Dyson set to invest £250 million!

[sebo_fan]

Dyson heaters well claim to heat a room, but if they are a low fan based, they won't dry the air out as much as conventional high speed element fan heaters. I can't abide conventional fan heaters as a result.

I used to use them as a student in halls of residence and Im surprised I got away with it, to be honest - the room was very warm as a result but I'd end up with a dry cough which inevitably happens with conventional fans and the amount of dust they generate as well is also a factor.

 

[madaboutsebo]

Sometimes you could say 'over engineered', their philosophy is 'less is more' which for the cordless range yes but needs to be applied to the corded models especially the upright range. Over engineering can cause other issues and problems in my eyes. Simplicity should be the key to modern technology! Well in some cases. Dyson have the know how to produce a corded upright that can lie flat to go under low furniture. They may just choose not to produce such a machine!

 

[gottahaveahoove]

But, we've been cleaning under our beds for DECADES

with wands. Remember our HOOVER telescoping wands? They've been making them almost since vacuums began. They work great here.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Fan heaters

But the point about the Dyson fan heaters which Dyson won't address is what exactly they are supposed to be replacing and where. These appliances are, of course, fan heaters by definition, but their performance, size, and cost puts them in a different league altogether as a cheap £10 fan heater is generally purchased to warm a very small area indeed, never as a whole-of-room heater, and certainly never whole-of-house, if only because the running costs are so high in relation to the performance. So in this instance, the Dyson fan heater is replacing something else altogether.

To be absurd, if I may, to make a comparison, it would be like him making a refridgerator onto which one watches a film or soap-opera. The appliance is, by definition, a fridge, yet it's use makes it compete with television sets, not fridges.

 

[sebo_fan]

Cleaning under beds with telescopic tubes and a floor head? Not in my family in the UK. And if anything is to go by Hoover and countless other uprights in the 1970s making the hood slimmer to fit under low furniture, neither were those brands using the idea of using a tube and a suction only floor head under a bed.

Dont forget unlike the U.S, central vacs with PN heads aren't exactly ten a penny in the UK. More's the pity.