Dyson cleaners - upright vs cylinder

[mummydoit]

I'm about to buy a new Dyson vacuum cleaner and want some opinions on upright vs cylinder. I've always had uprights but am considering a cylinder for two reasons. First, storage. Second, we have mostly hard floors and, even though our current upright cleaner is supposed to clean hard floors, I find it doesn't do the job well enough and I always end up on my hands and knees, using the attachments. The cleaner will be used on the hard floors downstairs every day and on the carpets upstairs twice a week. Which would you go for?

I would go for a miele

Not heard of those. Why Miele rather than Dyson? Are they upright or cylinder?

If you look on Which Online, Miele come out top of their tables every time. My parents bought a Dyson and dislike it so much they went back to using their old Henry. Sis had a Dyson that stopped working after less than two years and has now borrowed Henry from parents who are missing him a lot!

We have a Miele upright, it is very light. Not sure what model. The Miele Cat and Dog comes out top on Which.

I have a dyson upright and same situaion as you, hard floors downstairs and carpet up. I havn't had any problems with my dyson which is a couple of years old now I must say. but if I was buying again I would go for the cylinder for the reasons you say. I always end up using the attachments on the hard floors and it's these floors I do every day

I was thinking Dyson because I've had one for ten years which has been fine. Just recently, the hose developed a hole and the handle snapped but, after ten years, I don't think that's too bad. It was an upright and not brilliant on hard floors but I bought it when I lived in a fully-carpeted flat so didn't consider hard floors at the time. I'll certainly look at the Miele ones but am still keen to know whether cylinders are better on hard floors than uprights.

We've had a Dyson cylinder for about 8 yrs and I'm dying for it to break so I can get an upright But no amount of rough handling seems to bother it! Having said that I certainly don't use it daily

It works fine on all our tiled/wooden floors downstairs and carpets upstairs, I just don't like hauling cylinders around as I vacuum, they seems to bash into everything/get stuck around corners & sofas/wreck the paintwork on skirting boards etc. And the hose isn't long enough to get right upstairs without carrying the vacuum half way.

Good for storage though.

I might not be the best advisor as I hate vacuuming

I have just got a Henry, and he is fab, almost sucks the carpet up altogether!

Yes, agree Miele is the one.

I've had Dysons in the past but find the Miele Cat & Dog far, far better. They are cylinders.

We had a Henry in our flat at university and I didn't like hauling it around which is why I've always gone for uprights but they just don't seem to do wooden floors very well. Mine just blows some of the dirt into the corners. I think the newer Dysons have hoses long enough to do a full flight of stairs. That's one of the things I really want as my current one doesn't and I hate lugging it half way up.

Still can't decide!!!!

have a dyson cylinder and hard floors and it is great! have some carpet too and also great on that. prefer the flexibility of cylinder to upright myself

incidentally, debenhams were advertising £100 off upright Dysons, in Metro this morning.