Please can someone tell me what vacuum cleaner to buy!

[Thisismynewname123]

Our upright Dyson has broken. I have no idea what to replace it with.
We have a cordless Dyson, for quick clean ups. I'm looking for a corded upright hoover for both hard floor and carpet, for a reasonably large house over 3 floors. Willing to spend in the £300 range. Our old Dyson was really heavy, so that is a consideration. Has anyone tried both a Miele Blizzard and a Shark anti hair wrap that could tell me if one is any better than the other? I'd rather not get another Dyson.

@TheChippendenSpook

Don't buy a Sebo 'Felix'. They fall on your head every time you use the hose.

Huh? How does it do that? How is it even above your head. Mine doesn't fall on my head. I do find the hose a bit short though.

I love my shark.

It isn't cordless and is a little heavy however I bought the anti hair wrap per one and I can't fault it, comes with brilliant attachments, gets into all the tiny spaces and never seems to get blocked. I've got a dog and a cat and cannot fault it at all.

Van

I don't know, it just does!

The hose doesn't seem to be very long so when I crouch down to use it, the 'body' tips over and whacks me on the head.

Saying that, it is a very good cleaner.

Miele.

I currently have a C2 complete which I think has been discontinued. No issues.

It's massively reduced in Curry's. I'd buy another one happily for various complex reasons involving multiple house moves I've bought 3 miele hoovers in the last 20 years and have had the older ones commandeered by other family members - so I know they all still work and have caused very little bother.

My old cleaner even bought one for her own house as she liked mine so much.

You can take the body off the "head" and use it horizontally when using the hose, I think that helps, though a faff if you have to keep swapping about I suppose.

I forgot about that option! It will help when I'm doing the stairs, thanks

I bought a sebo upright. I hate it to the point I refuse to use the bloody thing. Heavy, unwieldy and falls over when using the hose. So difficult to do edges. I don't like anything about it.

I had an old Miele cylinder beforehand which was fab but suction was so god hoovering was a work out!

I thought about another Miele but there have been mixed reviews on the newer ones and their customer service is shocking. Am umming and ahhing whether to get a Miele anyway in addition to the sebo (my cleaner and husband like it - god knows why the bloody thing is impossible to use). But we would then have 4 hoovers which seems excessive 😊

No no no you’re all wrong!!!!! You need a robot hoover. I have the cheapest one and it’s brilliant. Life changing.

@RavingAnnie "I had an old Miele cylinder beforehand which was fab but suction was so god hoovering was a work out!"

This was my problem with mine today. I actually contemplated throwing it down the stairs in a fit of temper, and I am not normally a fiery person.

Sorry to derail the thread OP, but are uprights less hard work? The brushing of the carpet is literally just me moving the head across the floor with my very basic £120ish cylinder Miele. I reckon my old-fashioned manual carpet sweeper is less hard work - at least it converts some of your pushing energy into the brushes going round.

I have a Miele which I really like. Works well on hard floors and the bags hold loads. We’ve been through three Dysons (corded and cordless) which all broke - I utterly detest them. Expensive overrated pieces of rubbish.

I bought the Miele on the recommendation of a cleaner friend - she said she would only ever use Miele or a Henry based on years of working with clients’ vacuum cleaners.

My Miele has six different suction levels ranging from ‘barely there’ to ‘superglued to the floor’ (not official terms).

OP, you need a Miele. A Cat & Dog C3 to be precise, even if you don't have animals. Mine is hands down the best vacuum cleaner I've ever had and the longest lasting. It copes with anything. Yes it's a cylinder not an upright, but it's great on both carpet and hard floors.

[quote Symbion]@RavingAnnie "I had an old Miele cylinder beforehand which was fab but suction was so god hoovering was a work out!"

This was my problem with mine today. I actually contemplated throwing it down the stairs in a fit of temper, and I am not normally a fiery person.

Sorry to derail the thread OP, but are uprights less hard work? The brushing of the carpet is literally just me moving the head across the floor with my very basic £120ish cylinder Miele. I reckon my old-fashioned manual carpet sweeper is less hard work - at least it converts some of your pushing energy into the brushes going round.[/quote]
That's the main reason I thought I'd try an upright ie that it would be less hard work.

The last time I tried to use the bloody thing though I had a similar meltdown and vowed never to use the bloody thing again.

Yes it's not hard in the same way as fighting the suction on the Miele but I find that the machine is heavy. It doesn't suck up as well (so you have to just go over and over the same but waiting for the machine to suck whereas with a cylinder you can press a bit harder if needed.

You can't get the bloody thing in a position to do edges very easily at all especially in tighter spaces like my porch.

It's a nightmare trying to Hoover round on under things. So for instance in my porch I have a shoe rack and it's very hard to manoeuvre the upright around it to get to all of the floor not covered by the shoe rack. Equally hoovering under the dining table and behind it near to the wall is difficult. With a cylinder you can just hoover in between the chairs if you want to. You have to move them all with the upright which is time consuming and even then I can't get it to do all of the floor behind the table without moving the whole table (hard to explain but it's just not very manoeuvrable.

In my porch again I have coir like a carpet and it's impossible to get the hoover to go where you want on it it just goes in the wrong direction.

I try to use the attachments to new TV some of these issues and the bloody thing just falls over.

I will never buy another upright again. I really do not understand why anyone likes them.

I have a corded anti hair wrap shark we got last year, we have 3 kids, a cat and a Labrador and I genuinely couldn't be without it now, as sad as it sounds it's definitely one of my best buys previously we were using miele which was fantastic to, but even after using the miele going round after with the shark we still got so much more up!

@RavingAnnie thank you so much for giving me all that detail. Yes that does sound like a lot of work.

Sebo X4 Pet - brilliant cleaning and has a boost button. Extra long hose for stairs, etc. Before we had that we had a few cheaper vacuums and none of them were a patch on this.

@RavingAnnie

I bought a sebo upright. I hate it to the point I refuse to use the bloody thing. Heavy, unwieldy and falls over when using the hose. So difficult to do edges. I don't like anything about it.

It won't fall over if you face the Sebo the right way - so have the hose coming to the front rather than the back of that makes sense?

I have or have had every vacuum cleaner known to mankind. Right now, in this house alone, I currently have a Sebo, a Miele, a GTech Airram, a Robovac and 2 cordless Shark liftaways with the anti hair wrap. We also have a weird little mini thing I bought at the ideal home show -(it's pink and it can lift a bowling ball) and an industrial vacuum in the shed but that's DH's baby so I don't count that one. We have two other homes each with a similar array.

The Sharks get used the most. They are so handy for a quick clean and for doing the stairs. They are also good for cobwebs. However I don't think they are powerful enough to be the only vacuum I own. If I could only have one it would be the Miele. It's heavy and cumbersome but efficient and entirely reliable and I like the fact the tools are stored inside it.

Other vacuums I have bought and given away because they didn't suit me or were useless are a Henry Hoover , a Vax cordless, the GTech hand held and an utterly shite Miele Roses upright.

I currently have a Sebo, a Miele, a GTech Airram, a Robovac and 2 cordless Shark liftaways

I have the Sebo, a Mile cat and dog (I have no pets), a Roomba, a cordless Vax, a handheld dustbuster, a handheld Shark, a Vax steam cleaner and a carpet cleaner.

In a small three bed terrace housing one adult.

My search for the perfect vacuum continues.....

@Confusedandshaken @VanGoghsDog

"I currently have a Sebo, a Miele, a GTech Airram, a Robovac and 2 cordless Shark liftaways with the anti hair wrap"

"I have the Sebo, a Mile cat and dog (I have no pets), a Roomba, a cordless Vax, a handheld dustbuster, a handheld Shark, a Vax steam cleaner and a carpet cleaner."

Ha ha, you are both making me feel much better at my plan for merely a 4th hoover!

I currently have a dyson cordless, a sebo (which I hate see above), and a roomba robovac (which is really good but obviously doesn't do corners or stairs) - suction is fab, gets up more than the dyson and obviously all you have to do is empty it and press a button (and service it every few months).

Does anyone know what the newer miele cylinder brush attachments are like. I saw one review and they said the new ones the brush bit was too short and so it didn't clean as well and the plastic bit hits the thing you are cleaning. Anyone found this?

How many vacuum cleaners do some of you have?? I am now thinking of getting a cordless for the stairs - we have lots of them and I often don't vac the stairs because I can't be arsed!

Thanks @TuesdayinSeptember - if I can ever bring myself to use it again, I'll try that TBH I became so angry last time I used it, I'm not sure my husband will let me for the sake of his own well-being

@IstandwithJackieWeaver

How many vacuum cleaners do some of you have?? I am now thinking of getting a cordless for the stairs - we have lots of them and I often don't vac the stairs because I can't be arsed!

Cordless are great for the stairs, would def recommend.

@VanGoghsDog - why is soooooo hard to find a decent vacuum!?! I don't believe this used to be such a problem - I do wonder as the more "sophisticated" they get, the more rubbish they get!

Oooo - my son has a Henry which he loves. I looked at these but apparently v heavy and not great on stairs?