Where My Dyson excels!

[williamr1248]

I may not like my Dyson on my carpets,and I hate to try and use it with the dusting tools and the darn thing won't go under the furniture and it's TOO heavy to carry up and down the stairs BUT it does a bang up job on the garage floor,screened porch and basement floors using the optional fuller brush attachemnt. You can really see how it does not lose suction! Any other machine I have tried to use (except my Rexair)loses suction in just a few minutes. The Air-Way and Compact are a little better but not by much. My Electroux's seem to be the worst about clogging fast in this type of use. In regular use I think the Dyson is one of my least favorite vacuums but I will credit where credit it due-Mine does not loose suction in this type of use.

 

[vacuumfreeeke]

Cool.... I'm glad you found something you like about it. While there are several things about my Dyson I don't like (especially the since I have my least favorite model, the DC14), I do enjoy it. I think it cleans decent, and the attachents are great... I think it's a good all around cleaner. I really love the bare floor tool it came with!I can think of a lot of other vacs I'd like less than the Dyson for regular use!

Do you have a picture of the Fuller Brush attachment that you're talking about?

 

[normvac]

Rob
I am courious, how many times have you swept those cement
surfaces with your Dyson?? I'm wondering if after the 2nd
and 3rd times if the system will start to loose suction.
I never had a Dayson or worked on one ! Just wondering
for my own information.
I've told the story before, that when I cleaned new built
homes and had to sweep plaster dust and cement dust. Kirbys
(w/attachments) and compacts were the only machines I could
use without loosing suction. Compact I did have to open the
top, pull up the cloth back and tap it all the way around
to get the dust to drop from the sides. As the dirt would
be in the bottom but the white,fine dust would slow the
air flow on the sides of the paper liner !
Norm

 

[williamr1248]

Where My Dyson Excels

Hi Norm,
I have used the Dyson several times to clean the garage floor using the attachments. I really don't enjoy using it with the tools. Mine seems to want to run into me when you use the tools and it's so heavy to lift and move around but it does not seem to loose suction. I don't know about the air flow. It seems like to me my Kirby has less suction with the tools BUT much better air flow. I would much prefer to use the dusting tools and hose that come with the Kirby.
I haven't used the Compact in the garage but I would believe what you say. The new (old) Compact I just got seems to have terriffic cyclonic action on the rug and with the tools.
I just don't get why people are so crazy about the Dyson. Mine does not do a very good job on the heavy carpeting and it's so heavy to carry from one floor. As I said earlier I will say that it does not seem to lose suction and it is easy to empty for a bagless vac. I just happen to not like dumping the dirt. To my surprise the new Oreck seems to have more air flow on the rug and makes the carpeting look much better than my Dyson. It just may be my particular style of carpeting. Nice we all have a choice of vacuums!

 

[tristar]

Be careful when cleaning up fine dust or cement powder with a Dyson. It has a very nasty habit of collecting up inside the Cyclone chamber and stuffing up the works. After a period of time, you'll begin noticing more and more dirt on the pre-motor filter which will indicate a pretty good amount of crud has built up in the cyclone system!

 

[williamr1248]

Where My Dyson Excels!

Eric,
Thanks for the info about my Dyson. I won't use in the garage anymore.

 

[tristar]

The Dyson will always collect fine dust and occasionally fluff in the cyclones. It's part of the design. When it becomes excessive (which it will in time) the machine WILL lose suction, and it will also lose its filtering ability.

All you have to do to repair it and make it good as new is to disassemble the Cyclone assembly (couple screws) and either wash it or blow it out with compressed air.

 

[vintagehoover]

Eric's tips apply to the DC07 - the first Root8 cyclone machine. As would be expected from brand new technology, they did have a few flaws with it to begin with. They really sorted things out with the DC14 (and all subsequent Dysons). The root cyclones are open top and bottom (as I will demonstrate!), and need no tools to access.

This is the top - just flip the lid, remove the filter, and you have access to the tops of the root cyclones:

 

[vintagehoover]

With the bin removed from the cyclone assembly, you can access the bottoms of the root cyclones. After a period of use, fine dust will collect around these. They are very simple to brush out; better still, just stick another cleaner in there and vacuum it out!

 

[vintagehoover]

As you can see, with the lid open and filter removed, and held up to the light, you can see right through them! No clogs!

 

[vintagehoover]

And from the top end!

This is one of the many reasons I consider the DC14 FAR superior to the DC07, aside from the fact that it's lighter, more powerful, easier to carry, has a better wand set up...etc

 

[williamr1248]

Where My Dyson Excels

Jack,
Thanks for the wonderful pictures. Watched our Home Shopping Network Demo the new Dyson canister yesterday. I like the changes in the bin. I hope they changed the power nozzle brush to be not so aggressive. I returned my canister because it ruined a carpet. I think they were asking $649.95 for the new canister. I like the design of the canister but the one I tried had a short cord and was pretty heavy to lift.

 

[normvac]

Thanks guys, for a great and wonderful learning experience.
I wondered if Rob might miss understand my comments. He didn't,
so no hard feelings or bitter words. Then Jacks explaination
of how fine dust dose collect in the wind chamber and the
fact that the dyson DC14 going forward are new and im-
proved and the problem, of the weight issue addressed as well.
All problems or concerns addressed on the newer machines as well.
This my friends was a very pleasent experience to read, learn
and enjoy. As one would hope all of our threads could be.
Thanks for listening and reading my comments.
Norm