Dyson Zorb opinions

[parwaz786]

Hi there,
has anybody tried Dyson Zorb carpet cleaning powder? If so, what task(s) would you say it's best suited for? I am looking for a carpet care product that may make my carpet either smell wonderful, feel much better, look better or pull more dirt out. Another question is is it worth the £10 price mark?
Kind Regards
Tayyab

 

[spiraclean]

Meh

Of all the dry cleaning products available, Dyson Zorb is my least favourite. I found it had little, if any, cleaning ability, and no scent at all other than a faint chemical odour. Sebo Duo P performs slightly better in my experience, but that isn't saying much. It also has quite a strong solvent type smell which I find especially unpleasant.

What these products ARE useful for is absorbing spills. Take a handful of the powder and apply to the spill, packing it down firmly, then leave overnight to dry. It will safely "wick" the spill up out of the carpet so it can be swept away, with no risk of spreading the stain by rubbing.

The one dry cleaning powder I do recommend is Vorwerk Kobosan. Unlike the Dyson or Sebo products it's a very fine, moist white powder, which is much easier to work deep into the carpet pile. Has a very pleasant perfume, and if applied correctly (with plenty of agitation) leaves the carpet noticeably cleaner and brighter after use. Put it this way, when my carpets where shampooed at a later date, the recovered water was still clean rather than the usual murky brown colour.

 

[super-sweeper]

Rug-Renovator all the way for me,I don't tend to let the Dysons touch the good household carpet! 

 

[jscarlato]

I've used Zorb a couple of times. It doesn't clean as well as my Kirby rug renovator, and it leaves a solvent smell. I've given up on Dyson for any type of vacuum cleaning.

 

[rolls_rapide]

I tried the Dyson Zorb powder years ago. It never really cleaned the carpet as such, and took ages to hoover the stuff back out of the carpet. It smelt of wet sawdust.

Have you tried Vanish Power Powder? It is supposed to clean carpets.

I quite liked "Sapur", back in the Eighties - it was possibly made by Henkel.

Another was Airwick Dri-Magic.

 

[parwaz786]

Hmm, thanks guys
No I have not tried vanish power powder as I have tried their carpet foam and it was not very good, so thought Vanish was just rubbish.
I thought Zorb was good because it can absorb the dirt with it's moisture and make the dirt part of the Zorb powder, so it's like a compound. The moisture in the Zorb dries up, and because of this, the powder and dirt can be easier to vacuum up.
I might get a cheap Zorb bag off eBay and try it, but scrub with a stiff broom

 

[tolivac]

Try Host or Capture dry carpet cleaners with their spray wetting-spot treatments-these DO work.

 

[ctvacman]

I found zorb good for wool rugs after I've washed them in wool lite, it makes the rugs fluffy. As far as it's cleaning ability it doesn't do much. As far as capture I've found it to be good but you really need to vacuum the area really well afterwards. Weeks later I still have the white dust on many of the machines I use, it really gets down in there.

 

[marks_here]

I tried the Host on my carpets & left them streaked & when vacuumed it looked worse. The bottom of the Kirby was all black, had to wash the bar & brush roll off after each vacuum. That continued until I had them steam cleaned. After that vacuuming was normal. Maybe this was just an isolated incident, don't really know, but won't be using a dry/foam method.

 

[tolivac]

The times I have tried these cleaners--they worked for me-you have to allow them to dry COMPLETELY-then vacuum them up-I use a Royal or a Kirby for that matter with a dump bag-you are piking up a lot of BULK material-then you dump the vac bag into a trash bag or can.The nice thing about these is they do not wet your subflooring.With the wet or damp cleaners you have to be careful there.If the subfloor is partecleboard-as many subfloors are-even dampening them can cause warping,buckling, or weakening.And in my area becuase of the humidity-takes along time for the wet/damp cleaners to dry.Yes,with the powder type damp cleaners you will vacuum up more if the residue as time goes on-after a few vacuumings-no more.Esp if A Kirby or Royal or some other powerful direct air vac is used.

 

[henrydreyfuss]

I tried Zorb for the first time last month! I used it with my DC17, and first groomed the concoction in with the bin detached, and vacuumed it up after the carpet had dried. The carpeting definitely looked refreshed and cleaner, but it didn't remove any stains. The Zorb itself was noticeably dirtier after being swept up. Weird as it sounds, my apartment smelled like a laundromat afterwards, and I really liked the clean smell.

Please ignore the stacked chairs. I was cleaning!