a Dyson and Henry’s were then bought one by one and it was a hassle/heavy carrying it up stairs and easier for her cleaner to use.

Ha, that was an EU thing wasn't it? Less powerful hoovers to save the planet.

I have a very old henry, about 30 years old, works fine and I bought a miele bagged hoover, hard to push, can only pull but it's superb.

I had a cordless shark and it very quickly became useless in the way you describe. I switched to a corded shark with liftaway and it's excellent. Of course, if I'd checked the comparative power of corded and cordless models in the first place I could have saved myself some trouble!

I've also got a Henry but just bring that out for major jobs.

I had a cordless shark that did exactly that. Cleaned everything. No difference. Lobbed it in the bin. I bought a Miele and the difference is night and day. Love it. Ive had it 3 years now and it's as good as new.

I was loathe to get a cordless, but I got a Shark just to see - bloody useless article. There's too much care involved with it, having to remove debris from the wheely thing, dig out dirt from filters, etc. I've gone back to my Henry.

I have a Hetty (Henry but cute) and she would need to be prised from my cold dead hands before I replaced her 😂

My cordless shark couldn't cope with dog hair, so I bought this corded/bagged vacuum at the start of the year. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Akitas-C11-Spinning-Filtration-Retractable/dp/B0GDXSPS8G?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&th=1

Fantastic suction, less heavy than a Henry and I don't need to spend ages unclogging it every time I use it. The wheels aren't great, but the cord and nozzle are so long I only need to move it a couple of times to vac a room. My only gripe is it's a bit awkward to do the stairs with, so I do still use the cordless Shark for those.