He offers a combination of a highly efficient Twin-flo bypass vacuum motor and a Powerflo pump system which delivers professional cleaning standards anywhere and at any time. Today, we have millions of users a month from around the world, and assess more than 1,000 products a year.

The latter is particularly useful for getting into those hard-to-reach areas, such as between the car seats or behind radiators. Since the Xtra relies on the same cyclone technology as most ‘normal’ vacuum cleaners now use, it doesn’t have the dual motors. Henry’s 10 metre cable and whopping 6L capacity gets the job done faster, with dust-free emptying, trouble-free cable rewind and handy on-board storage. Plus, there’s also a dedicated hard floor tool, although I found that I didn’t need it, as the regular floorhead was good enough. Since its original launch in the 1980s, the Henry vacuum range has been a staple of homes and offices.

The big blue monster Charles offers high power and performance no matter what the situation and delivers outstanding power in both the wet and the dry. Hair and fibre removal can be one of the toughest tasks for any vacuum cleaner, but a good one will suck up hairs and fibres in no time. I found this very stiff to begin with, and it took a bit of opening and closing to get the vent working smoothly. Coupled with energy efficiency regulations from the EU, this has made the physical noise output of the whole range at under 80 dB. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Our ease of use tests are conducted by an independent panel of vacuum cleaner experts and assess how easy it is use the vacuum cleaner in various real life situations, how easy it is to conduct regular maintenance on the vacuum cleaner, such as changing bags and filters, and finally how versatile each vacuum cleaner is for conducting a variety of tasks such as cleaning at various heights and cleaning upholstery. It might sound like a complex term regarding suction or energy efficiency, Numatic International are the manufacturers of the Henry. This nifty little number uses a MicroTex Filtration System to ensure that even the smallest particles are whipped out of the fibres of your flooring.It comes with that large 9L capacity dustbin, fantastic reach, and has multiple attachments included. The extra space is put to good use with a huge 15-litre capacity, which is more than double the capacity of the 6-litre regular Henry. Equipped with an advanced, two-stage filtration system, Henry gets rid of dirt for good, trapping the mess in a super-sized, high-efficiency HepaFlo bag.