Decent hand held vac, not Dyson, recommendations?

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

As per the title really. We have 2 of the Dyson hand-helds, and I think they're utter junk. Little suction, and batteries always failing. James Dyson must be laughing his arse off that people pay £350 for them!

To be used largely on battery, for log burner/hearth tidy up duties. Needs to be fairly compact to fit in a small cupboard.

[CraigyMc]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

I think they're utter junk

You're wrong.

HTH.

[anonymous-user]

Can't help with a suggested replacement, but every Dyson product I've ever been unfortunate to own has also been a heap of junk, including handheld vacuums (hall sensor and battery failures).

[Ares]

CraigyMc said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

I think they're utter junk

You're wrong.

HTH.

+1

If you don't want a Dyson, you'll buy a st one.

[anonymous-user]

Cleaning up ash could be the cause of your 2 failures. I've found bagless vacs rubbish for this as the filters are blocked very easily with ash (not just Dyson). This normally causes the motor to over work and burnout and I guess this will also start to weaken batteries.

Sorry I can suggest a good replacement, other than a mains powered bag type vacuum.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Milwaukee. Mine has survived years of daily building site abuse and still sucks as well as day 1.

Edited by OldGermanHeaps on Sunday 21st January 12:04

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

For perspective, it struggled to suck up light ash from the hearth last night, and it's got through 3 batteries. The early ones were good, not so now.

[MYOB]

Dustpan and brush. Utterly reliable.

[kambites]

most non-specialist vacuums explicitly say not to use them for ash. Its horrible stuff for them.

ETA: although I agree that Dysons are generally overpriced junk.

Edited by kambites on Sunday 21st January 12:12

[vikingaero]

CraigyMc said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

I think they're utter junk

You're wrong.

HTH.

Fermit is right and Craigy is wrong.

My friend runs a domestic appliance repair shop that he inherited from his Dad. It was always a steady living.

However since Dysons, people can't afford to junk a £350 vac, so they have to get it repaired. Work has gone mental. He agrees Dysons are plasticky st (as are most vacs). But he's gone from one shop to 3 and is coining it in. He sees people spending this amount on a Dyson when a £50 Vax will do the job equally well.

[Red 4]

MYOB said:

Dustpan and brush. Utterly reliable.

+ damp cloth.

Microfibre if you're really techically minded.

Old t-shirt if you're not.

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

From a brief education from you folks, it seems that we should look for a compact ash vacuum. The only trouble appears to be that most of them look like they're 20 litres, which will be too big.

[OldGermanHeaps]

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Not cheap once you add bateries and charger but worth it and still cheaper than the mickey mouse toy ste dyson sells.
Plus you can use the batteries in decent powertools, what man doesn't appreciate decent powertools?

[kambites]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

From a brief education from you folks, it seems that we should look for a compact ash vacuum. The only trouble appears to be that most of them look like they're 20 litres, which will be too big.

If you find one let us know. Ive been vaguely looking for one for one for years.

[saaby93]

Pigdoguk said:

Cleaning up ash could be the cause of your 2 failures. I've found bagless vacs rubbish for this

What about small leaves too?
If anyone knows a Vac that actually sucks rather than teasing it let us know
Henry?

Dust pan and brush

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

kambites said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

From a brief education from you folks, it seems that we should look for a compact ash vacuum. The only trouble appears to be that most of them look like they're 20 litres, which will be too big.

If you find one let us know. Ive been vaguely looking for one for one for years.

Stumbled across this one -

https://www.domu.co.uk/vonhaus-11l-ash-vacuum?nost...

Good reviews on Amazon, perfect dimensions (11 litre is very compact from what I ca see, the also do a 15 or 20 litre too)

For £25 it's not a disaster if it's no good either!


This landed this morning, and pretty impressed so far. Happy to report back further in a few weeks, if anyone is interested?

Edited by Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah on Tuesday 23 January 14:35

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

saaby93 said:

Pigdoguk said:

Cleaning up ash could be the cause of your 2 failures. I've found bagless vacs rubbish for this

What about small leaves too?
If anyone knows a Vac that actually sucks rather than teasing it let us know
Henry?

Dust pan and brush

We have used a Titan cylinder from Screwfix (£40?) to clear soot from our loft. Tonnes of the stuff! Couldn't believe how powerful it is, but too big for where it needs storing for this task.

[curlie467]

They're all st.

[Funkycoldribena]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

We have used a Titan cylinder from Screwfix (£40?) to clear soot from our loft. Tonnes of the stuff! Couldn't believe how powerful it is, but too big for where it needs storing for this task.

I've got similar from Aldi,had to suck the cobwebs out the loft so the wife would go up there.

[dalzo]

Not a handheld but I use a Henry for work and hoover up all sorts of crap and it has never put a foot wrong despite me dropping a full tub of flooring adhesive over the top of it