Should we fall for the balais vacuum cleaners with waste storage base?

No need to turn around the pot, the automatic drain base has simplicity for her. Just put the vacuum cleaner in your accommodation so that it is emptied immediately and the waste is stored elsewhere than in the collector, often in a dust bag; Simple, practical. In addition, the vacuum cleaner is always ready to be used since these stations are also used for recharging. Which will delight the least handy among us, it is no longer necessary to pierce holes in the walls to install this storage solution and it is enough to place it on the floor to have not only a place where to store its device when it is not used, but also the various accessories which often clutter the cupboards: various and varied suckers, brush …

Futile?

Yes but! An automatic emptying base does not only have advantages. First of all, they are often massive and it will not always be easy to find a place in the most crazy accommodation. In addition, many of them use dust bags; These consumables are very effective in keeping dust well confined, but they must be changed at regular intervals. Inevitably, this increases the cost of using the device. But above all, they are difficult to recycle, since often composed of very different materials (paper, cardboard, plastics, rubber …) glued to each other. Finally, and it is not their least defect, a drain base necessarily makes the price climb. Even if these have tended to drop, the additional cost remains substantial: between 150 and 200 €.

Do I really need it?

As always, before deciding, it is important to identify your needs. Is your trash can access? Are you the type to forget to reconnect your vacuum cleaner after use? Knowing that dust is confined to a bag reassures you? If this is the case, the vacuum cleaner with its waste storage station is for you. You don’t want to bother with dust bags? You know, thanks to the great digital tests, that the vacuum cleaner-balai that you plan to buy is easy to empty? Do you just have room to store a classic vacuum cleaner? So it is better to save a few deniers and do without automatic emptying to equip itself with a model may be a little more efficient, easier to handle or with a few more features, more useful in the end.