FOR all you DYSON fans

[Jimmy L]

This month's Consumer Reports tested the new "Slim DC18" Dyson.($470)

"Most powerful lightweight vacuum"
"Doesn't lose suction"

Compared overall performance to
HOOVER TEMPO WIDEPATH U5140-900 ($60)
RICCAR SUPRALITE RSL3 ($350

Results,

We'd like to say this lightweight coulda been a contender, but it didn't knock out the competition.The HOOVER and the RICCAR were better at deep cleaning carpet, and therefor more powerful.

ALTHOUGH THE DYSON DIDN'T LOSE SUCTION, ITS SUCTION WAS NOT AS GOOD AS THE HOOVER'S TO START WITH.

On the plus side, it excelled at cleaning bare floors and was easy to manuever.But you needn't let it SUCK $470 from your wallet.


The testing media was a sand and talc combination.
The media was spread out on the carpet and weighed before vacuuming and after .

The same thing was said about weaker suction with the larger Dyson's as well.

Just what is it that drives professional carpet cleaners to buy these expensive POS vacuums?

They clearly don't perform as well as cheaper makes.

Is it the delusion of seeing the dirt in the clear plastic tank?

 

[Guest]

Yea,but how would it look tattooed on your forearm?
something to consider.

 

[Ron Werner]

I use the Cleartrak, based on Dyson design. That clear cannister is the only thing that allows me to get as much soil out as I do sometimes. So many times I go to a place and it "looks" clean, so far as dry particulates go. BUT, IN the carpet: deodourizer powders, sand, dust, silt, hairs, lint, etc.

A good machine helps but its the operator that in the end determines its performance.

 

[Bob Foster]

Jimmy the report confirms actual Mikey's Board test results that a team of us did down at Mike Fest.

Lindhaus also performed less than expected.
Best vac - Sanitare
Second best vac - a $99 Bissell Clean View

We used real dirt with coke soil and all sorts of other stuff in them and ground it in with an RX20 and weighed the cut up samples before and after too.

Brian Luddy
Tony Wheelwright
Paul Budnik
and others I can't recall performed this testing

 

[Jimmy L]

Were those sample carpets spread out over Mikey's living room?

 

[Mikey P]

Yes Jimmy they were.

 

[cmaster]

And they are still there, but clean now

 

[steve r]

Just what is it that drives professional carpet cleaners to buy these expensive POS vacuums?


the same thing that makes some pay $.60 ft to clean carpet.
MARKETING and salesmen.

 

[Blue Monarch]

Looks a lot like Chad's luggage.

 

[Mikey P]

I hear Dilbert is still real pissed over that.


Had to pay for new sheets.



lol..

 

[The Preacher]

i bought a Eurica bagless thats heavier than my home bissel and it appears to pick up better!!!