Our old (used, from eBay, when we bought in when we were in España) is getting a bit past it now and it really is a heavy lump to haul upstairs. We are knackered and decrepit, you know:-)
We are thinking of a replacement: lightweight, upright -push-me-pull-you type of thing. No pets, but a mixture of god-awful vile laminate and decent rugs to handle. Bagless preferred.
Price must be under a ton (why DO people pay £350 for a Dyson?)
Any thoughts?
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>> Price must be under a ton (why DO people pay £350 for a Dyson?)
>> Any thoughts?
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Buy a Vax for seventy and you'll find out.
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There's a shop in Loughborough selling reconditioned Dyson DC04s and DC07s (same innards, different case on top of the dust drum) for £75 with three months' warranty. I bought a DC04 there 5 years ago for forty quid and it's still going, just. Planning to px it against one of the above soon.
You won't buy better new this side of £200.
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>>Buy a Vax for seventy and you'll find out.
Ditto.
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Three of these (only the power rating seems to change) have kept us going for about 30 years - the third one is still working.
www.johnlewis.com/panasonic-mc-ug302wp47-upright-vacuum-cleaner/p230849381
They do have bags, but I now buy them fairly cost effectively on ebay.
They always seemed to cost about £60, but they have apparently gorn up a bit.
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Sebo (brilliant) or Miele (equally brilliant). You get exactly what you pay for...:-)
I have the Sebo X4 Extra - superb vacuum cleaner and, if you buy the Double-P powder direct from Sebo (lot cheaper), you can also use it to sprinkle on carpets to clean them, so that they come as good as new when the powder is vacuumed up.
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>> Three of these (only the power rating seems to change) have kept us going for about 30 years..
Yes. We have an MCE44 version ~ 10 years old now.
Quite light, plenty of suck.
Cheap as chips: one upstairs, one down.
And you DON'T get to see the detritus and carp whirling about.
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>>is getting a bit past it now and it really is a heavy lump to haul upstairs
You shouldn't talk about the wife like that Dodger.
I'd gofer one of these, and get the old bags on ebay:
www.amazon.co.uk/Compact-Bagged-Cylinder-Vacuum-Cleaner/dp/B005ISUQ94/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1366006797&sr=8-9&keywords=vacuum+cleaner
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Do the job properly and get a Henry Xtra. www.numatic.co.uk/products4.aspx?id=7
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Our Dyson £175 is now 10 or 9 years old. Bit of duct tape, new flexi hose, lots of new filters, new rubber band.
In as good condition as I am as new.
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>>>reconditioned Dyson DC04s and DC07s
Great fan of those models myself. On DC07s entirely here now. However they do not meet Roger's spec re light weight to carry upstairs.
I'd look at a refurb lightweigt Dyson myself.... plenty on the bay.
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Quite a lot of Dysons go to the tip with nothing amiss except a bunged up filter.
Probably a bit of a trek for you Roger, but there's actually a shop selling 'refurbed' Dysons at the waste disposal site at Aston Clinton - they are said to be OK and when the boss was there recently there was a woman in the process of buying one for £50.
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We have a shop in Worksop selling re-furbed Dysons - if we wanted another one!
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>> We have a shop in Worksop selling re-furbed Dysons - if we wanted another one!
I've just done a DIY refurb of a 9/10yo Dyson DC03 my Mother was going to throw out. No parts fitted yet (though I think it really needs a new brush roller). Just cleared the dirt path, washed the filter and lubed wheels etc.
A great improvement on the Electrolux I had before though that still works and is being donated to a needy student household.
I'm not a fan of bagless. Bags cost but are much cleaner. It was however offered on the basis of use it or dump it.
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>>washed the filter
Maybe its a typo, but it should be plural as I believe that there are two.
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Yes two filters.. one under the gubbins under the waste cylinder..
Unlike Renaults, easy and cheap to repair :-)
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>>..Unlike Renaults, easy and cheap to repair :-)>>
Perhaps just as well.........
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Our DC03 exited this mortal coil a few months ago with a flash, and a big puff of acrid smoke. Dumped it in the garage with a view to taking a look at it at some point, and then discovered a Dyson shaped spare slot in the boot of the car on a dump run yesterday, so in it went.
Can't argue. It gave 8 years of near faultless service. I had to replace the flexi-hose which split after 3 years or so, and then shortly after that, one of the wires connected to the on/off switch became brittle and fell off. After a proper solder/heatshrink repair, it cracked on for a few more years.
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>> Maybe its a typo, but it should be plural as I believe that there are
>> two.
So far as I could tell only one was washable. Will check again next time I have the gubbins out.
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The HEPA filter is not washable..
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Bromp,
We have three or four Dysons of different models as nobody likes carrying them up/down stairs.
In all cases the entire machine can be broken down and washed. Including all filters, that funny round cover with the paper stuff stuck on it, the dust bucket itself, the heads, everything.
You really can break them into bits and wash everything except the motor itself.
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>> Bromp,
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>> We have three or four Dysons of different models as nobody likes carrying them up/down
>> stairs.
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>> In all cases the entire machine can be broken down and washed. Including all filters,
>> that funny round cover with the paper stuff stuck on it, the dust bucket itself,
>> the heads, everything.
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>> You really can break them into bits and wash everything except the motor itself.
Those of use with bagged vacuum cleaners, dont have to break them down and wash them.
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>>Those of use with bagged vacuum cleaners, dont have to break them down and wash them.
No, you're right. And yet every 3 or 4 years I have to do it to those bloomin' useless dysons we have.
I'd be much better off worrying about buying, filling, changing, vacuum bags. And with [previously] two big hairy dogs, I'm sure it would only have been every day or two.
You do know that you don't *have* to worry about fighting to be right about everything. including vacuum cleaners, right?
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>> You do know that you don't *have* to worry about fighting to be right about
>> everything. including vacuum cleaners, right?
Its my role in life to put you right.
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I'd take you more seriously if I hadn't seen you with a bus parked in your ear.
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See? you got to live a little. Live life on the edge.
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Vacuum cleaner? Yes I'm sure my wife has one. She does though have the grace not to use it when I'm in the house. Noisy things I seem to think? Must be a good one, the house is more than acceptably clean. I expect she uses it on one of her non-laundry / ironing days.
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I wouldn't fancy trying to get that up the stairs... or being in the way, if it fell.
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The brush motor on my DC24 packed up recently not long out of the one year warranty. I looked on ebay where they were about £30, phoned Dyson on the off chance they might be cheaper and the very helpful lady at the other end cheerfully informed me that the machines came with a five year parts warranty and two days later a brand new complete brush head unit arrived, 30 seconds to fit and I was up and running again.
I would tell you about the time my horrible Vax went wrong while it was still under warranty, but the trouble getting it repaired beck to it's (utterly useless) former self is too painful to recount.
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>> You can buy one that sounds like a mondeo
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stalls belches out black smoke and sounds like a bag o' walnuts then? just hope it don't look like one too poor little thing.
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>>stalls belches out black smoke and sounds like a bag o' walnuts
Can't argue with observations 2 and 3 but item 1 only seems to manifest itself when being ham-footedly chucked around by those more used to tachograph monitored modes of transport...
I genuinely can't remember stalling any of mine. To be truthful I can't remember stalling anything since 1976...That was a Ford Escort mk 1 and it was on my driving test. I'd never driven one like it prior to the morning of the exam and it caught me out. Swore I'd never allow myself to be so disengaged from a vehicle again. Still passed the test somehow.
:-)
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>> stalls belches out black smoke and sounds like a bag o' walnuts
>> Can't argue with observations 2 and 3 but item 1 only seems to manifest itself when being ham-footedly
>> chucked around by those more used to tachograph monitored modes of transport...
And when being driven by me. Funnily, I haven't stalled the LSEC once yet :)
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>>those more used to....
Theory confirmed !
:-)
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>> Bromp,
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>> We have three or four Dysons of different models as nobody likes carrying them up/down
>> stairs.
This one is a DC03 Absolute (but not the Zorb version). It lives upstairs as downstairs is all laminate or lino and the Bosch ctlinder jobbie is fine.
The lower filter is described as 'lifetime' the upper looks as though it's 'lifed' and is a replacemt part on the website. Somewhere there's a washable insert.
Mother had a local vac man service it every couple of years and I'd guess he replaced the rotable filter. She'd not sort the washable one unless my sister, her cleaner or I did it.
If it stops sucking I'll look at the rotable part next.
Mum's throw outs are mostly capable of further service with a bit of attention. At same time as vac I was also instructed to take some unwanted pans to the tip - including an entirely serviceable, possibly unused, Kuhn and Rikon Duromatic pressure cooker. Now residing in our kitchen
Only trouble is lack of instructions but www soon locates them.
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So ... we've had dishwashers and vacuum cleaners, what's it to be now men?
Howls about ironing boards, I don't think we've had ironing boards of late.
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Much more of this and I'll be gone!
However...I do love ironing and iron dusters, dishcloths and socks, all to a CD of Def Leppard on full blast:)
Pat
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oooo no, all that loud noise make my soufflés collapse and stops my bread rising.
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You actually iron dusters, dishcloths and socks ???
Why ? You really must have too much time on your hands Pat.......
Who on earth is going to notice or indeed care that you have an unpressed duster or dishcloth or that his socks have wrinkles in them......?
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Henry every time. Dyson just sucks......................just.
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Just make sure that top and bottom are clipped firmly together before descending the stairs...
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I notice, and the neat piles of everything give me a lot of satisfaction.
I know it's strange since I'm not at all house proud and any excuse to go and work on the garden is all I need to put it off for another day.
.....and I always think when I see a man in un-ironed clothes, he has no-one at home who cares for him.
Pat
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The creases in my boxers play havoc with my farmers.
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>>when I see a man in un-ironed clothes, he has no-one at home who cares for him<<
Ah, well you'd wrong there m8, at least in my case ... I went out today into the big wide world (it's still there!)
I was thinking as I drank my tea looking out to sea goo.gl/maps/q8RhL from an area I used to bring my Hymer to in years gorn past, that I must look like a sort-of Cornish version of Columbo :)
Ya see, the missus is under strict instructions not to iron my jean shorts & green Hawkshead top.
I like to give the impression that I could do with a few bob - which isn't a million miles from the troof.
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I like to give the impression that I could do with a few bob - which isn't a million miles from the troof.
Ruff area then? Don't want to be mugged?
:-)
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Nice area Swanpool mad f, plenty of beemers and mercs about I noticed, wouldn't mind buying an owse down that way as it appens, cost a few bob though, I spose one could always consider an ex local authority property :(
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>> I was thinking as I drank my tea looking out to sea goo.gl/maps/q8RhL from an
>> area I used to bring my Hymer to in years gorn past, that I must
>> look like a sort-of Cornish version of Columbo :)
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I'd be thinking look at those tankers sitting there full of crude waiting for the price to go back up to fleece me some more.
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Falmouth Bay gmac, full of tankers, always.
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>>I like to give the impression that I could do with a few bob - which isn't a million miles from the troof.
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Looking scruffy and uncared for have absolutely nothing to do with having a few bob
*shakes head in despair*
Pat
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Back to the mundane - a new vaccuum cleaner. - Robin O'Reliant
