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Replace motor with cheapo part, and replace housing (Total about £30)

Replace motor with better part, and replace housing (Nearer £60)

Trade it in for a more up to date Dyson, 20% trade-in

Replace with cheapo vac

Make her use dustpan and brush

[the alarming man]

Get a Henry.

Had one at University. Everything that landed on the floor that shouldn't have been there, it dealt with. Most things were "outside the brief of its' design".  This is university accommodation we're talking about. Use your imagination.

Dysons are able to cope with one particular type of dust well, for everything else they are as much use as the proverbial used condom.

every building site in england cannot be wrong..

[TheBoy]

My thoughts on Dyson vacs are well known!

I'm kinda in the same boat. But the availability of parts and information (not from Dyson I might add!) does elevate them significantly IMHO. I'm sure many RWD Vauxhall owners only hang on to their Omegas due to the parts and info available to them

Its a rather vaccum.....how much info do you need!

There's a switch, a lead, a motor and possibly a belt. If its MEGA complex it might even have a controller for the brush height. 

How they work is pretty self explanatory, and even a stupid kid like me can diagnose faults easy enough.

Getting the little tinkers apart without breaking clips/tabs/other cheapskate designs, that's where I need guides

[aaronjb]

My £50 bagless wet & dry Wickes shop vac (bit like a Henry, it's a bucket with a motor in it) sucks 10 times harder than my DC01 ever has.. I wouldn't bother with another Dyson unless it were free.

A friend of mine has had his Wickes vac in the garage for 8 years or so (it's why I bought one) - we've emptied 2" of water/coolant & oil emulsion out of his pit with it, sucked up wet rags, leaves, dust, nuts, bolts, cable ties.. even used it to vacuum bleed the coolant system on an MR2 once or twice. It just keeps on suckin'.

Now we know why you don't have an "other half" 

 

[Vamps]

Get a Henry.

Had one at University. Everything that landed on the floor that shouldn't have been there, it dealt with. Most things were "outside the brief of its' design".  This is university accommodation we're talking about. Use your imagination.

Dysons are able to cope with one particular type of dust well, for everything else they are as much use as the proverbial used condom.

+1

+2  Got an old, metal, Henry in the garage, dates from the early 80's, gets all the crappy jobs and still on the original motor.......

[MaxV6]

got a dyson in the house, a henry in the studio, and a big orange vax for jobs neither of the other two like.....   


dyson is a bit crap,  henry is okay,  but not all that... the vax is frigging awesome,  or it would be, if the wheels didn't break off their body mounts one by one and leave you with a rather immobile lump....   still hoovers and carpet washes brilliantly.....    been going strong for about 9-10 years...     done building sites,  flooded garage, flooded studio, flooded kitchen,  and never a moment's hassle (other than having to pick the sodding thing up and  move it)


yeah... it needs a bag....   so what.....    got the dyson coz i thought bagless would be cool....    but it's not a patch on the vax for getting , say, trodden in plaster dust out of a contract carpet....  (JUST as a hoover.....  not even using the wash function)

[Elite Pete]

Only a Hoover is a Hoover, the rest are Vacuums

I used to work for a well known electrical retailer many years ago and it used to pi55 me off when a customer asked for one of those Dyson Hoovers, I used to say there's no such thing

[cleggy]

Use a Dyson for the everyday stuff but a VAX for proper cleaning, it will suck up anything.  Now where the Chocolate Lab

[TheBoy]

Still undecided. Probably fix the old one. Again. Might buy another anyway, dunno, would save her struggling carting it up the stairs.

Got a Vax, cant get to it currently, as the contents of my office are in the spare room

[cleggy]

Sebo's are supposed to be pretty good

[paul.lovejoy]

there is a bit of a trend here with TB and home appliances

[pirate]

wifes boss got a new dyson top of the range upright nearly £400 bloody useless and you needed ear defenders to use it so that went back refund please, sebo upright magic, henry for everything else

[aaronjb]

Still undecided. Probably fix the old one. Again. Might buy another anyway, dunno, would save her struggling carting it up the stairs.

Got a Vax, cant get to it currently, as the contents of my office are in the spare room

Of course you will. Just like the dishwasher. Again. And again. And again. And... 

[TheBoy]

Still undecided. Probably fix the old one. Again. Might buy another anyway, dunno, would save her struggling carting it up the stairs.

Got a Vax, cant get to it currently, as the contents of my office are in the spare room

Of course you will. Just like the dishwasher. Again. And again. And again. And... 

Better the devil you know

[Kevin Wood]

Still undecided. Probably fix the old one. Again. Might buy another anyway, dunno, would save her struggling carting it up the stairs.

Got a Vax, cant get to it currently, as the contents of my office are in the spare room

Of course you will. Just like the dishwasher. Again. And again. And again. And... 

Better the devil you know

Indeed. Kylie in little shorts, and all that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10P_ybz5YTI

[cleggy]

Still undecided. Probably fix the old one. Again. Might buy another anyway, dunno, would save her struggling carting it up the stairs.

Got a Vax, cant get to it currently, as the contents of my office are in the spare room

Of course you will. Just like the dishwasher. Again. And again. And again. And... 

Better the devil you know

Indeed. Kylie in little shorts, and all that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10P_ybz5YTI

Like using your accessory on a barbie doll