The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Morning Glory said:
I think mine was cheaper than 400 euros - about £240 I think (288 euros). But your Roidmi sounds good.
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Yes, I cannot buy a Dyson for that price here in Portugal. And I would have spent the money on a Dyson but I really don't like the continually pressing the button thing, I wanted to buy a cordless vacuum to make my life easier and I think pressing the button would be an annoyance.
 
LissaC said:
Yes, I cannot buy a Dyson for that price here in Portugal. And I would have spent the money on a Dyson but I really don't like the continually pressing the button thing, I wanted to buy a cordless vacuum to make my life easier and I think pressing the button would be an annoyance.
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Not sure why, but our Dyson battery will no longer hold a charge for more than about 4-5 minutes. We’ve had it for about 3 years now. We bought another one wich is a third
of the price that we use more often now.
 
LissaC said:
The new house is coming along. I still have a ton of small things to fix around here (the kitchen is a mess, I'm waiting for my new oven to be delivered and I still have the old oven disassembled in the middle of the kitchen, there are a couple tiles missing behind the water cilindre, I'm waiting for the electrician to finish fixing one of the electrical circuits, the bathroom door doesn't close...), but, it's getting better :laugh:
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It's so cute, bright and modern! It's a lot like one of my millennial stepdaughters' homes in that respect. Nice going, I know you must be so happy!
 
JAS_OH1 said:
It's so cute, bright and modern! It's a lot like one of my millennial stepdaughters' homes in that respect. Nice going, I know you must be so happy!
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Thank you so much! Yes I love my house and I'm loving taking care of it 🥰 I used to hate tidying up and fixing stuff around the house but it definitely feels different when you know you're investing in something that's yours!
 
JAS_OH1 said:
It takes me an hour to vacuum just my downstairs, lol. I just bought an extension cord for my vacuum cleaner.
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It takes us longer for this place, too, but I use the Dyson so it will run out of power..then have to wait until the next day to let it recharge..:p...until GF reminds me that we have another one ready to go..:laugh:
 
Morning Glory said:
Highly recommended. Since I bought a cordless, vacuuming is no longer such a chore. Dyson is probably the best brand. Its light as a feather and really sucks up dirt. Its also adaptable to hand held for cleaning stairs or car interiors. I don't know the brand you have bought. It looks very different from mine. How does it charge up? I did buy a cheaper brand to use upstairs but it proved to not be anywhere near as good as Dyson.

I have hardwood floors and used to end up sweeping them rather than get the heavy old vacuum cleaner out. I now hoover anything up in seconds that appears. Its also fine on carpets.
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I like my Dyson cordless. I Keep it upstairs. The big Dyson sucks... or rather doesn't suck. It stays downstairs because it is too cumbersome to carry up and down 18 stairs.

BTW, I always get a giggle at how "Hoover" is a noun and a verb in the UK. :giggle:

CD
 
LissaC said:
This is a Roidmi which is made by Xiaomi, I'm not sure if you can get them in the UK but it's a chinese brand, they actually have a really good reputation and their latest robot and cordless vacuums are on par with Dyson in terms of ease of use, autonomy time and suction power, not sure about durability though (I'm hoping mine will last 5 years at least). I thought about getting a Dyson, but they're really over my price range and I don't like that you have to continuously press the "on" button to make it work. The one I bought doesn't work like that, you press the button once to turn it on and once again to turn it off. It has 50 minutes of autonomy and the battery recharges in 2,5 hours. It also cost me 154€ (on sale), versus a Dyson which would cost me at least 400€. I did seriously consider getting a Dyson but I think having to continuously press the button to make it work would make it impractical and not as easy to use.
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It's not really a bother having to hold the "trigger" to run the Dyson portable.

My big Dyson has got to be at least 15 years old, and really doesn't work well at all anymore. I need to take it in for repair, but I just know that will cost a lot of money. I tried to fix it myself, but the design makes it nearly impossible to take it apart, even a little bit, unless you know how and have the right tools, which are probably proprietary tools.

CD
 
I've been using a Dyson now for over 25 years and love them. We've got 2 at present because we shipped our UK model over here thinking we'd just use that, but hadn't actually thought what we'd do in the in between 8 weeks in Australia without a cleaner at all. (In the UK we paid our landlady's (human) cleaner to cover the period between the shipping out our possessions to Australia). So from the budget we were given to replace everything w didn't bring we bought a new Dyson.

The only twice our Dyson cleaners have failed I've been able to repair them myself thankfully.

I still think that the Dyson has a dirty fairy inside each vacuum cleaner though. Lol.
 
Morning Glory said:
I'm literally shocked. It takes me 5 minutes to hoover (vacuum) downstairs here. I know your house is bigger but...

Upstairs rarely gets hoovered/vacuumed here.
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My husband smokes, so he tracks stuff in from outside. I have soft rugs I have to shake out by the doors, a myriad of shoes to pick up and move out of the way, I have a lot of houseplants so I have to sweep up plant leaves/debris with a broom first, and then navigate around the dining room tables (I have 2) and chairs (moving the chairs, putting them back), moving kitchen barstools, rolling cutting island, then down a long hallway to guest bathroom, then bedroom and master bath, then putting everything back in order. And sometimes I go back through all the rooms and do it twice to make sure I didn't miss a spot!
 
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