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EU to change Vacuum cleaners power output!
technopaw
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Of all the bloody things you've heard this week, this has to be the most ridiculous one yet. Have a read here , but basically the EU will ban the production of vacuums more powerful than 1600w and in 2017 you will only be able to buy vacuums with a power of 900w!
I have a 1200w, it was a cheap and cheerful brand, it just about does the job a 900w vacuum is going to be pants. When do we get to vote to leave the EU?>:(
I have a 1200w, it was a cheap and cheerful brand, it just about does the job a 900w vacuum is going to be pants. When do we get to vote to leave the EU?>:(
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;-) didn't see that one, still helps get the word out to fellow tidy peeps!:)
Quite simply, if ever there was a case for outrage and sad faces this is it.
Forget children getting excluded for cheddars, people getting the wrong hair cuts, people getting prosecuted for school absence with terminal illnesses, wheelie bins or whatever. THIS is a genuine issue.
Since I saw this earlier, we have decided to get 2 new hoovers.
Both mine are Miele cat and dog. I wouldnt have anything else. Both are 2000w, again I wouldnt have anything else. One of them is nearly 20 years old and probably on its last legs but I wasnt going to replace it yet as this is the upstairs hoover. The newer one, is about 5 years old.
No way am I going to be lumbered with only getting a 900w hoover when both of those actually need replacing.
People went for the higher number as "high is better", so the manufacturers started using less efficient/cheaper designs that used more power.
IIRC Dyson aren't happy about the way the suction is rated under the new rules either, because as they (rightly) point out doing suction tests with cleaners that have a new bag/filter and only doing the tests at that point is very misleading in terms of performance, as most cleaners lose a significant amount of their suck within about 15-30 minutes of being used as the bags and filters start to clock up.
Sods law now dictates my 2200w will break down any minute.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
The EU have too much control over what happens in this nation. They seem to be sticking their noses into our business too much lately. I'd never even heard of the bloody EU back in 2006. I sometimes wonder if some power has been given to them in the last four years in some sort of a deal and this is why they can interfere in what happens over here.
Well as I said on the other thread to this, Dyson does not really come up as often as other makes (Miele for example) in best buy or good reviews. In addition the cleaners that come out tops have very high wattage, usually around the 2000w mark. Both my hoovers are Miele and have 2000w.
Except it wont, which is more of a horror
Have you done any research into the topic? Doesn't sound like it. If so, you'd know that these EUSSR vacuum cleaners will use more energy as you have to hoover for longer.
It's a bit like the EUSSR toilets we have nowadays. You often have to flush them two times at least. They are meant to be water saving but they end up using more water.
#EUSSRyoucouldntmakeitup.
The toilets at work are like this, they just spend the day with loo roll down them because it never flushes away.
But if you have a less powerful hoover you may end up hovering for longer so its no cheaper and no energy saving, its like the new standard of toilets with less water capacity, old toilets you flushed once these ones you often have to flush more than once so actually use more water.
Err I said this already.
You might hoover for longer, but plenty of people have pointed out that the power isn't the perfect measure of what makes a good vacuum cleaner.
And if you did have to hoover a bit longer, how much longer? Enough to wipe out the energy saving? Has anyone done such testing, or are we just making assumptions that it will take twice as long and therefore be exactly the same cost.
As for toilets, when you can control the water you use (small flush or large flush) then you can save water. Surely you don't always need to use lots of water? Again, in the long run you're saving water - or should be.
Perhaps we need more intelligent toilets that can sense the waste that needs to be flushed and use the exact amount of water? You'd not even need to fill them up as they could just take the water needed from a mains feed.
Intelligence and the EUSSR are not two words that belong in the same sentence.
The reason they make move is down to French bloody mindedness. They insist on having an EU hub in France.