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Vacuum cleaners - recommendations!

ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
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I need a new one, but am bedazzled by the choice on offer. 🤔

In an ideal world, it would have the following attributes ...

1) Lightweight
2) Quiet (obviously this is relative 😉)
3) Can be used while I am totally upright (lower back issues)
4) Under £300 if possible (that's plenty to spend on dust, IMV)
5) Bagless preferably
6) Easy to use attachments
7) Can cope with laminate flooring and carpet
8) Has a detachable bit to use on the stairs
9) Sucks right to the edges


I don't have any pets.  

Any recommendations? 🙂




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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    We have a Gtech. I like it - easy to charge and has attachments. No pets unless you count offspring.  ;)
    I find it good on my back, which I've had trouble with since my teens, and it's lightweight. No dragging around and constantly unplugging etc.
    We have wooden floors in several rooms, but I've never found any vacuum very good on those anyway, unless you use the attachment rather than the general bit of it. 
    I needed to replace the handle some time ago, has it had stopped turning properly. I got it direct from them, very inexpensive [everyone else was dearer too]  and prompt delivery. Couldn't fault them.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited 17 February
    We have one of these https://www.vax.co.uk/vacuum-cleaners/cordless-vacuum-cleaners?msclkid=a52a6b8cc78e1926230b0e5ca08dc956&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Search%20%7C%20Brand%20%7C%20Category&utm_term=vax%20cordless&utm_content=Cordless%20Vacuums

    love it 😍 
    I really swore I’d never get a cordless but I’ve been totally one over. It does everything you ask for and is light and simple to use. 
    We have parquet and tiles downstairs and carpets upstairs  if handles themall far better than the old upright ever did  ❤️ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I have just looked at the Which? 2024 reviews of vacuum cleaners under £300 and the top four places all went to Shark models:

    HZ3000UKT

    NZ860UKT

    NZ860UK

    I did not include 4th place because it performed only moderately on laminate floors.

    Rutland, England
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    edited 17 February
    Excellent!  Thank you! ❤️

    I will investigate all your suggestions.  @Dovefromabove, which model on that Vax page do you have? 
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited 17 February
    the Shark - be a bit careful. We had a very old Vorwerk that was an upright that transformed into a carry type thing - I replaced it with a Shark but didn't check the spec tooooo well and the first one I bought didn't have a liftaway dust collector bin. I got a second one that has this feature (the liftaway makes the device low enough to go under a bed - and makes stair cleaning a lot easier).
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    ViewAhead said:
    Excellent!  Thank you! ❤️

    I will investigate all your suggestions.  @Dovefromabove, which model on that Vax page do you have? 
    Ours is the Vax Blade 4

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    My daughter likes her Shark.

    We have a very cheap Bush, works well. I also have a cheap Hoover but it clogs up quickly and needs its filter washed often.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I've had a few cheap cordless over the years and always found them losing performance over time (and frankly not being that great to begin with). Are the Sharks and higher end Vaxs really that much better? I end up reverting to old style bagged corded vacuums because I need power to get dog hairs up. But they're a pain to carry around.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I like my GTech too. It was more than £300 but came as a set with the hand-held one.
    I did try the cordless vax (my friend's got one) but I didn't like it. To me it felt heavy and awkward having the canister up at the handle end, and it was just too long for me to manoevre easily (my friend is tall, I'm short). 
    My only issue with the GTech is that I'd like to have the option to set the handle at a shorter height. It would just need an extra hole to allow it to extend halfway instead of all the way.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    @Loxley , until recently we used a Miele Cat and Dog cylinder hoover (just winding up Nanny Beach 😉) but switched to Dyson V11 Absolute for greater manoeuvrability. Both are excellent, equally good. But I do like the flexibility afforded by the cordless Dyson: when the vicar comes in Thursday mornings I can do the dining room rug in an instant. Imagine the shame if the vicar were to see dried peas and flecks of flicked-across-the-room cat litter. 
    Rutland, England
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