Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with it.

Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for her now
to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

Kindest regards,

Jim

On Oct 4, 9:33*am, "the_constructor"
wrote:
Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with it.

Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for her now
to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

Kindest regards,

Jim

if its a condition that may deteriorate further over time, I'd look at
an Oreck. They're far lighter than the other brands.

fwiw
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?...Cleaner_Review


NT

In message ,
the_constructor writes
Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with it.

Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for her now
to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?


In best Usenet tradition I'll answer a slightly different question :-)

We have had two Dysons (a DC02 - cylinder that got nicked, followed by a
DC07 - upright), been happy with the both. but the DC07 is a bit heavy,
and was not good for our stairs when we moved house as the ceiling are
higher and the stairs too long for it. And for our house I find a
cylinder works better for me.

a year or so back, had been considering another one for a while when the
DC07 broke down (since fixed) a couple of days before a big do out our
house. So I bought a new one locally from what was in stock. Not liking
the current Dyson cylinder cleaners I bought Miele cylinder cleaner.

This one : http://www.miele.co.uk/Products/Features.aspx?pid=539

I been very happy with it. It does require bags and the very occasional
filter change (a running cost, but if you shop around you can bulk buy
for a reasonable price), but performance is easily as good as the
Dysons. Build quality is very good, it is much lighter, and much
quieter.

The Dyson, though now working fine again has been relegated to second
choice
--
Chris French

In article ,
the_constructor wrote:
Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with it.

Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for her
now to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

Get a second Dyson for upstairs?

--
*All generalizations are false.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

the_constructor wrote:
Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with it.

Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for her now
to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?


Infinitely better value for money.

Kindest regards,

Jim

the_constructor wrote:
Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with
it.
Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for
her now to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

You don't know what you've started :-)

This group is divided into 'The Numatic Fanatics' and 'The Cyclone Clones'.

I'm with the former - buy a Henry or Henrietta.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:

This group is divided into 'The Numatic Fanatics' and 'The Cyclone Clones'.

*waves Miele flag frantically*

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 09:33:45 +0100, "the_constructor"
wrote:

Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with it.

Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for her now
to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

Kindest regards,

Jim



Get her another one for upstairs?
--
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http://www.holidayunder100.co.uk

"the_constructor" wrote in message
o.uk...
Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with it.

Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for her
now to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

Why bagless?
I bought a new bagged vac four months ago.
I just changed the first bag.
The previous bagless one would have had to be emptied at least twice a week.
I was surprised by how much stuff the bag holds compared to the bagless.
Its much cleaner to empty even after four months.

the_constructor wrote:
Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with
it.
Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for
her now to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

Think of all the stick a vacuum cleaner gets in a hotel. I regularly stay in
places like Jurys Inn, Holiday Inn, Ramada Jarvis, Ibis and Thistle hotels
and have never seen a Dyson in any of them. There are, however, lots of
Henrys to be seen because they clean well and can take the stick. Good
enough for hotels, good enough for me.

In message , Pete Zahut
writes
the_constructor wrote:
Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with
it.
Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for
her now to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

Think of all the stick a vacuum cleaner gets in a hotel. I regularly stay in
places like Jurys Inn, Holiday Inn, Ramada Jarvis, Ibis and Thistle hotels
and have never seen a Dyson in any of them. There are, however, lots of
Henrys to be seen because they clean well and can take the stick. Good
enough for hotels, good enough for me.


I've never really considered that they cleaned especially well. I worked
in one place where we used them and lived in another place where we had
them. cleaning performance was ok, but not great. They are very tough
though.
--
Chris French

The 5L-bag miele are heavy and built like the proverbial - you can
actually throw them at the floor and create a black hole into which
the entire room is dragged. The 3L-bag miele are light and move more
easily with just a tug - you are not accelerating a static german
locomotive. The downside is the 3L-bag miele do not have a flap to
hold spiders in (if you suffer the size of spider which actually
manages to withstand the suction of a 5L-miele which causes the walls
to visually distort around you).

The older miele were slightly better made re "industrial feel to
everything" re hose latches, lid latch, basically you expected it to
be sent to Mars where there would be no service available and it was
actually reversible as life support. The modern ones have gone a bit
"designer" like the new vs old miele washing machines, but still a
miele.

Bags hold half a house, indeed leave them on too long and you may come
back to a flat conversion or at least a scarification of the garden.
When you remove the bags they have a neat flap which stops you
inhaling the dark matter of the universe, the old ones used to puff a
bit at you whereas the new ones use a rotary cover. The bags are multi-
layer with the capability of holding a moderate supernova based on
their ability to fill to an extremely rigid "piano wire tight" bag
before finally vacuum pickup is affected. That said, if a bag bursts
your motor is toast. About 2 bags per year - the new bags are now 4-a-
pack rather than 5-a-pack which is a little irritating, but they work
well; sort of life a nappy without the bawling when it needs changing.
Perhaps that can be added following a EU treaty.

Just limit their use with plaster, because on a new bag it will
completely clog in a few seconds on any high power. Just glancing
there a Miele S381 on Ebay which look like refurbs with mixed tools
for about £50, I think the old S380 in boxed-new could be had for £89
at one point so perhaps check around. Dyson are noisy, a function of
the cyclone, but the Miele do well at low wattages - useful around
bedrooms.

On Oct 4, 11:14*pm, "js.b1" wrote:
The 5L-bag miele are heavy and built like the proverbial - you can
actually throw them at the floor and create a black hole into which
the entire room is dragged. The 3L-bag miele are light and move more
easily with just a tug - you are not accelerating a static german
locomotive. The downside is the 3L-bag miele do not have a flap to
hold spiders in (if you suffer the size of spider which actually
manages to withstand the suction of a 5L-miele which causes the walls
to visually distort around you).

The older miele were slightly better made re "industrial feel to
everything" re hose latches, lid latch, basically you expected it to
be sent to Mars where there would be no service available and it was
actually reversible as life support. The modern ones have gone a bit
"designer" like the new vs old miele washing machines, but still a
miele.

Bags hold half a house, indeed leave them on too long and you may come
back to a flat conversion or at least a scarification of the garden.
When you remove the bags they have a neat flap which stops you
inhaling the dark matter of the universe, the old ones used to puff a
bit at you whereas the new ones use a rotary cover. The bags are multi-
layer with the capability of holding a moderate supernova based on
their ability to fill to an extremely rigid "piano wire tight" bag
before finally vacuum pickup is affected. That said, if a bag bursts
your motor is toast. About 2 bags per year - the new bags are now 4-a-
pack rather than 5-a-pack which is a little irritating, but they work
well; sort of life a nappy without the bawling when it needs changing.
Perhaps that can be added following a EU treaty.

Just limit their use with plaster, because on a new bag it will
completely clog in a few seconds on any high power. Just glancing
there a Miele S381 on Ebay which look like refurbs with mixed tools
for about £50, I think the old S380 in boxed-new could be had for £89
at one point so perhaps check around. Dyson are noisy, a function of
the cyclone, but the Miele do well at low wattages - useful around
bedrooms.

Informative stuff. Can you or we paste that onto the wiki some time?


NT

In article ,
"the_constructor" writes:
Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with it.

Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for her now
to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

Not as effective, because Dyson holds all the patents on making small
cyclones which actually work down to 5 microns (exhaled cigarette smoke
particle size).

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

On Oct 5, 11:45*am, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:
In article ,
* * * * "the_constructor" writes:

Had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for years and have been very pleased with it..

Wife would like a vac for upstairs, say Dyson getting too heavy for her now
to lug about.

What are the other bagfless cleaners like.?

Not as effective, because Dyson holds all the patents on making small
cyclones which actually work down to 5 microns (exhaled cigarette smoke
particle size).


Some only have a basic single stage cyclone, the smallest stuff is
then handled by a big sponge filter. It works great.


NT