Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

There's an inexpensive cleaning invention and wonder on the market.  It's called a Swiffer duster.  Comes with a plastic handle and 5 disposable dusters.  Very cheap and easy to use.  About 10 inches long.  Almost weightless.  I always have one handy in the jacket pocket of the outer bag on my new Oreck XL.  When I'm vacuuming the rugs and floors, I take an extra few seconds just to swipe across the areas that need a light dusting and voila, all is clean until I'm ready to use the cann.  Works great.  It's made by Proctor and Gamble AND traps and locks in dust.  And it is an energy saver because it doesn't need electricity to operate.

Carmine D.

No, not exactly.  Having lived and worked in Missouri for awhile, I always have doubt until I see the proof for myself.  I've used Oreck canisters and I am impressed with their performance for baby canns and light household cleaning, for garages, and cars.  And the price [free with purchase of the XL upright] is hard to beat.  Of course, the price is built into the XL cost.

I haven't used a DC24 yet.  I owned and used the DC07 pink [$400].  Very unimpressed with it.  Used the DC15 All Floors [$500].  It is absolutely the worse vacuum ever to come to market in the USA in the last 50 years with one possible exception.  I had the opportunity to buy and use a DC11 [$500] dyson cann for $100.  I turned it down and the dealer offered it to me for $50.  I turned it down again.  Why? This is IMH the one exception to the DC15.  And the DC16 hand held dyson [$150] is a very close second.  Dyson has the 3 worse vacuums I've seen come to market in the last 50 years.  And it took them just 2 short years to make the Triple Crown of the 50 years' worse in vacuums.

So you see I do have doubt.

Carmine D.

Thanks for posting the link.  I thought I was imagining it the other day on a UK website thought there was a DC25 Animal but siad product/picture removed!  So the DC23 is another canister!  I take it a bigger version of the DC22!?  Using 'Core' separation technology as well!

DC18

The dc17 is  another dyson MISTAKE.If the machine was priced right it may do a lot better.As Mark from florida says The DYSON advertising department is laughfing at you.tHE Dyson absolut is a absolute waste of money.

Please feel free to read his review on E-BAY.

MOLE

Hello Mole:

I read Mark's review a while back and it is balanced and objective.  The shortcomings with the DC17 are its weight [21 pounds] and price [$549].  Retailers even on this site advertise them new for $440.   LNT and BBB consistently [both stores cater to female buyers and users] sell them for 20 percent off [about $440] despite dyson's objectives, so we are told by Airblade, a dyson insider on this site.  The DC17 has been in the US since September 2006. 

I expected dyson to intro a new full sized upright but thought it would be a revamping of the DC17 not the DC15.  I was wrong in that regard.  Why?  The DC17 is the ONE dyson model which most dyson admirers agree [with support from Consumers Report] is the best of the dysons.   I didn't expect a recycling of the Ball.  I will match the new recycled full size ball with the DC17 and compare. 

I'm not as excited about the new recycled ball dysons as the posters on this site.  I think jaydee will strike out again with the new ball uprights as he done with the DC15.  Why?  In part the consensus of opinion on the DC15, which next to the DC11, is generally agreed to be the worse of the dyson worse.  And CR is part of that consensus.  Have to give him kudos for perseverence.  His perseverence may not win favor among vacuum users for the new ball generation of uprights. 

We'll see if the new recycled dyson ball uprights come to US retailers. 

Carmine D.

I have a super HQ picture of a DC24 for viewing.  I have more HQ pics of the DC24 and DC25.  If you want me to upload these additional pics, then "reply" and let me know.        DIB