COMPARISON TEST - 7 cyclone hoovers

Dust is really quite ubiquitous: six milligrams of dust per square metre trickle down in Germany's households every day. In an average flat in Germany - which measures 71 or 118 square metres, depending on whether it is a rented flat (AØ: 71 square metres) or an owner-occupied flat (AØ: 118 square metres) - that is 426 or 708 milligrams of dust that settle on the floors and skirting boards day after day. Now, of course, it is not only the normal house dust, a mixture of both organic and inorganic origin, that promises us regular floor cleaning. In addition, there are the spices that are accidentally spread over the floor, the flour that doesn't all want to go into the baked goods, and virtually everything else that tumbles down to the floor during normal life: precisely because dirt can never be completely avoided, there is now at least one hoover in more than 96% of all households in Germany: On average, it is used to vacuum all the floors in the household once a week, and men prefer to do this even more than women. However, anyone planning to get a new hoover in the house nowadays has to decide one thing first and foremost: Do you want to continue to use conventional dust bags or would you prefer a model with a reusable dust container? This depends primarily on the individual requirements for the disposal of the particles sucked in and any allergies that may exist, because in terms of suction power, power consumption and noise emissions, models of one type are largely on a par with those of the other. To assess the current market situation, we tested eight bag hoovers (€Ø: 48.73 to 291.56 €) and seven cyclone hoovers (€Ø: 133.53 to 471.90 €) from renowned manufacturers. In this test report you can read where the strengths and weaknesses of the individual models are to be found.