My mom bought be a Dyson vaccum cleaner for my birthday. I used it on my carpets this evening.
I had a very good vaccum-- a Phantom Thunder, and if asked, I would have told you my carpets were pretty clean. I was wrong. I sweep pretty often, and I have a housekeeper come in once a week to give everything a deep cleaning. But what this vaccum took out of my carpets was incredible.
I’m talking copious amounts of dirt and grime. Out of the living room, one five-by-seven rug in the foyer, and one long runner in the hall, I got up about three pounds of dirt and dog hair. I kid you not. It filled half a trash bag. I swept the two rugs for thirty minutes, and was still pulling dirt out of them when I gave up out of exhaustion.
I have Persian-style rugs in the foyer and hallway. After I had swept them thouroughly with the Dyson, they looked new. I swear, the colors were brighter, and the slightly mashed-down look that they had was gone.
The hose has a fifteen foot reach, so you can leave the vaccum at the bottom of the stairs and sweep all the way to the top! Even the hose had incredible power.
Color me impressed. I have never seen a better vaccum. It was expensive, but in my opinion worth every single penny. Anyone who owns a dog should try to get one of these. I know I sound like a commercial, but I’m just so blown away by what it sucked up that I had to tell you guys.
My daughter just got one of these. She can’t stop raving about it either. I’ll have to borrow hers and see if I can really see $400 worth of difference.
I had a Kirby guy in my home once. Got me to sign up too. It took 24 hours for the stupor to lift from my brain. I cancelled the thing. $ 1,500 for a VACUUM???
I have already decided that the next vacuum cleaner I purchase will be a Dyson. Everything I’ve heard about them is good! I found an upright on ebay for about $300.00. This seems like a lot of money, but, theoretically, you never have to replace the filters. I’ve had my Dirt Devil upright (bagless) for over 5 years, and I paid about $170.00 for it, but over the years have spent another $70.00 for new filters. Given that, the price isn’t that far off what a Dyson goes for on ebay.
My grandmother has two Kirbys. She’s planning to buy a Dyson, too, after she saw what it can do.
There’s two different models, the yellow/grey standard, and the purple “Animal” vac. I compared both closely, and the only difference I could see is that the “Animal” came with a bigger hard-floor attatchment, a bag of carpet powder, and a can of stain-remover spray. Not enough, in my opinion, to justify a $100 difference.
Sorry, Czarcasm. You’d think after four years I’d have figured out which forums to use . . .
Mmm…my dream vacuum. Ever since I saw the commercial for this brand, I’ve wanted one. But I can’t afford it right now. I must start saving! Sure, a little pricey, but seems like a damn good investment, especially if you have hairy pets.
Congratulations.
We’ve had a Dyson Radix Cyclone upright for roughly 18 months now. Best and easiest vacuum cleaner I’ve ever used. I, too, am always amazed at what it pulls out of the carpet, and it’s absolutely unbeatable for picking up pet hair.
I hate them. I was persuaded to buy one for the office and apart from generally poor performance and overheating, there is a really serious design flaw: the exhaust blows forward - try using the machine to pick up the spilled contents of a hole punch machine and it blows it away before you can get on top to suck it up. Really really stupid.
‘Henry’ is a much better vacuum cleaner in so many ways. I also liked the VAX machine I borrowed a long time ago - do they still make VAX cleaners?
I wonder if those who are praising their Dyson vacuum cleaners are doing so because they can see the pile of dirt in the removable basket. If you emptied a convention vacuum cleaner bag after using it once, you’d probably see a similar pile of stuff.
No, not really. I have a Phantom Thunder, which also has a clear canister where you can see the picked-up dirt. (Until now, the Phantom was the most powerful vaccum I’d ever owned, and I was impressed with its performance.) There is clearly a remarkable difference.
My mother bought me mine because she was so impressed by the one she owned. She introduced me to it by telling me she’d come over and use her steamer on my carpets. Before she came, I carefully vaccumed with the Phantom, going over the rug three times-- until no more dirt was coming up.
When she arrived, she used her Dyson on the rug and pulled up twice the amount of dirt in one pass than I had in three. My reaction was the reason she decided to give me one for my birthday.
Mangetout, maybe there’s something wrong with your Dyson. If it has poor performance, perhaps you should get it checked out. Mine came with a two year guarantee-- maybe yours is still under warranty.
Looked really cool in the commercial, but I found that Consumer Reports didn’t like it much. According to their review, it certainly isn’t worth that whopping price tag. I got one of their “best buy” rated vacuums instead.
Perhaps people who are seeing a big difference simply had relatively crappy (or old and worn out) vacuums before, and any new, quality vacuum would be noticeably better, whether a $400 Dyson or my $140 Eureka Boss.
There was a Kirby salesman in my home yesterday. While demonstrating the difference in suction between my vacuum and his, he broke mine. I didn’t buy his. (Wasn’t planning to anyway, but had I been on the fence, that would have put me over.)
I have spent a good part of today thinking about and researching vacuum cleaners online, and was leaning heavily toward a Dyson. Then a friend told me that she has a Kenmore and loves it. Said it pulls up incredible amounts of dust/dirt. Now I don’t know. Kenmore? Dyson? Other?
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I’m really surprised by this. Do you happen to know what issue this was in? (I keep all of the magazines, and going back through years’ worth seems daunting.)
I’m still really impressed with mine and think it was worth every penny.
Lissa, we don’t get the magazine - we just have an online subscription. But I think if you get the magazine, you automatically get access online - maybe there’s a code on your mailing label or something.
Anyway, it says “A continually-tested product” and says the last update was 7/04. So you won’t find this exact info in a physical issue.
Here’s a link to the page: vacuum report. If that doesn’t work, just go to the home page and search for vacuum.
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