Kobold VK200 Upright Vacuum Cleaner feedback thread - NON testers - chance to win a handheld vac NOW CLOSED

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This is the feedback thread for the 10 Mumsnetters trying the Kobold VK200 Upright Vacuum Cleaner.

Non testers - we also have 5 handheld vacuums to be won - simply share on this thread what your least favourite room or place to vac is and you will be entered into a prize draw where 5 non testers will each win their very own Kobold VC100 handheld vacuum cleaner (RRP £129.00)

Back to the test, the team at Kobold say “compact, unbeatably handy and extremely powerful, the Kobold VK200 Upright Vacuum Cleaner is the ideal addition to your household, making life easier and cleaner.
Designed by global German household appliance manufacturer Vorwerk, the Kobold VK200, in combination with two different attachments, takes care of all your floor cleaning needs. Whether it’s carpets or hard floors – the VK200 Homecare System has it covered.
The unique SP530 DuoClean head allows you to mop and vacuum at the same time – a world first! It uses just 100ml of water to cover up to 20 m² of hard floor. And the best part? Simply remove the cleaning cloths when you’ve finished and pop them in the washing machine ready for next time.

“The EB400 brush head meanwhile ensures vacuuming is thorough, gentle and hygienic – driven by its own motor, a special rotating brush scans the floor 16 times per second and removes dirt and dust completely. Even the finest dirt particles do not stand a chance!

“Visit kobold.vorwerk.co.uk to find out more about the Kobold VK200 vacuum cleaner and discover the array of clever additional accessories that turn this machine into the Ultimate Homecare System! Simply click and swap to the attachment you need to expertly deal with upholstery, furniture, mattresses, textiles and anything else you need cleaned. Built to last, the Kobold VK200 is the only vacuum cleaner you’ll ever need”.

Testers - please share below your first impressions (we will add more Qs later on)

~ how did the demo from the Vorwerk rep go? What were you the most keen to try out?
~ how were the instructions in the box?
~ what did the demo cassette bag show after the first use - are you surprised by how much has been picked up?
~ please share a photo!

Testers thanks for sharing your first impressions - after you have used it a few times, please now share the below:

~ Do you think the Kobold VK200 will save you time?
~ Did you think that the vacuum was powerful?
~ Did you think the vacuum was easy to manoeuvre?
~ And do please share a photo!

Finally, testers - now please share the below

~ What are you overall views on the vacuum cleaner?
~ Would you recommend it to other people with similar floors to you?
~ please share a photo and add a review here

Thanks
MNHQ
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Lounge is the worst. Have to pull sofas out and retrieve loads of toys before I can even think about turning the hoover on!

I absolutely hate vacuuming the stairs. My back is terrible and trying to lift the hoover I've got up the stairs is a nightmare!

It's got to the stairs for everyone, surely!! Takes forever and so fiddly with a normal vacuum.

Non- tester - the whole of downstairs is my least favourite place to hoover. It take forever and then the dust bunnies are back the next day. I blame the dog. If I had to choose one room, it'd be the hall.

Non tester... Has to be the stairs!! Hate vacuuming stairs!

Non-tester - My least favourite place to vacuum is the living room. With three dogs and two cats it is an obstacle course of toys, biscuits and stuck-to-the-carpet hair. Every piece furniture has the moves and umpteen ping-pong balls, tennis balls, squeakies bits of paper and lumps of stray Bonio removed before I can start to hoover. And then there is the -piece, which despite having throws over it also manages to collect a nightmare quantitiy of hair, dust and crumbs.

Does anyone have a favourite room? Kid-spread, it's everywhere, Lego somehow gets everywhere (who thought letting them play Lego in the bath was a good idea, DH?) Socks, socks on stairs, chucked down the back of the sofa, abandoned in the most random of places. Shoes, immediately inside every external door, half way up the stairs, one in the bathroom, the other god knows where. Cat hair, mud, it's a nightmare! It's the thought of clearing a space to manoeuvre the vacuum into that makes the whole task seem insurmountable!

Under any furniture of which there is lots. I must have deep cleaned once in 5 years 😂

Non testers - simply share on this thread what your least favourite room or place to vac is: The stairs, really difficult to get around so this'll come in really handy for having them done easily.

My least favourite place to vacuum is the stairs. I hate having to balance a vacuum on each stair. And it's difficult to manoeuvre.

The stairs and the car!!!

My least favourite place to vacuum is definitely the stairs, fighting with the ridiculously heavy dyson & the just-not-quite-long-enough hose. All the while blackmailing the 3 year old to both keep away and not 'help' and keep her sister occupied because she's scared of the sodding noise!

Maybe I just don't like vacuuming...

Non tester

I dislike the stairs, having to vacuum around the stairs gates whilst keeping the toddler from turning the vacuum off and dragging the wires and doing it fast enough so that the baby doesn't notice that I'm gone.

Non tester- my least favourite room to vac is entrance/corridor... Full of leaves, mud that even my dyson had enough sorting out!!

I hate hoovering my daughters bedroom, my two girls share a room and the 4 year old is obsessed with shopkins, takes ages to tidy all the little bits away before I Hoover,

least favourite place to hoover is the stairs,I just find it very awkward,so as you can imagine the stairs get vacuumed the least.

Least favourite is definitely the dining room as a right pain moving all the chairs & table& vaccing round them if you're doing a rush vac

I Hate hoovering the hallway with all the nooks and gaps for the leaves, mud and crumbs from my 5 little ones. The mud must walk in by itself and decide to move in with us as the kids say they didn't have mud on their shoes !!

My least favourite place to vacuum is the playroom - place of crumbs and abandoned sandwiches, tiny lego pieces and assorted debris. Loads of tiny crevices that you can't get into properly with the vacuum, different surfaces - sofa, laminate floor and rug - and toys to gather dust!

The floor around and under my teenage daughters dressing table, the tumble weeds of hair (why do all 16 year olds think they have to look like bloody Rapunzel!) it's disgusting, then having to take a pair of scissors to the roller in the front of the Hoover to cut the hair which is all entangled and dusty BOAK!

I hate the stairs. I had sciatica with my 3rd baby and ever since it has completely weakened my back, so lugging a heavy hoover up the stairs can be a pain. Would love a hand-held! :-)

I find the stairs really hard work, the pipe on my hoover isn't as flexible as it's supposed to be and it makes my back ache terribly.

Non-tester
Since getting 2 baby guinea pigs I hate hoovering EVERYWHERE!! I keep finding hay, poo, soft wood bedding and to top that off my DD is loving cutting and sitcking everything at the moment.
My poor Henry hoover is constantly being dragged around my home and its starting to give up on me now..

Tester here.

How did the demo from the Vorwerk rep go?
Very pleasant. Charlie was easy to get in touch with and cheerful as he explained the ins and outs of the vacuum cleaner. He came across as genuinely delighted with the Kobold. Not the pushy salesman type at all.

What were you the most keen to try out?
The hard floor cleaning head. With children and animals tramping in and out of the house the floors get mucky really fast so we were constantly vacuuming and mopping the downstairs floors.

How were the instructions in the box?
I haven't actually read them yet because the demo explained everything but my DH was able to use the vacuum and the hard floor cleaner just from using the instruction manual.

What did the demo cassette bag show after the first use - are you surprised by how much has been picked up?
It was pretty terrifying actually. Three people in my family are allergic to dust so we had invested in an expensive vacuum cleaner and, to be honest, we were pretty happy with it. But despite the fact that I had already vacuumed the room just before Charlie arrived for the demo, the Kobold picked up an incredible amount of dust and detritus (see photo)... and I didn't even vacuum the whole room with it - just a small area. Charlie reckoned that the Kobold was picking up stuff from the floor that my old vacuum cleaner just couldn't reach and that the bag would fill up quickly at first until all the deep-down dirt had been removed. After using the Kobold once my living room rug and carpet actually looked visibly cleaner which I was very surprised at since they had already been vacuumed before that day.

I really love the way the vacuum cleaner hangs on the wall. I have it on a hook in my galley utility room and it hardly takes up any space. Now I'll have to find something else to put in the cupboard under the stairs!

I've tried to take before and after shots after one of my kids decided to throw apple juice and grapes over the kitchen floor this morning. One sticky floor was quickly sorted out with the Kobold hard floor head and I vacuumed/mopped the whole kitchen floor while I was cleaning up the mess. So quick and easy to use!