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I have 4 Dyson products, besides the hair-dryer, all of the others are bad (can't say they suck b/c that's the main job of 2 of the vacuums and they can't get it done).

I bought the dyson air purifier that's cold and hot, it's so bad...works at the same level as a USB fan...

The vacuums are loud and look futuristic but can't clean anything properly.

Any recommendations for a good vacuum are welcome!

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(not sure where you're based but...) a Henry! https://www.numatic.co.uk/products.aspx?r=4&sr=1 They're cheap, they're reliable, you can use them bagged or bagless, they're basically indestructible (our chimney sweep uses a bog standard one for the actual sweeping), if anything does break you can easily repair them, they are really very good at vacuuming. Excellent product, would buy again, if I ever had to.

In the US we call those shop vacs.

They're a little harder to move around, that's why most people only use them for heavy-duty cleaning.

(And yes, I clean my fireplace with one.)

I really like how they have faces painted on them.

> Any recommendations for a good vacuum are welcome!

Any German-built Miele vacuum would beat a Dyson any day.

I think the Dyson hand dryers work really well, the ones where you stick in your hands vertically. No other design of blowing hot air around your hands actually does the job it's supposed to do.

And even the knockoffs of the Dyson design from other companies don't work as good as the Dysons, I recently had one that was build too short so I couldn't fit the whole hand in there.

But yeah the household appliances just seem to expensive.

> even the knockoffs of the Dyson design from other companies don't work as good as the Dysons

I think the Mitsubishi one - which predates the Dyson by some years, so arguably the Dyson is a knockoff of it - works pretty nicely, and it's much quieter.

We have a Shark Rocket DuoClean [1] and it seems to work pretty well. We lived in an apartment without carpet before moving to our current house, which is 3 stories with carpet.

My mom brought down her old vacuum, plus her Shark vacuum, with the idea that we could keep her old vacuum if we wanted it, but that we could try the vacuum she uses and see if we liked it better.

The old vacuum she had was super heavy and real pain to go up and down the stairs with. The Shark is really light and easy to maneuver. Seems to do a good job vacuuming too.

I remember when she first got it, I figured it was like all the other "As Seen on TV" crap she buys, but it really does seem like a nice vacuum. We've had ours for a little over two years now and are quite happy with it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Shark-DuoClean-Ultra-Light-Lift-Away-...

I have the German made Miele for couple years. It’s pretty good.

When i wanted a new vacuum cleaner, i asked my cleaner. After all, she spends a substantial fraction of her working life using them. She recommended a Numatic Henry, so that's what i got. It's ugly, it's loud, but it's built like a tank and it could suck the bricks out of a wall.

Before the Internet everybody knew that Consumer Reports was the place to go for unbiased product recommendations. It still is. We used it for our vacuum cleaner; it costs 1/4 what the Dyson did and works better. But that was almost 10 years ago so such a recommendation would no longer be valid. Go to consumerreports.org.

Vax are cheap, have a new model every five minutes, but they're effective, and come with two batteries (which is maybe normal, but was a pleasant surprise for the price) and last for several runs (probably 2-3h total running time?) but the convenience of having one on charge and one in is great.

I have a little li-ion handheld one from shark that is decent for my needs. https://sharkhandvac.co.uk/

I use a Botvac for floor cleaning and have been happy with that, apart from the battery being a bit crap

>Any recommendations for a good vacuum are welcome!

Bought a Neato Botvac and I'm close to saying it's the single product that has improved my life the most in recent years.

I'm only cleaning a small flat but going from having to scrape dirt out of the carpet with an ineffective Dyson vacuum manually for an hour to literally pressing a button is crazy.

I have the same and then just use my old Dyson V6 to get things that need picked up immediately or for tight areas.

Mine runs automatically every night and there is rarely any dust or dirt on my floor. The amount of stuff it picks up is amazing.

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