Which lightweight cordless please

[Kimlek]

Any recommendations for a good lightweight cordless vacuum cleaner please? thank you!

Anyone please?

I've just got a vax and I love it.

Don't get a dyson. I really don't know why everyone raves about them. I have had two dyson hoovers and they've both been crap.

I have a dyson cordless. It is rubbish on hard flors and cannot do edges at all. I have to pick the bits up on the edges and nudge them somewhere it can pick them up. This is including with the tool for the stairs. Very annoying

Even more annoying though is the fact it regularly gets blocked. There are stupid crevices in the head that get clogged with dirt and crap and eventually the end blocks. You can tell when this happens as the hoover goes on and off when you try to use it. You then have to spend 20/30mins digging dirt out of bits if it with a kebab stick. What a crap design!

Heard some people love the v-tech but I've not tried it.

I got a Morphy Richards Supervac cordless a few months ago and am as pleased with it as you could expect or hope to be about a vacuum

I have a Gtech and I love it. Its had a few problems over the years but the customer servkce is incredible. Basically I've had a completely new machine, out of warranty, for nothing because the cusomer service ìs so brilliant x

Thank you everyone! minimum97 I've been thinking about a Dyson so thanks for that as it's not like they are cheap. I'll take a look at a Vtech and also the gtech confusedandemployed plus the vax bexta147. I was expecting lots of posters saying Dyson, Dyson... very interesting!

I love my Dyson V8 absolute. It has a separate head for hard floors which is made of velour so everything grips to it really well. It does need emptying after doing the carpets but I don't have much problems with it clogging. You just need to be mindful when emptying to get all the bits out. I'm really evangelical about mine!

I meant g-tech, not v-tech lol!

The clogging doesn't happen at the bin end, that is fine - it's the head end - have a good look at your multi-surface head @ulysses it's got a groove all the way along the length inside that gets absolutely clogged with dirt.

I looked at the gtech but it looks cumbersome and useless at the head end.

I have a dyson v7 with 3 messy kids and a cat that loses tons of fur. We have wood everywhere except vynil in bathroom and carpets in 2 bedrooms. I never have problems with blocking and it seems to do ok with edges on wood floors, vynil and carpets. The charge seems to last for a quick go over for the whole house but if giving it a 'good go' you may need to recharge. I did find it a pain having to empty it often but it's super light and the swivelly head is great if I cba don't have time to pull furniture out. Worth the money for me :)

I love the idea of a VTech vacuum cleaner for the kids. Presumably it would sing annoying songs all day while encouraging them to identify different types of dust.

we have a dyson v6 animal and i would run into a burning building to rescue it.

we have 4 cats, 3 teenagers and a black slate* kitchen floor. i use the dyson about 30 times a day. it picks everything up and does the living room carpet beautifully. i can do the whole downstairs or upstairs on one charge and we have a fair-sized house.

it does sometimes want a fettle with a chopstick but i will bear this eccentricity as i don't have to get the fucking Henry out any more.

in short - amazing.

*do not ever EVER have a black slate kitchen floor. i am demented from constantly trying to get mysterious tiny white sticky bits off it...

We have a dyson v6 animal and a v6 absolute. (Ebay purchases)
And i love them. They are so easy. If they broke i would be heart broken 😢 dead easy to do the stairs with them. 😁

I did wonder why I couldn't find a Vtech cleaner!

exwifebeginsat40 oh no! We are about to move into a house with a black slate kitchen floor!!

heh. i hope you have a steam cleaner!

seriously though. the whole house was extended and redone by the (probably self-describes as a 'ladies man') guy we bought it from. don't get me wrong - it's beautiful throughout but aspects of it are definitely not based on practicality.

viz.: gigantic 4-person jacuzzi/sex pond with a colour-changing spotlight and a telly. no taps. i repeat: no fucking taps. takes about 300 litres to fill it, but because of the surface area it gets cold really fast. also requires me to climb in it and walk around to clean it properly.

our bedroom has a gigantic remote-controlled projector screen that slowly ratchets itself down the entire back wall of the bedroom, presumably to watch sexy sexy pornography on after wading awkwardly about in the giant bath, or Match of the Day.

the aforementioned kitchen floor. looks beautiful, has underfloor heating, hard-wearing. also shows anything bigger than a molecule. mysterious tiny white sticky bits. muddy cats. muddy humans. also has black polished granite worktops. i spend my days pacing around, circling the island buffing fingerprints off. takes up most of my time and then somebody touches something and it's all filthy again.

i love my house. but god, it felt good to get that off my chest!

Sounds a very interesting house! Projector in the bedroom? 😂 How does the 'sex pond' fill without taps? I suppose you're lucky there's not a pole in the lounge. Not sure what we can do about our black slate kitchen floors as ours (don't know about yours) has a decent quality kitchen on top albeit with black granite worktops!

yeah, the kitchen is beautiful and there's no justification for changing the floor, so i just aim for sparkly and hoovered twice a day.

the bath and shower are controlled with a little electronic dial thingy on the wall. technically, i can run a bath from my phone to be ready the minute i get in the door. actually, i just swear at it when the water goes cold.

the guy we bought from is very dodgy indeed, judging by the mail we have had from hmrc, dvla and companies house (3 different companies). also gave keys and alarm fob to random lodgers and they are still out there somewhere...

all said though, i love my house. enjoy yours!

MIL has a g tech, and we do her housework. It wasn't cheap.
Its good but she had no pets/mess in her house. It is not comparable in performance to my miele cat and dog.
My mum has a cheaper bosch very similar to the g tech which gets great reviews in John Lewis, it's ok for a quick pick but not too replace a main vacuum cleaner.

Don't get a Vax if you have any hard floors at all, mine is useless, just spits the crap elsewhere. Am looking at the Bosch Athlet or Dyson V6 absolute so following this with interest.