Decent hand held vac, not Dyson, recommendations?

[Otispunkmeyer]

Ares said:

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.

Indeed we have the V6 and V7 animal hand helds and they're great. in fact, pretty much as good as the older Dyson upright we have! The thing about hoovering is that you don't really need "golf ball through a garden hose" levels of suction. You need a good brush to beat the carpet with/mop up cat hair with and a decent-ish seal to the floor. IMO the Dyson handhelds work perfectly well.

They are a bit pricey mind. Perhaps overly so. But then I know a few people who work at Dyson so I've never paid full price for any of their stuff.


Absolutely do not use them for hoovering up fine dust like brick dust/cement dust. Probaly extends to ash from a log burner as well. That stuff is so fine it goes through the main cyclone (which doesn't have velocities high enough to spin them out of the flow) and often through the smaller cyclones as well. They then collect on the filter and clog that up pretty sharpish at which point the motor controller will shut the motor off as it begins working too hard to draw a vacuum against the higher resistance of the blocked filter.

I know this because I just used mine to clear up brick dust after a bout of drilling holes in my garage wall. I had to take the thing apart and give everything a good wash. Works perfectly again now.

If you want to suck up crap like that, you need a shop vac.

Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Sunday 21st January 14:14

Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Sunday 21st January 14:15

[davhill]

My ex wife developed Dyson's syndrome. Kept whining and stopped sucking.

[saaby93]

Funkycoldribena said:

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 said:

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

Photos?

[Otispunkmeyer]

saaby93 said:

Funkycoldribena said:

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 said:

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

Photos?

We had a henry in our student house. That thing sucked up all sorts: fag ash, beer, wine, vomit, broken glass, rocks and stones, food... you name it. It went up the tube. Once they'd hoovered up someones sick with it though, it always put out this awful stench whenever anyone used it.

[saaby93]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

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!

Voltage: 220 - 240
Power: 500W
Capacity: 11L
Suction: 15~17kpa
Suction power: 98.5 Air Watts
Noise: 80~82dB

[Contract Killer]

Never seizes to amaze me what people spend on Dysons.

I have never seen a battery vaccum that works anything like as well as a mains vaccum.

I bought a Karcher Vacuum when i started out on my own 4 years ago, still sucks like a proper sucky thing.

However im an electrician so it probably never leaves the van

[gjc10212]

Dyson Ball, rubbish (for the price):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPTzNJMd19A

Handheld, not too bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Rens9oKb4

[sparkythecat]

davhill said:

My ex wife developed Dyson's syndrome. Kept whining and stopped sucking.

[Funkycoldribena]

Contract Killer said:

Never seizes to amaze me what people spend on Dysons.

I have never seen a battery vaccum that works anything like as well as a mains vaccum.

I bought a Karcher Vacuum when i started out on my own 4 years ago, still sucks like a proper sucky thing.

However im an electrician so it probably never leaves the van

Nearest I've found to a corded is the Gtech.
Need the handheld as well if you want nozzle but for carpets and laminate its pretty good.
No idea what the new gen is like but the first lasts for around forty mins.

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

Contract Killer said:

Never seizes to amaze me what people spend on Dysons.

Indeed.....

https://www.littlewoods.com/dyson-v8-absolute-cord...

[Pheo]

I think if you are expecting a handheld to cope with ash / brick dust / plaster dust and similar this is probably the reason you are knackering them.

Not designed for that kind of duty cycle. A site vac like the Titan is far more suitable, but I agree a bit bulky.

As mentioned above dust pan and brush very likely to be your best option.

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

Pheo said:

I think if you are expecting a handheld to cope with ash / brick dust / plaster dust and similar this is probably the reason you are knackering them.

Not designed for that kind of duty cycle. A site vac like the Titan is far more suitable, but I agree a bit bulky.

As mentioned above dust pan and brush very likely to be your best option.

Just to clarify, I'm not expecting to empty the burners ash, just dregs on the hearth, door etc. I've gone for the one I posted on page one, seems well reviewed, the right size, and if it's crap it's only £25. The one compromise is it's corded.

[Pheo]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

Just to clarify, I'm not expecting to empty the burners ash, just dregs on the hearth, door etc. I've gone for the one I posted on page one, seems well reviewed, the right size, and if it's crap it's only £25. The one compromise is it's corded.

Ah fair enough! I still get my Titan out to do this rather than use our V6 Dyson handheld.

[Cardiff_Exile]

We have the Dyson V8 and it is amazing - there are deals to be had. We now find our 11 year old much more wiling to un dock form the wall and whip it over a room rather that faff with the corded job - in our house hoovering the floor is on the pocket money list.

Regards ash I'd say get a dedicated device as it can damage 'normal' hoovers, something like this - https://www.domu.co.uk/vonhaus-11l-ash-vacuum?gcli...

We did have before an 'in line' ash vac - you slotted the tube form you hoover to the canister

[paulw123]

Henry for the mucky stuff, they take some serious abuse! Dyson V6 for the carpets. Job done.

[RizzoTheRat]

We got a cordless Vax (SlimVac I think) to do the bits the Roomba can't manage, and it works pretty well. It's clearly not as good as the mains powered Dyson (DC08 Animal I think), but it's a fraction of the size and cost, and a lot less hassle. The Dyson came out to clear up the needles once we binned the Christmas tree, but I'm struggling to remember when it last got used before that.

[J8 SVG]

saaby93 said:

Photos?

https://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb351vac-1400w-2...

One of these (I've got one too and it's brilliant. the wet option works really well for cleaning car upholstery too!)

Edited by J8 SVG on Monday 26th February 13:33

[mr_fibuli]

gjc10212 said:

Dyson Ball, rubbish (for the price):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPTzNJMd19A

Handheld, not too bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Rens9oKb4

I was just going to say that the handheld even passes the AvE test

[Filton-flyer]

My wife came home with one of these last year, I was the first to slate it as being crap however I have been made to eat humble pie because it's brilliant.
Gets used every single day clearing up after the kids and the dog as well as general cleaning on both carpet and vinyl flooring.
Not cheap but worth every penny IMHO. Washable filters too so easy to keep in peak condition.


Bosch Athlet Animal BCH6PETGB
HTH

ETA: Who'd have thought, grown men & women on a motoring forum discussing vacuum cleaners......

[miniman]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

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.

Have you washed the filters? Have you requested an engineer visit?