Hoover Help, can you recommend one for me that I won't be disappointed with!

[Gingerbics]

Off to buy a new hoover this weekend (exciting I Know!)just wondered if anyone can suggest any models that they've been happy with. Dysons? Henry's???? Anything goes! Thanks in advance xxx

I got a Henry due to recommendations, and I did like it, but it's harder to do edges with them and there isn't a beater bar (at least on the model I have) - I've noticed that the edges in particular are looking rather grubby.

Suction is good (in fact, keeps pulling the carpet up at the edges!) but for some reason just doesn't seem to be getting the dirt up as well as my old upright did.

Considering getting rid at some point for a Miele.

I really like my Miele as it has all the little attachments already in the hoover so you don't have to go back to where it's kept if you quickly need to swap to a different 'head'.

I really miss my Henry's smiley face! It gave us 11 years of good service before we gave it away on moving to the States. Dh bought a stick Dyson, and I really really hate it. Maybe I'd hate any upright vacuum, but I find it awkward and heavy, the head doesn't fit under anything, so all our beds, cupboards and wardrobes have lots of visible dust and rubbish under them, and trying to pull the hose bit out of the casing is a hassle (very poorly designed IMO). Oh, and dh broke it trying to get a bit of Christmas tree out of one of the bends (did I say it was badly designed ) why have such a strong suck if it can't cope with anything larger than an inch or so? Oh and it sucked up and chopped his mobile charge too. He still uses it, but when I (rarely it has to be said) clean, I use the weird central vacuum thing our rental house is kitted out with).

My mother has a couple of Mieles, and they seem to have survived well (country house, lots and lots of mud and a fairly shaggy dog), so I think it's a fairly decent brand, if expensive.