OT: Speaking of vacuum cleaners

The real flaw with Dysons is the build quality. They don't age well.

Best wishes,

Chris

Just out of curiosity..which shed more..the cats or the kids?

I was wondering about the Dyson. I rather liked their ads.

Gunner

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

-- Grover Norquist

DIL in UK has a Dyson, has had for a couple of years now, loves it.

Same principle as the Rainbow, cyclonic separation, but without the water and 1/4 the price.

Depends on the season. The cats shed every time the temperature goes up 5 degrees, in the winter the kids leave a lot of popcorn and other snack remnants in the carpet when they sit in front of the TV and watch movies or play video games.

Like I said- it works just like the ad says it does.

-Carl

And you would know this how?

-Carl

We have one. It's falling to bits. Within two or three years it was showing an abundance of fatigue cracks in the handle. It also quickly lost the pointless "mudguards" because they hit things. They're nothing like as durable as the Hoover Junior which we had before the Dyson (we still have the Hoover Junior, and it still works). Which Magazine rank Dyson pretty poorly when it comes to reliability. Search

Best wishes,

Chris

what kinda of a HSM are you guys? Vac the house with the wet-dry Shop Vac :^) or Binford makes a nice one

What about a built in vac system? That seems like a better idea -If- it works, the dust goes outside, instead of getting blown about the room.

Which model? ours is a DC14. In any event, a sample of one is meaningless.

The article you reference seems to contradict itself:

What is Which Magazine?

-Carl

Chuckle!

Yep------I've read each of these posts with a rather large grin on my face.

I have just such a vacuum system. It's in the shop, but plumbed to the house as well. It's a Vacuflo (no, I don't own stock, nor am I affiliated in any way), two motors, and adequate to handle 18,000 square feet of building. It uses no filters, but has a cyclonic separator. It discharges outside, where you don't have to smell the dead flesh so typical of a vacuum that discharges air inside. No water to screw around with, either. The worst thing I can say about it is it sucked up one of my 5/16" square parallels one day and it took be a couple hours to retrieve it from the wall. All my piping is inside the walls, in the shop, cased in concrete.

I've invested in my huge vac system about half what they're asking for the gee wiz magic ones that, in all likelihood, won't come near the performance level of a built in, or for that matter, a large shop vac.

It would take one hell of a lot of coaxing for either Susan or me to ever go back to anything less than a built in.

Harold

DC01 if I remember correctly. A sample of one is meaningless if you're considering defects which have occurred in the manufacturing process (e.g., if you buy a VCR, and it doesn't work when you take it out of the box), but it isn't meaningless when it comes to how the materials used in the machine's construction wear and age. The polycarbonate plastic will be virtually identical from machine to machine, so it will age and wear in the same way.

I don't think so. See my comments below.

Either they recommend the machines very soon after purchase, or the fact that they wear out in a few years doesn't worry them.

This is possibly because people just toss the vacuum cleaners instead of getting them repaired. It doesn't mean that the vacuum cleaners suffer few faults.

It's a UK magazine which critically reviews and ranks consumer products like TVs, VCRs, DVD players and vacuum cleaners.

Best wishes,

Chris

I can't corrobarate it but was told by a guy I know whose yard was used for a Which photo shot that the photos were setup to make one makers vehicle look better than others. The case was of estate cars and what could be fitted into them, he said when he pointed out that an item like a bath was not even fully into the load bay on certain vehicles he was told to go away and that those cars weren't sponsering the article or magazine.

Harold - sounds great. How about more details. Photos etc?