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I bought a Dyson about 6 years ago, the minute I got the kind of job that allowed me to afford one. I had been desparate to buy one since their initial release. If you work and resent spending your weeks sweating blood for your employers and your weekends sweating blood to make your house ... Read review
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Advantages: Lightweight and easy to carry, hugs the stairs, one hoover copes with all types of floor. Disadvantages: Gets hung up in pull along mode and it would be good if you could stick the attachments on the pole to hoover ceilings.
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I bought a Dyson about 6 years ago, the minute I got the kind of job that allowed me to afford one. I had been desparate to buy one since their initial release. If you work and resent spending your weeks sweating blood for your employers and your weekends sweating blood to make your house look less like a nuclear fallout zone you'll understand where I'm coming from. Cut down the hoovering time and that's a whole hour for ME.
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The Dyson is conceived and designed with the woman's attitude in mind, ie let's make this as quick and easy as possible so we can get onto something else. Even six (yes SIX) inch long cat fur is no trouble. On the downside, if you're hauling it along behind you it can handle like a supermarket trolly, it often gets caught up in its own flex and falls over. However, since it's easy to carry I often just pick it up and wander round ... more
I take to cleaning like a duck to quantum mechanics.
What I'm trying to say is that not only do I hate doing it but the reason why is because I'm bad at it. I hoover my house once a week but it often looks worse when I've finished than before I began. Add the fact that when my husband comes home he invaribly a) doesn't detect any appreciable difference, even though he actually tries hard to notice these things and make appreciative noises b) inadvertantly manages to find some surface that is still dusty and c) sneezes until I fear he and the inner linings of his nose will messily and painfully part company.
My expecting the house to look clean after I've finished is rather like someone totally tone deaf, who can only sing with a high note and a low note, releasing an album and wondering why it won't sell.
I bought a Dyson about 6 years ago, the minute I got the kind of job that allowed me to afford one. I had been desparate to buy one since their initial release. If you work and resent spending your weeks sweating blood for your employers and your weekends sweating blood to make your house look less like a nuclear fallout zone you'll understand where I'm coming from. Cut down the hoovering time and that's a whole hour for ME.
That's the way I saw it anyway. The other added benefit was that if it sucks up four times as much dirt as the average vacuum cleaner, I will only need to hoover 1 in 4 times as often as I previously did. This is not actually how it works out but it does mean there's the odd week when I can get away with not hoovering without it being too noticeable.
THE FILTERS
I don't mind about the filters, mine doesn't take the HEPA thing but the other two work fine. I have two sets which can be washed and re-used three times. This cuts the costs a lot as you can do a year and a bit on two sets before you need to buy any more.
THE BAG (NOT)
I agree with everyone else about emptying it. It's full of static so you can never actually get the dust off without inhaling vast quantities. The fact I always have to hoover around wherever it is I've emptied the bag afterwards demonstrates this (I hate doing it outside becase it all goes in my hair). I therefore tend to hoover in the morning, after I've been for a run, before I have a shower. That way accidental spillages don't matter as anything that gets dusty, be it me or my clothing, is going to be washed shortly afterwards.
THE DESIGN
The design, is fantastic. As the owner of what must be the hairiest cat in Britain I love to see great balls of hair appearing in there when I hadn't even noticed they were on the carpet.
I have a theory that most hoovers are designed by men. If a man is doing something like housework, he likes to feel he has achieved something. He likes his hoover to have lots of gadgets and he enjoys taking the time to do the work, watching the dust and fluff gradually disappear from the carpet. A woman's life is a headlong rush to get all the boring stuff like ironing, hoovering and cleaning done so that she can go and find something more interesting to do, reading a book, writing Caio reviews etc.
The Dyson is conceived and designed with the woman's attitude in mind, ie let's make this as quick and easy as possible so we can get onto something else. Even six (yes SIX) inch long cat fur is no trouble. On the downside, if you're hauling it along behind you it can handle like a supermarket trolly, it often gets caught up in its own flex and falls over. However, since it's easy to carry I often just pick it up and wander round with it. The handle is positioned in exactly the right place for this and it is, to my mind, quite light.
Like everyone else, I, too, relish the way it hugs the stairs, although I usually use the upholstery attachment to hoover ours (cf six inch cat hair comment) rather than the long bit. I also like the way you can reach under things easily with the full length attachment, keeping the business end flat on the floor by turning the handle slightly.
GRIPES
I do really hate emptying it, and I do wish it would follow me around properly, I also wish I could work out, once I've pressed the bit on the business end of the suction hose to go into carpet hoovering mode, how I can get it to go back to floorboard mode without actually having to pick it up and press that metal thing back in by hand. I also wish you could put the attachments on the end of the metal bit, rather than just the end of the hose, as then I could hoover the cobwebs off the ceilings in my house rather than having to smear them in with a feather duster sellotaped to the end of a five foot pole.
THE COMPETITION
But before I complain, let's look at the competition.
Before I got my Dyson we had two hoovers, one from each set of parents. Both were state-of-the-pre-Dyson-art.
One was the opposite of an upright (I dunno, is that a liedown?) an Electrolux which worked ok but the bag filled up very quickly, new bags were difficult to get so I was always running out and it was a pain to empty. It was green and looked a bit like a mini-metro. The other was an upright, also made by Electrolux, which was supposed to perform both upright and liedown functions. It had what I can only describe in Red Dwarf terms as a Kryten-style groinal attachment - a hose which plugged in half way up - which you could use to do the stairs or the chairs. There were recesses in the plastic casing for all the tools and implements and the most vital would always drop out at the critical moment, falling down three sets of stairs so you had to trog all the way down to get it.
The entire hoover weighed about as much as a small car and the Kryten hose was always getting blocked so I'd have to take it outside, lay it out flat and poke a bamboo cane down it until the huge ball of cat hair inside could be pushed out at the end. The belt always came off the beater, too and without any resistance the electric motor would proceed to go faster and faster until the smoke would alert me to a problem and I'd turn it off, just before meltdown, and put the belt back. And I don't even want to think about emptying the bag.
My husband "never had any problems" with this hoover, which is what I mean about men liking to feel they've really DONE something when they help around the house. But it also shows that before Dyson designed a hoover properly people thought vacuuming HAD to be like that.
Once I got the Dyson, the time it took me to throroughly hoover the entire house dropped from 2 and a half hours to 40 minutes. That's how good it was. I would therefore recommend it to anyone looking to buy a hoover.
It's easy to forget that the reason there is any viable competition for Dyson these days is because the other hoover makers had raise their game to compete.
Advantages: The first vacuum cleaner that didn't make me sneeze! Disadvantages: Price, cost of replacement filters.
...with. Finally, we bought a Dyson and what a difference it made!
MODEL
The model we chose was the first DC02 to have a HEPA filter. HEPA FILTER DIGRESSION
HEPA filters have been used for many years in microbiology labs to sterilise solutions, and have incredibly tiny pores (down to 20 millionths of a millimetre!). I was originally sceptical as to whether this type of technology would be suitable for use in a vacuum cleaner, since the filters are ... ...am incredible grateful to Mr Dyson for that!
FEATURES
The obvious selling point is the see-through dust collector, which looks very pretty in the shop and seems like a nice idea, but it's not much fun looking at your dirt continuously. My favourite feature is the retractable lead. Just step on the button and the lead and plug coil away into the machine. Brilliant.
The cleaner comes with an array of attachments. There is a large dust collector, ...
izzwizz 29.07.2003
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...decided to try a Dyson as I was hearing a lot of hype about them, also I was paranoid about the state of my house, after the Kirby demonstration!
Within hours of opening the box and putting it together I was obsessed with my new dyson, and with vacuuming, a chore I previously hated with a passion! It is lighter than my old model (well the poor old thing was made in nineteen hundred and frozen to death!) and easier to empty although required emptying ... ...Simple as that!
The dyson has a brilliant compact shape, it fits into a small space and makes storage easier. The rigid metal pipe slides into itself, so you can adjust the height, this is great for me as James loves to ‘hoover’ for me, and I can adjust it to his height!
The shape also allows you to vac your stairs much more easily, as it sits on the stairs and doesn’t fall! It also radicates all the lifting and faffing about ...
LICARUS 25.01.2001
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Advantages: You can see the dual cyclone at work Disadvantages: Gets clogged up
...heard about the wonderful 'new' Dyson machines with their wonderful 'new' technology and their asthmatic-friendly approach to carpet cleaning, my beloved and I headed for our local Comet store and bought our first Dyson. We opted for the less-popular (but to our minds, exceedingly more funky and aesthetically pleasing) DC-02 for two reasons:
1) As we live in an old terraced house with an incredibly steep staircase we thought the dinky 'stair-hugging' ... ...about? Oh, yes, the Dyson DC-02. Well, we took our new addition home and, unable to contain our excitement, set it to work at once. It is at this point that the raison d'etre of the transparent plastic cylinder which is used to collect all the carpet debris becomes apparent. You begin to 'hoover' (or should that be 'dyson' instead?) your living room carpet and what happens? You see ALL the crap (sorry for the non-technical word there) that is being ...
Medusa 02.05.2001
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Dyson DC02
Advantages: you don't need bags Disadvantages: still, 200 quid - for a vacuum!?
...over 5000 prototypes for Mr Dyson to get this vacuum perfect, and I just had to have one, ok, it was just over 200 quid when I bought it, but all I had was a "push-me, pull-me" thingy - not even electric! I chose the DC02 as it was really quite small and it could do the stairs without having to take the thing apart, this bit works really well, it hugs the stairs and because of its weight, it won't move until you want it to. Of course everyone knows ... ...(from last nights pizza!) The Dyson goes on forever, well, until it's full anyway! This is another cool thing about the vac, because it has a see-through bin, you can see when it needs emptying, no more bags means that he hasn't got a reason for not doing the cleaning (this is DEFINATELY a plus point!) beware though, when you do your front room (or living room for all you posh people) you'll feel really grubby..... the first time I used it - it was ...
loulou6 21.06.2001
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Dyson DC02
Advantages: small, neat and al the extras packed into the back. Also can be used on an angle on the stairs Disadvantages: A pain to empty
...in the middle of the Dyson “boom”. But I was not convinced at the adverts that claimed that Dyson’s were the best on the market. No not I, I needed proof first. After all it was a lot of money to spend on something that only worked for a bit, then would decide to pack up. And they were outside my budget range anyway. Part of my job is looking after old people. I have to go and clean their houses sometimes. I had a new client. In ... ...house, her son brought a Dyson upright cleaner, I up until this point still had to make up my mind on what cleaner I wanted. After using the upright my mind was made up. I WANTED A DYSON!!!! I have brought the DC02 model. It is small and neat, being grey and yellow in colour. It has a clear “bin” that collects all the dust, and in which you can see the dust swirling around in, as it has no bag to collect the dust in just the clear “bin”. ...
aider1st 09.12.2001
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