I’m looking for a vacuum cleaner that doesn’t need dust bags and gets its power from the wall socket with a cord. The suction power has high priority for me
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If the bags are negotiable and you’ve got the extra cash for one, buy a Miele.
It has incredible suction power and has the added bonus of having a very good filtration system that will also clean the air around it.
I will second this.
First off bags are better in terms of filtration and release when emptying. OP you asked for best, well best uses a bag system.
Second the Miele C series is basically a tank. A true buy it for life item that will last decades if you take good care of it.
Agreed about Miele. Our White Star has given us 24 years of reliable service. The only problem was the cord retractor stopped working (at about year 15). Now we just wind up the cord, no problem. Definitely would buy again. PS: We’ve had pretty good luck with off-brand bags and HEPA filters.
Sebo also makes a great “premium” vacuum, but like the Miele, it also uses bags. I feel like the best vacuums tend to use bags.
Agreed. My Miele also has a very long cord compared with my previous vacuum. (Which was a bagless Dyson I grew to hate. Heavy, cumbersome, awkward to keep clean.)
Miele now us a few bagless models with pretty good reviews. But they are a late comer compared to Dyson and Samsung.
Going cordless has made life much easier
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It’s popular to hate on Dyson but cordless, bagless vacuum is very much a game dominated by them. Others - Samsung, Miele - have great products but I have yet to see a model from them that is truly superior to flagship Dysons. They dominate on suction and battery power.
Dyson is expensive (overpriced?). The owners is an oligarch brexiteer asshole. The brand is perpetually trending with annoying influencers and I find their vacuums ugly, but … they build very good vacuums.
Yes. I own a Dyson. A corded one. We’re on our third one and keep buying them because we have never had any issues with them.
My current one is 4 years old. The one before was 10 by the time we sold it due to international move. The one before we bought 10 years old used before deciding we wanted a new one.
A way to combat supporting the asshole directly is to find and buy one second hand. Even swapping out a simple part for <$50 can extend an $800 vacuum cleaner by several years.
This is the way. I’ve owned 8ish Dysons and never purchased one new. There are a lot of people who sell their Dyson because it’s “not working”. Surprise, if the motor is working and there is a suction problem, there’s just something stuck in the hose. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve bought a “broken” Dyson only to find an easily fixable blockage.
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Truth. Very good point.
Part of the problem with our society is people are so quick to throw perfectly functional shit away because advertisements of all sorts convince them that there is something better out on the market now and that what they have is outdated. The quality of products as a whole have gone to shit because people would rather buy cheap knockoff garbage every 6 months and throw it away than buy a quality product that, with some care and attention, could last decades. I’ve had a lot of luck over the years being patient and browsing all the sites like craiglist, Facebook marketplace, etc and buying the few remaining top-of-the-line brands second-hand (or sometimes even for free) and making it new again. I’ll get off my soapbox now.
A Henry. It uses dust bags but it’s been months and I’m still on the same one. It’s a canister vacuum, not an upright vacuum. Too many times someone sucks up a bunch of drywall dust or cat litter and then you turn on the upright vacuum and it spews dust in a massive cloud. Canister vacuums don’t do that.
+1, Henry is a G. I bought mine 10 years ago and he’s still like new. My parents are self-employed cleaners and have a Henry they use pretty much every day (and have done for 20 years) and he’s still going strong. I can’t bear any other vaccum.
I’ve had to use Dysons in previous jobs and oh my god, they’re so needy. The tiniest amount of hair will block the whole thing. Henry could suck up a horse and keep going.
Maybe some kind of Miele? The Germans are good at this sort of thing.
I bought a Miele a few years ago and don’t regret it. Best vacuum I’ve ever owned. It is bagged, but in my opinion that’s better than bagless. I owned a few bagless vacuums over the years and they all have the same problem of excessive dust generation when emptying. You don’t have that problem with bags.
I’m very happy with my Wertheim stick vac, way more than I was with the Dyson I had before. It used to give me strong static electric shocks whenever I used it. The Wertheim actually has some metal studs on the handle supposedly to help with grounding. No idea if that is why, but it has never shocked me, not once. Plus you can actually remove the dust container if you want, you don’t have to take the whole handheld unit to the bin. Oh and the trigger is a toggle, not hold to vacuum.
It is battery powered, but it came with two batteries and a free standing stand that charges the spare when the vacuum is undocked or fully charged, so if I ever ran out of battery (never happened), I could just swap the spare in. Plus I guess if the battery degrades, I can get a replacement probably.
I have a Shark Duo clean with a battery setup like this. I was able to buy a 3rd battery from some other manufacturer. Its great never having to worry about running out of juice.
I can’t tell you which is the best but I can give you my general impression of vacuum cleaners, I’ve used a few in a lot of different houses.
The most popular cord model here seems to be Dyson Ball, but imo it’s overrated. Not bad, but not great, and very expensive.
Miele, I’ve used a couple but must admit, they were old. They seem better than the Dyson Ball though not by much. In terms of weight and manoeuvrability they were similar. I repeat, these were old models so maybe you find nicer ones brand new.
I’ve used one corded Shark, it was a “standing” type you could detach partially and carry around by hand (still keeping the cord). The whole vacuum was very heavy and bulky but detached was much more manageable, and the suction power was really decent. Cord was very long too.
Of the three I’d pick the Shark, with the caveat that I didn’t get a fair comparison with Miele.
Not buying bags is nice, but they sure are cleaner than canisters.
There is a very good reason nearly every commercial cleaner uses either a Pulman or a pacvac.
20m extension cord, good power, cheap and just bang out the filters every few cleans.
If the criteria is pure suction power, my Shark literally sucked a strip of veneer off an antique rocking chair. And nearly pulled down a curtain it grabbed hold of. Which aren’t good things, but I learned to turn it down when near loose stuff.
I’m a firm believer there isn’t a better value than a Shark vacuum. The thing is reasonably priced compared to other high performing vacuums and it works phenomenally. I would recommend it to anyone in a heartbeat.
TLDR; buy a Shark @ sharkclean dot com
I have the Apex Duo Clean and thst things is way better than the Dyson I used to have. Kind gross how much is pulls out of the carpet.
Try the Hoover MaxExtract PressurePro model 60. Be sure to ask for the dust filter.
It doesn’t plug into the wall like you asked. But my favorite vacuum is the “shark ion p50” It is a standup cordless vacuum with changeable batteries, large canaster and good suction. The shark corded (no battery) dual brush(duo clean) models or other corded brands do have better suction though. The p50 is just the closest to a coarded but still battery one I could find, I hate tripping on cords.
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