Are Eco-labelled Vacuum Cleaners Worth the Extra Cash brands are selling?

[twocvbloke]

"There should be a limit to how much you can drink and s

There is, it's called unconsciousness...

I think the reason older plastic things last longer is through the sheer thickness of the plastic, for example, my old phones, as they get newer or have newer parts added, the plastic seems to get thinner and thinner, so they flex a lot more than they ought to resulting in cracks (like my red 1985-AT&T-modified Northern Telecom 2500, that's got cracks everywhere), but the ones with their original 1950's parts are so damned thick that they do not flex at all, therefore don't suffer from cracking through stress...

That said, one of the plastics they used, known as Tenite (which smells like rotten cheese, or bad foot odour, and other things like that), tends to shrink and crack over time, so they're not perfect either...

So, for longevity, Thick plastic = Good, Thin plastic = Bad, but the manufacturers want things to break so you buy new ones, which like this thread keeps pointing out is why these eco-friendly models are far from being eco-friendly and are just 100% greenwash... :&#92

 

[jmurray01]

"There is, it's called unconsciousness... "

So that's why it took you so long to reply eh ?

Yep I suspected it was simply the thickness of the plastic on older appliances that made them strong.

You have a fair point that as things get more advanced and have more accessories fitted to them the plastic has to get thinner to keep the item small.

 

[twocvbloke]

"So that's why it took you so long to reply eh ?&#34

Nah, I've been doing outdoorsy things, like preventing the badly built shed roof from collapsing under this rain we've been having...

Don't really think there's much else to add to this thread now, I think all the bases are covered on eco-vacs...

 

[jmurray01]

I know what you mean David, my shed roof lifted on the left hand side a few months ago when the side support snapped off.

20 nails later it was fixed, and is still holding up.

 

[twocvbloke]

I need to completely rebuild that part of the roof, some muppet used MDF board under cheap roof lining stuff with cheap nails right through it, which soaked up water and sagged, and they added some wood that had about as much structural integrity as strawberry jam, and yesterday, it peeled off like a banana skin.... :S

That said, I'd rather knock the whole thing down (technically it's not a shed, it's the remnants of the old outdoor toilet with an extension (the collapsing part) built on), and put in a proper wooden shed, cos I want a proper shed...

Every proper man needs a shed...

 

[jmurray01]

"Every proper man needs a shed... "

So why do you need one ? Only kidding!

I've never heard of ANYBODY using Medium Density Fibreboard for a shed roof, that is absolutely ridiculous!

MDF + Water = Absorption, swelling and weakening. The builder (if you could stretch to that loose term) who made your shed obviously wasn't absorbed in the other sense of the word.

 

[jmurray01]

My shed on the other hand, although required a repair as I said, is made to very high standard.

The actual walls and floor are the original it was built with 50 years ago, and the only new part is the roof joists and the roof itself.

Same with the garage, 50 year old walls and new roof.

They don't make wood like they used to.