Vacuum cleaner recommendations ?

[Jethro_uk]

Our cleaner has something wrong with it ... it's a bagless Vax that was donated to us, and given I find it quite heavy to push, it's now time for a new one.

We live in a bungalow, so no stairs to clean. Other requirements are to be bagless, and easy to push. Obviously efficiency and reliability are paramount. We don't have pets.

Browsing Amazon (for reviews if nothing else) 2 spring to mind. A Hoover:

and a Vax:

Anyone any experiences with these, or recommend another ?

[Tim Watts]

Miele cylinder type. But it does not meet your bagless spec. However, I'm going to mention it anyway as it filters the air *extremely well* and is incredibly powerful. if you have carpets, the powered beater head will be as good and an upright.

[Jethro_uk]

I'll look, but bagless is a very strong preference, having actually used one.

I didn't mention ability to clean to the *very* edge, as they all promise it, and always have, and IME never delivered. I just assume they're all equally bad.

[gareth]

There is a witticism for any vacuum cleaner retailing at more than 100 ...

"Poor suckers for poor suckers"

[Adrian C]

Avoid. If it's anything like the Hoover Hurricane we have, it's noisy, heavy, made of ultra-static generating plastic that attracts dust, and very messy to empty when ye have to. Also, then the task is to keep the yrself and the outside of the hoover clean. Pointless.

Panasonic MC-UG302WP47 Upright Vacuum Cleaner - £73

This is light, quieter than the Hoover, powerful, cheap, uses disposable bags (cost £1 each, change once in a blue...).

I'm so not the bagless type ...

[Huge]

Sebo. Accept no substitute.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I have an earlier version of that - over 20 years old - and still going strong. It was a Which best buy. Only complain is it is pretty noisy. Performance is good.

[Martin Brown]

We got a bagless small upright Vax? model number unknown for my parents

- it is very lightweight, noisy but effective. Only snag is that if you are not careful it will eat its own flex (can be fixed with one cable tie). It was chosen to have the most suck for least weight and price.

Amazingly PCW/Curried Digital had it cheaper than Amazon. I think it might have been this one or its predecessor.

[Huge]

What he said.

[Roger Mills]

What's the attraction of bagless? I've got one - admittedly a relatively cheap from from Lidl - and it's a pig to empty and clean its filters. Far easier and cleaner to remove a bag and throw it and its contents away!

[Steve]

on 14/03/2014, Jethro_uk supposed :

It's no coincidence that the ubiquitous 'Henry' is used in hotels and offices around the country. They're brilliant and simple and even made by a British company. They just get the job done, and done well.

[Tim Watts]

That's one of the reasons I like the Mieles - the bags dop not fill up that fast (maybe 3 a year and they are *tiny*). However, there is never any dust in the back compartment do the 2nd stage filter does almost no work and lasts a very long time.

This includes small amounts of plaster dust which is a pig.

[Tim Watts]

Never been very impressed by their (lack of) power. Maybe I saw a bad one?

[Bob Eager]

[PeterC]

My George is on long-term loan to a neighbour. I'd modded it to take Nilfisk bags (about £1.50 each) but they filled up too quickly due to dogs and too much cleaning. She bought a pack of 50 from Comet/Curry and then told me that they wouldn't fit. I de-modded George and the bags are just as good at about 30p each and are a bit bigger. No bloody way could I (non-destructively) mod. the Nilfisk to take them.

[gremlin_95]

The Sebo X1 is a fantastic upright cleaner:

I agree with other comments about bagged vacuums being much cleaner and hassle free when compared to emptying a bagless cleaner.

Dawood

[RJH]

I bought one recently and it seems to do the job. I didn't realise the extension hose was quite so pathetically short, though, and one of those for the stairs cost another £30. Time will tell, but £230 for a vacuum cleaner. Hmmmm.

The guy I bought it from is a bagged zealot:

[dennis]

Maybe you should have bought the sebo x4 extra?

[Tim+]

I like my Dyson upright. The kind with the ball instead of wheels. Much more manoeuvrable than regular vacuum cleaners.

Tim

[alan]

Doesn't this indicate that it doesn't actually suck up any dust? A cleaner that works well will fill a "tiny" bag a week.