Amana Reflection 228 FIRB/FIRG/FISB/FISG

Advantages: Cleans superbly. Small and light.
Disadvantages: Price tag.

...with no added bells and whistles, but is still a fine machine. Price approx. £230. * TurboBrush - Adds a large head to the hose, which has a spinning brush, much like an upright. A valuable addition for good carpet cleaning. Price approx. £240. * Absolute + TurboBrush - As per the TurboBrush, but has an added "Hepa filter" which is meant to keep even more dust from escaping the vacuum/cyclone, and is meant to be excellent for Asthmatics and other allergy sufferers (I fall into this category.) Price approx. £260, but we found it discounted to £228! * Top-of the range. - This model adds fingertip control and probably more, but pushes the price to a massive £330. >>> Any good? Oh yes, I think another OP here said, "You haven't vacuumed until you've used a Dyson" That is completely true. I was massively reluctant to part with in excess of £200... Read review

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Advantages: Efficient, bottom freezer, lots of space, highly adjustable
Disadvantages: Door shelves a bit too deep and not quite high enough, annoying beep when doors left open too long

...Once you've renovated your kitchen, your old fridge might just seem a bit outdated. And if you have a large family (or even an average sized one that have good appetites) you might just find that you'll be in the market for a new fridge. After having suffered greatly with my old fridge, which was too small, had no way to move the shelves and had a tendency to freeze things that shouldn't have been frozen, we decided to invest in a new fridge. Our requirements were that it be large enough to hold even the excess food one makes during holiday seasons, large storage space for fresh vegetables (due to those on diets in my house), that the shelves be easily adjustable (preferably half width ones), and that it have a freezer on the bottom. The two models I looked at were by LG and Amana. In the end, we decided to get the LG and here's why... Read review

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Advantages: Very powerful
Disadvantages: Flimsy locating clips

.... No salesman were about so she read the information to hand and made her choice, a Dyson DC 05. Now the painful part, money changed hands, £228.00 to be precise and it was ours. Once at home she much to my surprise set about assembling the machine, which is such a simple task that a child could manage it. Assemble is just about joining the component parts of the hose together this is accomplished by lining a simple push fit on the main hose and on the rigid suction pipe are spring loaded locking clips which align with mating sections at the top and the bottom, the bottom locating the various tools. Be aware that if the clip is the slightest out of alignment then it is very easy to dislodge from its fixings and as it is spring loaded it does become a projectile which launches itself across the room and can be difficult to find as we found out... Read review

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