Numatic International - George GVE370

Henry- heads etc are easy to replace if you need to. You can swap out the filter for odour neutralising. There’s a pet head. You could go for the direct animal model. George is a wet and dry hoover, and we have had one, but these days we have Henry and a Bessel carpet cleaner specifically for washing the carpets. Worth stating that most hoovers will fail to completely pull hairs up and so it’s useful to also have a rubber brush, or a window squidgee. You will be supposed at how much hair those things pull up 

Numatic George. Not cheap but it’s a 15litre capacity regular vacuum and a wet vac/carpet/upholstery cleaner. It’s also quiet.

O have a George that does wet and dry clean. But it’s so heavy and wired that it’s a real chore to use it. So I also have a Dyson that’s cordless so that if I want to do the vacuuming in the kitchen quickly after a meal it only take 5 minutes and no setup.

I have cordless Henry for light duty and powerful 1.6 hp George for heavy. Highly recommend George. Or Charles, same 1200 watt power, minus wet extraction mode.

Numatic George or Charles with 1200watt/1.6 hp motors

Those two are just Henrys on steroids with more than twice as powerful motors. I do have cordless Henry for light duty upstairs. George is way more powerful and if only one I would have George.

Very very few machines do that. Usually, they end up being pretty bad at one job or the other. Numatic George technically can do that. It's like a cross between a canister vac, shop vac, and carpet washer. While it has great suction, as a vacuum its pretty bulky and loud. As a carpet cleaner, it's very clumsy and takes a lot of effort to use. It's large, has a lot of parts to store, and takes time switching from one function to the other. No machine can switch between those functions on the fly. Best approach is to budget for a separate good vacuum and separate good carpet cleaner.

That'll be a blue George! They used to do them all in every colour. They changed the wheels in June 2003, and although I'd say their quality did go up and down after that, they did exceed the early 2000s models with the mid-2000s Henrys. The issues only really came in with the 160 imo.

That's why I'd get a George, wet dry vac, use it as an indestructible dry vac until I need to get fluid up

Henry for home, George for work. Numatic hoovers are built to last, powerful and made in the UK too. What’s not to like.

Thats a good option but id rather invest in a numatic George (they're like 900$ but will probably outlive you if you take care of it) so you've got shop vac shit and a carpet cleaner

100% shop vac. If you’re in Europe a popular one are those red or green Henry/George vacs. Afaik the green one can do wet vacuum too. Some shop vacs use bags that help with suction and disposing but they aren’t necessary to function.