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Dh can go and live in the shed with his beloved dyson

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Kurtanforpm · 03/04/2022 09:58

I’m sick to death of the bloody thing.

It doesn’t work. Half way though something clogs. The whole thing has to be taken apart. I’m sick to death of giving it a hair cut once a week (Dyson owners will know what I mean).

The charge never lasts that long. The bloody head has to be changed for the hard floor and that head is next to useless, anything other than a large speck of dust makes it stop working.

When he bought the bloody thing, he said he would do all the vacuuming. But a hairy cat and three children including a toddler who is incapable of keeping anything on a plate means that I do end up using it when he’s working.

His Grandmother has had to move in to a care home and MIL has asked if we want the Shark that they bought her last year. I’ve bitten hand off (do you like the shark reference).

Dh is sulking saying he wants to keep his dyson. He loves it. It’s the bestest vacuum cleaner ever.

It doesn’t sound like he loves the bastard thing when he’s on the kitchen swearing at it halfway though cleaning the house trying to find out why it’s stopped working for the 6th time, but what do I know.

I’m having the shark and he can either like it or run off into the sunset with his beloved dyson and i’ll read about how “I married my vacuum cleaner” in Take a Break.

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Hollywolly1 · 03/04/2022 20:22

Op I had a Dyson it always ran out of charge so quickly I was sick of having to run with it as I knew it was going to die so about 5 weeks ago I bought the corded allergy shark stick and I love it so much I also bought a second one.The second one is also corded 10m andvirscthe animal one I got a reduced price and it it just brilliant and the stick folds in half for storage, I threw out my sweeping brush to.This obviously never runs out of charge which is fabulous.I love my shark😘

Hollywolly1 · 03/04/2022 20:23

Is the animal one😍🥰😍🥰

Kurtanforpm · 03/04/2022 21:47

@Hollywolly1

Is the animal one😍🥰😍🥰
Yes and it’s lush.

Fuck it. I’m moving into the shed with Kevin the Shark.

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Kurtanforpm · 03/04/2022 21:49

My mother in law is a very bad influence. She is italian and knows her wine as well as her vacuum cleaners, monday morning will not be a fun one.

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PattyMelt · 03/04/2022 22:23

Dh does the vacuuming here. We also hate Dyson, he fixed his friends Dyson three times and it's a heavy piece of junk.
For Christmas I bought him a Shark, he was over the moon. The pet one as the cat and I both shed.

Toddlerteaplease · 03/04/2022 22:28

My supposedly pet friendly Dustin couldn't cope with two long haired Persians. So I had to get a new one with a fatter bruh bar. Very annoying. But I still love it!

thefootballcoacheswife · 03/04/2022 23:18

Henry is where it's at tbh...anything else is kidding yourself. Yes he's annoying to store, and he's a pain when he topples over when you're doing the stairs but he's never failed me in terms of suction.

LouLou198 · 04/04/2022 07:20

Take the shark! Didn't realise how shit out Dyson was until the shark arrived!

Longingforatikihut · 25/04/2022 18:49

I got a shark. It's not been here an hour and I'm in love! Light work of house bunny fur!. I had to empty it already for what it pulled out the rug. Looking forward a fluffless future! It's the corded anti hair wrap pet model.

BarbaraofSeville · 25/04/2022 18:57

YANBU

We've had so many vacuum cleaners as cat hair and litter kills them and we're too lazy to wash filters etc. Cheap or expensive, they've all been shit and I think the Dyson was the shittiest of the lot. Thankfully we didn't have an expensive model.

But if your requirements are anything beyond light vacuuming in a spotless house, then the best one I've found are the Karcher ones that are designed to be used to clean up after builders.

And the best thing is, if you look at the adverts, only men are allowed to use them, so win win Wink

www.kaercher.com/uk/home-garden/wet-and-dry-vacuum-cleaners/wd-6-p-premium-16283780.html

G3m · 25/04/2022 19:12

My psycho ex used my Zanussi (brilliant hoover btw) to hoover up bricks. It broke. No reflection on the hoover. It had managed 10 years until then.

elfycat · 25/04/2022 22:36

There was a shark at the holiday let we stayed at over Easter. DH who is in love with our Dyson may have had his heart stolen. He 'reluctantly' said he understood if I wanted to buy one and wouldn't fight it.

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fantasmasgoria1 · 26/04/2022 05:16

We have a stick Vaccum and a vax. The vax is excellent. Brilliant suction, brush bar great and no clogging. We have. A stick vac. It's actually not bad at all. The only issue is the brush bar tends to hair wrapped it.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 26/04/2022 11:05

I’m certainly sick of our cordless, though admittedly it was about the cheapest when I bought it.
Endlessly stops working, or stops and starts, needs de-hairing, etc.

Another MAJOR peeve is that it stops working when the filter needs changing, but there’s no way of telling by just looking at the filter. Plus you have to wash it, and let it dry away from direct heat, which can take 24 hours - but no spare filter was supplied! We bought one for £12, so that it wouldn’t be out of action for 24 hours. Spares really should have been supplied as standard - such mean penny pinching.
I also bought one for a dd, and hers has been equally rubbish, too.

I still like my plug-in cylinder Dyson, still going strong after many years, but would never buy a Dyson cordless again.

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