vintagerepairer
Well-known member
Dyson tools
Were the best on the market at one time, if of course one overlooks the fact that the necks on the small upholstery tools were forever snapping off. Dyson did eventually modify that. The large round dusting brushes and wide crevice tools were great at the job they were designed to do.
Quite why Dyson then decided to dispense with them, I don't know. I expect it was to do with cost, but with anything that carries a large price tag, a balance has to be met when it comes to trimming back the quality; you can only go so far and for me, Dyson crosses a line.
I completely take on board the comments that with a Dyson cleaner the consumer gets the choice of paying for the attachments they need, but at one time of the day it was "standard" for all cylinder cleaners to have one or more floor tools to clean both hard and soft flooring (be this a combination tool or separate tools), plus crevice tool, dusting brush, and upholstery tool. Granted that upright cleaners came with a variation on that, but then the tools were never the chief reason for the purchasing of such a machine. As time progressed it was only the cheaper (and usually imported) cylinder cleaners which offered less than the "standard" range of tools, but for me Dyson has placed itself squarely in the same league by not offering what one might expect a cleaner of it's caliber to offer.
Furthermore, James Dyson makes no secret that he thinks it's "wrong" for a manufacturer to sell a product and then charge for on-going consumables. By not providing the tools which people need and then charging extra for it (for instance a crevice tool for the DC24), he is doing precisely what he believes to be "wrong".
Were the best on the market at one time, if of course one overlooks the fact that the necks on the small upholstery tools were forever snapping off. Dyson did eventually modify that. The large round dusting brushes and wide crevice tools were great at the job they were designed to do.
Quite why Dyson then decided to dispense with them, I don't know. I expect it was to do with cost, but with anything that carries a large price tag, a balance has to be met when it comes to trimming back the quality; you can only go so far and for me, Dyson crosses a line.
I completely take on board the comments that with a Dyson cleaner the consumer gets the choice of paying for the attachments they need, but at one time of the day it was "standard" for all cylinder cleaners to have one or more floor tools to clean both hard and soft flooring (be this a combination tool or separate tools), plus crevice tool, dusting brush, and upholstery tool. Granted that upright cleaners came with a variation on that, but then the tools were never the chief reason for the purchasing of such a machine. As time progressed it was only the cheaper (and usually imported) cylinder cleaners which offered less than the "standard" range of tools, but for me Dyson has placed itself squarely in the same league by not offering what one might expect a cleaner of it's caliber to offer.
Furthermore, James Dyson makes no secret that he thinks it's "wrong" for a manufacturer to sell a product and then charge for on-going consumables. By not providing the tools which people need and then charging extra for it (for instance a crevice tool for the DC24), he is doing precisely what he believes to be "wrong".
