The piece of kit I want to tell you about is our new vacuum cleaner – yes, yet another new one! SO WHY ANOTHER NEW ONE? Well about 5 years ago we bought our current house which the previous occupants had run as a guest house and we have converted the ground floor into a flat for mom (and dad before we lost him to Alzheimer’s) and the two upper floors for my husband and me. This involved a fair bit of building work such as installing an en suite downstairs, removing a partition wall to make our lounge and numerous other minor jobs. A lot of these produced plaster dust and chunks of plaster and, since it is a Victorian house, you can ...  Read the complete review

Having been through three vacuum cleaners in as many years I was at my wits end. Last Christmas I had spent hours, literally, vacuuming the carpets throughout with an ageing Vax cleaner that had seen better days. Each piece of carpet needed vacuuming about 8 times to get it thoroughly cleaned for the arrival of the in-laws, and I'd just about reached the end of my suction hose. Particularly when the cats decided to fight straight away! The two Electrolux models before that had been no better (uprights are far better, waxed lyrical everyone at the time). Unfortunately when they went wrong, they went wrong in style. The whole machine was kaput and I was £200 the worse .  Read the complete review

Miele Cat and Dog Vacuum Cleaner: I am going to start by providing a tiny bit of background as I feel it helps. The old hoover we had was a fairly basic one from Argos that cleaned up bits and bobs but it missed a lot of hair and this did gradually build up and start to annoy my partner in particular. Anyway things start to change, first of all we are planning our wedding and she has been instructed by the hair dresser to grow her hair long and this in turn has meant much more hair on the floor and secondly we now have a cat, who although we love her despite her being completely crazy does have a lot of fur going over the place. For the above 2 reasons we felt ...  Read the complete review

I have had my Miele Cat and Dog for around five years now and it is still going strong. It is without a doubt the best vacuum cleaner I have ever seen (you can shove your Dysons) and I would heartily recommend purchasing this item if you are looking for a long-lasting, hard-working little sucker! One of my favourite features with this piece is the quality build and design. The cleaner is cylindrical, built from a durable plastic, but is not unwieldy or heavy (the equipment is extremely easy to carry around the house). There is an adjustable motor that increases the sucking power from 300W up to 1500W, all complemented by a large turbo head. The Cat and Dog is so ...  Read the complete review

First of all let me put you in the picture! I have brought up 2 daughters with long hair, I have long hair, I also have 3 Persian Cats and a Shih Tzu dog! So for me this has been the cleaner of choice for many years! I recently bought a new one because I took the other one to a holiday home where it is still working fine! So I am not going to go into all the details and specifications which I think you may already know from websites but more to concentrate on how it actually is living with this machine day in day out! To understand this you need to know the machine comes with two brushes one for hard floors and one for carpets. It also has little tools for ...  Read the complete review