Vacuum cleaners - for dog hair!
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I have a long coated German Shepherd Dog, so lots of hard work required keeping carpets free of the constant shedding.
My Miele vacuum cleaner is absolutely hopeless, with the rotating brush head clogging up every 3 or 4 days. When it reaches this point I might as well pick up the fluff by hand.
As the disassembly of the head is a total pain, I am on the hunt for a vac which can cope.
Preferably (but not necessarily)
- bagless
- mains powered
Recommendations please!
My Miele vacuum cleaner is absolutely hopeless, with the rotating brush head clogging up every 3 or 4 days. When it reaches this point I might as well pick up the fluff by hand.
As the disassembly of the head is a total pain, I am on the hunt for a vac which can cope.
Preferably (but not necessarily)
- bagless
- mains powered
Recommendations please!
Shark recommendation here too.
We have a Heinz57 Romanian rescue who I'm surprised isn't bald given the amount of hair she leaves behind.
The Shark replaced a Henry and as a test we vac'd the living room with Henry, then immediately went back over with the Shark - the amount of hair picked up by the Shark was unbelievable.
Chris
We have a Heinz57 Romanian rescue who I'm surprised isn't bald given the amount of hair she leaves behind.
The Shark replaced a Henry and as a test we vac'd the living room with Henry, then immediately went back over with the Shark - the amount of hair picked up by the Shark was unbelievable.
Chris
We have a shark handheld with animal anti tangle thing. It does not tangle with our long haired cat and seemingly continually malting Kokoni cross.
I would describe it as average. It never tangles or gets blocked, but can lead to a matted hair layer on the carpet over time. So we use one of these for a manual, deep clean every so often.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AMAZECLICK%C2%AE-Remover-...
Amazing what this drags up, but a chore......
Luckily most of our floors are wooden, but the stairs carpet is troublesome as the dog loves to sleep there, on the turn in the stairs. Hence the handheld vacuum.
Edit to add, our previous Dyson's were crap at this task, in between the battery pack failing continually.
I would describe it as average. It never tangles or gets blocked, but can lead to a matted hair layer on the carpet over time. So we use one of these for a manual, deep clean every so often.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AMAZECLICK%C2%AE-Remover-...
Amazing what this drags up, but a chore......
Luckily most of our floors are wooden, but the stairs carpet is troublesome as the dog loves to sleep there, on the turn in the stairs. Hence the handheld vacuum.
Edit to add, our previous Dyson's were crap at this task, in between the battery pack failing continually.
Edited by mike9009 on Sunday 21st December 15:36
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Tony B2 said:
I have a long coated German Shepherd Dog, so lots of hard work required keeping carpets free of the constant shedding.
My Miele vacuum cleaner is absolutely hopeless, with the rotating brush head clogging up every 3 or 4 days. When it reaches this point I might as well pick up the fluff by hand.
As the disassembly of the head is a total pain, I am on the hunt for a vac which can cope.
Preferably (but not necessarily)
- bagless
- mains powered
Recommendations please!
Miele with a different head. Shark, Dyson and others are toys in comparison.My Miele vacuum cleaner is absolutely hopeless, with the rotating brush head clogging up every 3 or 4 days. When it reaches this point I might as well pick up the fluff by hand.
As the disassembly of the head is a total pain, I am on the hunt for a vac which can cope.
Preferably (but not necessarily)
- bagless
- mains powered
Recommendations please!
mike9009 said:
We have a shark handheld with animal anti tangle thing. It does not tangle with our long haired cat and seemingly continually malting Kokoni cross.
I would describe it as average. It never tangles or gets blocked, but can lead to a matted hair layer on the carpet over time. So we use one of these for a manual, deep clean every so often.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AMAZECLICK%C2%AE-Remover-...
Amazing what this drags up, but a chore......
Luckily most of our floors are wooden, but the stairs carpet is troublesome as the dog loves to sleep there, on the turn in the stairs. Hence the handheld vacuum.
Edit to add, our previous Dyson's were crap at this task, in between the battery pack failing continually.
We use exactly the same tool. Although in our case only for rugs as no carpet downstaires. It is a fantastic tool! First time I used it was eye opening...I would describe it as average. It never tangles or gets blocked, but can lead to a matted hair layer on the carpet over time. So we use one of these for a manual, deep clean every so often.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AMAZECLICK%C2%AE-Remover-...
Amazing what this drags up, but a chore......
Luckily most of our floors are wooden, but the stairs carpet is troublesome as the dog loves to sleep there, on the turn in the stairs. Hence the handheld vacuum.
Edit to add, our previous Dyson's were crap at this task, in between the battery pack failing continually.
Edited by mike9009 on Sunday 21st December 15:36
forest07 said:
Miele with a different head. Shark, Dyson and others are toys in comparison.
I will go one further and say that while Miele are better than those others, its still not as good as Sebo Pet. The absolute best vacuum ever, robust, all parts always avaiable and easy to fix. I cannot stress enough how f
king good these things are. Had ours for about 15 years and not a single issue with it. We bought it after the Dyson repair man said that it was a Sebo we needed- "rolls Royce of vacuums" were his words.If you have a pet then whatever vacuum you have you need a rotating head-those that just suck like a Henry will never get it out of your rugs/carpet.
forest07 said:
Tony B2 said:
I have a long coated German Shepherd Dog, so lots of hard work required keeping carpets free of the constant shedding.
My Miele vacuum cleaner is absolutely hopeless, with the rotating brush head clogging up every 3 or 4 days. When it reaches this point I might as well pick up the fluff by hand.
As the disassembly of the head is a total pain, I am on the hunt for a vac which can cope.
Preferably (but not necessarily)
- bagless
- mains powered
Recommendations please!
Miele with a different head. Shark, Dyson and others are toys in comparison.My Miele vacuum cleaner is absolutely hopeless, with the rotating brush head clogging up every 3 or 4 days. When it reaches this point I might as well pick up the fluff by hand.
As the disassembly of the head is a total pain, I am on the hunt for a vac which can cope.
Preferably (but not necessarily)
- bagless
- mains powered
Recommendations please!
My current one has suction (turbine) driven rotating brushes and it is no exaggeration to say that 3 or 4 days after a full strip down clean efficiency drops so much, due to clogging and wrap that it is a waste of time.
The standard (non- rotating brush) head is completely useless, as well as hard work on carpets
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