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IslandPink wrote:

The average user must be doing a hell of a lot more vacuuming per year than I do :? .
Maybe not, but people like my wife probably boost the figures. She's got through more than twenty vacuum cleaners in as many years.
The Dysons have lasted the longest so far :)
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Next thing the EU will be limiting how many watts our amps use?
I hope our vacuum will last me out.. We have enough spare belts to last a couple of lifetimes
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I can see it coming - they will meet monitor our usage and tax us accordingly, all in the name of saving the planet..
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At the gas forum we have picked up on this and all decided to buy a couple of Henrys' while they remain cheap.

We expect that as Henry is really for commercial use, he won't come within the scope, but who knows? Anyway it has been decided by consensus that once domestic vacs become useless anything semi domestic like a henry will at least double in price.

If they don't exhe,pt henry we will all have to buy chimney sweeps vacs at between £500 and £1,000.

It is an other ill advised beaurocratic decision. Like all of them, tax the little man.

The planet won't last 1 second longer, but the cost to the little man enormous.
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By the way, this isn't said to Dyson bash. Dyson's are not even in the same league as Henry for vacing out a gas appliance and a catchment space.

The whole vacs with bags loose suction thing is a mis-selling scandal. Dysons clog up with soot much faster than a Henry with a bag on.

I tried Dysons for my job, they are found wanting.

On the pro- Dyson side the man himself did a piece in the Telegraph complaining that the beaurocrats have it completely wrong. Even he says all vacs (presumably including his) will be pitiful under the new rules.
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I suspect that, once all the wailing and gnashing of teeth subsides, this will see innovation and technological developments that will achieve similar performance to todays machines, probably fairly quickly, just as it has done in other areas.

In order to do so the companies will have to invest money and that will hit profit and shareholder dividends, hence the scare stories.

What's wrong with eking out a finite resource or minimising the impact of something anyway? Whether you subscribe to global warming or not is academic, it's simply sensible prudence.

Just my penn'orth

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Your right paul, ours has a bag and you cant move move it across the carpet without the power drive on, was really suprised when we got it
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Dysons, Vax, Hoover et all will lose suction earlier because the filter system is more efficient. HEPA filters clog quickly and the suction drops off. If the filter system is inefficient like a bag vacuum cleaner it won't trap the finer particles and therefore won't clog up as easily. ;)
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Nice LED art installation:

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nickds1 wrote:Nice LED art installation:
Bad dancin' though!
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Bad dancin' though!
You haven't seen mine.... :D
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Oh yes I have!

Your 50th parrrtay...., 'Disco Diva' 4 life :-)

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Oh yes! :oops: :oops:
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steve s wrote:Next thing the EU will be limiting how many watts our amps use?
I hope our vacuum will last me out.. We have enough spare belts to last a couple of lifetimes
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/130591- ... martphones

It didn't take long ... amplifiers now
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That has to be the end of class A amplifiers of any sort.

TBH I can't see domestic class A valve amplifiers even being legal in a few years time.
SE Musical instrument amplification will probably be exempt, but I think it may be sadly, the end for that particular technology.
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