What vacum cleaner to buy?

JonathanRyan said:
Just bought a Dyson v10 on the Black Friday deal to replace our elderly DC08. JL are delivering tomorrow. Based on comments here I'm starting to worry. But I bet it's actually great.
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I've got a V10 as well, we use it more than our upright it's brilliant.
 
robj20 said:
Just stick a new battery on it after 4 years then.
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18 months in our case. Now at 2 1/2 years the rotary part of the carpet head is intermittent and failing. Ours was a refurb (V6 or V7 £180 from Dyson IIRC) so I'll assume the short life of the battery was in part caused by not being new. But quality of materials used is not impressive either, and I have serious doubts about it lasting a full 5 years from time of purchase.
 
ancient_mariner said:
18 months in our case. Now at 2 1/2 years the rotary part of the carpet head is intermittent and failing. Ours was a refurb (V6 or V7 £180 from Dyson IIRC) so I'll assume the short life of the battery was in part caused by not being new. But quality of materials used is not impressive either, and I have serious doubts about it lasting a full 5 years from time of purchase.
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Had mine for a few years now, zero issues, used multiple times a day.
 
For those with bad dyson batteries, if they are the removable type you can get adaptors so you can use others (like for makita tools).
In case it helps.
 
ancient_mariner said:
It's probably great to begin, but in 3 or 4 years may no longer be so.
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I remember an engineer mate around thirty years ago, talking to me about "built in obsolescence", where products are designed to fail at a certain time - usually when they get past their warranty period. Thankfully the Dyson DC04 and our two cars, a 2008 Alfa and a 2005 Skoda seem to be ignoring that scenario.
 
andya700 said:
I remember an engineer mate around thirty years ago, talking to me about "built in obsolescence", where products are designed to fail at a certain time - usually when they get past their warranty period. Thankfully the Dyson DC04 and our two cars, a 2008 Alfa and a 2005 Skoda seem to be ignoring that scenario.
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I thought an Alfa was designed to fail as soon as it left the forecourt?? :)
 
cambsno said:
I thought an Alfa was designed to fail as soon as it left the forecourt?? :)
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Usually trotted out by someone who has never owned one. 121,000 miles, five successive MOT passes without any advisories, four European roadtrips of at least 2,000 miles each time, 49mpg, upwards of 140mph (plenty more left to give). I have owned six now, so I know how to treat them:)
 
Dyson DC44, their second cordless (first one DC38, the later DC58 was re-branded to V8 or V6), bought in 2016. Apart from power adaptor failure, it is still working very well. Battery may have degraded slightly over the years, but still works well enough to function as our only vacuum.

It probably helps I use it to clean kitchen after dinner and don't plug it in until next morning. So instead of keeping it charged at 100% all the time, I let it sit at lower state of charge for many hours a day. Li-on battery are best stored at around 50% charged.

I'd buy another Li-on powered cordless without hesitation. They are so easy to use and can last a long time.
My cordless drill however, not Li-on battery, its battery sucks.......
 
wyx087 said:
My cordless drill however, not Li-on battery, its battery sucks.......
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I've had a drill with a set of NiCad packs probably 15 years. It was good for the first year, but after that much less impressive. OTOH the Bosch Li battery powered driver is still great 10 years on. Just bought some new power tools this year, all Li based.
 
ancient_mariner said:
I've had a drill with a set of NiCad packs probably 15 years. It was good for the first year, but after that much less impressive. OTOH the Bosch Li battery powered driver is still great 10 years on. Just bought some new power tools this year, all Li based.
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Nicads? did you drain the batteries completely every once in a while? NiCad batteries have a memory problem where if you only ever use them down to 47% they will forget about the other 53% (telling you they are empty when in reality 50% full)

I use 47% as an arbitrary figure, it can be whatever state you habitually drain them to.
 
Steep said:
Nicads? did you drain the batteries completely every once in a while? NiCad batteries have a memory problem where if you only ever use them down to 47% they will forget about the other 53% (telling you they are empty when in reality 50% full)

I use 47% as an arbitrary figure, it can be whatever state you habitually drain them to.
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I know the principle, but I don't do enough work to anywhere near give 3 packs full recycling, and I haven't the heart to just clamp the trigger with the drill running.
 
If you wait till it says it's empty and then clamp it, it won't be running, just draining. :)
 
Bought a brushless drill a couple of months ago as a replacement & a multitool that uses the same packs. Should probably bung the old kit on Ebay.
 
5 year old dyson v6 here - works just fine. got a new battery on amazon a couple times (around £20) and all good..
 
I have had a few expensive cordless Dyson's (they are very good) I have also owned a cordless Bosch and currently have a cordless Vax.

But I also have a Numatic Hetty (same as the Henry) best Vac I have ever had !

Numatic Vac cleaners
 
JonathanRyan said:
Just bought a Dyson v10 on the Black Friday deal to replace our elderly DC08. JL are delivering tomorrow. Based on comments here I'm starting to worry. But I bet it's actually great.
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I wouldn't worry, we've got a V11 ABSOLUTE and it's been absolutely fine. The top filter can clog up quickly depending on what you are vacuuming up, but you just wash it and dry out. We've got lots of stairs so it's immensely handy compared to a corded vacuum; speaking of which...

We've also got a corded Dyson DC40 that is pretty good, makes a strange winding down jet noise when you turn it off. But after using it I went back over the same carpet with the V11 and it picked up tons more again. To be fair, I should have also tried a reverse test.
 
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