Easy to clean and cheap, see if you can get a Henry Quick. Henry is a very old and well trusted vacuum cleaning brand in the UK used in commercial environments and at home. They’re cheap and reliable, they’re known for these big tubs on wheels that have a HEPPA filter bag that collects the dust and you replace, no filters or anything, and they’ve just released a new stick vacuum called Henry Quick, which again has a small bag that’s the filter too, so no filter washing and loss of suction. You can most likely get one shipped from the UK, and I imagine the bags can be found on Amazon anyways.
As long as the carpets you get are low pile: Miele, Sebo or Henry are great options.
Which model depends on where in Europe you are. these 3 brands are corded and bagged. Which is the gold standard for vacuums cordless/bagless (Henry Quick) is good to keep around for quick daily kid messes, but a good corded/bagged vacuum is essential for weekly deep cleans.
IMO get a Felix for weekly deep cleans (yes it’s a bulky upright but it cleans very well) AND get a Henry Quick for quick daily messes.
In the UK both are relatively inexpensive compared to the rest of the world. And a 2-vacuum setup is the way to go anyways.
> 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.
This is a generic fake brand drop shipped cleaner. It's performance will be mediocre, after sales and parts support nonexistent, and it won't last very long. Frankly 99% of these randomly branded things are the same.
Go for a Henry quick, dyson v8, heck even a hoover or a shark over one of these.
Great under certain circumstances. Henry cordless isn't very powerful. Usable for hard floors and attachments but pretty ineffective for carpet, no motorized brushbar either. And very expensive for what it is in north america.
A numatic NBV, very similar, has a vastly upgraded motor and battery. But still no rotating brush and even more expensive in north america.
For these reasons, I can't really recommend them.
Just wanted to clarify those points for OP anyway. I have a Henry cordless and love it for what it is but due to the cost there's hardly anyone I'd recommend it to! Need to get an nbv at some point.
No. The dyson pencilvac has an extremely tiny dust capacity, it requires emptying every use which is fiddly because you must remove the floor nozzle to do so.
It lacks a cyclone separation system, so the filter gets dirty quickly and requires cleaning especially in very dusty environments.
Also, it is completely unsuitable for carpets. It is strictly for hard floors.
A cordless vac might be a good addition to your home as a supplementary cleaner, but not the pencilvac. There's much better and more versatile options out there for much less money.
Any miele cordless vac, the bosch unlimited 9 and 10 series, and Henry cordless are all better choices with much higher performance, the ability to clean all floors, less maintainence intensive, and more robust with better runtime.
There are several different ways you could go with this. What would you consider a "long" hose?
Smaller carry-able canister type vacs like an oreck shoulder vac could work. Though they aren't hepa, and personally not a big fan of them. Small bags, small motors, bit noisy etc.
Slightly bigger machines like a Miele C1 would be great, they are pretty lite but more capable. Hose might not be long enough for leaving the canister on the floor and climbing a ladder to reach high up for example. But for filtration and suction, great choice. Similar in size and characteristics would be a Sebo K or E series machine.
A Numatic Henry is a personal favorite of mine for whole house dusting. The hoses are a bit longer than average, the tools are good, and the extention tubes themselves have a nice trick.
Unlike most canisters where the curved extension part is the hand grip, and then you place the tools at the end of the straight tube section, with Numatic vacuums you can reverse that. You can put the curved end of the extension at the end with a tool attached while the straight section is what you grasp while cleaning. This gives you the perfect angle for ceiling fans or the tops of moldings and picture frames.
Downside with a numatic is the weight and possibly bulk, they aren't very small or lite and might be a struggle to carry around.
There are several options as you can see. Depends what you want to prioritize most I think. And side note, I think an extension hose can be bought separately and attached to any of these machines for extra reach if the default length isn't sufficient.
Sebo themselves sell an extension hose. Numatic might as well, otherwise I know aftermarket extra long hoses are avaliable for Numatic machines.
Miele you'd have to get a little more creative since they don't really sell one themselves, and they use a larger than average diameter. You can get a 35 to 32mm adapter and then attach a genetic extension hose to the miele hose. Only annoying thing is then the miele tools wouldn't fit at the end of the extension hose, so you'd almost need a duplicate attachment set.
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