We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there seem
to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax Air
Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.

On 26/09/2015 12:43, Broadback wrote:
We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there seem
to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax Air
Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.

We got a Dyson (not Fluffy) and it is excellent. Also have one at work.
Small capacity for dirt, awkward to open and get the dirt out, but still
highly rated.

We tried a Vax product (can't remember which one now), and it was
rubbish in comparison. OK for occasional crumb clearance.

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There is a Bosch as well which apparently has two batteries, on charging one
in the cleaner.

Brian

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On 26/09/2015 12:43, Broadback wrote:
We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there seem
to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax Air
Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.

We got a Dyson (not Fluffy) and it is excellent. Also have one at work.
Small capacity for dirt, awkward to open and get the dirt out, but still
highly rated.

We tried a Vax product (can't remember which one now), and it was rubbish
in comparison. OK for occasional crumb clearance.

--
Rod

On 26/09/15 12:43, Broadback wrote:
We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there seem
to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax Air
Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.
I've recently purchased a Gtech Air-ram K9, and it's excellent.

Chris Bartram wrote in news:mu68gn$9n6$2
@dont-email.me:

On 26/09/15 12:43, Broadback wrote:
We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there seem
to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax Air
Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.
I've recently purchased a Gtech Air-ram K9, and it's excellent.


....won't they all suffer from declining performance as the battery ages and
you will just put up with it as the batteries will either be expensive or
not available.

On Saturday, 26 September 2015 17:17:37 UTC+1, DerbyBorn wrote:
Chris Bartram wrote in news:mu68gn$9n6$2
@dont-email.me:
On 26/09/15 12:43, Broadback wrote:

We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there seem
to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax Air
Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.
I've recently purchased a Gtech Air-ram K9, and it's excellent.


...won't they all suffer from declining performance as the battery ages and
you will just put up with it as the batteries will either be expensive or
not available.

One of my dustettes has been going for 80 years. In that time you'd need to buy around 10 rechargeable vacs as well as tolerate the poorer performance. It doesn't have dyson-like suction but they do the job ok.


NT

doesn't have dyson-like suction but they do
the job ok.


NT


Don't do the job very well by the sound of it

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On Sunday, 27 September 2015 07:22:14 UTC+1, stuart noble wrote:
doesn't have dyson-like suction but they do
the job ok.

Don't do the job very well by the sound of it

Does that mean you've never used one?


NT

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writes
On Saturday, 26 September 2015 17:17:37 UTC+1, DerbyBorn wrote:
Chris Bartram wrote in news:mu68gn$9n6$2
@dont-email.me:
On 26/09/15 12:43, Broadback wrote:

We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there seem
to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax Air
Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.
I've recently purchased a Gtech Air-ram K9, and it's excellent.


...won't they all suffer from declining performance as the battery ages and
you will just put up with it as the batteries will either be expensive or
not available.

One of my dustettes has been going for 80 years. In that time you'd
need to buy around 10 rechargeable vacs as well as tolerate the poorer
performance.

Batteries are easily available for the Dyson.

TBH I doubt that our Dyson DC59 has less suction than an old dustette
(though it is a long, long time since I used one - it really is nothing
like the little handheld jobbies.

And the Dustette lacks the big advantage of being cordless.

but you know, horses for courses

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On Sunday, 27 September 2015 21:01:05 UTC+1, Chris French wrote:
In message ,
nt:
On Saturday, 26 September 2015 17:17:37 UTC+1, DerbyBorn wrote:
Chris Bartram wrote in news:mu68gn$9n6$2
@dont-email.me:
On 26/09/15 12:43, Broadback wrote:

We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there seem
to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax Air
Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.
I've recently purchased a Gtech Air-ram K9, and it's excellent.


...won't they all suffer from declining performance as the battery ages and
you will just put up with it as the batteries will either be expensive or
not available.

One of my dustettes has been going for 80 years. In that time you'd
need to buy around 10 rechargeable vacs as well as tolerate the poorer
performance.

Batteries are easily available for the Dyson.

TBH I doubt that our Dyson DC59 has less suction than an old dustette
(though it is a long, long time since I used one - it really is nothing
like the little handheld jobbies.

And the Dustette lacks the big advantage of being cordless.

but you know, horses for courses

They're very different animals. You can replace batteries, but it costs. A fiver for a reliable mains vac, or many hundreds with repeated breakdowns for something more modern. Sometimes upgrades really are downgrades.


NT

In message , Tim Streater
writes
In article , Chris Hogg
wrote:

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:43:10 +0100, Broadback
wrote:

We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there
seem to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax
Air Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.

We have a small hand-held Dyson DC31 Animal. SWMBO swears by it.

We have a DC35. Excellent. It means stuff gets cleaned that would
otherwise not be.

We have a DC59, it is indeed excellent. It gets lots of use. Great for a
quick hoovering up of stuff and for doing just a bit of the house to
save getting the mains vacuum out, for doing sofas say, whilst hoovering
the carpets with the mains one, for the car.

I like that it can be easily used as a handheld one, or with the
extension tube more like an upright.

Q for the OP. Are you looking for a replacement for an upright cleaner,
or more of a handheld one
--
Chris French

On 27/09/2015 20:54, Chris French wrote:
In message , Tim Streater
writes
In article , Chris Hogg
wrote:

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:43:10 +0100, Broadback
wrote:

We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there
seem to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax
Air Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.

We have a small hand-held Dyson DC31 Animal. SWMBO swears by it.

We have a DC35. Excellent. It means stuff gets cleaned that would
otherwise not be.

We have a DC59, it is indeed excellent. It gets lots of use. Great for a
quick hoovering up of stuff and for doing just a bit of the house to
save getting the mains vacuum out, for doing sofas say, whilst hoovering
the carpets with the mains one, for the car.

I like that it can be easily used as a handheld one, or with the
extension tube more like an upright.

Q for the OP. Are you looking for a replacement for an upright cleaner,
or more of a handheld one
A replacement for our mains one.

On 28/09/2015 09:36, Broadback wrote:
On 27/09/2015 20:54, Chris French wrote:
In message , Tim Streater
writes
In article , Chris Hogg
wrote:

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:43:10 +0100, Broadback
wrote:

We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there
seem to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax
Air Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.

We have a small hand-held Dyson DC31 Animal. SWMBO swears by it.

We have a DC35. Excellent. It means stuff gets cleaned that would
otherwise not be.

We have a DC59, it is indeed excellent. It gets lots of use. Great for a
quick hoovering up of stuff and for doing just a bit of the house to
save getting the mains vacuum out, for doing sofas say, whilst hoovering
the carpets with the mains one, for the car.

I like that it can be easily used as a handheld one, or with the
extension tube more like an upright.

Q for the OP. Are you looking for a replacement for an upright cleaner,
or more of a handheld one
A replacement for our mains one.

We have a DC59. SWMBO likes it because it is light to use. It gets much
more use than the ball Dyson that we bought before.


--
Michael Chare

In message , Michael Chare
writes
On 28/09/2015 09:36, Broadback wrote:
On 27/09/2015 20:54, Chris French wrote:
In message , Tim Streater
writes
In article , Chris Hogg
wrote:

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:43:10 +0100, Broadback
wrote:

We, her indoors and myself, are considering cordless vacuums. there
seem to be 2contenders for the top, the Dyson V^ Fluffy and the Vax
Air Cordless Lift U85-ACLG-B. any thoughts would be appreciated.

We have a small hand-held Dyson DC31 Animal. SWMBO swears by it.

We have a DC35. Excellent. It means stuff gets cleaned that would
otherwise not be.

We have a DC59, it is indeed excellent. It gets lots of use. Great for a
quick hoovering up of stuff and for doing just a bit of the house to
save getting the mains vacuum out, for doing sofas say, whilst hoovering
the carpets with the mains one, for the car.

I like that it can be easily used as a handheld one, or with the
extension tube more like an upright.

Q for the OP. Are you looking for a replacement for an upright cleaner,
or more of a handheld one
A replacement for our mains one.

We have a DC59. SWMBO likes it because it is light to use. It gets much
more use than the ball Dyson that we bought before.

Depending on the situation, much as I like ours and use it a lot, I
think the DC59 could struggle as a mains replacement (not so much
because of performance, but because of the runtime.).. It wouldn't be
much cop here as the house is too big and gets to messy with pets, kids,
in and our of the garden, crafting etc. - I use it here to do the odd
room, the stairs and odd bits of cleaning - but it wouldn't do all of
our downstairs but I can see in a small house or flat, it might be ok

I'd look at the ones designed more as an upright one maybe, they might
have more runtime?
--
Chris French

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:36:02 +0100, Broadback wrote:

Q for the OP. Are you looking for a replacement for an upright
cleaner,
or more of a handheld one

A replacement for our mains one.

Hum, unless battery technology has taken some very big steps recently
no way is a battery cleaner going to have the suck and run time of a
mains cleaner.

Pick any two: Suck, long run time, light weight.

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Dave.

On Monday, 28 September 2015 16:43:05 UTC+1, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:36:02 +0100, Broadback wrote:

Q for the OP. Are you looking for a replacement for an upright
cleaner,
or more of a handheld one

A replacement for our mains one.

Hum, unless battery technology has taken some very big steps recently
no way is a battery cleaner going to have the suck and run time of a
mains cleaner.

Pick any two: Suck, long run time, light weight.

So.
I don;t need a long run time 10mins is usually enough.
How many hours a day do you vacuum ?

In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 28 September 2015 16:43:05 UTC+1, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:36:02 +0100, Broadback wrote:

Q for the OP. Are you looking for a replacement for an upright
cleaner,
or more of a handheld one

A replacement for our mains one.

Hum, unless battery technology has taken some very big steps recently
no way is a battery cleaner going to have the suck and run time of a
mains cleaner.

Pick any two: Suck, long run time, light weight.

So.
I don;t need a long run time 10mins is usually enough.

It certainly wouldn't be here.

How many hours a day do you vacuum ?

Not a question of how many hours a day - but how long in one go. Unless
you have spare batteries.

Thing is, to me a vacuum cleaner is simply a tool. Not a fashion
statement. So I expect it to have a long long life. Like any other
household appliance. My current Panasonic is over 20 years old and still
works just fine.

And on any cordless tool ever made, the battery will fail. And can you
guarantee a replacement will be available at a reasonable price when it
does? Experience with most cordless tools says not.

Of course I wired this house myself. So there are plenty of convenient
sockets for a mains vacuum cleaner - I actually added more where the need
was found. So it really is no hardship to plug it in.

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