Shortly after my GF and I got our Dyson DC23 turbinehead, I went on a cleaning frenzy and eventually ended up vacuuming the mattress. Boy, was that satisfying.... and disturbing.
We had never thought to vacuum our mattress before, so what came out was many years of accumulated dead skin cells and undoubtedly the creatures who feast on it, dust mites. Okay, we didn't see any crawling in the bin, but they must have been there.
What did we actually see in the cylinder? Think big, white, fluffy, powdery snow drifts and you get the idea. It was at once fascinating and disgusting. After that I vowed to vacuum the mattress every time we flipped it, about once every month-and-a-half or two.
Up to now I've been using the stair and upholstery tool, which was included with the vacuum. Anyone with a Dyson has a similar tool and will recognize that it is a fine tool, but not a terribly wide one. It does a fine job on the mattress but is not at all efficient. It takes a while to do a thorough job. Recently I've seen that Dyson offers a special mattress tool. It's essentially a wider version of the stair tool, like 2.5 or 3 times as wide.
Well, I would get one of these right away if not for the exorbitant price. I believe this simple nozzle retails for around $35. Wow, talk about charging an arm and a leg. You get a better perspective when you consider that our handled, but unused, DC23 display model (never powered on in the store) cost us $135, and that I've bought some fine used Riccars, Sanitaires, a Kirby G5, and a Windsor Versamatic for between $10- $40 each. That's a simple molded plastic nozzle with two strips of red felt glued to it for what I can get a very fine complete used vacuum for. Crazy.
But in the long run it may be worth it if it makes a routine job faster and easier.
My question to anyone who's used the mattress tool is: does it work as advertised? And does it work that much better than the stair/upholstery tool to warrant spending an extra $35 to purchase it? Thanks! Your thoughts are most welcome.
We had never thought to vacuum our mattress before, so what came out was many years of accumulated dead skin cells and undoubtedly the creatures who feast on it, dust mites. Okay, we didn't see any crawling in the bin, but they must have been there.
What did we actually see in the cylinder? Think big, white, fluffy, powdery snow drifts and you get the idea. It was at once fascinating and disgusting. After that I vowed to vacuum the mattress every time we flipped it, about once every month-and-a-half or two.
Up to now I've been using the stair and upholstery tool, which was included with the vacuum. Anyone with a Dyson has a similar tool and will recognize that it is a fine tool, but not a terribly wide one. It does a fine job on the mattress but is not at all efficient. It takes a while to do a thorough job. Recently I've seen that Dyson offers a special mattress tool. It's essentially a wider version of the stair tool, like 2.5 or 3 times as wide.
Well, I would get one of these right away if not for the exorbitant price. I believe this simple nozzle retails for around $35. Wow, talk about charging an arm and a leg. You get a better perspective when you consider that our handled, but unused, DC23 display model (never powered on in the store) cost us $135, and that I've bought some fine used Riccars, Sanitaires, a Kirby G5, and a Windsor Versamatic for between $10- $40 each. That's a simple molded plastic nozzle with two strips of red felt glued to it for what I can get a very fine complete used vacuum for. Crazy.
But in the long run it may be worth it if it makes a routine job faster and easier.
My question to anyone who's used the mattress tool is: does it work as advertised? And does it work that much better than the stair/upholstery tool to warrant spending an extra $35 to purchase it? Thanks! Your thoughts are most welcome.
