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best dyson you can get is the DC 14 Animal has the most airwatts of any dyson ever made and is also the most robust with less repairs than any other model, 3 dyson engineers have told me this as my DC07 has had over £500 worth of repairs in the last 3 years which is the only downside altho i will say they are bloomin quick at coming out and reparing it.
 
Jez said:
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If anybody wants to shed any light on the whole animal/all floors thing it would be cool :)
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Animal hair thing means...not much, actually. Good for marketing, though. It usually refers to a powered rotating brush, as opposed to one that just passively rotates as you move the head. It might or might not make the vacuum cleaner pick up hair more effectively.

All floors thing means, you guessed it, mostly marketing again. It could be any form of variation that makes the vacuum cleaner more effective or easier to use on different surfaces (e.g. short pile, long pile, wood), without any quantification of how much more effective or easier to use (which is a subjective thing anyway).

My vacuum cleaner doesn't say it's a pet hair model...but it gets hair up more effectively than the last one I used, which was sold as a pet hair model.

My vacuum cleaner doesn't say it's an all floors model...but it works very well on lino, short pile, long pile, curtains and furniture.
 
Angilion said:
Animal hair thing means...not much, actually. Good for marketing, though. It usually refers to a powered rotating brush, as opposed to one that just passively rotates as you move the head. It might or might not make the vacuum cleaner pick up hair more effectively.
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I had one, not very good
if you have pet hair to remove just get a rubber brush, far more effective

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people would have to be some kind of masochist to buy a cleaner that needed bags, the average carpeted room with a pet in it will fill a Dyson drum so that is a lot of emptying/cost

Get a Dyson, 5 Year guarantee and the ball thing is a no brainer for ease of use.
Think about how you'd do the underhangs in a kitchen, the ball will just run along the edges, but with any other cleaner you'd need to get the tools out
 
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We had a dyson but gave it to the parents and bought a miele cat and dog.

The bagless dysons are good however they will only retain the power and suction if you regularly clean the filters and drum. This is the problem common to bagless hoovers they require a lot more maintenance to keep them in top condition.

The miele with its bags means that it keeps all the crap in the bag and nothing escapes it. They are also incredibly efficient at how much can fit into the bag. We have a reasonable sized house with 4 kids and a puppy and the bags last a reasonable amount of time.

Having owned both I know I will stick to miele going forward. The dyson is a cracking hoover but it only keeps its performance with regular cleaning.
 
Sp00n said:
Oooo just had a quick look at that, I like that it says "commercial", does that means its űber powerful? It's only 1300watt whereas the miele is 1800 :/
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1300 is plenty for domestic use tbh. i've got a miele at home which i almost always put down half way as the power isn't needed, instead what's needed is a decent head to really losen the dirt. the sebo has a electrically powered bush which means it'll really pick the dirt off from the carpet. it's what a lot of professional carpet cleaners use before they clean as it gets so much off deep down in the pile. great thing about it too is the bags are fairly big and low cost.

only downside is it's pretty wide head so some may find in a small property with a lot of furniture it's a pain to get under everything. it has a quickly detachable hose but i know some don't like using this.
 
Mammalian said:
1300 is plenty for domestic use tbh. i've got a miele at home which i almost always put down half way as the power isn't needed, instead what's needed is a decent head to really losen the dirt. the sebo has a electrically powered bush which means it'll really pick the dirt off from the carpet. it's what a lot of professional carpet cleaners use before they clean as it gets so much off deep down in the pile. great thing about it too is the bags are fairly big and low cost.

only downside is it's pretty wide head so some may find in a small property with a lot of furniture it's a pain to get under everything. it has a quickly detachable hose but i know some don't like using this.
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it's not the amout of watts but the amount of air watts you need to be looking at some of these cleaners boast 2.4Kw motors but only have 200 air watts wheras the dyson will have circa 1400watts but between 180-240 air watts you do the math better suction and less power = win
 
bitslice said:
I had one, not very good
if you have pet hair to remove just get a rubber brush, far more effective
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Or buy an effective vacuum cleaner. I have a Henry - it takes hair up without any problems.

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people would have to be some kind of masochist to buy a cleaner that needed bags, the average carpeted room with a pet in it will fill a Dyson drum so that is a lot of emptying/cost
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I've had several bagless vacuum cleaners, one of which was good (but very noisy). There's much less fuss with my Henry. I have to empty it much less often (the bags are very large) and the bags cost 50p each. So it's less emptying and not much more cost. The bags also serve as a HEPA filter and because you throw them away they don't get clogged.

You could argue that a bagless cleaner is more environmentally friendly, but that's debatable because a Henry uses much less power. It has a much larger fan, so it moves as much air with a slower rotation speed, hence the lower power consumption. It's also much quieter for the same reason.

It can't be masochistic when it's more convenient and the additional cost is minimal. Even that's not a certain argument, as the savings in electricity might outweigh the cost of the bags. The 600W setting is usually fine on a Henry
 
actually yes henry does have more suction than most dysons altho this suction is diminished through the bag and over the length of the metal downtube

the henry sucks better for cleaning the car with just the black hose even the most powerful dysons (dc14) are just on par, it's all in the swirl technology that keeps the dysons performance over time so you could say you could use a 240 air watt dyson for 10 minutes and with 500g of dirt collected and it loses circa 10 air watts whereas the henry will lose around 10-15% of it's suction for the same workload, New bag in henry+dirty car = win tho.

i should know i used both last week after my dysons motor went only thing that lets the henry down is the lack of rotating brush bar. I will actually be buying a henry this year just to vacuum out the car and skirting boards etc etc

you have to remember henry is a single throughput to the vacuum chamber wheras dyson uses filters and multiple seals hence why they can underperform when using the extension tubes

i hope this helps:p
 
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