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In the past year I did buy a new vaccuum cleaner... a cheap shop vac from Super Cheap. Basically rubbish, but its sole purpose is to collect dust from the sandblaster, and it does an okay job at that.

As for my previous recommendation of Sauba. Yes, I'd buy it again. The only negative was the tube did have to be replaced for a second time in eight years due to the control buttons failing. It's my mother's vaccuum - I would have refused to pay for a new one because clearly it's a design fault. On the other hand, servicing was free, and it came back performing as good as new.

richms:

 

My experiance with my dyson is you have to clean first with something else to pick up things that will either block the tiny hole in the spinning brush head, or the part where the opening narrows as it goes from the flex hose to the narrow opening on the cyclone. Once I have cleaned up with the ryobi, the dyson does get a lot of additional hair and dust up. The advantage with cleaning twice is that the ryobi gets a bulk of the stuff so the tiny dyson capacity is enough.

 

Otherwise everytime you vacuum over a potato chip, bread tie, cable wire wrap thing, piece of cardboard the size of a $2 coin etc you will be having to find a key to open the spinning part to take things out of there, or taking the hose off the dyson and jamming things up there to try to push the offending item around the corner into the cyclone.

 

Exactly.  We bought a Dyson DC54 Animal, and it abysmal with dog hair -- these get wrapped around the power head, and eliminate the brushes on the head.  The power head has to be opened every couple of weeks, and the hair cut out with a knife, and the same has to be used on the ends of the head to winkle out the hair that get wound around the bearings each end. 

Not impressed at all with the Great Inventor.  Obviously never tried his invention. And, then, there is the cost...

Had to replace my old (as recommended by Consumer in 2004) Panasonic as it was dying, this was late last year. Replaced it with a Panasonic MC-CG710. Awesome cleaner that picks up everything off the floor.

Our Sabo and V6 Dysons are still going strong and yes I'd recommend them both. The Dyson was much better when I worked out how to clean the canister more easily. Apparently, the V10 is even better, but I can't justify $1000 on one.

networkn:

Our Sabo and V6 Dysons are still going strong and yes I'd recommend them both. The Dyson was much better when I worked out how to clean the canister more easily. Apparently, the V10 is even better, but I can't justify $1000 on one.

 

No. I had an issue where it would switch off immediately after use, but turned out it was blocked. Other than their support number only working for a small number of hours a day, once I got hold of someone they knew exactly how to fix it and were helpfully giving me extra tips for how to get the most of my unit.

I'd give them a call about it, you might be surprised.

mdav056:

 

richms:

 

My experiance with my dyson is you have to clean first with something else to pick up things that will either block the tiny hole in the spinning brush head, or the part where the opening narrows as it goes from the flex hose to the narrow opening on the cyclone. Once I have cleaned up with the ryobi, the dyson does get a lot of additional hair and dust up. The advantage with cleaning twice is that the ryobi gets a bulk of the stuff so the tiny dyson capacity is enough.

 

Otherwise everytime you vacuum over a potato chip, bread tie, cable wire wrap thing, piece of cardboard the size of a $2 coin etc you will be having to find a key to open the spinning part to take things out of there, or taking the hose off the dyson and jamming things up there to try to push the offending item around the corner into the cyclone.

 

 

Exactly.  We bought a Dyson DC54 Animal, and it abysmal with dog hair -- these get wrapped around the power head, and eliminate the brushes on the head.  The power head has to be opened every couple of weeks, and the hair cut out with a knife, and the same has to be used on the ends of the head to winkle out the hair that get wound around the bearings each end. 

 

Not impressed at all with the Great Inventor.  Obviously never tried his invention. And, then, there is the cost...

 

I have a Cinetic Big Ball, the Animal or any other version are the same apart form the included attachments. I ended up buying a few attachments. The pet hair ones works great, you need to use that. But on the floor you wont get past long hair on power heads.

Splashed out and got the Dyson V10 this weekend, it is unbelievable. When you see what comes out of your carpet its quite disgusting. The V10 is the Rolls Royce of stick vacuum cleaners. 

Its nice not to drag a cord around the house as well.  

langi27:

Splashed out and got the Dyson V10 this weekend, it is unbelievable. When you see what comes out of your carpet its quite disgusting. The V10 is the Rolls Royce of stick vacuum cleaners. 

Its nice not to drag a cord around the house as well.  

After having a read through some of these Reddit posts - I bought a Miele canister vacuum. Very happy with it so far. The 

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7gmsoe/iama_reddits_own_vacuum_repair_tech_with_a_very/

Max mode on the V10 is total overkill, the medium setting does fantastic job. But your right 6-8 mins and the battery is shot. Re-charge is about 4 hours from flat. 

Unless you have mud in your carpet that has dried you'd have no reason to use max mode. You'd defiantly not need Max on hard floors. Although as a man driving it, I feel like I shoul d be using MAX but really, its been designed as an afterburner function not as a main go-to setting. 

We have about 50/50 split of hard floors and carpet, and can do the whole house (about 200sqm) in 20-25mins. So yes, I can easily use this as our main vacuum, I think you'd get about 40min on medium. 

Just to add it has put our 10 year old Nilfisk to shame, looking at what came out of our carpets with the V10, the Nilfisk was doing nothing more than making noise. 

tdgeek:

 

mdav056:

 

richms:

 

My experiance with my dyson is you have to clean first with something else to pick up things that will either block the tiny hole in the spinning brush head, or the part where the opening narrows as it goes from the flex hose to the narrow opening on the cyclone. Once I have cleaned up with the ryobi, the dyson does get a lot of additional hair and dust up. The advantage with cleaning twice is that the ryobi gets a bulk of the stuff so the tiny dyson capacity is enough.

 

Otherwise everytime you vacuum over a potato chip, bread tie, cable wire wrap thing, piece of cardboard the size of a $2 coin etc you will be having to find a key to open the spinning part to take things out of there, or taking the hose off the dyson and jamming things up there to try to push the offending item around the corner into the cyclone.

 

 

Exactly.  We bought a Dyson DC54 Animal, and it abysmal with dog hair -- these get wrapped around the power head, and eliminate the brushes on the head.  The power head has to be opened every couple of weeks, and the hair cut out with a knife, and the same has to be used on the ends of the head to winkle out the hair that get wound around the bearings each end. 

 

Not impressed at all with the Great Inventor.  Obviously never tried his invention. And, then, there is the cost...

 

 

I have a Cinetic Big Ball, the Animal or any other version are the same apart form the included attachments. I ended up buying a few attachments. The pet hair ones works great, you need to use that. But on the floor you wont get past long hair on power heads.

 

None of the current Dyson canister models have electrically-powered tools any more, the spinning head tools all work off an air driven turbine. A bit wimpier and the floor ones clog with hair more often, but they work fine most of the time, as long as you don't have thick carpeting.