DYSON, are they really that good?

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Have got a cyclonic vaacum cleaner of a different make. It has got a washable EPA filter but I find actually cleaning it very "messy". I am considering getting rid but before that I would like to know more about DYSON's one. Not how well it cleans but how easy/difficult it is to actually maintain/clean the filters?

I have the DC01 and I admit, I rarely clean/replace the filters and it cleans brilliantly. It is more than 10 years old. Mums is about 12 years old and also still great!

wow I bought mine (Hoower, ALYX bagless) about 1 1/2 year ago and feel like pulling my hair, I have to clean the filter a least once a week or it gets so clogged nothing gets vaacumed. And it "dusts" the house back in the process!

I have a Dyson (DS 23) the one that came free from the Mumsnet trial at the start of the year - I have to confess to having only cleaned the filter once (about 3 weeks ago) but it still does a fabulous job......

Although I can recommend not hoovering up the rice (cooked) that your DC has thrown all over the floor and then forgetinng to empty it striaght away - it's not very pleasant

The filters are realy easy to clean in the dyson. Just rinse out well under a cool tap and leave to dry on a radiator. I usually clean my every three months or so.
I have had Dysons for about 10 years and think they are brill.

Yes, very good but do not use to vacuum plaster dust after building work, it kills a Dyson.

Bienchen - it didn't kill mine - it was use to hoover up plaster (twice) once several months ago, the other time a few weeks ago and is still absolutely fine.

I love mine. I have 80 year old rather dilapidated parquet floors with lots of gaps between the boards and the Dyson does a fabulous job of sucking up the grot in between them that my previous Miele never got to grips with.

FAQ, lucky you. Very envious as I had to buy a new one as the motor conked out. Filters could not cope. Then again there was a lot of dust (replacement windows)...

Not sure about the filter thing, as DH deals with that side of our Dysoning. FWIW, I am not overly impressed with the Dyson generally. It's fantastic when it works, but it spends a lot of time not working at all (it did actually blow up at one point). The Dyson engineers are good at coming to sort out emergencies (like exploding Dysons), but there are lots of little fiddly things that go wrong as well, which aren't within the engineers' remit. I shall get a Henry next time - our cleaner swears by them!

Sometimes they stop working (overheat) because the filters need changing.

I remember ringing up the help line when mine just stopped working. The lady asked me when I had last cleaned the filter.
"What filter?" I asked.

I had had the machine for three years and they are supposed to be cleaned every three months.
CLeande it out straight away and have done so regularly and have never had any other problems with it.

Are they bagless, the Henry ones?

We've had ours for about 12 years and it has gone through 2 house renovations unscathed.It has dealt with plaster,collapsed ceilings,brick dust,soot and ash from our open fire and still does a good job.I'm dreading the day it breaks down.

The mini one is great - not the handheld on the other one. You do need to clean your filters.

Henry's are not bagless and IME, they smell horrible when you switch them on. Go into carpeted shops at the end of the day when they are shoving their Henry around! ugh!

We have two hoovers - an upstairs hoover (which really is a hoover) and a downstairs hoover (which is a Dyson). The hoover cost approximately half the price of the Dyson. The Dyson has been a nightmare from start to finish. It has broken down repeatedly, and now needs replacing at the ripe old age of 4.

I think the newrer ones are not as good or reliable as the originals tbh. They moved the manufacturing abroad and like everything else, it's gone downhill ever since...

*newer

Thank you all very much. I think I will wait for my Hoover to "die" should not be to long if I don't clean the filter, just hope it won't explode in my livingroom! Then I will probably go for a Dyson.

I love my Dyson. Totally forgot about the filters though, it's been four years a while since I got it as well.

Tip. If they don't seem to be sucking properly, try feeding a small piece of garden hose through floor sweeping bit. But otherwise you can't get to blockage.
I think they are a bit boring, all that dust emptying into bin. Although you can SEE what you accidentally whooshed up. Miele is better
with its oldfshnd bags.

Don't think I'd ever go back to bags...

We had Dyson and it was a pain in the bum - fine when we had a one bedroom flat but useless when we moved into a house. They seem much heavier than other cleaners, somehow.

Henrys are the business IMO - there's a reason why builders use them! If they can suck up plaster dust, they can cope with anything.

My old Dyson has dealt with two very hairy dogs, two children, a moth infested carpet(half the carpet disappeared up into it)leaves from the garden being trodden in, redecoration over the years...I could continue. My house is quite a big house. It is quite heavy, but my upright Vax was twice the weight. Dysons hoses stretch the length of the stairs so you don't have to hold them half way up.
I desperately want a cylinder type, but I won't give up my Dyson upright ~ not until it has died anyway and I really don't want it to die.