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New cylinder vacuum time, the £100 second hand Dyson is about dead. Again.
Floors a mix of wood and carpet. Modest 3-4 bed 1970s semi house. Small and light preferred, but it needs to work hard and actually clean up.
I would rather buy once and keep for a decade or more. Budget is under £300.
I am erring towards Sebo E1 as it is lighter, but beyond that they seem so similar...
I suspect Miele may be more convenient for service and repair, though you're in a more remote part of the country and the local man-in-a-van may be a Sebo agent and not a Miele one.
Miele. Not sure what age they but my mum has both and the Sebo is a pita
Am a Miele fan girl but have read reports that Miele aren't what they used to be and their customer service is terrible. fwiw my Miele cyclinder vacuum cleaner is 17 years old and has never missed a beat, however I'm a one-person household without pets grrrrrr so not a hard life. Have replaced the head with a Miele one but feel that it's not terribly gentle on hard floors.
Our Sebo has been great but at the end of the day it's a vacum cleaner.
I’ve got a Sebo Airbelt which I’ve had for probably 18 years. My only complaint is that one of the small attachments with a suction powered rotating brush fused itself about 6 months into ownership and SEBO refused to replace it insisting it was user error - it was not and I was so annoyed that I said I would never buy another. Trouble is it’s still going after 18 years minus the failed attachment as I refused to buy another.
I also had to solder one of the cables that supply power to the powered head, about 16 years ago… it’s been fine since.
A bit like choose a car that taxi drivers use in so far as a lot of top hotels use SEBO…
It does its job extremely well.
Mrs OS hates it though as it’s quite heavy.
Henry, obviously! My Miele has been good too, just a preference for the Henry tools and capacity. The Meile was a ebay bargain. Seller said it was broken, but turned out it just needed the motor freeing up for some reason, fine since.
Last Dyson was so bad it was farcical
Going to agree with the shark suggestion. Work really well
Miele,
we got ours with our wedding vouchers from JL, died after 12 years, had a hard life, 4 kids 2 house redecorations...
i rang them asking if i could buy a new motor, they no longer serviced that model but offered 50% off any model then & there
I expect the current one will last another decade plus
Defo not Meile.
We have one and I despise it. Such a shit design
The heads are a shit shape and just clamp onto whatever you are trying to clean
About 75% of the power come out in the firm of heat. Any room you use it in gets unbearably hot very quickly.
And it goes into self cleaning mode loads and loads
Defo Sebo. Henry? Shark? They’re nothing but toys.
Henry
Have got a Miele but it never sees the light of day because our Shark is so quick and easy to use. Using a big tradional corded vacuum cleaner makes me think of Mrs Doyle eschewing the tea maker because she enjoys the misery of making tea. 😂
As for a Henry, why would you want to drag that massive lump around the place? Fine if you want to clean up an office complex.
Definitely not a Henry. It weighs the same as mrs_oab.
Shark seem to get *very* varied reviews, as do so many vacuum brands.
I've not tried cordless, but most reviews suggest they just are not as powerful...?
It seems that only a few get reliably good reviews - and I would rather a brand with parts available to keep it going and quality build in first place.
I would have bought another Dyson, but the owner is an obnoxious individual and the quality seems to have gone downhill.
Why do people think Henrys are any good? Every single one I’ve used has been utter garbage with virtually no suction. The heads are also useless and only pick up stuff that goes under the very middle of the head.
I agree, Henry's are fine for building work dust (to move from floor to air), but not house work. Miele cat and dog for us but again we have an old (15-20years?) one that's fantastic, though its a little worn now (duct tape in the hose etc), but I will keep it working as long as possible. We have shark cordless for the convenience of cleaning the dog hair on the tiles/laminate floor, it's quite good if you keep the head clean. I wouldn't use it on the carpets and expect anything like as good results as the Miele.
With all vacuums it seems to me half the trick is to keep cleaning the vacuum clean and filters replaced. PPL (my g/f included) seem to think their self cleaning and ignore the fact the heads are jammed with crap. I picked up a spare shark from the side of the road for spares for ours, only to find it just jammed with hair, and when cleaned was in better condition than ours
We had a Miele Cat & Dog cylinder and I killed it sucking up building dust - the cover on it was knackered well before then anyway - I was never that impressed with it. We've now got a Henry that only does jobs like that.
I then bought a Sebo and am very impressed with it - works great, easy to access if it should clog (it hasn't in over 6 years), replaceable brushes, etc. I think almost everything is available as a spare part also. I like it so much we've now got 3!!
So Sebo is my answer - I'm just disappointed you can't pick them up for £30 on eBay any longer!
Miele. Ours has already lasted twice as long as the Dyson it replaced, and it's in perfect working order. It seems to deal effectively with the vast quantity of hair generated by our dog.
Meile. Our old cat & dog one lasted 18 years before the motor died. It’s been fantastic for household duty in that time. Re fixing it - it’s solidly built and came apart really easily but I couldn’t find a replacement motor so phoned miele and they gave me a 50% discount on a complete new vacuum. I’m massively impressed!
Definitely not a Henry. It weighs the same as mrs_oab.
Mine isn't heavy at all. Are you going by old models or when it's full of builders rubble?
I have had to refer Sebo UK to the pensions ombudsman, so on that basis I'd say Meile 🤔
We replaced our aging pull along Dyson with a cordless Shark some years ago. The Shark has a spinny head thing and we were amazed how much more dirt it drew out of the carpets! Then it started clogging all the time, even when not being worked hard and I noticed that without the spinny head the performance was pretty woeful, even after a filter clean.
Got the Dyson back out of the garage where it had been performing spider web and general rubble duties and now use that agin for any major cleaning. Both still work and if I could find a mix of the two it would be just about perfect, however I won't be buying another Dyson due to the owner being a massive weapon and won't be buying another Shark because of the blocking issues.
Got a green Henry at work and it seems plenty powerful when using the narrow head sucker thing. The drag along Dyson is better though.
I’m after a replacement for my cordless Dyson as it happens and I like the look of the Sebo cordless but, as per my post above, their woeful customer service (and seemingly dodgy pension antics of some sort) rules them out for sure. Shame. I was going to go for a Shark but there do seem to be quite a few clogging issues reported so that’s putting me off.
I think I’ll just buy yet another battery for the Dyson for now….
Henry’s are much smaller these days, suction is incredible.
Miele it is.
#MiddleClassW****r
Coughed up for a Sebo upright a few years ago after multiple Dyson, Hoover and Panasonic failures. The Sebo has been good. The bags are quite expensive, the cable got tangled easy (I changed the cable after the Mrs ran over it with the Sebo and mangled it) and it is heavy. However it cleans great.