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

what do i need to vacumn stairs

[misdee prepares for moving to a house!!]

pmsl @ the dysonettes

I'm thinking of ordering the car kit - it looks fab.

Oh and Camilla, I think you should set up an assult course just for Cod.....she could wear her pink fluffy dressing gown - I hear she looks rather fetching in it

Misdee - we live in a flat on the third floor so lots of stairs from our ground floor and I must say I'm impressed with the dyson. It's made our manky-carpeted stairs look half decent. You use the little brush head attachment thing (I'm sure Camilla Dyson could give you the proper name).

Finallyogotdyson - thanks for researching the car kit. Would be very useful.

The proper-grown-up-dyson name for it is a 'stair tool'. Soz - not all that glam.

Eeek, not sure I am allowed to recommend one specific place (some legal schmegal thing about having favourites) so sorry. I can say that all the usual suspects on the high street and in retail park places sell them. As does the biggest online retailer that everyone knows about (they started off selling books!).

George - I am trying to post a video of the real life test people that literally smash the machines to death. It's hilarious and certainly something that Cod would want to get involved in. They wear white coats not fluffy dressing gowns though!

Have a good weekend all.

ModeratelyMitey - am writing up all this info and would love to include a link to some info on DLA help available, whcih I think you know about - do you have a website link i can include in the report?
Thanks

Lots of useful info here, thanks. I'm keen to see how these last though, I had one of those purple and red root 8 cyclone thingies, I'm pretty sure it was the old allergy one although I can't remember the model, I loved it right up until it died about 2 weeks after the warranty expired , apparently it didn't like sucking up talc dust which kind of defeated the object... we defected to a Henry. The reviews here are tempting me though, but it's a big outlay when you've been let down before.

Hmmm...

mumfie, I had a red and purple upright one years ago that did not last very long too.

Dysons now have a 5 year guarantee though and, apparently, go through much more vigorous testing, i.e. they throw them around more than they used to!

Fingers crossed this one lasts