to think the Shark vacuum is pants

[tiajon]

It does ok on carpet, filling the hoover everytime. Must be carpet fibres though, surely? No one makes that much dust everyday.

But on hard floor, which my whole downstairs level is, it's appalling. Hate it.

Luckily I got it super cheap on Amazon Prime day. Such a con.

I love mine. No problems with dog hair or on hard floors.
Dyson went to the skip to join his mate Henry.

@tiajon I have a Miele - had 3 dysons before that broke in certain places, fed up of replacing bits and bobs - too much plastic!
I tested the dysentery cordless and didn’t get on with it, would be good as a second vacuum cleaner but not long enough power for house with cats and DS. Don’t regret a thing with my Miele I love it! It’s brilliant on all floors - I’ve got the bagless pet one.

• dyson not dysentery lol

YABU shark is awesome!

You need to clean out all the filters properly and it will pick up effortlessly on hard floor

I chose dyson over shark,got the v11 absolute and its amazingly good

I'm desperately in need of a new hoover and shark is everywhere at the moment, good to see different reviews, I have 3 long haired dogs, shark isn't going to cut it is it? Any suggestions? I have a Dyson V7 and it's good but 6 minutes battery life is a joke!

Ah yes, hair around the rotating brush! My daughter has very long hair and it only takes a couple of uses before the brush won't pick anything else up. With only a very small amount of hair wrapped around the brush. Constantly cutting it out with scissors.

Glad I'm not the only one (although sorry that others have found it a big waste of money as I have)

Dyson for me every time - they’re the best!

@VenusTiger I think Miele gets the best reviews on Which

I love mine, the best vacuum I've ever owned by a country mile.

We've just bought a miele blizzard for downstairs, it's fab (have a dog that moults constantly) and the old Dyson for upstairs.

I'm sure I read somewhere that Shark is just a rebrand of Morphy Richards?

I love mine, it’s so much better than my previous rip off dyson. Never had an issue with the hard floor which is all we have downstairs, it’s brilliant on rugs too and so good when our dog is moulting.

The only decent cordless vac is either a Dyson V10 or 11.

We've got a cordless Duo Clean and I bloody love it. Hated the Dyson we had.

Bloody love my corded lift away. Great on carpets, velvet sofa and hard floors.

I had the hair wrap issue constantly with the Dyson cordless I had and kept having to cut it out but not had it with the Shark yet. It says it has anti-hair wrap technology though and it's a newer model so maybe thats why?

Miele miele miele! after years and a few thousand on top end useless vacuums we have had miele for 3 years and going strong, superb clean every time, they really are the rolls royce of vacuums and competitively priced.

I replaced my Henry with a shark Liftaway, after one too many angry cries. The henry was great at picking up every speck in the vicinity, But it just got stuck everywhere, and fell down the stairs on me one too many times.

Shark is easier to manoeuvre in comparison, and is generally ok on rugs and hard floor BUT it's shit around the edges, the floor bit is too clunky. Mines corded so it's a pain unwrapping and wrapping the cord whenever I need to use the 'wand'for the edges. It also either doesn't pick up bigger pieces, or it does but then they fall back out - I have some cardboard cat scratchers and it won't pick up the pieces the cats leave behind for eg.

Thinking of miele next, but I hate having to pull the hoover around, prefer upright ones.

This is odd. As pp has said, usually on MN Shark is the bestest.

I read a few threads and then went out to buy a new machine, wasn't set on cordless or make/model but OMG all of the Sharks felt oddly heavy or unbalanced and felt rattly, made of ticky tacky.

So we got a Dyson V10... bloody great machine. Lifts dog hairs no problem and is easy to swap the attachments. I can even maneouvre it round the car, which the Shark I borrowed was a painful experience.

I have a Dyson cordless and hate it. It just pushes food around. It’s just a large dust buster.

Love my Miele though.

One day we'll look back and think bagless cleaners were the work of the devil. They are so dirty, and god knows how much muck we breathe in when emptying them when those clouds of dust rise up. And don't get me started on washing the filters. Yuck. I find the shark we inherited terrible, the container needs emptying all the time, and then you put the skanky container back and carry on cleaning with the dirty filter (unless you wash it every time I suppose).

Sebo here every time.

We got the anti hair one and my dh loves it!

So yabu

I've got a cordless Shark and it's brilliant on carpet and hard floors. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Two batteries so there's always one fully charged.

YANBU. I chucked mine and bought a Henry.

Interesting. I just bought my mum a Dyson cordless because she can’t lift the Henry to do the stairs. (She’s 81, bless her!) She says the carpets clearly haven’t been properly clean for years.

I love my Dyson, my only whinge is that the charge only does either up or downstairs, not both.

I love my shark liftaway but for hard floors I don’t use the hard floor setting, I leave it on carpet setting but turn the suction down, I find it picks up much more that way.