New Hoover/Vacuum Cleaner

Paula_Smith

Henry - there must be a reason why all professional cleaners use them.

Anything fancy always seems to have various filters that clog and need replacing far too often.

Grizzlebeard

Dyson Vacuums are Marmite.
People either love them or hate them with impassioned vigour.

My experience with my early DC02 never filled me with joy.
Out of the box it made a screeching sound and reeked of burning rubber. It did get better fortunately.
The little yellow clippy things that hold the tubes together were right under my big clumsy hands and would catch and flip out regularly so the nozzle was constantly falling off. Some ugly gaffer tape solved this. A year or so later the elbow where the attachments fit broke clean off and it took a bit of tube from an old Aquavac to fashion an adapter to bridge the broken junction. The steel extension tube weighed twice as much as the cleaner itself (okay, slight exaggeration). It needed emptying ten times more often (not an exaggeration) than my trusty 20-something yr old AEG Vampyr - and the polycarbonate dust receptacle seems to have static charge built into it so when it's emptied the finer dust fly's straight back to cling to it like baby ducks to their mother. The machine was light enough, but the castors so small that it would not run over it's own cable, let alone a quarter inch door sill or fringed rug. It had a more powerful energy consuming motor (1.3kW) than the AEG(1.1kW-250w, electronically variable) yet has much less sucking power, even when the AEG's warning light's screaming that the dust bag's full. (To be honest, it's not much more time consuming or messy to empty and reuse the AEG  paper bag once than empty and clean the Dyson ten times.  I did it when I thought I might run out of bags.)

I'm not writing a novel, so I'll end the list here, but I have enough more to write a sequel.

I concluded that Dyson's are over-designed, over-engineered, over-plasticy, over-priced and over-hyped.

I'm sure later models have benefited from early experience and MUST be much improved, and I have friends who adore theirs so much I think they've formed unnatural relationships (Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.). But I still think them over engineered, over priced and over-hyped.

I still have the Dyson, the AEG Vampyr with a supply of bags and 2 Aquavacs, but the Black&Decker Dustbugs both  "bit the dust" years ago.

I look forward to hearing alternate voices. (Yellow smiley thing)

coffeehound

I want my next one to be a backpack - hate having to lug around a cylinder or upright.

twopenny

I'd go for keeping them clean.
Was engaged to a guy from the forces who taught me to clean everything on a cleaner. Applies to other tools too. Makes a huge difference to performance
If you keep it like new most work like new. Unfortunately a cleaning genie hasn't been invented yet.
I do like the idea of a robot cleaner though that self cleans and puts itself away.

-taff

I have just bought a hand held dyson [ with a discount luckily]. I absolutely love it. It's easy to use, appears to pick just as well as the upright [ another dyson, with a massively heavy ball I can no longer push around the place]

So it might be that I love it because it is suitable for me to use and in reality it doesn't stack up against other handhelds, but so far, I have no complaints at all. I like that I can pick it up and use it without having to plug something in and wrangle with the cord, that it takes half the time to hoover, that it's so light to use and that it does a good job.

macman

Just get your DC07 serviced. Wash the top filter, replace the bottom filter, wash the cyclone and cut the dog hair off the brushroll. It'll then do another 10 years. Even if the motor fails, they are only about £16 to buy. 
Probably the best machine Dyson ever built.

neilmcl

macman said:

Just get your DC07 serviced. Wash the top filter, replace the bottom filter, wash the cyclone and cut the dog hair off the brushroll. It'll then do another 10 years. Even if the motor fails, they are only about £16 to buy. 
Probably the best machine Dyson ever built.

I did all that with my old DC07 over the years, even replaced the motor, but in the end it did start to show it's age and juts wasn't as powerful as it once was. When I bought my replacement Shark it was like chalk and cheese. Sometimes you just have to let it go.

benson1980

Grabs39 said:

We had a pet friendly Dyson and it just constantly clogged with hair (no matter how often you clean the filters etc).

One day I got fed up and bought a £90 Henry - best hoover I’ve ever had.  Always powerful, no messing on cleaning or unblocking, just a new bag once every blue moon.  

Completely agree with this. Had a Dyson Animal DC32 that I kept running for 9 years. Needed frequent cleaning and unblocking various bits, emptying the bin always needed a scrape to get all of the dirt out, and the filter would need running under the tap every two hoovers- they take a lot of maintenance to keep running well, which negates any time saved from being bagless (and even that actually far more inconvenient when you have to manually pick the dirt out anyway). I went through two motors in this time, and even DIYing just the part is £70. It's also a bit of a pain to get to as you have to take everything apart. A lot of the time it never ran quite right, even with this maintenance.

Now have a Nuvac (industrial Henry) with the carpet attachment head. What a joy in comparison, as they are simple, effective and cheap.