Vacuum cleaner group test

Few household appliances vary more widely than vacuum cleaners. After Dyson shook up the whole floor care market with its Cyclonic wunderkind, department stores are full of cylinders, uprights, bagged, bagless and handheld vacuums of all shapes, colours and sizes. It’s no longer enough to simply wheeze along gathering fluff until your bag needs changing. Now a vacuum cleaner needs power, practicality, efficiency and reliability to survive in the competitive market.

Poorly made vacuum cleaners do tend to lose suction over time, so if you’re in the market for a replacement, it’s worth doing a little research to find the right model and that’s where this group test can help. Each of these suckers is a big seller on PriceRunner’s league tables and all show innovation and good design in their own way. After exhaustive testing on the carpets of The Insider, we bring you this report.

Miele S4211

For bijou apartments, a small vacuum cleaner is essential and if size is your priority, but you also don’t want to be replacing your vacuum cleaner every year, this should be on your short list. It’s tiny and lightweight, but doesn’t feel like it’ll fall apart on you after a heavy spring clean. The tough adjustable head and metal stem feel well-made too and it’s not surprising to find this model right at the upper end of PriceRunner’s top sellers. This sucks… in a good way.
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Numatic Henry (Xtra) HVR200

It has become a classic design and as familiar a sight as Sir Alan Sugar talking about the economy on the news. The cheerful design still stands up to scrutiny, and overall it’s a practical and robust machine with decent suction and a reliable motor.
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Electrolux Z8800AZ

The big Electrolux looks like it’s delivering a lot of vacuum cleaner for your money. The alarming bright red colour might not be to everyone’s taste and it’s certainly bulky, but by having all the attachments clip onto the side of the machine, you have everything you need right with you. It’s certainly powerful enough too, thanks to the Cyclone suction system, and going bagless obviously saves cash on disposable bags. It’s all the genuinely helpful attachments that earn this cleaner its stars though, especially the pet hair chasing Power Paw – it sounds like some sort of superpower for your dog.
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Dyson DC22 Baby Allergy

Dyson’s vacuum cleaners swept the floor, so to speak, with the competition when they first arrived and the Baby represents considerable refinement on the Cyclone system. It has not only been shrunk down to a much more convenient size, but it’s more efficient at filtering out the really small stuff too. The bagless system is a particularly appealing feature in such a small machine that could otherwise cost a significant amount in bags each year. We’d still recommend an upright if you have a lot of floor acreage to cover, but for smaller apartments, this tiny Baby has a lot to offer.
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PriceRunner recommended
Dyson DC15 The Ball

This latest upright Dyson is the best yet, improving on the Cyclone motor and more signficantly, replacing the wheels with a big plastic ball. Suddenly you have a highly flexible and simplified design that makes it much easier to negotiate corners. It also drastically reduces the weight from previous, rather cumbersome walk-along Dysons. This is the ‘animal’ version, which refers to the extra fitting that fits onto the foot to brush up pet hair from the carpet.
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