Bosch Readyy’y Serie 2 BCHF216GB ProClean 2in1 16V Cordless Vacuum Cleaner, 40 minutes runtime – Night Blue

We’ve had the Bosch Flexxo for a few weeks and can honestly say up till now we are not disappointed.
It’s made life so much easier. No annoying flex to catch under doors. Attachments are all contained within the body of the vacuum cleaner, readily available for use. Simple to charge up. Ideal for anyone who struggles with heavy types of cleaner, as it is so lightweight.

It’s fantastic. So light to carry upstairs, easy to empty, everything come apart and clips back together so smoothly. I marvel at that each time I use it..I’ve had it about 6 months..2 of my friends tried it when they visited and they’ve both bought one.. Very pleased.

So light weight yet amazing suction power, easy to adapt to stairs and change nozzles, love it!

Easy to use, easy to clean, this is just what we needed

Very pleased with this product. Wanted something that was light to take around the house but that also had good suction. Didn’t know which model to get as there are so many to chose from. But very pleased with this one so far. It is light good maneuverability and good results.

Great suction, very versatile and light. So easy to use and can stand plugged in until next in use.

Does everything it’s supposed to really powerful, would highly recommend this

Lovely light weight and versatile vacuum cleaner.
Easy to use, service, empty and charge.
Great value for money.

I liked the quietness and how easy it moved across the carpets.

I wanted a new vacuum because my old one was too heavy for me. I chose the Bosch because of the lightness of it. It is great, easy to use both as an upright but also as the hand held version .suction is great and works well on both carpet and hard services..Would recommend this A1.

Exactly what I needed for upstairs when it was inconvenient to carry my current heavy hoover! Perfect for stairs, car and those little crumbs etc!

Suction power is very good. It is a bit heavier than expected and has to be emptied after every use. Not as easy to manoevre as expected. But in the main it does a good job.

I was fearful of buying a new vacuum cleaner. I was used to an AEG stick vacuum cleaner which did not last long and went through 2 batteries in 3 years before I had to give up and buy this one. This Bosch cleaner is far better. I actually often use it on the half setting on carpets (which includes the rotating brushes working). On the full setting it lasted a full 27 minutes on carpet – more than the specification (on low setting, it says 50 minutes – but never vacuumed that long to check! It is sturdy, sits upright on its own, charged by a wire plugging into it (no cradle) and looks elegant. You can remove the mid body to use it as a hand vacuum cleaner – unlike many others. The brush and long stock are housed inside and are sturdy. A light tells you if it is charging and indicates 5 minutes to go before the batteries run out. Yes, you have to empty the dust every time (of >5 minutes cleaning or so) – but that is because it is full of dust! It also makes a satisfying pinging noise as it collects the dust. Emptying the bag could be better, but is fine. You click a button to remove the handheld unit, click another to remove the motor unit, pull a tab to remove the filter unit and then have to encourage the dust to fall off it with your fingers. There are two more filters underneath the outer one you probably should clean every few times, but are easy to access. The knack to putting back together is just putting the filter unit back in fully and not rotated before clicking on the motor unit. The underneath rotating brushes work well, but do get clogged with hair. There is no semi-automatic removal method like on the AEG, but the brush unit pulls out the side in one easy go so you can attack with scissors. It does take hours to charge. In conclusions, the battery in mine was excellent, beyond specification (just after purchase – cannot comment on in a year’s time), emptying just needs some care and it does an effective job for a small unit.

Absolutely fantastic product and very well priced . Lightweight , small, very powerful suction. Incerbly east to use. Very highly recommended

Reputable brand. Able to clean the entire house with no difficulty on one charge. Converts to hand-held in seconds for easy and safe use on the stairs. Feather-light in comparison to my previous Dyson vacuum. Copes well on all surfaces – wood flooring, laminate and carpet. Very pleased with purchase.

We’ve had our Bosch Flexxo for a few weeks and I love it. It so well thought out and is brilliant for cleaning. The suction is way better than the old pull along Dyson we’ve had for years. Initially worried that had not bought the more powerful version but it seems to handle everything I’ve thrown at it so far including my son’s bedroom! No more having to go over the same patch to pick up bits and the easily removed handheld device is brilliant. The attachments are stored on board so you can use the handheld vacuum with the extendable nozzle and other dust/furniture cleaner easily to get into corners or dust surfaces. Clearly this is not going to replace a large plug in upright but I can’t see us using the Dyson any time soon. Only downside is the dust collector is small so need to empty frequently/every clean (and will lose suction if not emptied) but it’s very easily done so no hassle unless you have dust allergies – then I wouldn’t recommend a bagless vacuum! Finally the removable spindle from the cleaning head makes for very easy removal of hair and saves all that faff with trying to get inside the head with scissors. All round a well thought out and effective piece of kit! And really last thing is that I love that it free stands. Tried one of the stick vacuums and firstly so heavy to use (not a Dyson) and must be a pain everytime you want to put it down.

28/10 Update:
the extendable hose got stuck in extended position (after not much use) and when phoned Bosch was told that plastic parts are not covered by the warranty – only the mechanical ones! This seems pretty ridiculous and would be more annoyed except she agreed to replace it anyway as so recently purchased. Reduced to 4 stars!

Fantastic product. Great suction, easy to empty and light weight. Very satisfied.

Fantastic product. Great suction, easy to empty and light weight. Very satisfied.

A great machine and so nice to be free from the electric cable!!

Very good lightweight vacuum and easy to clean and empty. I am pleased with this vacuum however my only issue with it is that all of a sudden it will flash low battery from showing a full battery and there is no in between battery icon to show its half full or anything.

Nothing I dislike – easy to use and hoovers up everything. Really good and light weight.

Battery runs out a bit quickly, especially when using the small handheld version. Otherwise great vacuum, very maneuverable.

I could say this is my 2nd Bosch cleaner
and they are the best
I ordered because our cleaner was very happy with
Now when I do the cleaning will say that is excellent
Strongly recommend
Maia May Londo

Fantastic product. I bought this for my cleaner to use & she loves it. I do to as I had to have ago of it.

If you go into this purchase thinking this can replace your regular hoover, then you will be disappointed. From a distance it looks like a regular vacuum cleaner. The obvious differences are that it needs emptying very regularly owing to the very small dust chamber, the rollers are less heavy duty and need more regular clearing of hair etc., there is no hose attachment, and most importantly the roller and suction are less powerful.

But if you see this as a useful addition to your existing home hoovering equipment, then you’ll have it about right. It’s an excellent little device for what it is. I love it for a few reasons. It is very lightweight, as such it gets used more often. Up and down stairs all the time. We live in a little flat with stairs down to the bathroom, different stairs down to the kitchen, and many flights of stairs down to the front door. Secondly the hassle of winding up the mains wire of a regular hoover, then unwinding it, plugging it in to a different room, etc., makes hoovering a real bore. This thing makes it SO much more enjoyable. This vacuum will get used a lot more than our other one.

It’s a 2 in 1 vacuum. Aside from the obvious cool “transformers, robots in disguise” aspect, the little dust-buster it turns into will be very useful for cleaning out our van / car.

Annoyingly, the smaller dust-buster cannot get right into corners of the room. This is a real design flaw. It must be held at a specific angle, because the rectangular nozzle is tapered, and so when you hold it at the right angle to pick up dirt (which is, in itself, annoying to have to do), the front of the dust-buster attachment protrudes too far for you to actually hoover into a corner. It’s a really stupid design. Aside from that it works okay, and it won’t affect use in a vehicle because cars don’t have vertical walls with hard corners.

Hope this has helped someone!

I was very impressed. It is lightweight but still powerful. I haven’t really found any drawbacks to it and I mostly agree with the positive reviews. The only possible drawback might be the expense as there are cheaper alternatives out there that are almost as good.

I like it a lot and it’s done a good job, however there are a few niggles.

Things I don’t like:

It’s loud
It’s tall
It needs emptying a lot
The front bar gets clogged very easily
Realistically it’s not pet friendly

Things I do like:

The insides are easy to clean – tap washable, wipe clean, easy to put back together.

At around 3kg, it’s a really usable weight. Heavy enough to work, not so heavy that lifting is a problem if you struggle, maybe for arthritic wrists or other movements one might find difficult.

The charging cable, I love and hate. I love that it means you don’t have an annoying dock or are constrained to a fixed charging point; I hate that it’s just a loose, generic looking black charging cable. The possibilities of losing it are strong, and then you’re screwed. I couldn’t easily find a replacement part, nor can I imagine it’s cheap. Even just having the charging cable a different colour would have been helpful in the cause against not losing it.

I have to admit, I properly love the physical design. It’s like the future. And it’s white! It’s considered that it might have to be semi on show depending on your storage set up, and lets face it, it looks like the future. I love that the accessories and tools are built in to the crevices on the actual machine; no more loose bits that get lost or need an annoying separate space to never get used out of inconvenience anyway.

The most ideal application i’ve found for it is a small flat – the battery life works for this, it does really well on multi floor, and it can affordably be emptied often after every use, as realistically a small flat wouldn’t pick up much. The cordless capability of removing the handheld is really useful for cleaning the car – I have offroad parking for my apartment building and it’s just not feasible to vacuum it myself, a bit annoying considering it needs small goings over often, and having to drive out somewhere to pay for that. This massively solves that problem, as a 2in1 to my household vac.

Overall though, because it’s still got the same problem no cordless vacuum has been able to solve, ever. The battery life is grand for the first out of the box usage, but realistically, it’s half, and progressively gets worse with age and charging habits. 4.5 stars if that was possible, but i’m being harsh. I really like it, I think it’s well designed, and far better than the Dyson Cordless i’ve had for a while. But it’s still got issues, and it’s not perfect.

I’ve had a couple of these (my daughter stole the last one).
This is a cordless upright vacuum that had a detachable dust buster type attachment – or it’s a dustbuster with extra suction that fixes onto a larger frame. Either way, it works. It’s light, and quite nippy – the head of the frame is quite manoeuvrable so you can corner fast and get round quickly if you just want to do a bit of light cleaning.
It does leave the floor if you corner too sharply, but that didn’t take much getting used to.
It charges by plugging an adapter directly into it, rather than standing on a charge point, which I like, some might prefer a fixed point.
The real bonus is that in the arm, there are some concealed extra attachments which give the dust buster bit a couple of brushes and what’s described as a crevice tool, that also happens to be telescopic.
Cool stuff.
I think I’d prefer it not to be white, but that’s being picky.
So a really nice piece of kit. Would recommend.

The Bosch Flexxo Cordless Vacuum Cleaner came in such a small box I thought there was some mistake. The unit is very neat, easily assembled and is a delight to the eye. The tools all fit within the cleaner itself, so there is no bag of bits to either forget or lug about. The business bit detaches for use on stairs and has a long nozzle (which hides within the machine) for crevices and poky corners.

The cleaner stands upright without a stand so its footprint is minimal. It works long enough on one charge for me to do three flights of stairs, the landings and three bedrooms, plus the living room and other bits. I love that there is no cord to trip over and no worry as to whether I have reached the cable limit. It is quiet in use and the suction is powerful. It picks up hairs (from a long-haired me), cotton ends (from my sewing room carpet) and those horrid bits of shredded paper that always fall out of the shredder container. Emptying the machine is simplicity itself; the roller, around which hairs and cotton binds inevitably wind themselves, pulls out at a touch for easy cleaning.

I am a bit of a vacuum cleaner freak and this one is the best of my collection. It is sleekly designed and more importantly, it works so well. Function before form, and this machine ticks both boxes. I love it.