blakaeg
Well-known member
Hi.
I purchased a Dyson DC24 in December from Amazon after my 7 year old Dyson DC04 burnt out recently. This arrived promptly 2 days later.
I unpackaged the machine, a small dinky little machine that was well packaged up and wrapped in plastic.
The machine was very easy to assemble, I didn't need the instructions. My DC24 didn't come with the small yellow Quick Start Guide as the other Dysons I have seen in the shops.
On switching on the machine I was happy to hear that the machine is very quiet compared to other vacuum cleaners I have used. This is due to the 650Watt motor, its only the brush motor that makes any real significant noise as with other motor-heads I have used on cylinder machines.
650 Watts but with more suction than the 700 Watt DC03 had. DC03 used to skim the surface, the DC24 certainly sucks more.
Despite the low motor wattage, the suction is very good and I can physically feel the cleaner head sucking on the floor when using the machine (had this with the DC04 as well)
The cord is very short compared to the DC04 but the DC24 is a miniature machine and I do not have a problem with unplugging the machine and plugging into another socket if need be to reach a further area. The hose is VERY short and the cleaning tool that comes with the machine is a bit of a joke really. Its not practical for comfortable use on stairs, its fine for dusting with though, but for the meantime I am using this as a stair, bed and brush tool. When using the DC24 on the stairs it is much better to use the hose and tool only, if I use with the wand attached it feels awkward and I can only reach 3 steps with this whereas if I use with hose only I can reach the 4th step then lift machine onto this step and clean another 4 steps and again lift the machine to clean another 4, the DC24 is so small and light, it fits perfectly on the step and is balanced and has not once fallen off the step, unlike the DC05 cylinder which used to bounce off steps when not perfectly balanced on the stair.
Moving the DC24 around is a doddle and it gets under areas where the DC04 could not such as radiators, sofa etc.
I use this DC24 is a medium 3 bedroom house and am so glad I purchased this over the bigger DC25 model which is great but I have a preferencen of smaller machines anyway.
This machine is an example of how much Dyson has improved their machines and the durabilty of them, my older DC04 had parts that used to break frequently, this DC24 has parts that are more flexible and less fiddly. The only thing I had its after the first ever use of the DC24, the head would keep dropping down when the machine was hot, this only happened after the first use and has not happened again since. Maybe the machine had to 'settle' in lol A friend of mine had the same thing with her DC24 doing that, now hers is fine.
I am very happy with this purchase and wished it was available years ago.
I purchased a Dyson DC24 in December from Amazon after my 7 year old Dyson DC04 burnt out recently. This arrived promptly 2 days later.
I unpackaged the machine, a small dinky little machine that was well packaged up and wrapped in plastic.
The machine was very easy to assemble, I didn't need the instructions. My DC24 didn't come with the small yellow Quick Start Guide as the other Dysons I have seen in the shops.
On switching on the machine I was happy to hear that the machine is very quiet compared to other vacuum cleaners I have used. This is due to the 650Watt motor, its only the brush motor that makes any real significant noise as with other motor-heads I have used on cylinder machines.
650 Watts but with more suction than the 700 Watt DC03 had. DC03 used to skim the surface, the DC24 certainly sucks more.
Despite the low motor wattage, the suction is very good and I can physically feel the cleaner head sucking on the floor when using the machine (had this with the DC04 as well)
The cord is very short compared to the DC04 but the DC24 is a miniature machine and I do not have a problem with unplugging the machine and plugging into another socket if need be to reach a further area. The hose is VERY short and the cleaning tool that comes with the machine is a bit of a joke really. Its not practical for comfortable use on stairs, its fine for dusting with though, but for the meantime I am using this as a stair, bed and brush tool. When using the DC24 on the stairs it is much better to use the hose and tool only, if I use with the wand attached it feels awkward and I can only reach 3 steps with this whereas if I use with hose only I can reach the 4th step then lift machine onto this step and clean another 4 steps and again lift the machine to clean another 4, the DC24 is so small and light, it fits perfectly on the step and is balanced and has not once fallen off the step, unlike the DC05 cylinder which used to bounce off steps when not perfectly balanced on the stair.
Moving the DC24 around is a doddle and it gets under areas where the DC04 could not such as radiators, sofa etc.
I use this DC24 is a medium 3 bedroom house and am so glad I purchased this over the bigger DC25 model which is great but I have a preferencen of smaller machines anyway.
This machine is an example of how much Dyson has improved their machines and the durabilty of them, my older DC04 had parts that used to break frequently, this DC24 has parts that are more flexible and less fiddly. The only thing I had its after the first ever use of the DC24, the head would keep dropping down when the machine was hot, this only happened after the first use and has not happened again since. Maybe the machine had to 'settle' in lol A friend of mine had the same thing with her DC24 doing that, now hers is fine.
I am very happy with this purchase and wished it was available years ago.
