NilfiskBuddy II 18L T Wet and Dry Vacuum Cleaner - Home, Garden & Car Cleaner - Suction & Blowing Functions for Indoor & Outdoor (1200 W)

Powerful suction,good length hose and decent thickness including attachment pipes. Versatility is great as can be used with or without bag and is very simple to swap. Another great feature of this unit is a poeerful blow function, apart from many useful applications the best I've discovered is drying my German Shepherd (Yes you read that right!!) It's fantastic for drying her after wet walks or swims. The air actually starts to become warm after about a minute of use, I can dry her in just a couple of minutes, no more wet dog smells for hours. It's a good idea to introduce it to the dog as fun and with treats as its noise and airflow could scare the dog. I've actually loves it now!!!Great useful unit. Very good value for money.

Bad points first. This thing is top heavy, it can fall over easily when you pull it along, it's noisy as hell, the tubes and floor nozzle head push together and are really hard to pull apart, it's electrical cable is quite short and doesn't retract, attaching the dust bag is counterintuitive, the illustration based instruction manual is laughably bad - they must have been high in Denmark when they rubber stamped that one.Good points.The body of this vacuum is well made and tough, it's got slots where all the pipes and accessories can be stored on board, it works really well on carpet and picks up everything , it's really powerful for its size, it doesn't explain in the instructions but if you want to use it on water spills on carpet one must change the brush nozzle to a rubber nozzle, unscrew the filter and remove the paper dust bag, then you're ready for business and it works really well.The blow function works by removing the hose and pushing it into the exhaust (it's all push-fit on this ) and performs ok but I just can't see the point of it, on the box they show it blowing up an airbed so that's useful if I had one I suppose.Great price, even if you buy an extension lead and better accessories it's still cheaper than more well known brands.

Got this for my mother to keep her driveway and patio free of leafs. She loves it. Blower is great. Easy to manoeuvre. Lightweight yet robust. Everytime she has used it a storm has followed so getting plenty of use. Power cable could be longer but nothing the extension cord wont cure as she says. Beats brushing all day long. Best to use minus the bag if you have large broad leaf trees. No problem on scrub leafs flower petals etc.

Nilfisk hoovers are just simply the best hoovers I'm disabled and an electric wheelchair user these hoovers are so light and powerful no loss of suction ever I have a dog and cat and this hoover picks up all their hair no problems. It's light weight and easy to manoeuvre around great on laminate flooring and carpets I have had dysons ,shark,Henry hoovers and hoover branded stick hoover and none of them compare to the nilfisk hoovers they all lose suction and stop picking up hair but the nilfisk hoovers just keep going it's a wet and dry hoover so is excellent at cleaning up spills and never let you down such great value for money hoover bags a very reasonable and have a massive capacity and no matter how full the bag is never an issues simply the best hoover ever don't waste you money on other hoovers just go for one out of this range my friend has the larger version and it's the same no lose of suction ever and so versatile in what you can do simply the best hoovers available

I read the reviews on this as I needed something to clean out the residue water that would not drain from my hot tub, used it today and oh my goodness it is brilliant and very powerful too, highly recommend for anything water related or dry leaves collection and all that nonsense you get from autumn residue, I am very impressed with this little heaven sent assistant, it's name is now Godfrey the goffer of all jobs garden and home related "big smiles"