On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 07:58:22 +0100, Richard
wrote:

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I really don't get that into vacuum cleaners.

Nor did I until I was looking for a very quiet one because of my
Tinitus.

Ours is a Miele cylinder
(not actually cylindrical) cat and dog hair thingy. It sucks, but in a
good way.

Yup ... and what we ended up with, thanks to a friendly local
appliance shop and my sound level meter. We generally use it on less
than 'Max' power, simply because it's quieter still on the lower
settings and still works well (demonstrating we don't generally need
3kW cleaners if they are designed properly).

For the workshop (shed) I have a Titan - Screwfix wet & dry. It sucks,
in a good way, but very noisy which doesn't matter in the environment
where it's used.

I have an old Henry down there, have just given a Dyson multi-cyclone
[1] to the charity shop and may do the same with our little used
bought-from-new DC01.

Daughter has (temporarily?) nicked back the Dyson V6 Animal she bought
us a while back (and loves it for it's convenience and
manoeuvrability) and Mum seems happy with her Gtech 2 combo (apart
from at 88 years old she finds pulling the canister off and putting it
back on the handheld bit quite challenging!).

Cheers, T i m

[1] Picked up from Freecycle years ago for my step daughter and it was
being given away because it was 'faulty'. It was actually just blocked
up (everywhere) and a good clean then wash in the batch seemed to fix
it and it carried on working ever since.