A professional interior painter in London who also handles end-of-tenancy and move-out cleanups between jobs. That has put him inside dozens of different flats and houses, each with different flooring and different levels of built-up dirt. His testing lens: performance on floors uncleaned for months, exposure across old carpet, hardwood and tile in the same week, fine paint dust and debris, repeat-use durability, and practical portability between properties.
I carry a vacuum up and down stairs, in and out of vans, and through flats with no lift most days of the week. Weight isn’t an abstract spec to me, it’s something my shoulder has an opinion about by the end of a job. So when people ask what actually makes a vacuum manageable […]