I'm glad you posted this. We have an animal ball Dyson and we love it but we just tore out almost all of the wall to wall carpet in our home and I feel like I need something lighter for quick cleanings. IDK do people use their big Dysons for cleaning HW floors?
I have considered getting the new cordless dyson for the new house, since we are putting in cork floors and vacuuming is the recommended cleaning method for cork. I figured with the cordless one I would use it a lot more often than I do the big one.
I do use our big dyson now, since we have the hard floor attachment, but not as often as I could. It always seems to be upstairs when I want it downstairs, and vice versa.
Don't get the cordless Dyson. I'm so pissed at them right now I could spit nails. My cordless Dyson is 1 month out of warranty and they won't do anything about the fact that it randomly shuts off. There is NOTHING stuck in the tubing, the beater bar is clean and it's fully charged. I have the power switch/trigger fully depressed and it just turns off after 2 seconds. There are tons of reviews online that complain about the same thing happening to other owners. Wish I had known this before I spent $300 on it.
I have considered getting the new cordless dyson for the new house, since we are putting in cork floors and vacuuming is the recommended cleaning method for cork. I figured with the cordless one I would use it a lot more often than I do the big one.
I do use our big dyson now, since we have the hard floor attachment, but not as often as I could. It always seems to be upstairs when I want it downstairs, and vice versa.
Don't get the cordless Dyson. I'm so pissed at them right now I could spit nails. My cordless Dyson is 1 month out of warranty and they won't do anything about the fact that it randomly shuts off. There is NOTHING stuck in the tubing, the beater bar is clean and it's fully charged. I have the power switch/trigger fully depressed and it just turns off after 2 seconds. There are tons of reviews online that complain about the same thing happening to other owners. Wish I had known this before I spent $300 on it.
Thank you! Sorry that you are having the problem, but thanks for the warning.
Don't get the cordless Dyson. I'm so pissed at them right now I could spit nails. My cordless Dyson is 1 month out of warranty and they won't do anything about the fact that it randomly shuts off. There is NOTHING stuck in the tubing, the beater bar is clean and it's fully charged. I have the power switch/trigger fully depressed and it just turns off after 2 seconds. There are tons of reviews online that complain about the same thing happening to other owners. Wish I had known this before I spent $300 on it.
Thank you! Sorry that you are having the problem, but thanks for the warning.
Yes thanks. I looked at them at Costco but I wasn't a fan of the floppy head. If you ever have to vacuum up anything with height say a Cheerio you have to pick it up and try to set down on top of it.
We have had our dyson for 9 years, all but the last 6 months without dogs. It is a trooper. If your mom loves her Kenmore, can you borrow it to see if you like it in your house?
I have a Miele and love it. I was needing a new vacuum as DD went in for environmental allergy testing and tested positive for EVERYTHING. I did a ton of research and found out way more than I ever wanted to know about vacuums. So, here you go:
By law, any company can slap a HEPA filter on the side of a vac and call it HEPA filtered.
If a HEPA filter is not 100% sealed, what runs through the filter is still thrown back into the air.
Dyson is not the only vac that never looses suction. To boil down the loss of suction, some vac use the power of the suction to move the heads while higher end models use a separate power source.
When a vac states that it removes 100% of dust mites, it really isn't a big deal. What causes allergies is the dust mite poop so you need something that will filter a fraction of the size of a dust mite.
Look into the particle size of filtration. The Miele filters as small as lice and scabbies (if you have kids you will want this)
Riccar offers some 100% sealed HEPAs and I have heard good things about them also.
ETA: My Miele came with a 20 year warranty (from the store) and the mom and pop shop I bought it from offers free cleaning of the interior of the vac and all attachments once a year. I was buying a new vac every couple years at $100-200 a $600 vac w/ a warranty was worth it.
Also, this vac has literally cut my dusting by at least half if not more.
Dyson has a brand new double filter model that is debuting today on HSN. I saw it when I was channel surfing this morning and it looks like they made some nice improvements.