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I have always admired the Henry vacuum for it's indestructible nature , I used them as a car valeter as long ago as 1984 & I still have a yellow one from the late 80's/early 90's that I use for rough jobs such as cleaning up after DIY or cleaning the car & during that time it's only had a set of motor brushes to keep it going. I have however never used them as my household cleaner as they alway used to topple over if you pulled them around. We still use them at work to clean cars & last week I had to replace it, I could only get the premium 'Micro' version at short notice so I bought it.
My good god they have changed, longer wheelbase for more stability, tool storage & you can clip the carpet head with the tubes into the base so it all stays together, its a revelation. The suction of the thing is unreal compared to the older ones & although not as pleasant to use as an upright the pro's are outweighing the cons, the funny thing is I had & always recommended the Sebo, the new Henry blows it out of the water for cleaning performance so I have bought one for my home to compliment the Shark cordless to use as a once a week deep cleaner to replace the Sebo.
Who new you could get so excited about a vacuum cleaner, but these are strange times 😉
Cheers.
How cool do feel about posting a thread about your love of a vacuum cleaner on a Friday night?
As shit as me for replying to a thread about vacuum cleaners on a Friday night?
I have a Henry btw. Love it.
longer wheelbase for more stability,
Long, low, slack innit.
1 Henry, 1 James. Both great.
Henrys suck
Who new you could get so excited about a vacuum cleaner,
I was fairly excited when I got this recently to be fair...
I want one but they’re a bit spendy :-/
I Don’t suppose anybody knows of a cheaper alternative.
It’ll be left in the garage and used to vacuum the cars.
I've got 2 Henrys 🙂
We’ve had Hetty for 7 years (Henry in drag). She packed up just before Christmas and I was thinking she’d have to get binned.
I was soooooooo ridiculously happy that I could fix her myself with genuine Numatic hetty-guts off the internet for £20.
The fix-ability alone means I’ll never lust after an alternative house sucker.
How cool do feel about posting a thread about your love of a vacuum cleaner on a Friday night?
As shit as me for replying to a thread about vacuum cleaners on a Friday night?
I have a Henry btw. Love it.
I have beer & don't care.
Long, low, slack innit.
I'm cool again, first time in decades 😉
I want one but they’re a bit spendy :-/
I Don’t suppose anybody knows of a cheaper alternative.
It’ll be left in the garage and used to vacuum the cars.
Have you been living in a cave? Vacuums cost anything from a basic Henry at £100 up to a STW must have cordless Meile for £1600 🙂
I've got one, but got given a Dyson cordless for Christmas which I prefer. The Henry is great, but takes an age to drag out the cupboard and plug in in comparison to just grabbing the dyson off the wall.
I stay in a small flat with laminate floors, so the dyson has enough power. The henry just bangs off of stuff all the time too. Means I vacuum a lot more now.
However, it is the business for DIY clean ups!
Our 5 year old one has just moved onto garage and car duties (still in perfect order). I wanted the spinny round carpet brushes and Mrs wanted something a smidge smaller and lighter.
So we have a new house Henry! Half the power consumption, a few cm smaller diameter / height and about 1kg lighter. £140 direct including £50 of free spinny brushes. Even got a choice of colours now (Henry2 is blue).
STOX
I’ve got a £40 Titan varivac wet and dry from screwfix for the garage it’s very basic but far better suction than the dyson in the house,
I have a Henry with an extension hose. Stair cleaning joy. That and the crevices of the sofa is all it gets used for now mind because we got a Roomba and one of their robot mops too. Expensive but nobody here likes vacuuming so not one penny of regret here. And cheaper and less hassle than a cleaner.
I've got a basic Henry at home that gets used to clean the house had it now for about 12 years and still going strong and when we needed a new vac at work to vac work vehicles out I got a Charles wet and dry.
I got a Henry cordless a few months ago. Get about 60 minutes cleaning time with two batteries.
Not as strong as the corded version but after having a cordless Dyson I can't go back to wires.
The Dyson build quality was crap. Had a new motor, battery and dust collection chamber all under warranty.
The Henry is far better for cleaning cars and dirty work. The Dyson has been retired to the caravan.
Is it Friday night?
Stox, nilfisk vp400 as good as a Henry. Much cheaper. Titan one I bought as a stopgap was sh!te We also have a Henry and A George btw.
We have one in the fleet. Just for workshop and building work. The filtration is a bit basic but it sucks well. Great for lumpy debris. Just picked up a makita like kayak's. Not really used it anger yet but it's for site work and workshop dust extraction. Dyson cordless for the house though. Super convenient. Got a karcher for wet sucking too. Still working on n+1
Work weregetting rid of a load of Nilfisks recently when they moved from one cleaning company to another. Rigged one up to my STW recommended mitre saw via an extension tube. Thank you very much.
We have one in the fleet. Just for workshop and building work. The filtration is a bit basic but it sucks well. Great for lumpy debris. Just picked up a makita like kayak’s. Not really used it anger yet but it’s for site work and workshop dust extraction. Dyson cordless for the house though. Super convenient. Got a karcher for wet sucking too. Still working on n+1
This is the point of my post, the old one did have basic filtration but the new one (micro) has much better filtration & suction along with better stability & tool storage. I thought buying a new Henry would be just that & changing like for like but its a far better machine now, don't know when they changed, but they changed for the better
/End of the most enthralling Friday night thread ever!
Edit to say I'm that excited pissed that I have just purchased the pro kit 😉
We do! And let me tell you they're not easy to find in North America... We previously had a Dyson ball, but apart from the mobility (where the dyson is undoubtedly better), the Henry is better in every way. There's a reason cleaners usually use Henries!
Our cleaner told us to get rid of the dyson and get a Henry. She was right.
I Don’t suppose anybody knows of a cheaper alternative.
It’ll be left in the garage and used to vacuum the cars.
look for a reconditioned ‘nuvac’ on eBay - same internals as the Henry but more simply built (no retractable cord thing)
Got a blue one in the garage that must be 10+ years old. Gets used for the cars and work truck/van so mainly dog hair, wood chip and dries mud.
Also have a yellow one in the house, we inherited it when the tenant of our rental flat did a bunk owing 6 months rent and leaving loads of crap in the place. Had to buy a new hose kit for it but it works great especially dealing with 2 dogs worth of hair.
We have a Dyson cordless thing but it’s on it’s 3rd battery now which is failing so gives about 2 min of life, this gets used for picking up the pile after sweeping the downstairs rooms into piles (all laminate flooring) or for giving the sofa a quick blitz but the Henry is definitely better for a proper session of sucking....
We've been a happy enough Dyson family for about 20 years, but I've always fancied a Henry for the robustness.
I had a little Google when someone said Henrys were expensive - as a Dyson owner, they look a bargain to me!
Been a while since I've rolled such an exciting Friday night through till dawn on Saturday....
So the updated version is better and has more progressive geometry.
But my old one still works fine.
Oh god this is worse than bikes.
On the subject of which, will any of you admit to having more Hoovers than bikes?
Stox, nilfisk vp400 as good as a Henry. Much cheaper. Titan one I bought as a stopgap was sh!te We also have a Henry and A George btw.
I can't find a nilfisk vp400 - I can see a nildisk family business that seems to be called a VP600 ocassionally but that costs 350 quid.
https://consumer.nilfisk.co.uk/en/products/Pages/product.aspx?pid=107418544
Any idea what the one you mean is called now? I've got a workshop nilfisk and it's great.
We have one in the fleet.
I'm not very N+1 with bikes but my GF struggles to understand why I have so many similar but different hoovers.
I think if I could travel back in time and tell a younger me that one day I'd own more hoovers than fingers including one that cost more than my telly, looks like a photocopier and has bluetooth, I think the younger me would be start making a living will.
When mr dyson had a fire in his house my wife’s friend cleaned it all up.
He used a Henry.
FIGHT THE POWER.
I designed a lot of test rigs for numatic international (Henry's manufacturers).
I designed a lot of test rigs for numatic international (Henry’s manufacturers).
Little squares of carpet with dirt sprinkled on them? 😉
Little squares of carpet with dirt sprinkled on them?
I made a few for Dyson many years ago. Mostly dull air flow and leak tests but I think my favourite was a little ski jump. The machine went over the jump, dropped the floor, got pulled back and went over again. Thousands of little jumps to test the robustness. There was an awful lot of squares of carpet with dirt on, too. Measured amounts of dirt, different sizes of dirt, really aggressive dirt (drawing pins, nails, broken glass). Different squares of carpet too.
@kayak23 - no but I know the ones you mean (having also worked at Dyson).
Mainly motor test rigs at numatic but also some brush rigs as well.
Before I retired, there was a Henry at work. It had been there at least as long as me - nearly 28 years
Used several times a day, to pick up swarf, sand and all sorts of other debris you'd expect to find in a foundry. Poor guy was used and abused, but never faltered. The only thing "wrong" with it was, the nozzle on the end of the hose had worn shorter over the years
Stox, Sorry we vp100. We paid about ££60+vat I think
Yep being using Henrys for years for work, hoovering up all manner of plumbing cr@p. My current one is a highbred a bit like triggers broom!
Buy Henrys for work because they’re durable and repairable. We’ve had them used to hover up water (yep, on purpose) and we’ve been able to dry them out and get them running again.
Great machines.
Joining the love for henry.
I bought a shark cordless but its like an asthmatic with a collapsed lung compared to the H, when I reach for a suck I always go to Henry. Gonna sell the shark on bumtree.
My friend hoovered the last dregs of petrol out of his lawn mower petrol tank with his Henry.
It ended up with his whole barn being burnt down.