10 Best Vac Brands Rated By Reviewauthority.

[sebo_fan]

Ten Best Vacuum Cleaner Companies Ranked in September 2013 by reviewauthority.com

Make what you will about this - clearly though a U.S based company, it is still good to see a few bagged uprights amongst the many bagless shown here. I know some members on here don't take kindly to online reviews etc but it is still interesting to see this kind of data.

 

[electromatik]

I don't let that stuff bother me anymore. The focus on price and the rise of commodity appliances has caused the "testing" agencies to judge a machine on it's out-of-the-box performance. Most of these vacuums will not be performing at the same level 2 years down the road. Most of the "testing" is flawed and doesn't reflect real world usage or events. Nevertheless, I would be interested in knowing what "expert" means in their facility. I have a feeling that most of them would not pass muster at a genuine scientific facility. They are really very amateurish when they "judge" a machine by how much sand it sucks up in 12 passes or whatever but it appears this test didn't even do that. I don't see emissions as a criteria either. I'm quite sure people will use this as a guide. I've had people tell me outright they would rather buy a cheap vacuum every 2 years or so than pay for a better built one. If that's the way they feel I guess that's all that matters.

 

[williamr1248]

10 Best Vac Brands

I am in shock at what they rated at most reliable.
I had several of the newer plastic uprights in my collection that were of such poor build quality, I was almost afraid to use them.
The chassis on my Hoover Anniversary was so thin at the rear that I was afraid the back wheels would snap off. The plastic on the top of the power nozzle of my Anniversary canister was the same thin quality. I had the bin on my new Dyson break after a fall to the floor when I was emptying the machine. The hose on my Hoover and Dyson uprights would kink very easily. Not picking on just these machines but these were not cheap vacuums.
I was a collector and VERY careful with my machines. I can see why many people just plan on replacing their machines every 1-2 years.
Hard to believe these plastic dust buckets would last longer than a Lux, TriStar or even a Filter Queen.

 

[jade_angel]

It doesn't bother me nearly so much to see poor build quality in a $100 vacuum - I can *almost* see spending that every year or two. However, it seriously galls me to see that kind of shonky quality in multi-hundred-dollar machines (I'm looking at you, Dyson!). My mother's been through three Dysons in seven years now, and while they do perform quite well, for less than the cost of three of them, she could easily have had a Riccar or a Sebo, which would still be going strong. Heck, the midrange Riccars are about the same as a higher-end Dyson, price-wise.

All this, of course, ignores the aggravation she could have saved by just fixing the Filter Queen a decade ago instead of selling it. (Bad belt on the power nozzle, and maybe a worn brush... $40 in parts, max.)

 

[adamthemieleman]

It's rather a useless report and correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't aspects such as cleaning ability and filtration efficiency be up there? Why bother with power usage, functionality and versatility, who bothers with these? I just want to know how well it cleans! Who are these daft people?

 

[vacuumfreeeke]

I think some of you are missing the point... they didn't rate reliability at all! They rated noise, ease of use, versatility, functionality, and power usage... most of us care about cleaning performance and reliability and this "review" didn't address even address those things.

It seems they went shopping at Wal-mart when they did the review, there isn't a Miele, Sebo, or Riccar in the bunch... and what about Panasonic? Even LG makes better machines than most of the ones on that list... The only machine on the entire list that I'd even glance at is the Hoover Platinum Lighweight bagged (possibly the Hoover Linx too... and I've got a Smart Vac, but I'm not sure it belongs on a top 10 list)...

This lists confirms that Review Authority is not to be trusted and that they are no authority!

 

[sebo_fan]

The thing is though, out of curiosity I often trawl the net for news about vacuums in general and because mostly I'm a fan "of the old school classic Hoover bagged uprights," I like to see what Hoover U.S have in terms of a bagged range. Whenever I have googled or searched, the Hoover Platinum Windtunnel and the Hoover Tempo are consistent U.S favourites and the older Tempo appears to be a good one, despite what others may think - it seems to sell quite highly too.

It is good to see bagged uprights still appearing in the list.

Also, although the report is somewhat vague about the criteria, who is to say the reliability and cleaning performance hasn't been factored in already, under the "functionality," and "versatility,"?

 

[dysonman1]

I want to know how many hours the motors last. At the Tacony factory we have a testing lab set up. It has many mechanical arms and lots of carpets. Vacuums are hooked up to the mechanical arm, and run 8 minutes on, 2 minutes off, until the motors burn out. It's timed, so we know exactly how long a Bissell or Hoover or Dyson or Riccar's motor will run. For most of them, the commutators throw a bar, and the motor stops. We've had to take the fire extinguisher into the lab many times with Bissell's over the years.

The only good thing I found about Review Authority's 'review' was the nice twin fan GE Swivel top and the Hoover Constellation hose. Ironic that their 'logo' for the vacuum review has a vacuum as it's mascot that's more than half a century old.

 

[jade_angel]

Motor life would be a good thing to know, or at least what motor they use. That said, I think letting the magic smoke out of the motor is probably the least common failure mode I've seen. I tend to see gorked fans, cracked housings, seals that don't seal anymore, dried-out or split gaskets and cracked plastic fittings much more often. It's that last one that makes me leery of a lot of big-box store vacuums - there's a huge difference between plastic and plasticky. Plastic is fine, plasticky very much is not: compare a Dirt Devil and a Simplicity, say, to see the difference.

 

[super-sweeper]

IN A WORLD...

Where Dyson has [Some-How] Been ranked #1.....


 


<span style="text-decoration: underline;">I run screaming for my HOOVER!</span>


 


-Alex.

 

[bagintheback]

I don't trust this at all. I doubt this site, or whoever wrote this review, has even been physically present with these vacuums. Apparently the Hoover Tempo is more energy efficient than the Eureka Smartvac. They both draw 12amps! This is a result of seriously poor research, and possibly advertising money. 

 

[tolivac]

Don't beleive that report,either-all of those vacs are-----DUMPSTER vacs!!Yes,when I took my trash to the dump site my way--there was the electrics-electronics dumpster-and what was peeking over its edge-two Dyson handles connected to VERY dusty Dyson vacs!!Guess these were victims of folks that buy such a machine and don't know how to take care of it.Another purple Dyson was sitting by the compactor.How come we don't see vacs such as Kirbys,metal Royal,Sanitaires,Riccars,Meile,Filter Queen,Rainbow,etc in that report?HMMM!

 

[dysonman1]

I have to laugh at the irony of all these "reports" (consumer or otherwise) over the years. I have all the CR vacuum issues in the library at the Vacuum Museum. The December, 1936 issue placed the Hoover 150 dead last in 'acceptable' category, and the Air-Way Twin Motor (Chief) in the 'not acceptable' category. They said "very short lived motors". The GE upright was first. History has proven them wrong, of course. Just as history today proves these "reports" wrong. I've never seen a dead Air-Way and the Hoover 150 was absolutely the BEST upright of 1936.

I think, these magazines should give these vacuums away to people for 3 months, then collect them all, and test them. Report on what's broken in that time period. Let them get 'broke in' first before testing them for efficiency AND durability, plus length of motor life.

 

[sebo_fan]

Yes but the thing is, end of the day whilst we can all mock these reports, one has to remember "they're just vacuum cleaners," and for the most part, that's all the buyer will see. If we were living in an era of posterity we'd all be getting free offers from brands to test new products.

As is, brands like Vax and Bosch are forever putting special offers on new floorcare products for testers - but only to write a "biased" review.

 

[kenkart]

About the only thing

Consumer Reports got right was the Apex Strato had the highest suction ever tested!!!LOL, now that was the truth!