General Chat

Dazed/Confused. Just got my new catalogue from Coopers of Stortford. Noticed a very nice upright on Page 25 which looks to me to be better than most of these £200 models.

It is £69.99. No idea about country of origin or how much they spend on product development, but looks well worth considering if you don't want to make a fashion statement or donate to company research..

I have just bought a load of stuff from them (including a steam cleaner for £49.99) and have been mightily impressed with prices and service.

I know a lot of people swear by the Henry/Henrietta's they own. But I like an upright for the fact that you do not have leads etc. to store away.

My wife's main complaint is the weight, but then other lightweights we have seen are worse than useless, so you can't have it both ways.

Other than that we find they suck up better than all others we have ever owned over 40 years..

However, as another member has mentioned, it is no use just tipping the dust out. Once a month or so they need to be dismantled and washed out in the sink.

Have a Miele cat and dog vac for around 20 yrs and still going strong.

I was watching tv and vacuums were being tested - this was one and the only one which coped with pet hairs. I got one very soon after.

Yes Ann , some times my spell check on here has a mind of its own. Mine I
is a cat and dog one too.



Lol Ann as I was typing check it " corrected" it to Cheque, then checkmate. I don't use it but sometimes it makes the corrections when they are not needed. How very strange.

If it is, my daughter has got a 'cat and dog' one and she swears by it. I've used it in her house and I have to admit it is brilliant! (nearly as good as my Dyson!!)

would that not be a Miele Paula?

I have had three Dyson over the years the latest is upright and just too heavy for me to comfortably carry upstairs. OH brought a Mere cylinder model last year to keep up stairs, I am now using it downstairs too. It is by far the best vacuum I have ever had.

i have got one of the cylinder ones Is OK for downstairs but useless for hoovering the stairs and too heavy to lug upstairs to do the bedrooms etc,

Bought one of the Stick ones thinking would be OK for upstairs and to get the cat hair off the landing carpet which is where our old cat Mirabelle sleeps most of the time.

Well its wasnt a good buy what they dont tell you is it only has 6mins of hoovering time and conks out just when you dont want it too and takes YONKS to recharge.

I have bought a Russell Hobbs Power cyclonic Pets for upstairs which is kept in my study . Its a good hoover BUT only has plastic extension tubes and bloody things part company as you hoover which is VERY annoying . If the tubes were metal then it would be a good litle hoover.

Am on the look again for a bedroom hoover BUT it wont be a Dyson

It is quite a good idea not to call you vacuum cleaner a Hoover.

I knew somebody who was having no end of trouble with her Hoover and I can't remember all the detail of the story but I do remember that, when her husband came home from sea and insisted on the big guns coming to deal with the problem he was highly embarrassed to be told they could do nothing about it.

They probably could have done had it not been a Goblin.

I have had a Hoover Vortex for about 15 years and I think Dyson took them to court as it works in a similar way to Dyson. I don't have any thing to replace, such as filters and apart from being heavy it is a brilliant vac. The production ceased, presumably after the court case, unless someone knows differently.

I do have a small Dyson though for vaccing the stairs and I have to say it has been the best, rechargeable vac. Very light and easy to empty.

Have just collected my Dyson (no charge) from the factory as the turbo bar had become intermittent! No problem with the fact that I had lost my guarantee (5 years, runs out in April), Took it in on Tues, phone call this am for collection - lovely people, brilliant service. Dyson working perfectly, any further trouble with the same problem after guarantee runs out, just take it on and talk to them about it as it will be viewed sympathetically. Can't say fairer than that and would certainly buy another.

I have a Kirby which I found excellent when I had a big house and I use it now for downstairs,but find it fiddly putting on attachments .It is easy to push on the turbo setting.
I have a Hoover Alyx 2000 cylinder for upstairs which is good.
I always had Hoover uprights and over 40 years I only had 2 and did they do some work as I had a big guest house on the sea front ,so they coped with loads of sand etc.
Don't think they make them as good these days .The Kirby is more like the old hoover and very solid.

Don't know about Dyson but, I have a Henry, the one with the extra power. It's, brilliant, got a long cable and strong suction, also easy to pull along.

George :-)

Bobtian

Yes I know about the Hoover name

However, we all know that the term hoover is used as a generic term

Thanks you everyone for your advice, all of which I have done repeatedly with all my Dysons, I think it is just me, expecting a 'hoover' to do what is on the box all the time and just feel that the Dyson is overhyped.

Well I have had an Oreck for many years as my back hurts with anything weighty, but now have hard floors with rugs so couldn't use the Oreck on the hard floors as the brush bar would scratch them. Also I hate the bag fixing on the Oreck as mine used to come off and make a horrendous mess in the outer bag. Then I bought a small cylinder Dyson just for the hard floors and very soon it lost power so I haven't been happy with it since.

Since Christmas I have been on a mission to get a replacement for both that has a brush OFF switch so I can use it on the hard floors as well. I have tried all sorts and done a good job hoovering a few store carpets with various makes this last week! The Vax I thought would be good doesn't turn very easily so was hard on my wrist,, many are far too heavy and if they suck well you can hardly move them. So...... yesterday I bought another Dyson, an upright DC50 Animal. It only weighs 5.4 kg so is almost as light as the Oreck and I can lift it with one hand, it has a brush OFF switch for hard floors, but is self adjusting anyway. The one I tried seemed very good and had been used quite a lot so I hope mine doesn't lose power. It was reduced by £100 as well.

What I also tried and thought was impressive was a rechargeable that was much lighter that I would have thought and cleaned just as well as what I've bought. You can also use it as a hand held for doing the car which is useful. If the one I've bought turns out to be good I might get one of those as well, so handy to whip round the lounge rugs without faffing with cables.

I find 'ours' ;-) picks up great (and looking at the muck in the tube shows just how much dirt it sucks up :-0 ) it's cleaned out after every use....but after a long time using one I now find it very heavy to lift.
Anyway OH likes it so I've now given him the job :-D:-D

We have a small Electrolux for upstairs but not as good as the Dyson.

in my sons' depot the Dysons are saved, the others are not!

for around about £75 a Dyson could be rebuilt to as new........

LOL - Bob, ours was bought as OH's birthday present. Although his mum thought it was a mean present, his eyes lit up when he unwrapped it :-D

We have 4............two Dc25's a DC 15, and a DC04
the brush motor drive on one 25 packed up so we bought another 25, only to find out later that it was covered by the guarantee, and was replaced free of charge.

the 15 we have had for absolutely ages and the 04 is currently on loan to our club....

one 25 lives upstairs, the other down stairs so no lifting or lugging around!!



and the 15 is MINE!!!

as in Full metal Jacket, there are many like it, but THIS one is Mine!!
Bob