turbo500
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It seems the cylinder cleaners with a PN are the machine of choice for a lot of our US friends, and it's easy to see why. Homes in the US, from what I've seen, tend to have such a variety of floortypes that a cylinder with a powernozzle is the best way to effectively clean all the different surfaces without having to change machine.
For example, a friend of mine in Tennesse has:
Living Room - deep pile carpet
Dining room - solid wood with rug in the middle
Hallway - Parquet
Kitchen & utility room - tile
Study - low pile carpet
Stairs - solid wood with a carpet runner up the middle
Bare in mind, that is just 1 floor of his house. It's not like in the UK where a lot of homes have 1 type of flooring throughout. Because the floorhead can be changed so easilly from powernozzle to straight suction, the PN cylinder is the obvious solution for homes with a variety of different floortypes.
The other alternative is an upright with brush controls, but even then they often have a habbit of just pushing larger particles around and not actually sucking them up. And unless one owns a Sebo Felix, the floorhead cannot be changed to a more suitable one between floortypes.
Air driven turbobrushes are ok, but they do have a habbit of slowing down on contact with carpet and they simply can't groom a carpet or get between the fibres to remove embedded grit as well as a powernozzle.
As for reliability, I imagine there is little to no reliability difference between a PN cylinder and an upright. Dyson motorhead cleaners are not more reliable/unreliable than any other Dyson cleaner. And the Sebo Felix is essentially a cylinder with a PN stood upright - no complaints on reliability there either. Infact, I've heard of more Turbobrush failures due to larger particles being sucked up by the user and shattering/jamming the turbines.
And it's not just the US. It's also important to note that in mainland Europe, very few people have upright vacuums. I imagine this is largely due to the popularity of bare floors in hotter climates where an upright would be useless, but even in countries like France and The Netherlands where the climate is more similar to the UK, uprights are not popular. Infact, all of my friends and relatives on the continent have cylinder vacuums.
Cylinders with a PN are still widely sold across Europe, again aimed at homes with a variety of floor types. I was in a department store in Amsterdam last month and there wasn't 1 upright on sale, but all the high end models had powernozzles.
For example, a friend of mine in Tennesse has:
Living Room - deep pile carpet
Dining room - solid wood with rug in the middle
Hallway - Parquet
Kitchen & utility room - tile
Study - low pile carpet
Stairs - solid wood with a carpet runner up the middle
Bare in mind, that is just 1 floor of his house. It's not like in the UK where a lot of homes have 1 type of flooring throughout. Because the floorhead can be changed so easilly from powernozzle to straight suction, the PN cylinder is the obvious solution for homes with a variety of different floortypes.
The other alternative is an upright with brush controls, but even then they often have a habbit of just pushing larger particles around and not actually sucking them up. And unless one owns a Sebo Felix, the floorhead cannot be changed to a more suitable one between floortypes.
Air driven turbobrushes are ok, but they do have a habbit of slowing down on contact with carpet and they simply can't groom a carpet or get between the fibres to remove embedded grit as well as a powernozzle.
As for reliability, I imagine there is little to no reliability difference between a PN cylinder and an upright. Dyson motorhead cleaners are not more reliable/unreliable than any other Dyson cleaner. And the Sebo Felix is essentially a cylinder with a PN stood upright - no complaints on reliability there either. Infact, I've heard of more Turbobrush failures due to larger particles being sucked up by the user and shattering/jamming the turbines.
And it's not just the US. It's also important to note that in mainland Europe, very few people have upright vacuums. I imagine this is largely due to the popularity of bare floors in hotter climates where an upright would be useless, but even in countries like France and The Netherlands where the climate is more similar to the UK, uprights are not popular. Infact, all of my friends and relatives on the continent have cylinder vacuums.
Cylinders with a PN are still widely sold across Europe, again aimed at homes with a variety of floor types. I was in a department store in Amsterdam last month and there wasn't 1 upright on sale, but all the high end models had powernozzles.
