Floor vacuum cleaner - reliable, not so agile
Suction type.Classic soil vacuum cleaners, but also multi-purpose and wet dry vacuum cleaners.Your housing with engine, blower, filter and dust bag or dust box drives on rollers.A hose connects housing with suction tube and nozzle.
advantages.If you suck up, you have to carry little weight around with you.The main weight lies on the ground and the radius of action is large.
Disadvantage.Often get stuck in tight apartments.
At best, compact floor vacuum cleaners offer an alternative.They are smaller, lighter and agile, some have a shoulder strap.This makes it easier to suck stairs.
Test results.
Hand vacuum cleaner with battery - flexible, rarely good
Suction type.You pull your energy out of a battery.They are also available as a combination model in which the cordless tower vacuum is installed between the nozzle and handle and can be removed for working.
advantage.Handling with the cable is omitted.Because of the limited battery duration, there are usually a second sucker for the fast between plaster.Many cordless vacuum cleaners can also be converted into a small cleaner, for example to clean the car interior or the upholstery.
Disadvantage.Even if the devices are getting better: Many battery vacuum cleaners still clean significantly weaker than the soil vacuum cleaners.Some lack suction power, and some of them make the battery limp early on.
alternative.If you want to enjoy the advantages of handiness and sometimes suck longer, you can use a cable to use a hand vacuum cleaner.What many complain about here, however: the automatic cable train is missing from these handy vacuum cleaners.
Test results All handheld vacuum cleaners with battery goods customer further information about battery vacuums
Sucker with electric brushes - for fibers and animal hair
Suction type.Active electric brushes are supposed to suck carpets more thoroughly than standard nozzles.A - often winding - brush turns with sucking.The drive provides the drive, turning the brush also drives the suction head ahead.Electric brushes are rather rare for cable cars, widespread for battery vacuums.
advantage.At the vacuum cleaner with an electric brush, the brush penetrates into the carpet fibers and effectively dissolves deeply fitting dirt.The rotating brush can also make it easier to suck.The rotating bristles help especially with animal hair on the carpet.
Disadvantage.The engine makes the suction head tall and heavy.Equipped soil vacuum cleaners often weigh around ten kilograms. Die große Kraft kann außerdem ein Disadvantage sein: Schauen Sie vor Gebrauch in die Bedienungsanleitung.On Flokati and other long -hair carpets, the rotating brush can shout out fibers, untreated tiles and sensitive natural stone soils can scratch.
For the test soil vacuum cleaner with electric brushes
Suction robot - comfortable, but with less suction power
Suction type.Suction robots with a rechargeable battery are approximately pizza zateller and flat.Supported by rotating brushes, they return crumbs and dust through a slit into their dust box.Many models are equipped with sensors, some additionally with camera or laser technology.There are also combination devices on the market, the sucking and wiping - as well as pure moped robots.The Stiftung Warentest also tests such robots regularly.
advantage.Started once, vacuum robots suck through the rooms and remove, used daily, especially rough dirt quite successful.They usually turn over obstacles and look for a different way.If the juice goes out, technically advanced devices independently find the charging station and docks for refueling.
Disadvantage.So far, vacuum robots cannot keep up with the suction power of a soil vacuum cleaner.On the carpet you only remove dust superficial.Emptying the dust box and cleaning of filters and brushes is unsanitary.
For the test suction robot
Small vacuum cleaner with battery - for small dirt
Suction type.Small vacuum cleaners with rechargeable batteries are intended for quick suction in between - in the car or in the household.Crumbs, animal hair or cat litter can be easily eliminated in small quantities.Some models also create liquids.Small vacuum cleaners are available with a dust box or with a dust box and permanent filter.Many devices work at most 10, some for a good 20 minutes at a time.Then you have to go to your charging station.If you want, you can attach the station to the wall.
advantage.A small vacuum cleaner is light, quickly at hand and versatile.Disruptive cables are missing.
Disadvantage.Depending on the model, the battery runs can be scarce as well as emptying and cleaning of the device to be unsanitary.
alternative.The Stiftung Warentest has currently not tested a small cleaner.However, many cordless vacuum cleaners can be converted into a small cleaner.
Empty dust box - no hygienic matter
Emptying the dust box is an unsanitary matter for all vacuum cleaners.A lot of dust can swirl through the area, which is particularly excruciating for allergy sufferers.This applies to cordless vacuum cleaners in the current test and for some of the last tested soil vacuum cleaners.
Tip:
Mit Beutel oder Box? Wenn Sie sich nicht sicher sind – wir haben wir Ihnen die Vor- und Disadvantagee von Boxen und Beuteln zusammengefasst.
