Brands
Who makes what, and what each one is good at
Most tool brands are excellent at one thing and ordinary at the rest. These pages say which is which, and where the same factory sells the same machine under three badges.
- Kärcher Germany · since 1935 The company that invented the domestic pressure washer, and still sets the fittings everyone else works around 32 reviews
- Nilfisk Denmark · since 1906 The brand that publishes the numbers — pressure, flow, area and power, on the same listing 7 reviews
- Bosch Germany · since 1886 Two Bosches — the green home range and the blue professional one, with very different specification habits 6 reviews
- Kränzle Germany · since 1974 Trade machines built to be repaired rather than replaced 1 review
- Stihl Germany · since 1926 Quotes a working pressure where everyone else quotes a peak 1 review
- Scheppach Germany · since 1927 Workshop-grade machinery at domestic prices, across an unusually wide range 3 reviews
- Einhell Germany · since 1964 Publishes suction in millibars when almost nobody else publishes anything 4 reviews
- Ecovacs China · since 1998 Omni docks that wash, dry and empty — and a naming system that makes the wrong model easy to buy 3 reviews
- Lehmann Germany · value-market brand German-market value equipment across three different families, sold on capacity rather than on refinement 3 reviews
- Güde Germany · since 1979 Petrol machines and sweepers for people working away from a socket 2 reviews
- M&M Smartek Europe · aftermarket accessory maker The adapter brand — the one that makes an accessory from one system fit a machine from another 0 reviews
- VEVOR China · sold across Europe since the 2010s Trade dimensions at domestic prices, and specification sheets that stop where the questions start 7 reviews
- Polti Italy · since 1978 Boiler pressure, and the two-chamber design that removes the boiler's usual penalty 3 reviews
- Leifheit Germany · since 1959 Household cleaning tools designed around edges, corners and poles 2 reviews
- Dreame China · since 2017 Floor washers and robots that live or die on how hot they wash their own roller 7 reviews
- Tineco China · since 1998 Floor washers designed around geometry — how flat the head lies and how close it reaches 4 reviews
- Bissell United States · since 1876 The two-tank principle, applied to hard floors and to carpet 9 reviews