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Yes indeed, Steve, I have learnt indeed. But I learnt because I saw how crap the newer Dyson products are in real life, specifically when I went to John Lewis in Nottingham once and just felt the DC41, it just doesn't feel quality...


 


Some Vaxs are great, such as the 121 as well as other Vax carpet washers. I haven't got a problem with them :)


 


 
 
I had a chance to have a good go with the DC41 Animal as my friend wanted me to restore it. This is what I thought of it;
The vacuum has an awful wand mechanism. There is no handle that gets in the way. Yes that is good, but it is not really comfortable to hold whilst in use.
The DC41 Animal has more flexible plastic, but there seems to be a design flaw where the left side of their so called "ball" has a pin joint which snaps off. This needs to be sorted out.
To clear out a blockage, the only things you can do are remove the cleaner head, take off the hose & wand and also the cyclone just to check the uptake pipe and flip the small clear window up. The hose is inside the casing so I wouldn't recommend vacuuming up things like pine needles or else it would be a pain in the rear just to unclog the vacuum.
The bristles have pretty much the same stiffness as a non clutched Dyson brushroll.
The suction is not very impressive as it has less than a DC04 which is a much better vacuum and retailed nearly a half as the DC41!
The DC25 is a much better vacuum in terms or sturdiness, performance, and noise levels.
Anecdote- I would go for the DC25 over the DC41 as I want a reliable machine which cleans good, one I can rely on and also is a much more better designed machine. If I have a blockage for example, atleast I don't have to use a screw driver and do half of a machine tear down just to access the internal hose! What if it rips?
 
When I was in Costco I had a go with the DC50, & I hated the loud crack made when you put the handle back to release it from it's upright mechanism. They all just feel awful.

Plus, I laugh at the adverts on the side of the page about the New Dyson Handheld (DC??) apparently having 10x the suction of a Gtech Airram. However because my school uses the Airrams to Vacuum up the corridors & I doubt I'll see this new Dyson doing that. Wouldn't last a second with all the stones, leaves etc whereas the Airrams are being used every break, every lunch & inbetween lessons & they have been used like this for the past YEAR.

I know Dysons aren't meant to be used in a commercial environment but neither is the Airram but it still is & it shows how durable the Gtech is.
 
I wouldn't be laughing.

Well I doubt the Air Ram or any DOMESTIC vacuum like the cordless Air Ram or Dyson would survive in a school - maybe in a pre-school nursery where it is required to clean up on very little carpet. The only other way for anything like that to survive in a school is if the owner solely uses it and doesn't pass it around.

Otherwise I'm afraid your Air Ram theory isn't going to stand up to general abuse of other handlers. You only need to look on EBAY to see the faulty Air Rams at reduced costs. They're not that durable for industry cleaning.
 
My uncle owns a Dyson DC27 All floors and he uses it in a very large carpeted hall, it is a few years old and gets used all the time there, it looks like the Dyson was used domestically when it was actually used commercially! I think that the vacuum being used before the Dyson took over was a big blue Numatic of some sort.
 
I wouldn't send a Dyson into 'battle' like at a school for example. The design of Dyson's vacuum cleaners are designed for domestic homes only.


 


Dyson can bang on about there testing, but it isn't good enough. You test products properly an actual 'real life' environment, say in someone's house. That's what I did for my product that I made for my Product Design GCSE. My product, the Dawn Sunset DL01 (a table lamp), was tested inside my house, not tested by me, but by others of the family. Knocked over, bashed, bumped, and slid around.


 


My product achieved an A, and the rest of the GSCE came to a B grade, so my design was a huge success.


 


And look at me, I don't have a University Qualification yet I can design something that lasts and is built properly. Just goes to show that great design doesn't always come from Uni grads.   


 


 

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I realise they're not meant to be used commercially, I just said that it wouldn't last as long as the Airram.
 
A degree qualification

Has become so widely available now that for a good deal of people the meaning of their degree is somewhat dilute in today's world. I heard an interesting article on the BBC recently where an employer was saying they actively seek out applications from people who have not received a University education.
 
It's very similar to that time when someone out of Uni had developed 'the Cardboard Vacuum Cleaner' for Vax. There was a thread about it somewhere.
 

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