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shark or sebo?

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CatAndMice · 23/11/2018 15:01

I have both in my basket and can only buy one...

I had never heard of a shark and now the name is everywhere... I winery that it's just internet bots falsely advertising...

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CatAndMice · 23/11/2018 15:01

Worry, not winery (although I’ll need one after buying this)

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hmmwhatatodo · 23/11/2018 16:52

Sebo.

PickAChew · 23/11/2018 16:54

Hard floors or carpets? My sebo x4 is the best vacuum cleaner I've ever used on carpet but useless on floorboards.

JellySlice · 23/11/2018 17:03

I recently bought a Shark and am very pleased with it.

hmmwhatatodo · 23/11/2018 17:03

You can get a sebo that comes with 2 heads: carpet and hard floors. Which sebo are you looking at?

JellySlice · 23/11/2018 17:04

I don't think it's all bots. Which rate it very highly.

Livedandlearned2 · 23/11/2018 17:06

I use both weekly and hate the sebo, love the shark. The sebo is the 4 one, and the shark is the liftaway one.

In fact, the people who own the sebo are wishing it's life away so they can bin it and buy a shark.

itsbritneybiatches · 23/11/2018 17:08

I wish I'd of bought a shark.

We bought the dyson animal and we hate it.

CatAndMice · 23/11/2018 18:13

I have a Sebo x4 pet, which is (I think) 7 years old. Older than any hoover I’ve owned before, but not as long as I thought it might last based on reviews.

The new version of this is the x7 pet, but is £399!

I’ve found a shark lift away pet for £199 online (it says Black Friday deal, but an amazon review priced it the same in May).

We have mostly carpets, but I want to replace them with hard flooring in the future...( not near future as I can’t afford it yet!)

We have pets and suffer from hay fever in the summer - I need a Hepa filter to collect as much dust as possible.

I have had cheaper ones in the past but I want one to last. I worry that the dust collected in high powered machines is actually bits of carpet...

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CatAndMice · 23/11/2018 18:15

I love being able to pull the hose out of the hoover and do this many times when I’m hoovering. Is it as easy as it seems with the lift away?

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CatAndMice · 23/11/2018 21:55

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TheFaerieQueene · 23/11/2018 21:57

I’ve had a Sebo felix and have a shark duo clean. Shark all the way - get two batteries.
I’ve given my sebo to my son and he is welcome. It is heavy and unwealdy.

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 23/11/2018 22:00

I recently bought a Shark and am very pleased with it

IJustLostTheGame · 23/11/2018 22:11

I have a Sebo.
I wish I'd bought a shark now.

JellySlice · 23/11/2018 23:10

We bought a SharkNV801UKT DuoClean True Pet Powered Lift-Away.

Our 15yo Dyson finally died. It was a very good cleaner, but a heavy beast of a machine, and fiddly to use. I'd used a Sebo elsewhere, and had been very impressed with it, especially how easy it was to pull out the handle and use it as a 'wand'. But when I looked at Sebo again, I realised that they were just as heavy as a Dyson to lift and to push. Previously I'd lived in a flat, and had not had to consider weight. Now I live in a house with carpeted stairs!

The Shark is incredibly easy to use, and very flexible, too. The handle just lifts out to give you a short or a long wand. You can lift the motor/canister unit off completely, and turn it almost into a cylinder vac. It's very light to carry around. Vastly easier for stairs. Only criticism is that the canister 'wants' to lie down on the stairs, and I don't know whether that's OK. I tend to end up tucking it between my leg and the wall.

It doesn't pull out carpet fibres. Carpets shed massively when they're new, and the stuff that collects in the vacuum cleaner is the same colour as the carpets for a few months. Eventually they stop shedding and the dirt is all gray, no matter which room it comes from. The dirt in our Shark is gray, except from the room with the newish carpet, which is still tinting the dirt.

It works well on our hard floors, too. Has a sort of squishy roller that seems to be more effective than a brush on hard floor.

han01uk · 23/11/2018 23:18

Just recently bought a shark lift away. All in all very impressed,had a stain animal before. The lift away really is as easy as it looks,and great for stairs and using it to get cobwebs etc up high. Only downside is the dust compartment isn't huge. Works well on carpet and hard floor,and you can adjust the suction easily as I actually find it's too powerful for rugs etc as just literally eats them!

han01uk · 23/11/2018 23:18

Dyson animal..🙄

CatAndMice · 23/11/2018 23:58

Stain animal sounds like a bad name for a vacuum Grin

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han01uk · 24/11/2018 11:58

Might be quite apt with my animals!! 🙈

bobkate · 24/11/2018 15:48

I hate my sebo Felix. Properly cumbersome. Wish it would pop off to vacuum heaven so I can get a shark!

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