[Closed] Vacuums - Are Dyson worth it?

Yes they are....Mine have been reliable and work very well. Prefer the cylinder to the upright though.

Dyson cleaners aren't great, at least they weren't when I had one. Miele work very well - I've got two, both of which have lasted over 5 years.

Having had a Dyson and now I Bosch, I wouldn't bother with a Dyson again.

I've had a cyclinder for nearly 12 years. Found some of the plastic connections to be a bit fragile but always managed to bodge something back together. Had to replace the cable etc but 12 years!

You cant beat a Dysons suck 🙂

Our Dysons 11 years old, getting a bit tatty and one of the hoses needs replacing but other than a new motor in the first month it's been faultless.

We replaced ours with a Hettie vacuum and it seems to work better than the Dyson.

Our Dyson was a couple of years old, but I was never that impressed with it.

I'd stick with the Henry IMHO

My DC01 must be 15 years old. It looks knackered, has been dropped down the stairs a couple of times, has a crack in it... and it still works.

You will never get a consensus on...

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Dysons

I like mine, but the only comparison I have is against a (many)-year old Hoover which sucked. Or rather, didn't.

On our second Dyson. Both have been reliable and worked well. Motor failed in the current one after 4 years of very heavy use (5 dogs around the house, used daily). IIRC was £30 for a new one direct from Dyson, and about 30 mins to fit.

If you have multipe dogs, a Dyson is the only machine that does not make the house stink of dog after you've used it. The Henry was awful for that

On our Dyson the hose split & various fiddly extraneous bits of plastic cracked off. And it weighs a ton compared to a Henry. I hate it.

Same here with two dogs. DC08 animal is the bees knees, even the miele cat and dog didn't compare. Six years old and going strong, I can strip it down to component parts. Have a henry in the garage for the car.

Dyson's are like toys. Stick with your henry, run it bagless and empty it if it smells after use or put a car air freshner in the top bit.

Buy Miele

Are all the Dyson haters remembering to clean the filters etc as you should?

Miele cat & dog cylinder... forget the dyson.

Two dogs, a cat and a Miele here. Wish we'd bought it years earlier.

I don't really understand the Dyson haters. Particularly ones who recommend Henry's...

All the Dysons I've used (5 - not all mine!!) have worked very very well. they're bagless and emptying is sooo easy. release cartridge, hold over bin, press button and it empties. when a motor went on one, they were round next day fixing it FOC.

bought mine from dysons ebay outlet

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Dyson-Outlet

Had a Dyson upright that worked OK, but was heavy & awkward.

When it died we replaced it with a Samsung upright cyclone thing (Dyson clone) and it's much better. Lighter, seems to pick more up, easier to empty and was way less than half the price of the Dyson. It doesn't feel as solid as the Dyson, but that's not really an issue.

My Dyson is pretty awful, it works, but there's very little suction and there never has been. The only saving grace is the ease with which you can take it apart to clean it and clear blockages, but even when working perfectly it doesn't suck as hard as the little old £25 electrolux bagged vacuum it replaced. Not impressed - if it wasn't so damned expensive I'd junk it and happily replace it, but I begrudge throwing it out while it's still technically working!

one with the ball here which makes it easy to manoeuvre. They suck hard too. So on those two critical functional issues they work very well. They are a bit heavy, but we are all lean, mean mountain bikers right? so that shouldn't be much of an issue. Plasticy - yes, but at least you can get spares.

On balance, I reckon they are good. They make the job of vacuuming easy.

My first Dyson was rubbish (DC01 I think). The one we have now is fine (one of those ball ones) and is dead easy to manoeuvre around.

I find it hard to get excited about vacuuming though so, for me, as long as things are clean after I have vacuumed I am happy.

Not sure what some people do with their Dysons but we have an 8 year old one that's used for building work etc sucking up stuff that clogs other vacuum cleaners in seconds and it still works fine, it lives in the garage with stuff thrown on top of it and hasn't broken. We have another more recent one with the ball that's kept clean for inside the house. Dysons are infinitely repairable - they come apart fairly easily and you can (must) wash the bits periodically and clean the filters. On the other hand our builder currently has a Henry on our building site and it seems to be holding up ok.

I used to have a Hoover which I got because people said they lasted for ever, Mrs R had an Electrolux for the same reason; true to some extent but they were both completely useless at cleaning so they went down the tip.

aaaahhhhh, the Henry vs Dyson debate seems to come up here a couple of times a year. Usually featuring a few indestructible dysons (like HTS's) and a few that fell to bits when a gust of wind came in through the catflap. Also featuring a couple of henry's which have hoovered up the remains of dead business rivals, and a couple which couldn't hoover up a rice crispie.

For my experience (henrys and james at work, dysons at home), they are both great. Get a dyson cheap from the local paper to try one out, we got ours from someone with a pristine house and unseasonal suntan who just [i]had[/i] to 'upgrade' to the latest one. 😆

We've had 3 Dysons (one as a wedding present, other one we got from our neighbour who just wanted rid of it and we won one in a raffle, freaky as all that may sound) and they were all crap. Glad I never paid a penny for any of them. We now have a small Miele which actually manages to lift stuff off the floor/carpet, something none of our Dysons ever managed. We have since invested a bit of money into other Miele appliances and have been very happy with all of them.

dysons are a bit complex but robustly built and endlessly and cheaply repairable, henry's have hardly any moving parts. less to impress less to go wrong. both are only vacuum cleaners. The repairability of Dysons might be something I think a lot of owners overlook, as we're now in a culture of if-it-breaks-buy-another.

In upright form dysons are excellent if theres a lot of crud to deal with - pet owners, people with real fires etc - I bought one when a client for an office refit decided to have new carpets fitted [u]before[/u] he asked me to build the partitions, walls and ceilings. Non of my uprights and cylinder vacs couldn't lift the carnage left by the plasterers but the dyson could. Using the hose and tools on the dyson uprights is an arse though, I find them rubbish on stairs and in small tricky rooms, the handle/hose is just too ungainly, and as much as they do 95% of the job quickly and brilliantly you'll be yearning for something more nimble for the final 5%. They're also really noisy, especially on hard floors.

In cylinder form theres not that much to choose between them performance wise, they are just different ways of achieving the same goal, its just a case of you wanting to convey the image of being one of either being one jetsons or the office janitor, choose your fantasy.

Meile make a nice noise, but for that price tag I'd want it to be my job to hoover all day to want to pay to listen to it.

Miele or Sebo are the best you can get apparently. Our Sebo is brilliant.
Always makes me smile when people say 'our Dysons (plural) have been great.' I prefer to do a bit of research and buy one device and then never have to buy one again.

miele all the way had a dyson always cleaning filters etc,and when you go to the dump look how many dysons are sitting scrapped at the electrical recycling it way outnumbers anything else

Are all the Dyson haters remembering to clean the filters etc as you should?

Just discovered (after 4years of ownership) that our DC08 has two filters! One washed and the other was replaced, now running well again...

had a couple not overly impressed with it tbh second one was free would not buy one personally.
Kirby are ace but very expensive

dysons are sitting scrapped at the electrical recycling it way outnumbers anything else

Could that be because they've outsold any other vacuums by quite a proportion over the last 10 to 15years?

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everything else is just a noisy toy.

Always makes me smile when people say 'our Dysons (plural) have been great.' I prefer to do a bit of research and buy one device and then never have to buy one again

It surprises me the passion a particular brand of vacuum cleaner can give rise to.

I can't believe I've a) read this thread. b) contributed to this thread and c) come back to see what's been added since I contributed.

What have i turned into?

I like that Dyson revolutionised a previously staid market. I like that they are repairable. I didn't like that, even after several attempts at repairing ours (DC07, IIRC), it still never really worked very well.

We have a cheap Samsung. 95% of the performace of a Dyson, at 25% of the cost.

Next will be a Miele or Sebo. And I'll never buy another after that.

SEBO

5 in my family with a combined total of over 60yrs service.

All working perfectly.

I had an old one from ooh, 2001 or so. It worked well enough but didn't suck that hard. Our newer one - a cylinder, forget the number, but the animal version with the turbine head - is much much better. It sucks very well and the turbine heads work excellently.

Neither one went wrong though.

I had no intention of buying one when I went into John Lewis, but we wanted a cylinder and of the ones they had only two had beater heads. The Miele one was pretty feeble compared to the Dyson one and it was also bagged, so it was a fairly easy choice.

Bloke up our local market sells refurb Dysons with 12 months warranty, got a hideous looking green and purple thing for 69 quid.

Picks up loads including the discraded fur from our long haired moggy, no complaints and would buy another one

What have i turned into?

A regular on cleaningladies.com ?? 🙂

Hated emptying our Dyson. Do it indoors and you'd distribute most of the dust back into the house. Do it outside and risk it blowing all over you.

Miele since then and much prefer the bagged approach. Yes, it sucks less well as it fills up, but not terribly, and emptying is so much easier and cleaner.

Can't say I have ever really had too much of a problem with emptying the Dyson (save for last week when one of our little girls had the cylinder in her hands having managed to unclip it - fortunately I caught her before she figured out how to open the little flap).

I DO find seeing the crap flying around somehow satisfying though - it makes me confident things are working as they should (as well as reminding me how dirty our house always is 🙁 )

Do it indoors and you'd distribute most of the dust back into the house. Do it outside and risk it blowing all over you

There's a knack to it 🙂

There's a knack to it

Miele cat & dog cylinder... forget the dyson.

Z1ppy speaks much good stuff. Had ours for at least 4 years and it's sucked up everything 3 girls and 2 spaniels can drop perfectly. Can't see us getting another for a very long time.

I've had a few when living in rented accommodation and found them brilliant. Got a henry at the moment so a bit of a downgrade but we've been looking at the Vax Pets vacuums which are a 1/3 of the price and built to the same kind of standard with flimsy plastic important bits.

Dyson fan here - have two including an 8 year old DC05 which still works find (although I had to repair the on/off switch a few years ago). My parents followed Which?'s advice and bought a Miele and I can't understand why anyone recommended it - it sucks great for about 10 mins then stops as the bag fills up and then just sits there getting hot completely unable to suck anything - pointless machine.

Careful there. You just insulted a Miele you know.

it sucks great for about 10 mins then stops as the bag fills up

Just to add to my earlier post we do have a very old DC01 which still works (well the motor makes a noise) but never gets used and a Henry which does the job but just seems very agricultural compared to the Miele.

- it sucks great for about 10 mins then stops as the bag fills up and then just sits there getting hot completely unable to suck anything - pointless machine.

*and he ain't gettin away with it MF*

Probably as it's picked up all the shite their last vaccum failed too, change the bag & it'll work fine ...
We are two long haired gets, one white dog that moults continuously and three cats that again seeminly to moult constantly.. our Miele has been dealing with that for 5 years & has just happily dealt with our building extention and all the crap that entails
(a bag should last at minium a month, if not a couple - can't say I've ever measured it but when it stop working @ 100% the bag need changing).

EDIT: Bugger, too slow!

Can't say I have ever really had too much of a problem with emptying the Dyson

Nor me.

Remove cylinder, go into yard, open wheelie bin. Lower cylinder into bin, pull trigger, shoogle(*) cylinder, remove from bin, close bin, close hatch, refit. For extra flair points, it's possible to close the hatch with a flick of the wrist before you withdraw it from the bin.

(* - technical term - kinda similar to what you do with the basket when frying chips)

(* - technical term - kinda similar to what you do with the basket when frying chips)

or tossing a summer salad for those of us that live south of Watford Gap 😉

"pull trigger" - maybe they've moved on. Ours was first generation cylinder - i don't remember a trigger, just pulling a lid off the bin.

Get a miele. We had a cylinder model with a bag (in a rented house); it it was far far better than our Dyson (now at the tip).

I have had a dyson dc01 for 10 years now, as long as you keep them serviced they last forever. Mine has been dropped down the stairs twice. {Huge plug for company deleted...}

i got a miele cat and dog cylinder.

the cat is not too chuffed about it, but it works very well and the self sealing bags are a doddle to use..

only bad thing is storage for hose and accessories is a bit crap.

We got a fairly cheap Samsung when our Dyson packed up. It's better than it in every way, apart from the fact it doesn't look quite as fancy.

My DC08 was free. cleaned the filters and its as good as new, sucked most of the livingroom carpet up the first time it was used!

Vax was crap, barely any suction and ate brush belts.

Hoover (somethign or other, aimed at pet owners, cost about £60) was pretty good to, if a little cheep looking.

Miele schmiele!

Dyson Animal here, (we run a dog grooming parlour) and it deals with everything that 6 dogs a day can throw, oh and two kids and a Homer Simpson dad at it.

I read also that Dyson are no 1 in 8 European countries, and for obvious reasons.

I hated my Mum's original DC01 - seemed to pull in air everywhere other than where it was meant to. The older ones were very very overated. Our current dyson (not my choice) is only a bit overated, if you don't mind servicing it every few months then it works OK. (Like fox forks)

I much prefer my electrolux bagless upright, but I broke the sweeper so it's now in the garage for car valeting duties.

Bear in mind design patents and engineering patents are very different things...

Best tip for Dyson owners:

Replace the "lifetime" filter once a year or even every 6 months. They're about £12 online.

So this is what STW has come to eh??
FWIW, I've had two dysons in the last ten years. First one for 6 years (single cyclone, fairly bog standard) hoovered up anything and everything, even after a coupla the (tenement) ceilings fell in, replastering Walls and rubble from an old fireplace that I took out. Gave it to my mum (who has a load of cats) a few years ago and still going strong if not looking a bit shabby..
Second one bought when we moved in together, updated version of the old one, similar story.

My Dyson cylinder is rubbish its quicker to brush the dog hair out of the carpet by hand

One came with the house I'm renting and I can't say it does a noticeably better job than any other type, but it does have a lots of annoying, over-complicated design features that don't seem to work properly. I wouldn't buy one personally.