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Products recommended in a UK group (or misc.consumers.frugal-living where a broom would be suggested [1]) would not necessarily be distributed in your country.

FWIW, the 'henry' from Numatic has a good following here.

Henry.

What are you on? Perfectly reasonable answer. Unless you're a frugal liver/Amish!

Which? don't rate it at all well. In fact, unusually, it gets rated DON'T buy...

Andy

So that's a positive recommendation, then! Which? are notoriously flaky...whereas many people find it good value and efficient and reliable.

I have used one and it wasn't great - I would recommend Miele

If you have £160 or so, then the mid range Miele's outstrip anything else. Period.

If you have only £100, then get a Henry.

Don't bother with anything else.

Tim..

Regardless of what Which might say, Henry is the best selling vac in the UK comercial cleaning market by a huge margin. Cleaning contractors don't ask for 'vacuums' or 'hoovers' they ask for 'Henrys'. Daily office cleaning is the toughest sector of the small dry vac market and the Numatic Henry & varients have totaly dominated it for the last 20 years.

Every major multi national manufacturer in the world has tried to better Henry & pals and failed miserably.

There is a very good reason for this........

But what is that? Is it really beyond the wit of vacuum cleaner designers to take one of the cheaper products on the market and make something comparably good? Yet no-one seems capable of it. Henry isn't earth-shatteringly good in some peculiar manner, but no other maker seems to get anywhere close to it. Dyson charge an arm and a leg, but they can't even make a reliable mains flex!

Mind you, I'd spend the few extra quid and get the even better steel-cased Henry instead, the NVQ250 (they ought to call it "Ron")

Apart from a slight tendency to catch fire in standby mode

Standby mode? For a vacuum cleaner? Isn't "big switch" the appropriate control device?

cheers, clive

Check

I don't think that's true - the latest report seems to be April which doesn't have such a rating for Henry. Do you have a reference?

Although it has to be said there is a design fault somewhere in the machine which stops the reduced power setting from working properly after a (short) time.

Presumably for convenience, using the remote control?

With a "snooze" button?

Owain

Why not.

You can buy robotic vacuum cleaners that are self learning and do it for you. The newer models can be set to clean on certain days and automatically go back to the base station for recharging when they need to. The lazy bastards do not do stairs though, you have to leave that to the wife.

Adam

Don't have stairs or wife. Life's simple.

Owain