Dyson Allergy Day - post your feedback or queries here

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Welcome back to everyone who spent the day at Dyson HQ talking about allergies - hope you had a fun, interesting and useful day .

Please can you use this thread to post your feedback about the day - including anything new you learnt about allergies and how you can control them, your dust busting tips, how you are finding your new Dyson Allergy vac, what feedback you had from the Dyson microbiologists on the dust sample you took with you, and anything else you think other Mumsnetters with allergies in their family may find useful.

If you didn't attend the day but have questions for our new allergy-specialist Mumsnetters or for Dyson, please feel free to post them here too and we'll do our best to get them answered.

Thanks, MNHQ

Got to meeting 15min late, apologised profusely to Headmistress and then pretended to look interested and work out what they were all talking about - 'literacy pyramids'?

Apparently, one mother has 'written a letter' to the Head. Ooh, I do enjoy a bit of discontent

Used my soft dust brush this afternoon. Have a very shiny tv upstairs now. Tried to do tops of door frames but I think mod'mitey's curved tool would be better for that little job.

ds impressed that I vacuumed his matress for creepies today - not much came off but I suppose it is a fairly new bed. Will do ours tomorrow and I'm sure will yield more critters.

GND - because there was alot more totty about Personally I would have preferred the last one

I kept wanting to take a picture so I could remember who was who - then we could have really wowed MN

DTD - Discontent - great fun if you are not the one with the "issue"

Personally I avoiding the mattress as I know what I will find.

I thought you were calling me a hussy

mind you..........

I quite liked the Microbiologist guy but, well, I know where his hands have been

Hand dryer man for me please. Nearly couldn't eat my lunch was so distracted.

He'd also have very clean hands

With you on hand-dryer man, Desperate!

Actually, they'd all have lovely-scented hands from the posh hand cream in the loos.

Ooooh for handrier man he was gorgeous

Definitely the best of a very tasty bunch...witty, handsome and clever.

Now thats a combination you never get.

I've used my duster attatchment today and i'm impressed. Took a lot of work convincing dds that I wasn't being too lazy to bring out the duster though..

Hey you 'dyson divas', hands off my hand dryer man. I saw him first

I have treid convincing work we need them installed in the hope he comes out to give them a demo on its' capabilities

I will let you all know if we do, I could take you all as temps for the day so you can have a drool

still not got it v?

No!

I contacted the lovely Sarah to see if she could contact couriers today because I couldnt wait in any longer. She rung me, and then the couriers, and then rang me back.

The couriers have cocked up. Again. Sent my dyson to the wrong depot. Apparently they've upgraded delivery to next day between 8am-12pm free of charge (I happen to think DysonHQ shouldnt have to pay them at all after this muck up - imagine if I was a paying customer? ).

Feel sorry for Sarah. I have kept pestering her and it's not her fault at all.

Oddly though, when I won something last year in an MN competition, delivery of the prize took weeks. Then a letter was sent out by sponsors saying there had been a delay at the factory etc. I'm kinda unlucky with my luck I suppose

Oh no, what a pain.

I really hope it arrives tomorrow (crosses fingers).

On another dyson-related note, I bought DD an anti-allergy pillow today (from a well-known store) which claims to be 'entirely dust mite proof'. Didn't the microbiologist tell us nothing is completely free of them (allegedly, allegedly)?

Yes, microbiology man said they were no good. They had coating of stuff that is supposed to prevent the mould which breaks down the dead skin to make it more palatable for the dust mites.

Or some such bollox.

Stillgotnodyson - you must be dying to dyson!

So should it now arrive tomorrow?

Fingers crossed....again

It should.............

Have got everything crossed too

Woohoo!!!!

Finallygotdyson - is your house spotless yet?

Was planning on vacuuming our matress today but dh now in bed ill. Man flu.

Maybe I should just vacuum him!

Not quite yet. I vaccuumed the sitting room floor and rug, and the kitchen diner (not a huge house) and the contents - in particular the sheer volume - quite scary!

DH has decided to lay laminate floor in DD's room today. So there is even more dust around than usual! Hopefully DD's asthma and eczma should improve from here onwards though.

Excellent news FinallyGotDyson So was it hand delivered??

We tackled DDs room today as she has had really itchy red skin for days now. The dusting tool was great for the cot bars and walls, ceiling and curtains. You can attach them at different angles which is v handy for coving etc.

I also used the matress attatchment on her matress. Then realised I had left the matress protector on I will be going back to it tomorrow. The carpet came up great though Although it was so strong it did lift one of the corners

I moved things around a little bit as well, the cot is in the same spot - she likes it there - but I shuffled other things about to get behind them and then put them all back differently. Hopefully the little blighters are in shock right now

so is this a brand new allergy cleaner Dyson have created or the DC14 Allergy? Will it also deal with the long hair that gets left all over the house? It clogs the brush on my current Dyson very rapidly indeed and makes it a total pain to use. Its not much better with any of the tools on the hose.

How do you keep net curtains from going yellow when washed or are you supposed to replace them every few months?

Tatt- I think most of us had either the dc22 or dc 23. Not sure how new they are compared to your model.

Maybe if Camilla is reading this, she can answer about the differences. Is the dc 14 an upright? The 23/22 are both 'little ones' (technical term!).

I seem to remember that the tool with the turning brush can now be openned so that the brush can be removed to help with unclogging.

I don't use nets as my ds does not suffer from pollen allergies. Anyone else know the answer to this?

Not sure whether that is any help to you Tatt or not.

If you are anywhere near west london, you can borrow my dc23!

mine is an older model and an upright. Unfortunately not near enough to borrow yours but thanks for the offer.

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Am utterly stunned by the volume of dust I've been picking up. NOT impressed with my old Vax. It clearly wasnt up to the job.

I did want the 'animal' DC23 version, but, am actually very happy with my DC22 Allergy. It's so lightweight which is a bonus for my back, and, dinky enough that my children want to 'play' with it

DD vaccuumed her own room today. Was easy for her to use - we left the telescopic wand/handle unextended and it was just the right height for her!

I will get the car kit though - it's got the turbine head (that has the slot so you can 'cut' out the hair that gets wound around it, which would have come with the DC23 Animal), and the bendy crevice tool.

Tatt - I've always been against net curtains - until now. I will be getting some. I can only imagine net curtains go yellow due to either cigarette smoke, or, use of non-biological washing powder. You can get special washing stuff for net curtains too cant you?

I found the soft dusting tool in dd's bedroom tonight.

She must have been busy whilst I was out this afternoon at a party!

Good idea to get her to try the vacuum tomorrow.

Ds still prefers to use the telescopic bit as a machine gun though

Has anyone given away/thrown way their old vacuum yet? Mine are still sat side by side. I might freecycle it.