Cordless or plug in vacuum cleaner?

Thank you all for your kind replies and advice.
I have ordered a new battery and will see how that goes before buying a completely new vacuum.

I have had a Shark cordless since before Covid and can thoroughly recommend it - I have two long-hair cats and it is great at picking up their fur. Would never go back to a corded.

I have a robot hoover upstairs and another downstairs. That just leaves the stairs and I use a Dyson cordless for those. Got my first robot hoover when I had a very hairy dog and loved coming home to a clean floor. 😊

I’ve got a shark cordless for using upstairs. It’s ok, but nowhere near as good as the cordless dyson. It lacks oomph, somehow and isn’t as good as picking up bits on the carpet. Plus its battery soon drops from 100% to 80% within just a few minutes of use. For those reasons I won’t replace the shark with another shark once it gives up the ghost.

I find my Shark corded very heavy to use but efficient. I don't use it every day as it gives me a backache. I have a Hoover cordless which is also efficient and it is much lighter but needs emptying every few minutes, otherwise it loses power. I won't use Dyson on principle.

I have several vacuum cleaners

The old sebo upright corded stays in my garage and does a superb job, very powerful suction but too heavy for in-house.

Miele corded upstairs, good for taking air out of vac bags and good for cleaning my sewing room and sewing machines, with special attachments. Too unwieldy to carry up and down stairs. A very good cleaner

Two old roombas, I have replaced both batteries with cheap ones from e bay. They go on and on and I would replace them, worth their initial cost 12 years ago. Efficient and they make a difference

Main cleaner is a dyson cordless and this is the one I would choose above all the others, only if I had to choose. Lightweight and very efficient. Bought 3 years ago and top of the range with all attachments. Hanging on a floor stand in my hall, always ready for action

Old Henry sits behind my sofa and is only ever used to clean out my cold stove and hearth

Get a robot vac.

I’m happy to recommend the GTech Air Ram.

Lilyflower

I second the recommendation for trying a new battery. We have replaced, at different times, the battery and the motor and each replacement has rendered the machine as good as new.

100% agree, I should have read the full post before I answered sorry.

Mt61

Does anyone remember those Kirby upright hoovers? Think it had three wheel, cost the price of a small car😳

I do we had a demonstration on our mattress I nearly passed out, my goodness that could suck, but yes very pricey

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I suggest you buy a new battery, my Dyson is 12 years old and I have had two new batteries in that time, the difference is incredible and make you realise the sucking has been suffering too. If that does not help they will refund you the money and only n£ 60.00. I almost bought a new one but they suggested I tried to replace the battery first. I am so happy I did. Mine is a DC

I've had three cordless two being of the famous Dyson make. When the last corded one died I went for a Samsung cordless, couldn't afford another Dyson. I also bought a corded Shark. If the Samsung dies I'd
go for a Shark cordless too. The corded Shark outshines any vacuum cleaner I've ever had over 50 years and hopefully the cordless would do the same. I only use the cordless for stairs and going over the bathrooms and kitchen floor before wiping. I've had dogs and the corded was always more efficient at picking up hair. I'm sure if you spend a small fortune tgere will be an efficient cordless cleaner out there.

It is nigh on impossible to buy a bagged upright vacuum cleaner unless you’re willing to pay for a Seba which are very heavy as well as super expensive.
I really do not like emptying the vac canister however carefully.

I have a Nilfisk for d stairs... it had an extra allergy filter tho not changed now. For upstairs I loved Gtech until the battery expired after 6 mths. No warranty on it as 'old stock' sold on when Argos closed. I think it was c £100 to get new battery as we do not live in UK. So I have gone back to old favourite of Miele corded and bagged. Bags are pricey and being asthmatic I need to keep them in good order.

We live in a relatively small home now and a cordless vacuum is fine, even though ours is old. However the battery couldn't cope with our last house which was much larger, we just used the cordless on the stairs.
I agree with others that the Miele Cat and Dog is the ultimate vacuum if you don't particularly want a cordless one though.

On my second GTech but for some reason it has been redesigned and not for the better. I also have a basic robot vac which is worth its weight in gold!

Does anyone remember those Kirby upright hoovers? Think it had three wheel, cost the price of a small car😳

I thought my Shark was my best vac ever, until my son told me to get a Henry- best thing ever and has transformed my life!

It is heavy to carry upstairs though- so I keep the Shark for the bedrooms and would never buy anything but a Henry from now on...

I have a cordless Gtech, bought it as a bundle with the hand held. I love it, though with 2 dogs that shed liberally, it does need to be emptied a lot. I also have a Vax pet (corded) which I still use if I want a deeper clean than just a daily whoosh round. The Vax is very noisy compared to the gTech.

I have a cordless Shark pet cleaner version, though I have no pets. It is good on both carpets and hard floors, very light and easy to carry. It will do the whole house on one charge, but after cleaning my new wool bedroom carpet it needs emptying, though my newer downstairs carpet, which is man-made fibres. does not shed fluff.

Georgesgran

I found the Vax blade useless - all the fluff and dust got stuck in the tube and rarely made it up to the dust collection bin.

We bought a VAx carpet washer and it has exactly the same problem

I’ve got a cordless pet hair Shark, which is really efficient for everyday cleaning - I’ve also got an old corded Miele, which is heavy to use, but as Foxyferret said, very powerful and would suck the carpet off the floor on full power, but unfortunately they have stopped making the very strong power ones now - not sure why, but they do use a lot of electricity. Cordless vacuums actually use less electricity than using a corded vacuum, if that is a concern. Corded vacuums draw power heavily directly from the outlet while in use, whereas cordless vacuums use a trickle charge to top up, and have battery management systems that prevent overcharging even if you leave them switched on when the battery is fully charged.

I have a corded Shark. Relative has a cordless GTech. Mine is plugged in while I hoover and done, he's is plugged in much longer to charge. I'll stick with mine.

Oreo

Cordless, Gtech AirRam, just brilliant. I only have a small house but can do every room twice before the battery needs to be charged.Lightweight too.Came as a bundle with the small handheld one to do stairs and car.

I'm on my second GTech Air Ram now and I agree, lightweight, powerful and easy to use. I have an extremely large black hairy cat and if he is not depositing hair all over the carpet then he is dumping all the leaves, twigs, seeds etc that attach to his coat when he goes out. My cleaner uses it to blitz the house once every two weeks and the rest of the days I pick up all the junk the cat deposits at least once a day and only charge it once in all that time.

teabagwoman

I have an elderly Dyson that started to run out of charge quickly. My dsil got a new battery pack from Amazon. It wasn’t expensive and he was able to fit it quite easily. Might that be worth trying first?

I was about to suggest the same thing. I've currently got a Shark which is turning into Triggers broom! I've changed so many bits which is still cheaper than replacing the whole thing.