Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Here's a set of reviews by people who have said they have had Dysons for well over 5 years, some even 15 years old! http://reviews.argos.co.uk/1493-en_gb/4064389/reviews.htm Very impressive! Dysons only getting better. Also, here's a very neat video of Sir James Dyson himself bashing the s**t out of his very own DC24! http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/25/video-james-dyson-runs-his-own-durability-test-on-a-dc24/ Some other neat and (from what I've found to be) exclusive Dyson videos: http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/dyson-08/

Venson:

While I often bragged about all the 25 eyar old appliance in my old home, when I put on the market to sell, I upgraded all the applainces to new.  More of an expense than I thought, because I had to also upgrade the electrical specs of the house to meet current county codes.  Helped sell the house in a down market.  Also, I gifted the HOOVER Z with the house.  I used it for 6 months while I was preparing the house for sell.  It did a wonderful job on the 25 year old wall to wall carpets.  Even after with the English yellow long haired lab.  So good, the carpets didn't need upgrading/replacing to sell the house. 

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

25 year old carpet.  Used a vacuum on it for 6 months and you want to give credit to the vac for the carpets longevity.  Too bad the rest of the world did not know about this carpet restorer before the z bit the dust.  Actually you used it longer than it stayed on the market.

Well, if it isn't the nutty buddy from Stuckey's!

Wasn't my decision to keep the 25 year old carpets.  It was my real estate agent. 

HOOVER Z was my test of it while I patched and sanded walls and painted tghe whole house inside and out.  Wanted to see how the best fared at life's worse clean up jobs.  It did just as expected.  Ideal. 

Partners in the rug cleaning job were a RICCAR bagged, and bagless EUREKA Whirlwind, and several others too numerous to mention.  HOOVER Z was the finisher.  Paid $350 at BEST BUY on sale in March 2006 and it stayed with the house after I left in August and the house sale in December 2006.  I did buy another new Z in Nov 2007 from HOME DEPOT for $100 and gifted it new to the local church.  It's still in use.  I serviced one time after a large paper clip lodged in the dirt path and developed a dust/dirt pack clogging off suction.  No parts were needed. Simple to work on.  About 10 phillips screws and entire unit breaks down right to the motor.  It's still going strong with all wear parts like filters, belt, brush roll, switch, cord hose still original. 

I will most likely buy another Z for my own personal use when the time and price is right.  BTW, the RICCAR and EUREKA were warriors.  Gifted those away too before moving.  The RICCAR was about 6 years old at the time of donation and purchased as a floor model/display from an indy for $150.  The EUREKA was 4 years old at time of donation and purchased from a student of mine after he got a part time retail job at a local Kohl's.

Carmine D.

HARDSELL wrote:
25 year old carpet? Is that all? We had a 40 year old one and it was hideous, hideous, hideous! Wall to wall starting in the living room and went all through the hall to our 4 spare bedrooms. My parents only kept it because it came with the house and was certified 100% wool which for the UK back in the 1960s that stuff was like gold dust. The Canadian guy who built the house for his own family had no taste whatsoever; Thunderbirdd wall paper in the kitchen, pink ceilings, green walls in the bedrooms and tasteless wall coverings in other parts of the home. The bathrooms had SMURF wall paper! I recall having to rip the wool carpet up and oh the bags I went through that day turfing red Scottish tartan carpets never mind the Sebo bags that filled with carpet underlay and general dust that hadn't been lifted for about 40 years!

I got quite a shock the first time I washed the carpets I can tell you!

vacmanuk wrote:

What amazed the agent is that we had an English yellow lab that shed year round in the house for the last 9 years in the home.  She said if she didn't see the lab she would never know.  NO stains.  No smell.  No hair.  I vacuumed daily.  Carpets were wool too.  I opine that quality/performance of vacuums can be imputed to how long they keep your carpets looking and feeling new.  Here in the USA, HOOVER stamped on vacuums not just "Beats, as it sweeps, as it cleans," but also "HOOVER makes rugs last longer."  HOOVER did so for many years.  No other vacuum maker would/could.  25 years is a long carpet life for w-t-w.  Why?  When the house is empty it's easy to see new carpet versus old worn.  If a seasoned real estate agent can't see this difference in carpets with 25 years of age and specifically says keep the carpets you have then the vacuums/homeowners are maintaining rugs properly.

Carmine D.

Another video proving Dysons are well built, quality machines:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-RK7Pc4aBg&feature=related

Another interesting video showing not Dyson build quality, but Sir James Dyson's intellect and wisdom in that he evidently speaks french!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TauL9EZd8g