Do you really need a Dyson?

I decided to buy the latest and greatest in vacuum cleaners. The bagless Dyson was reputed to be very good, made more attractive by the fact it needed none of those bags you could never find when you shopped for them.

A web site, , is a site I use to check out products.

They recommended the Panasonic range. Three models required no bags – and the top of the line model had some some of air exhaust filtration system.

One of the challenges in my house is that I work with electronics and have cut bits of component leads, nuts and bolts that fall to the floor and subsequently end up in the vacuum.

I need two things of the vacuum: (1) No damage to the vacuum cleaner from little bits of metal; (2) The ability to poke through the sweepings, with chopsticks, and recover useful nick-knacks that have been sucked up.

Best of all – more than half the price of a Dyson with the nice touches/improvements Japanese industry is known for.

I am 44 been looking after rescue pets since a teenager..my mum had a kirby which was good..since getting my own property I have had meile vax henrys for pet hair and a dyson.. now bearing in mind I have 2 cats a long haired one and a short haired one..now the only hoover to cope and do a good job is my dyson..ive had it 9 years I think and it was a reconditioned one then..no complaints here and will buy a dyson again.also I believe ive done real well out of the 6 month guarantee the man provided..so im happy

the dyson vac is all style! performance compared to a normal bagless is rubish. This nonesense about not cloging up is just that! rubish All Dysons have filters which clog and need replacing or cleaning. As soon as the filter clogs the performance drops drasticly. The best vac is still the good old bag vac! the bag hold the dirt and acts as a very cheap filter. so every time you change the bag your also changing the filter. Dyson is all about hype and marketing.

His so called bladeless fan is also a lie! it has blades just hiding in the base! also its not original! it was first invented by a Japenees company 30 years ago!!

He was also misleading every one with his air blade hand driyer that to was first invented by a japanees company he just copied it!

We bought a Dyson DC4 wayback and apart from being rewired a couple of times because the wire used to break at the switch it was totally reliable and did the job very efficiently. When it packed up the last time we decided to buy another Dyson, the DC33, and frankly its a load of rubbish. Far too many bits and pieces clipped in around it, the cleaning head digs in to the carpet pile for no good reason and on an efficiency scale of 1-10 it rates around 3.

Simplicity is the answer Dyson, simplicity, the clue is in the word. The DC4 could be dismantled and washed out from time to time, the filters were easy and all the tools were easy to use and the machine was quite robust. And who designed that combined nozzle and soppy brush, obviously someone who really hasn’t a clue about household cleaning that’s for sure.

On this basis I don’t think the DC33 has much of a lifespan and the question is would we buy another? I doubt it because the Henry is a better unit.

I was amazed reading through the negative comments on here I inherited my mums Dyson DC07 in 2005 but I originally bought it for her in 2002 and had been using it to clean her flat on a regular basis for three years since then I have been using it at my home.

It’s now 2014 the DC07 is still going strong and apart from the red catcher strips on the stair tool coming off, replacing a filter and having to change the belt a few times, I haven’t had to replace anything.

I am a soft scultpture artist so I work with fur fabrics, fillers and wool fibres, have waist length hair and a cat that sheds fur everywhere all of which often spell disaster for vacuums but the Dyson has easily coped with all of that. I use the it every other day to clean the cats room and his bedding, my workroom, our bedroom, the bathroom, the stairs and hall, then I empty it, give it a shake and put it away. Once in a while I give it a more thorough clean and brush down but that is it.

We also have a Kirby that hubby still uses to clean the living room, the down stairs hall and the kitchen but it’s really heavy and I can’t lift that any more so the Dyson being much lighter has been a godsend.

Ok perhaps it doesn’t quite have the concentrated beating power of the Kirby but the Dyson still picks up everything we throw at it and does a decent job around the house, far better than the countless vacuums we went through before getting either of these which isnt bad when you consider the Dyson was only £159 while the Kirby cost us over a £1000 and costs far more to repair especially given we have had to replace more of the Kirby parts over the years as it’s frightening how much they cost – they wanted £149 to replace a 50p bearing the last time they came to service the Kirby!

Even up against the Kirby my Dyson does a grand job, how many other vacuums can say that so as I said at the outset I really cannot understand the negativity about these cleaners as my one has been brilliant.

I have given up on Dyson’s lamentable build quality, and bought a Sebo: highly recommended. But it’s not just me – When I visited our local recycling centre to drop off an old TV, the skip for vacuum cleaners adjoined the container for TVs. It was full of Dysons, with only one exception!

I’ve used a few of these massively overated things that are styled and sound like a kids plastic mock-up of a Russian Rocket and was not impressed at all except by the clever B.S. marketing that seems to be able to convince people to part with a fair wodge of cash for a brittle chunky dustbucket.

I owned a Dyson in the 90s and due to its plastic construction a piece broke rendering the cleaner useless.I bought a hand held Dyson cleaner last year but have found a tremendous problem getting hair from the inner roller.Also the charge only lasts about 10 minutes at best.Not impressed with the Dyson brand.