fledermaus

What vacuum cleaner would you recommend? Our new house has carpets so I will need to get a decent vac. In the UK I had a Sebo which was excellent, but hard to find here and very expensive. I don't buy into the wonderfulness of Dyson, noisy, nasty looking, unreliable.

So whats left? I have heard that Kenmore is good and reasonable prices. Sears is easy enough.

Any thoughts???

dingbat

I have had seven vacuums since coming here. They have all been relatively useless, compared to the original Dyson I had.....sorry! I have a Kenmore upright which I now only use on the van. The best of the worst was the Hoover Windtunnel something. Otherwise, I stuck with my nasty looking, dog hair tackling Dyson.

ClareBC

OMG - the vacuum cleaners here suck. Or rather - they don't We've gone through about 4 in 7 years, from the mega expensive to the mega free with airmiles. All about the same.

Brace yourself for a domestic disappointment when you get here

AlexInBC

Basically "what everyone else said"...i.e. they're all equally useless (especially compared to our old Dyson )

We've tried Bissell, Kenmore & Eureka brand ones here and they've all been completely pants... The Bissell actually has great suction for all of one or two cleaning sessions and then it drops drastically because by then the filters already need washing out. Our Dyson had washable filters too, but kept sucking for far longer, so we're saving up for another Dyson next!

Souvenir

We bought a Kenmore washer and dryer. Utter crap.

London-England-Lads

How about makes for Central Vacuum? Any ideas?

Cheers as always

Rob

Souvenir

Is your place already geared for central vacuum? I think it would be a pricy option if not.

London-England-Lads

Already geared

Cheers

Souvenir

That's a start. I thought you lived in a loft apartment. I was wondering where the tank would go.

fledermaus

We already live in Ontario but our current house is completely hardwood, yuck, so we only needed a basic vacuum cleaner.

The new one doesnt have a basement, just a crawl space, I think central vac would cost more than the Sebo I cant afford

So it looks like forking out some money for a Sebo or a Miele. I've seen Miele in the shops so that brand is looking like the winner- er depending onprice.

dbd33

We have a Beam central vac. Recently upgraded. Not much suck and very awkward to manouevre the head and hose and all so I use a stand up one instead. The stand up one is a Panasonic, a garage sale model, can't say I have strong feelings about it either way but then we don't have much carpet.

My ex had a central vac installed in an older house. That was shockingly expensive as it entailed cutting grooves in the plaster and then replastering. There's no suck in that house either.

Souvenir

We are also 100% hardwood. We have the cheapest little vacuum going. It does everything we need. For major cleaning I bring in the Ryobi shop vac from the garage. That thing sucks like a whore.

fledermaus

What about Oreck? Costco have one for $399.????

iaink

I hate our sears kenmore canister vac with a passion you would find hard to believe.

I must have been designed by someone who has never actually vacuumed. The shape of it catches on every single piece of furniture it's ever likely to bump into, and when you give it a tug to free it it flips over with monotonous regularity. Its responsible for my kids learning more "bad words" than any other thing on the planet.

What annoys me most is its a fraction away from being really really good, its quiet, its reliable, parts are easily available, the brush attachments work great to get cat hair out of the mats, but just when you actually use it for its intended purpose it flunks out big time as its so incredibly annoying in practice.

Just buy something cheap, they all work about the same, although I did read a consumer reports while waiting in the dentist that if I recall correctly recommended a mid range Panasonic... Interestingly Dysons were slated for poor reliablity and so so performance, which suprised me as I had always heard good things about the suction at least (If not the reliability), and of course the engineer in me finds it hard to resist the "better mousetrap" factor as paper filters are obviousy heavily compromised in practice.

I'd go for a Roomba myself so I wouldn't have to do the vacuuming...but then we dont have any carpet.

Central vac always seemed more trouble than its worth...miles of hoze to lug around and hide afterwards, and the ever present danger of it clogging up somewhere you cant easily declog make it seem not worth the effort.

AlexInBC

Miele are fantastic! My parents have sworn by them for decades...well over 20 years that I can remember...and in all that time, despite having heavily shedding dogs, they've probably only gone through 3 or maybe 4 - and I think that was usually when the hoses were more gaffer tape than hose. The actually vacuums seemed to never break.