I have a really bad back, and when I was pregnant I also developed SPD (Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction) which made getting up and down the stairs really painful, near on impossible at times. The last thing I wanted to do was carry my big hoover up and down the stairs all the time, but I didn't want to never hoover upstairs either! My husband very sweetly thought of getting me a handheld hoover. The idea being that I could sit on the stairs to hoover thus easing my back a bit, and scoot down the stairs on my bottom (which I had to do anyway due to the SPD) whilst sitting down to hoover. Bless him, it was the best thing he ever bought!! Despite our daughter now ...  Read the complete review

I was bought the Dyson DC16 hand held hoover as a gift when we moved home. It's one of the best gifts I've ever had! For a hand-held, this has impressive suction power. Obviously it's not as good as using the nozzle on an upright but for what it's designed for, ie cleaning up little spills or doing the stairs etc, it's more than capable. It comes with a base charging unit which can be wall-mounted or just put on a shelf. We keep ours handy, between the kitchen and the lounge, and we are forever grabbing it, it is just sooooo useful. Bits of mud, spills from opening a packet of sugar, random dog hair accumulations, crumbs where someone has been ...  Read the complete review

This is a really wonderful hand-held vacuum and I love it. My husband bought this for me the limited edition pink version of this for Christmas after hearing me complain time and time again that the previous hand-held vacuum didn't pack enough punch to lift even the most microscopic spec of dirt from the floor. This hand-held dyson does the job perfectly. It is very very powerful and picks up dust, dirt and dog hairs up out of the carpet with considerable ease. It even took up all of the pine needles dropped by the christmas tree as we tried to force it through the french doors into the garden after Christmas was over! I use it in areas where my Irobot Roomba ...  Read the complete review

I've had my handheld Dyson DC16 for just over a year now, and it's very useful for those quick jobs when you don't want to get the large hoover out, hoovering up crumbs or when you see a spider that you just have to get rid of quickly! It comes in very handy for quickly hoovering out the car too. For a small handheld device it's a lot more powerful than I expected it to be. the dust compartment is see through and very easy to empty at the push of a button. As for battery life, it lasts from 5-10 minutes from full to empty, however I have found that if I stop and start it a lot then the battery does tend to run down more quickly. This ...  Read the complete review

I have had this handheld dyson for about 6 months now and it is the best handheld cleaner i have owned . The suction on it is great , just as good as a normal vacuum/ dyson . you get an adaptor with it so you can fit your existing dyson attachments on it which i have found usefull. the battery life is 6 minutes continuous which i believe is more than any other handheld , it doesnt sound much but 6 minutes is quite enough time to hoover the stair case for example . its much more convient to use this a few times a day to hoover under childs high chair etc rather than getting the big one out and plugging it in. it charges fairly fast too . it ...  Read the complete review