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I have an old Nilfisk Freestyle vacuum. It is roughly 10 years old and has never missed a beat. However, it isn't sucking like it should :lol: which is really the whole point of it!
We won't spend a fortune on one. We only have the 3 bedrooms and lounge room that are carpeted, everything else is floorboards.
So what are your recommendations?
I've had a dyson for 6 years now and love it!
Dyson upright and love it!!
We have 3 carpeted rooms and then floor boards (tiles in bathroom)
Its great love it!!
We just bought a hoover hygiene plus on the weekend, goes well and has a power head too to get right down into the carpet. was $500 on sale. nice and light and easy to monouvre
Keep an eye out for the Godfreys sales - they are usually quite good, and there seem to be a few of them at this time of year!
Bagless are great - I recently retired my Nilfisk too and replaced it with a dyson - my DH is using the Nilfisk for reno cleaning so it still works OK, just doesn't have the suction. Bagless are DIY clean usually which is great for maintaining suction. Power heads definately help with carpet with young kids, specially if you have animals on the carpet as well.
You could go a wet/dry vac which my parents have, I loved using it cause I would shampoo the carpet about once every 6 months.
we have a miele cat and dog (we have 2 short haired dogs) and its AMAZING!!!!
the power is unreal and it comes with a head for carpets and then one for floorboards etc....
i think we paid $600, best money ive ever spent!
Our Dyson has so far met any challenges our boys have thrown at it head on. :lol: Coffee, chalk, hair, hundreds & thousands, beads, and everyday dirt. We've had it maybe 5 years? I love how easy they are to empty. As long as you have somewhere to store an upright, they're great. They're not the world's cheapest vacuum (I got ours when I worked at Myer, there was a sale on vacuums, I had a voucher, and it was a staff discount day :lol:), but I've never had any complaints with it. I do have to take to the power head with scissors occasionally, my hair gets trapped around it and stops it spinning. They're pretty easy to pull apart where you need to though. I've had to pull the head totally apart after the coffee incident.
We've got a Dyson too and I love it - just purchased a new one after having our other Dyson for 10 years, so DH could use the old one at work. However, they are pretty pricey. I just wanted to second Kazbah on the Godfrey's sales - I am pretty sure they have one on at the moment in which you trade in your old vac and get 50% off selected vacuums. Might be exactly what you are looking for!
Roomba!!
I love my roomba :D
Dyson dyson dyson!!! LOVE my dyson. We have a Dyson rollerball, it's freaking awesome!!
dyson with a turbo head here. pics up all our white puppy dog hair and is just spectacular... pity we're moving to a fully tiled house! lol. it cost about $800 and was worth every cent.
Looking like a Dyson then!
I told DH when he came home that our vac was pretty much stuffed and he goes "Oh well, that's a bit of bad luck" :wall:
Sorry Mr. I am going to buy a $400 drill to use once a year. Grrr....
Ah well, looking like he will have no say in it then!
I have an electrolux and it is fantastic! I was helping my friend clean her house and she has a dyson and it was nowhere near as easy to use as my electrolux!
I was a diehard Dyson girl until recently when mine kicked the bucket.
The lady at HN thought I wouldn't look at anything else until I asked her if there was anything comparable.
She showed me the new electrolux. It is fantastic!!! Twice the suck, easier to clean, cheaper to replace filters etc and....half the price.
Oh and it has a suck adjuster and the lowest suck is so quiet and still sooo efficient..
Dyson all the way baby LOL. We have the powerball thingie one, and it is freaking awesome!
OK, so Dyson & Electrolux!
Janie- I love your technical terms baby :rofl:
This looks like a good place for advice too..tech nerds are always on the ball :)
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Don't get a Hoover Hygiene. Have had mine for more than 5years now and while the powerhead is great it has just broken and they are extremely expensive to replace ($300, more than half original price), thankfully after a few unscuccessful bids on e-bay, we've managed to finally get one. I've always had problems with the cord staying out, hose splitting, heads always slipping off etc.
I went out to buy a Dyson and ended up coming home with an LG... just a little bit cheaper than the dyson, think mine was $495 but I got it for $385 and a heap of awsome features.. the best thing about it is that it's bagless and completely compacts the dust collected down into a solid block so that when you open the barrel to empty it the dust isn't going everywhere. The handle also has the controls on it for curtain, sofa, carpet and tiles. Definately worth a look, I was adamant that I was getting Dyson but changed my mind quickly after a test drive of the LG.
I work for a godfreys store and i have a Wertheim vacuum with a powerhead... (bagged of course!) Best vac I've ever brought as my husband has severe dust allergies and asthma and it cleans so well!
Um the best thing for getting spots and stains out of carpets would either be a carpet spotter (good ones are Pullman or Bissell) and if the stain is smelly I would recommend a chemical called fabrisan. It has an encapsulator in it so it encapsulates the smell into a powder then vac up (won't destroy ur vac like those powders that you sprinkle over carpet and vac up!) then go over with a spot stain remover/spotter.
The other option is to get a carpet extractor. If you clean your carpet and upholstery alot, then this idea will save a lot of money.
Chat to someone from a godfreys store they should be able to help you out. If you want to know more please feel free to inbox me. :) good luck!
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I got this stupid vacuum cleaner from Godfreys. Turned me off going again. It makes me not want to vacuum :( It was $100 though but all I could afford at the time :(
There are heaps more cheap-er vacs there now! For around the 100 mark. Please don't be turned off by godfreys explain your experience to them and you'll be suprised how much they help out. Where abouts are you located? Which store sold it to u?:
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