On 12/05/2016 13:52, Adrian wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2016 13:22:14 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

The fuss over the vacuum cleaner thing was amazing. Most of it coming
from those who've never touched one in their lives.

I always find it amusing how forceful some of the more, umm,
unreconstructed men here can get over a bloody vacuum cleaner.

But, then, I always found it amazing how some of the cheap vacs were
prepared to shout about how they were TWO THOUSAND WATT - yet if you had
to use one, they were **** at actually sucking up, except at making a lot
of heat and noise - while something like a Henry did a much better job
with half the power.

Henry is pretty poor once you have a HEPA filter.
You need a fair few watts to move much air through a HEPA filter the
size they usually have in a vac.

I bought a meil when they were going cheap, its 2000W but I seldom run
it above 600 watts.