Best Nilfisk Barrel Vacuum Cleaners

Performance – Excellent vacuum cleaner, in fact the best I have had Show details

Want a vacuum to last – I bought a commercial vacuum after a domestic one failed within 18 months (previous one lasted 2 decades) cleaning a small Unit. I was a bit dubious… Read more

of this vacuum having an 800 watt motor and especially a 350 watt normal setting. Only had it a few weeks and have not been disappointed. It cleans better at 350 watts than the old one did at 2000 watts. Have found no need to use the high 800 watt setting other than to see what it can do, 2/3 carpet, 1/3 timber floors & tiles in wet areas. The motor just has this low end guts that the high powered domestic vacuums don’t have. It almost make vacuuming pleasurable! Other things I like are a longer hose, the old one felt as if the vacuum was always under your feet. 10 metre retractable lead (the lower model has a plug in lead which is probably more suited for commercial use) is great, an extra 2.5 metres over the old one. It has a 10 litre dust bag, probably about 8 litres in actual use as dust bag volume in the canister are always smaller than what manufactures say, but still 3 times the domestic vacuum, and the dust bag lid that comes off completely, it won’t ever break. The vacuum is a bit more bulky, but really not by very much and the extra brushes are stored on the outside of the vacuum. If you can put up with a touch more bulk the vacuum is so much better than these high power energy sucking motors every manufacture is using in the both bag and bagless. I had an 1100 watt vacuum for 2 decades, it worked better than the last one at 2000 watts. This one at 350 watts works better still. It comes with a hepa H13 filter, I put in an H14 filter, not because it needs it, but simply because you can (not mentioned it their brochure)! The only thing I can think of that it really needs is a setting lower than 350 watts for dusting shelves, and it only comes with one dust bag, but it is 10 litres. Have ordered a pack of antibacterial bags which will last me ages! Lastly it has an energy rating of ‘A’ (15kWh/annum) which Australia still is a generation behind with our energy sucking appliances and vague labelling!

Edit 24 Sep 2021. The vacuum is still going, couldn't be happier with it. A few months ago I spent a week vacuuming the roof space after an infestation of rats. I had bought some medical grade vacuum bags & recycled them by cutting off the bottom & threading on a piece of 20mm PVC pipe with a slit.

The rubber nozzle attachment wore down a bit, but one really can't complain as I worked it hard scraping into every last corner on the rough original fibre plaster ceiling & oregon timber framing.

I still use this vacuum on the 350 watts setting 99.5% of the time. The 800 watt setting is handy but it is just not needed most of the time. The high wattage vacuums should simply be banned.

No pad pressure – I purchased a Nilfisk AS510B scrubber-drier, I bought it 2nd hand, apparently 1 year old, I found the downward pressure of the pad was almost non… Read more

existent and rang Nilfisk Australia to see if there was any adjustments, the person I spoke to acknowledge that the centre of gravity of this machine was over the back wheels and not forward, we discussed if there were any options to put more pressure at the front, nothing he could let me know, when I researched scrubber driers this one appeared to be what I was looking for, unfortunately the positioning of the batteries in the rear has made the machine not perform as expected, the scrubber barely hits the floor, I asked if I could add some weights to the pad surround to get a better downward pressure, he said sure just dont over do it, but couldnt tell me how much to add, I think Nilfisk needs to go back to the engineers and look at a way to position the correct weight onto the scrubber or pad, not sure what my next move is, but until I can achieve enough pressure on the scrubber it will sit in the shed gathering dust