Can someone give me advice on vacuum cleaners? (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

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I know this might seem like an odd question, and this might be the wrong community (if it is, pls tell), but I'm currently looking for a reliable, but very cheap vacuum cleaners.

For years my family just bought the cheapest name brand vacuum that they could find in the nearest store, but they all suck (pun intended) these days. I think most of companies just whitelabel asian vacuums and sell them for as much profit as possible, and the end users end up with vacuums where random plastic clips break and the vacuum just not turning on, directly after the warranty expired.

Our new Philips one just kicked the bucket, and now we try to not repeat our mistakes. Is there any secret brand for our purposes?

We practically vacuum the whole house daily because of the dog hair. We've had bad experiences both with bagless and non-bagless, so that doesn't matter, as long as the bags are reasonably priced. The budget is pretty much what the cheapest supermarket vacuum would cost, and probably not much more.

The vacuum needs to be available in Germany.

I hope theres some good household tech out there anymore, god I love capitalism so much

If you have any questions, let me know

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[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

they seem to also follow the plastic china vacuum route

Tell me one such model please?

[-] ours@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

My experience is cheap Siemens/Bosch is not great. Si ignore entry price models even if you don't need the features.

I'm slowly replacing my breaking Siemens stuff with Miele and so far it seems to be worth the premium without having to research each model.

I just replaced a Dyson vacuum with a Miele bagless and boy, it's so much more powerfu, and seems better designed and more robust.

Also fuck Dyson for lobbying for Brexit and then bailed to Singapore.

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Dysons have planned obsolescence, their plastics are shit, and they are overly loud on purpose, so that people have the impression they are powerful.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I was partly lucky I guess. My first Dyson never broke but was losing sucking power despite cleaning the filters, I had a killer rebate on a new one so I sold the old one and got a new one.

The new one had a very silly design flaw where the vacuum head pivots on a tiny, crappy, little plastic flat ring held by a single screw. That broke but thankfully while under warranty and they quickly replaced the part. Recently the same exact part broke again but out of warranty. Considered replacing it but for such an old vacuum, the part was expensive (about $80) and out of stock so I pulled the trigger on putting some extra money in a newer, better-quality one instead.

I'm all for repairing stuff to extend their life but some things just aren't worth sinking more money into them.

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