Best vacuum cleaner for animal hair?

Best vacuum cleaner for animal hair?

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Spoon Burner

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8,842 posts

186 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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My Dyson has finally given up the ghost. I have a cat so not a great deal of hair to contend with but enough.

Some basic research tells me either a Miele cat and dog or the equivalent Shark get great reviews.

What does the PH massive recommend to buy?

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Carpets or hard floors? If hard floor then any reliable brand though we are on a Miele something or another at the moment but more for the hepa filters. No idea for what is best on carpets.

CardinalFang

639 posts

167 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Miele cat & dog gets my vote. Ours has been going strong for nearly 10 years, which is longer than 2 Dysons which preceded it, combined. The dysons had to go back for multiple repairs too but this has only had replacement hepa filters & one new main carpet brush/head. The hinges on the tool cover snapped yonks ago but the thing's so well made it holds itself in place perfectly anyway. Aside from that all of the attachments, clips & hoses are in perfect condition: genuinely feels like it could keep going for another 10 years. High purchase price, but definitely a case of buy cheap, pay twice in my experience. Chs, CF

HTP99

22,441 posts

139 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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CardinalFang said:
Miele cat & dog gets my vote. Ours has been going strong for nearly 10 years, which is longer than 2 Dysons which preceded it, combined. The dysons had to go back for multiple repairs too but this has only had replacement hepa filters & one new main carpet brush/head. The hinges on the tool cover snapped yonks ago but the thing's so well made it holds itself in place perfectly anyway. Aside from that all of the attachments, clips & hoses are in perfect condition: genuinely feels like it could keep going for another 10 years. High purchase price, but definitely a case of buy cheap, pay twice in my experience. Chs, CF
Yep we had one when we had cats and a dog that shed hair at an alarming rate, it took everything with ease and never let us down, we only got shot of it as it started to lose suction, it was battered as fk with tape holding the front storage down, and the wife found it a bit too bulky to just do a quick hoover, we had it about 10 years.

We got a cordless Dyson to do the quick stuff and found increasingly that we just weren't using the Miele anymore as the cordless did everything we needed, also we don't have cats now and our dogs don't shed hair, so the Miele was eventually consigned to the dump, however I would recommend one.

jackthelad1984

838 posts

180 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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We have a long haired german shepardand two cats so plenty of hair to hoover upand have had several dysons over the years, I wouldnt buy another, massively overated.
We had a vax something or other, was great, really strong suction, was a bit heavy but did the job great. was then given a almost new dyson from my mother, was nice and light, and the attachments were good but it just wasnt as good as the vax that had been relegated to the garage. We now have a Shark lift away hoover, fantastic bit of kit, as powerful as the vax and as light and manouverable as the dyson! Well worth a look.

Spoon Burner

Original Poster:

8,842 posts

186 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Sorry I should have added, it's for carpets. This is the one I'm considering...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074P7X6MP/ref=asc_df_...

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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We have one or two rooms with carpets left and the Miele carpet brush attachment seems to cope but the cats are not normally the rooms. This attachment, the whizzing around brushes parts are powered by the suction from the hoover and appears to pick it all up.

tr7v8

7,185 posts

227 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Mum who is 87 has a Miele c3 cat & dog and it is great. She has a dog & my brother gets up there with his two gsds & it copes.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Another vote for Miele cat and dog here. Seems to be the best one we’ve had and it’s been going for a good number of years.


dave_s13

13,813 posts

268 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Sebo X4 pet is also da bomb....

Ours must be ten years old and still going strong. Just needed a new brush but that was only 13quid.

Batleyred

689 posts

118 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Our kirby is now over 20 years old and does the business still. Bare in mind we live on a farm so has been real good. Really need to replace it purely down to it's weight and every year Kirby tries to sell us a new after we have it serviced but it just keeps going.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Miele.


robinessex

11,046 posts

180 months

FiF

43,957 posts

250 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Aiui if you want a cylinder cleaner then the answer is Miele, if you want an upright then it's a Sebo.

coffeebreath

181 posts

92 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Vax. All day.

Speed 3

4,480 posts

118 months

Tuesday 10th April 2018
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coffeebreath said:
Vax. All day.
+1

They give a 6 year warranty and they do honour it. We bought one 5 years ago for about £120 and its been changed for a completely new one twice for really trivial failures like brush belt / spinner because if they don't have the part in stock they give you a complete new machine. The suction is amazing, we have two cats and vacuum the whole house at least twice a week and it fills the chamber completely with fur. When we had a cleaner she complained the suction was so strong it was virtually impossible to push (we have carpets). I've never been impressed with Dysons and consider them completely over priced and over hyped. Never used a Miele but I'd be hard pressed to be convinced that £20 / year for Vax upkeep can be beaten and I don't see how the performance could possibly be improved.

zygalski

7,759 posts

144 months

Wednesday 11th April 2018
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ABD wink

HelenT

263 posts

138 months

Wednesday 11th April 2018
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Another vote for Miele but mine is pre EU regulations which restricted the power!

Speed 3

4,480 posts

118 months

Wednesday 11th April 2018
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HelenT said:
Another vote for Miele but mine is pre EU regulations which restricted the power!
Surely you can get new ones "de-catted" biglaugh

dhutch

14,198 posts

196 months

Wednesday 11th April 2018
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I prefer an upright. You can do a lot worse than a secondhand DC04 even these days.

Paid £45 for mine and it's taken 6years hard beating doing the house and cars of a three bloke shared house. Parents have had theirs nearly years now, large house, sole vacuum, with dogs, reliable as an ox.


Daniel