Anyone have a Dyson Vacuum Cleaner? - Page 3

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Sam's Dyson Edition

All you need to know about a Dyson:

Adrian Monk uses it.

Steve

How about this Dyson "The Ball"

That thing is bad-ass and very ingenious.

Great! Four f$^%ing months after I buy a DC14, they introduce this.

Love the DC14 (Animal) for what it's worth. Can't believe what was in the carpets. Scary.

Well I think im sold... but two questions.

I currently have a $250 Kenmore upright with a freakin long attachment hose that allows you to stretch it up to 30 feet or something stupid like that. The problem is that if you start stretching the hose and yyou don'tthave the upright positioned just right the force on the hose will actually pull the damn thing over. Sometimes hitting the wall or worse yet my wife. Because of this I have to do all the vacuuming! The wife hates it!

So how does the Ddysonwork with the hose attachment? Any chance of pulling the bad boy over when you start stretching the hose?

Also our kenmore's latch that hods the upright... well upright has worn considerably and will fall flat with the slightest bump. Any sign of that on the Dyson?

We bought our yellow Dyson back in December. Sears had them on sale, then got Home Depot to price match and give their 110% price match guarantee, and after it was all said and done I think we paid about $350 after tax and got no interest, no payments for 12 months.

My wife was skeptical so I had her vacuum an area with our Hoover bagless (after I had just vacuumed 2 days earlier) and then I went back over it with the Dyson. It as disgusting how much extra the Dyson picked up. Needless to say, the skepticism was gone and we still have the Dyson. I actually vacuumed 8 days in a row after we got it until I was satisfied with how little it was picking up so I didn't feel so dirty in own house anymore.

Dyson's are worth every penny.

As for the hose...it is a stretch hose, so to get full reach, I usually have to tuck the Dyson next to a chair or something or else it can pull toward you or fall over. Not really that big of deal for me though, and definitely not a deal breaker.

yeah but its only available in the UK right now. the price converted to $694 USD at www.xe.com. Thats an expensive vaccum. Here I am thinking that $400-500 is a lot.

After reading all of the positive & negative reports on Dyson, curiosity got the better of me - I picked up the iPod version of the Dyson at Costco (an all white + clear amber full kit DC-14).

I hated vacuuming before but the Dyson makes the chore more tolerable. I confess I only had a sucky (in a bad way) Eureka Powerline Plus model from way back. It is obnoxiously loud, kicks up a lot of dust, and heavy to operate. Who knows how well it cleaned since I disliked working with it so much, I eventually stopped using it altogether.

When I got the Dyson home, I was astonished by how much it picked up - the bin was full after one pass. Again, I don't have any experience with other newer models from different manufacturers to compare, but at least the Dyson appeared to pick up a lot of shit.

Plus, it's bundled with a lot of gadgets. In addition to the normal attachments, a mini turbine head, extra filter, and bare floor tool are thrown in. So for the gadget gurus (particularly those enamored with color coordinating their iPods with all of their appliances) whose appetite extends to vacuuming, you might be able to satiate your hunger with this machine.

Costco's version of the DC-14

My parents just purchased the DC15 "Ball". I'll report back after I've used it.

When "The Ball" became available some of the local stores put the others on sale. I bought an "Animal" and LOVE it. Incredible what is coming out of the carpets. (Two cats. ) I used to hate vaccuming, too, but I'm doing much more of it now. Even bought a big bucket of those little carpet cleaning sponges at Home Depot. I'm thrilled with the thing.

Regards,

Joe

Joseph, what are those little carpet cleaning sponges?

Uhhh...you didn't suck the puppy up in the Dyson, did you??


Jon

The question I have is how do these models do with hair getting wrapped up in rollers (brushes). I know with our two cats and my gf with long hair the rollers with the brushes on them get tangled(wrapped around the rollers) up with hair and have to be cleaned occasionally.

The roller on the Dyson will have to be cleaned of tangled hair just like other vacuums. It is just a product of the roller and does not make the Dyson less of a vacuum.

Does this appear to be an easy thing to clean or is it as much of a pain in the butt as all of the others.

nah, but the dang dyson sure could if it wanted to!

There's a mostly-dry carpet cleaning "powder" that Dyson includes with some models. What looks a bit like dry grits is actually thousands of tiny, slightly damp sponges. You are supposed to scatter them over your carpet, rub them deep into the carpet pile (using an included attachement), let them sit for 30 minutes or so to absorb the dirt, then vacuum them up. Dyson's branded version comes in a resealable pouch, and you can reorder more of it. But the manufacturer also sells the stuff directly (as well as with their own device for combing it through the carpet) and Home Depot carries it in big quantities. Since circumstances forced me to move into my current condo on very short notice I was never able to have the carpets professionally cleaned (or replaced) before the furniture went in and have not had the time patience or energy to deal with the whole issue since. So "dry cleaning" the carpets a room at a time now really appeals to me and this stuff looks like it might be the way to do it. So rather than pay Dyson's rather high price, I researched the material on the internet and bought a tub of it at HD. I'll probably take a few days off next month to do a real top-to-bottom clean up of the place and report back here when I'm done.

Regards,

Joe

We bought a Dyson Animal DC-14 and I concur with the rest as far as how good it was. I didn't feel the ball was worth the extra money. I paid $475 ish after 10% off at Best Buy.

FYI...

For those thinking of getting the Dyson...you may want to save some money and get the newest Hoover Fusion cyclonic vacuum.

We got ours last week ($128 Wal Mart only exclusive) and it sucks up a TON of junk.

If you wanna save money, this is the way to go!

This weekend I bought a Bissell vacuum for about $60 and it picked up so much dust and dog hair. I was appalled at how much there was in our carpets.

Sorry Alf, I can't support Hoover after their President admitted that had he known Dyson would become as popular as they did, they would have bought the technology and patents and put it on the shelf, never to see the light of day.

FYI - they were approached by Dyson but didn't want to buy it because they made a ton of money on replacement bags. In fact Dyson I believe went to most major vacuum manufacturers and none wanted his technology, so he started making them himself.

[EDIT] - it was Hoover's VP, not P. Here's the factoid:

Next to the everlasting lightbulb, no doubt. And the other clever inventions "they" suppress.


Cees

Very timely as Consumer Reports has just come out with their annual vacuum ratings and the Dysons ranked #8 for the DC15 and--Gulp!--#16 and #17 for the DC07 and DC14 respectively. The latter two models were ranked merely "average" for their carpet cleaning ability. The top performer--the Hoover WindTunnel Self Propelled Ultra with a list price of $250.

joseph, how did the tiny sponges do with cleaning your carpet?

Alf S:

I'm intrigued by that W-M/Hoover vac. You probably don't have any first-hand experience with the Dysons...but can you elaborate on the performance of the W-M vac? Did you do a side-by-side with your current vac? I see it's claims to "never lose suction" has a caveat:

Disclaimer: Suction stays constant for up to 10 ounces of dirt, as tested by an independent laboratory by using ASTM F558 test method and a dirt composition comprised of 70% mineral dust, 20% cellulose dust and 10% fibrous material.

10 ounces doesn't seem like a lot. It seems like you would have to be emptying the canister fairly regularly in order to maintain good suction. Although maybe I'm overestimating the poundage of dust and dog hair!

The Dysons are too rich for me. If that new W-M/Hoover vac was performing well, I might just pull the trigger after I checked it out.

On our Bed Bath & Beyond coupons they say you can't buy Dyson products with them.

My parents have a Dyson (which I've used numerous times)...I plan to borrow soon to compare.

The Hoover Fusion did pick up a ton of cat hair from a floor I vacuumed 2 days earlier with a Windtunnel.

For $128, it's been a worthwhile investment for us...even if Dydon picks up an ounce or two more junk, it's not worth the extra $$$$ they want.

Well...talk about your impulse purchases!

I got home from work today...told my wife the guys on the HTF revived the Dyson vacuums thread with news of an exclusive Hoover vac at W-M. We checked out the Fusion at W-M.com and hoover.com. Then promptly went to our nearest W-M, checked out all the Vacs on hand...including the Dyson DC-7 ($399)...and purchased a Fusion ($128.88).

Got it home, had it built in 5-minutes-tops, and started vacuuming like fools. Could not believe what was being deposited in the canister!

As we headed to the checkout a woman stopped us and said, "oh, look...a Fusion!" I asked how she knew about them and she said she had just purchased a new Dyson but had a very hard time picking between the two of them. She admitted the Dyson was complicated to operate...but vacuumed like a champ. That just further fortified our decision which was pretty much determined by price. Plus, we figured if we were dissatisfied, there is no easier place to return a product than Wal-Mart. Also amazing was that two other people...including the checkout clerk commented on the "Fusion"...like we were making this amazing purchase! It was pretty weird.

But, honestly, the amount of dust and dog hair that the Fusion pulled out of just our downstairs carpets (two-canisters-full!) was enough to make us think we had made a good decision. My wife and I were married 23 years ago and were given a Hoover vac as a gift. It lasted 20 years! Of course, vacuums were made of much sturdier materials back then...much more metal, cloth, and rubber than plastic. But, the vacuum technology sure seems to have improved! Anyway, we had tried a couple of different vacuums since the ol' Hoover died (mostly Dirt Devils) and found them sorely lacking.

Thanks, Alf for posting about the Fusion!