what frustrates you most about your hoover/hoovering?

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II have been asked to ask you good people this question by my young niece for some homework-related research that I don't fully understand - project about designing a better hoover I think (I have told her James Dyson probably has it all patented anyway but I think it is just an academic exercise).

Mine is just having to do it in the first place really!

I've got a miele too but I can't say I rave about it in the same way.

It does its job.

And then it needs doing again.

and again

and again ...

they need a remote control

laughing a lot at 'dust turd'...

Also intrigued about washable filters. anyone else got any views on this?

Yes Ms Dyson - I have the smaller upright ball, and the filters ta keforever to dry. Don't want to put them on a radiator in case they melted, and so they sit on paper on the kitchen for the best part of 2 days...

Luckily I don't hoover that often so don't feel the need to rinse every single month

back ache

I have a henry and a roomba

I love the roomba and loathe the henry .Henry is so heavy and bashes into all the doors and generally pisses me off with it's stupid eyes followinig me around.Fuck off Henry.
Now roomba ..sigh.Lovely does it all himself ..well except for the stairs.

I'm not sure how to explain this one, but cylinder hoovers seem to have a problem with the 'grain' in a carpet. eg when I hoover my living room I have to start from the window and move backwards towards the door. If I reverse it, ie, face the door and move backwards towards the window, the head won't roll properly across the carpet and makes funny ridges in the pile.

Reading that back it sounds completely mad but I've experienced it with several hoovers in several houses, it's not just me is it?

PAN - they're fine to go on the radiator. Not surprised it takes days to dry on the side -that would dive me nuts too!!

ProYaffle - does your cylinder head have a brushbar that spins round?

Yes, it does Camilla.

The thing that frustrates me most about hoovering is that my roomba hasn't learnt how to do the stairs yet. I feel it's only a matter of time.

Having to dismantle to the hoover head as dd1 bloody hair has jammed it again.

It would be easier to ask me what doesn't frustrate me about my bloody hoover/hoovering at the moment.

I need a new one NOW! Preferably one where the hose doesn't split (it happened on my upright Dyson and my LG one)

I'm not going to bore you with my list of other gripes.

Hmmm, curious. I 'think' I get what you're saying from the description. Have you got especially deep carpet pile (she says trying to sound serious), cannot figure out what causes it?

Anyone else got issues and grips whilst I'm on here. I'm going to send a link to our RDD people to get them to see on here first hand what you want.

In fact, your niece could write a dissertation on my hoover grumbles at the mo.

rofl @ ggirl

Hairs around the brush. Used to drive my Dad mental too (3 long-haired daughters caused hoover breakdowns on a monthly basis!)

whoops, meant to say gripes not grips

What frustrates me is not being able to do it as I have just had op on knee and see dirt everywhere!!

We've not got especially deep pile no. Had no problem with an upright.

Oh and ditto hair winding/clogging type problems as well. At the very least some sort of gouging tool to get the stuff off with would be useful.

Retrieving lego from the hoover bag is a challenge.