Allergy HVA160

Robot vacs are great for keeping up with daily cleaning, but us allergy and asthma sufferers need to vacumn mattresses, couches, carpets etc regularly with an allergy vacumn as well. Make sure you buy a special allergy vacumn that doesn't just blow the dust out the back of the motor. I have [this one](https://www.myhenry.com/henry-allergy). Do your mattress and pillow covers zip closed? Try to get a mattress protector that actually zips around the entire mattress. A cover that just goes over the top does little for preventing dust mites. [Humidity ](https://www.lung.org/clean-air/indoor-air/indoor-air-pollutants/dust-mites) is the most important factor in determining whether a house has high levels of dust mites. Try to reduce your indoor humidity as much as possible.

I switched from Miele to a Henry Allergy model and like it a lot. I still like Miele’s hard floor brush so I have that rigged on the Henry. I think Miele have the best air filtration but Henry is very close and hundreds less $.

I went for the green hypoallergenic Henry. Good for pethair

For all hard floors and hair, you want a vacuum without a brushroll. Check out the Miele C1 pure suction, Sebo K2 kombi or Henry 160. And if you find it’s not working well on your carpet/rug you can always add the turbo head.

> I’ve been burned before by convenient gadgets You hit the nail on the head here - more often than not, when the main selling point is “convenience” you sacrifice a lot elsewhere. If you absolutely must have a cordless vac, I’d get a Henry Quick for quick daily messes. I’d also look at a Henry 160 for weekly deep cleans. It’s going to filter a lot better than the shop vac you’ve been using. (Assuming you have hard floors) if you have carpet check out a Sebo k3 or e3.

Nice work! But imo the Logic is somewhat flawed. It entirely depends on the user’s flooring. I think that needs to be an important quantifier here. Ex: No doubt Henry is great. But it’s for hard floors and maybe 1 small low pile area rug, absolutely not carpeted rooms. It has an air driven brushroll which pales in comparison on carpet to something with an electorally powered floor head. Like the Miele c3 cat and dog, Sebo Felix, k3 and D4 etc. Dyson and shark shouldn’t even be on this list. They are absolute junk. Run this list by r/vacuumcleaners Edit: Hey! I see I was part of the data collection. Neat.

I'd go for a Henry 160 to be honest, I've always found they do better than any other brand on hard floors. Kids love it too!