As I have the responsibility for doing the vacuuming (and sometimes the cooking!) what is the best cleaner for collecting dog hair on hard and carpeted floors? Roger (ex MCP)
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner Well, we recently got a Dyson 54 Animal and it does a great job on both carpet and hard floors. After vacuuming you can get down on the carpet and not see any hairs (we have a twist cut pile carpet, for info). You also don't need to flip any levers when you move from one floor type to the other - you do the whole house with the one attachment. The only criticism I'd have is that it doesn't have a huge capacity. We have a small house and I need to empty it twice. But we also don't vacuum as often as we could....
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner Funny you should say that... We have an upright Dyson but found it scratched our floors much to Mrs GreenBulls annoyance. Some moaning later... Yesterday we did some research. We only have hard floors. You can join Which? As a trial for £1, we did that. Checked the reviews on Amazon as well and the verdict was... A Miele S6220 cat and dog. We got it for 169.99. This is a cylinder rather than upright. It its yet to appear so can't give first hand account.
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner After much deliberation (and research on Amazon and Which) we settled for a Miele PowerPlus S8310, for around the same price. It is VERY powerful which actually makes it quite hard work as the suction can be a bit overwhelming, but it has lots of ways of varying the suction. Its doing a good job, capacity not bad, but spare bags are very expensive. Our previous Vax cylinder was more useless than trying to suck up dust with a straw. Good luck!
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner Miele for us too. OH is a subsciber and avid reader of Which? - so once a month I have to listen to him read out the best lawnmower review (we don't have a lawn) and best power tools (neither of us can use a hammer) and so on. It is handy when you need new appliances though!
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner I find that the little, hand held Dyson to be wonderful for picking up the odd bits when you don't want to be bothered to get the big Dyson out.
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner I've got a Henry - originally bought it when I had parrots as it can suck a whole walnut up. Just as good on dog and cat hairs
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner I love my old Dyson! Hate messing around with bags. I've also just bought one of those round robot vacuum things for upstairs. No dogs allowed up there, though a bit of hair does drift about. When I first saw the tiny little collecting bin, I thought 'no way will this cope', but it does.
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner Thanks for the replies. I have 5 cleaners in 2 houses and despite much research over the years (including Which)I have not arrived at the perfect solution . To be fair the perfect solution probably does not exist as it always ends up as a compromise and technology changes quickly. Of the cleaners I own the best is the Bosch GS60, specially designed for pet hair which works well but is cumbersome to drag around. The worse by a long way is the G-Tech which is a battery-operated lightweight upright which just spits the dust and hair all over the place and is a complete disaster. I suspect the old adage that you pays your money for what you get, means that Miele/Bosch are the better buys. Thanks for the advice. Roger
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner We have a Roomba robot too, named O'Brien, and it is surprisingly effective. Does a good job of fur on carpet. Also gets under furniture (which I am too lazy to do thoroughly with the big vac). The new Dysons have no filters as well as no bags. You never need to replace bits or clean filters. We had an original Dyson (the first pull-around one) and after almost 15 years just replaced it at the end of last year with our new Dyson.
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner I have a Dyson and a Miele. The Dyson is great for dust and not pet hair; the Miele is great for pet hair but not dust. Being essentially lazy, I use the Dyson upstairs where the dogs spend only a little time, and the Miele downstairs. If we have visitors who are not long-standing friends, I reluctantly drag the Dyson downstairs too... Clare
Re: Best Vacuum Cleaner I have the new dyson and love it. We have a black lab and cream carpets haven't noticed any hair left on the carpet after I vacuum. Very happy with it indeed.
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I have had a Dyson Animal for over 15 years, but I really love the convenience of the Dyson handheld I bought last year. It is so easy to take off the wall and quickly clean up : )
Does anyone have a SEBO D4 It looks like one of the best all around, and very easy to clean the rotating brush, but it cost more than some used cars.
I used to have a SEBO but not sure what model (I got mine back in the late ‘90s so I don’t know how many models there were at that time). It did the job very well, I particularly liked the hose which was part of the machine already rather than something you had to attach separately, but I didn’t have a dog at the time so I can’t vouch for pet hairs but I’m sure it would have done the job. It was really good at running over all sizes of detritus and picking it up (my current Shark vacuum is hopeless at this). It lasted a long time and I had it serviced and fixed a couple of times and it bounced back well. The downside for me was it was big, heavy and bulky, it was really hard getting it up and down stairs and took up a lot of room in the under stairs cupboard. The Shark is so light in comparison (but a bit rubbish!)
fyi -- if you've wool carpeting choose correctly. Karastan will void your warranty if you use a Dyson.
