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Henry Quick (HEN.100) review: the cordless stick that replaces the bin and the filter with a pod
Every cordless stick asks you to empty a small bin and wash a filter. Numatic's Henry Quick asks you to throw away a sealed one-litre pod. That one decision decides who it is for: the stick for people who hate the dust cloud, the wrong stick for anyone who wants zero consumables. The rest — 3.2 kg, 60 minutes on low, a detachable battery, three years' guarantee — is solid rather than remarkable.
Verdict
What it is
the vacuum reviewed
Henry Quick (HEN.100)
- Weight
- 3.2 kg
- Run time
- 60 min
- Bin
- 1 L
- Charge time
- 2.5 h
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A 122 cm cordless stick with the Henry face on the body, a motorised floor head, and in place of a bin and filter a disposable pod: a sealed one-litre cartridge that contains its own filter and is replaced, not emptied. Six pods are in the box. The 25.2 V battery clips off the machine and charges on or off it, and a wall dock is included. Numatic gives the weight as 3.2 kg with the brush head off.
Strengths
- 1 L pod, the biggest capacity here, and emptying is binning a sealed pod — no dust cloud
- Detachable battery charges off the machine; 60 minutes on low
- 3-year guarantee (4 direct), Numatic spares are the cheapest in Which?'s ranking
Limitations
- Pods are a running cost — six in the box, then you buy more
- 16 minutes on high
- 3.2 kg is mid-pack, not light
Good for
- allergy sufferers who hate emptying a bin
- a small house with a landing to charge on
- Henry loyalists
Look elsewhere if
- anyone who wants zero consumables
- a bathroom-cupboard budget that has to stretch to pods
The pod
Every other stick in our roundup has a small bin — 0.3 to 0.9 litres — that you open over a dustbin, tap, and then a filter you wash monthly and dry for a day. The Henry Quick’s pod does both jobs and is thrown away when full. The immediate benefit is the one allergy sufferers will notice on the first empty: nothing escapes. The second is capacity: one litre against 0.45 for the Hoover or 0.3 for the Bosch means a small flat fills a pod in a fortnight rather than emptying a bin after every clean.
The cost is the cost. Pods are a consumable you buy for the life of the machine, and a machine that needs them is a machine you can be held to ransom by if they are ever discontinued. Numatic has sold bags for Henry tubs for four decades, which is the best reassurance available; it is still a dependency the Samsung or Bosch does not have.
Run time, power, charge
Numatic quotes 60 minutes on Low and 16 on High. Those figures follow the pattern of the whole category: the headline is the gentle setting, and the setting you use on carpet is a quarter of it. Sixteen minutes on High cleans a one-bedroom flat’s carpets; it does not clean a three-bedroom house’s, and Numatic’s answer is a second battery rather than a bigger one. The charge is 150 minutes to full, and because the battery detaches, the second battery charges while the first works.
Weight and handling
At 3.2 kg the Quick is mid-pack — heavier than the 2.5 kg Hoover HF500, lighter than the 4.1 kg Shark Stratos — and 122 cm tall, which suits an average adult standing upright. It converts to a handheld for stairs and the car like every stick here. The Henry face is a design choice you either want in your hallway or do not.
Dock and battery
The wall dock needs a drilled wall; the detachable battery means you do not have to use it. Leaning the machine in a cupboard and charging the battery on a shelf is a real option for renters. Which? found cordless batteries lose about a third of their capacity after roughly 500 cycles, and ranked Numatic’s replacements the cheapest of the brands it looked at — the difference between a stick you keep for ten years and one you replace in four.
Guarantee
Three years, plus a year when bought direct from Numatic and registered. That is longer than most sticks’ two, and from a company whose consumables and spares are widely stocked.
Strengths
- 1 L pod, the biggest capacity here, and emptying is binning a sealed pod — no dust cloud
- Detachable battery charges off the machine; 60 minutes on low
- 3-year guarantee (4 direct), Numatic spares are the cheapest in Which?'s ranking
Limitations
- Pods are a running cost — six in the box, then you buy more
- 16 minutes on high
- 3.2 kg is mid-pack, not light
Good for
- allergy sufferers who hate emptying a bin
- a small house with a landing to charge on
- Henry loyalists
Look elsewhere if
- anyone who wants zero consumables
- a bathroom-cupboard budget that has to stretch to pods
Who should buy it
- Allergy sufferers and anyone who hates the dust cloud when emptying.
- A small house with a landing or a cupboard where a stick and a battery can live apart.
- Henry owners who want the same spares culture in a cordless.
Who should not
- Anyone who wants no consumables at all: Bosch’s Unlimited 7 cleans its lifetime filter with a knob.
- A carpeted house that needs more than 16 minutes on High and will not buy a second battery.
- Anyone who wants the lightest stick: the Hoover HF500 is 0.7 kg lighter.
Sources
Facts checked 24 September 2026
- Which? — 'Why we got tough on cordless vacuum battery life' — Press material, checked 23 September 2026
- Numatic — Henry Quick HEN.100 product page (range page myhenry.com/new-quick, battery page myhenry.com/quick-battery) — Manufacturer documentation, checked 23 September 2026
- Amazon.co.uk listing (Henry) — Retailer listing, checked 23 September 2026
How long does the Henry Quick run?
Numatic's figures: 60 minutes on Low and 16 minutes on High, from a 25.2 V detachable battery that charges to full in 150 minutes. Low is enough for hard floors and a daily tidy; High is for carpet and takes the battery from an hour to a quarter of one. Which? has found cordless sticks in general run 7 to 35 minutes at maximum power.
How much do the pods cost to run?
We do not publish prices. What we can say is the arithmetic: each pod holds one litre and is thrown away full; six come in the box; a flat that fills a pod a fortnight uses about 26 a year. Compare that with washing a filter for nothing, and decide whether the sealed emptying is worth it to you — for allergy sufferers it often is.
Do I have to wall-mount it?
A wall dock is in the box, but the battery detaches and charges off the machine, so the vacuum can lean in a cupboard while the battery charges on a shelf. Numatic also sells a second battery, which is the honest answer to a carpeted house.
Is it as good as a corded Henry?
Different machine. A corded Henry is a 6-litre tub with a 10 m cable for a whole house; the Quick is a 3.2 kg stick with a 1-litre pod for a flat or a daily clean. Numatic's spares and batteries are, in Which?'s ranking, the cheapest of the cordless brands, which is the Henry trait that carries over.
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