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It's hit or miss. For a plug-in vacuum, there are others I would choose first. But for a cordless stick vacuum, nobody else is comparable.
by rootusrootus 5y ago
It's hit or miss. For a plug-in vacuum, there are others I would choose first. But for a cordless stick vacuum, nobody else is comparable.
- chrisseaton 5y agoTheir hair straighteners are also awesome - the only brand able to put a curl into my wife's hair.
- celticninja 5y agoHmmm, straighteners, put in a curl, sounds defective.
- chrisseaton 5y agoNo, it's called a 'straightener' but it's a generic tool for controlling the shape of hair - can straighten or curl - both are intended use-cases.
- blitzar 5y agoCan hair curlers also straighten hair or is it a one way process?
- chrisseaton 5y agoI think hair curlers are cylindrical, while straighteners are flat. You can curl with a flat surface by heating up and then curling around the whole thing. But with a curler there's nothing flat to shape against!
- blitzar 5y agoI have googled it, a person on youtube claims to be able to straighten hair with a curler; some kind of magic I think - I am not willing to suffer the pain that watching the video would inflict on my youtube reccomendations to determine the exact form of magic or witchcraft involved.
- blitzar 5y ago> But for a cordless stick vacuum, nobody else is comparable. I own one; if it is better than the rest then the whole genre of stick vacuum cleaners should be taken out back and shot. Core function (sucking things up from my carpet and disposing of the content): charitably I would say it is poor for the half a room that the battery charge lasts for. Build quality: terrible cheap brittle cheap shattering cheap plastic. Price: extremely expensive, 2x anything else. I have had some shitty appliances over the years, but those tend to at least be so cheap that the only guilt you feel throwing them in the bin is that you are destroying the planet and not your finances.
- tlear 5y agoI wonder about this, I heard same claim before. I however owned 2 of them over the last 5 years(moved a country and did not bring first one). Fact that I bought the second one kinda tells the story. Honest I never had any issue with them.. maybe if you have a huge house? Or really thick carpets. I find it incredibly convenient and it works well enough, convenient means you can use it every day and do not need to get through that barrier of getting something out of the closet. I have the charging station mounted next to the fridge and honestly I will never buy another kind of vacuum.
- blitzar 5y agoIt certainly is convenient enough to use every day, but you have to. Any attempt to deeply clean a moderately sized room is going to involve considering a recharge, and certainly more work than basically any plug in. I can think of a few small flats with all laminate flooring I have lived in that it would have been great in, but the $20 small plug in thing I had worked probably just as well, and not a lot less convenient.
- seoulmetro 5y agoSeems like a conventional, more powerful and cheaper vacuum that was the same factor to fit next to the fridge would suit you better. I haven't seen a cordless vacuum that actually worked and have resorted to corded vacuums for my entire life. Vacuums should suck, they should suck a lot but Dysons don't really suck all that much (haha)
- city41 5y agoI find their stick vacuums are complete junk. I'll never buy a Dyson again. They get clogged almost every time you use them (you gotta either jam a butter knife down the main intake or take apart the filter, both susceptible to blockage). The max button gets stuck in the on position, the battery only lasts a few months. I don't understand the appeal at all.
- blitzar 5y agoThe max button is like the old turbo button for your computer. Does anyone really use 'slow' mode?
- smeyer 5y agoWhat type of floor do you and others complaining in the thread have? I own one, and almost never use the "max" setting. I have hardwood floors and a hardwood floor-specific head for the vacuum, so I'm wondering if all the negative experiences are coming from folks with carpet.
- blitzar 5y agoCarpet, and rugs; hardwood floors get hand polished in my house, we are not savages.
- rootusrootus 5y agoI use max for carpet, weak mode for hardwood. Doesn't take a lot to pick things up off a hard surface, but running the carpet beater off air suction needs a lot more oomph.
- city41 5y agoSlow mode would increase the battery life from 5 to 10 minutes though.
- blitzar 5y agoIt also reduces suction, thus requiring 20 minutes to do the 5 minutes of vaccuming.
- tshaddox 5y agoThey are generally the most powerful stick vacs, but in my research it seems like there are several more practical options (and for a lot less money). I like the vacuums with a single head containing both a soft roller with an exposed front face (for picking up larger debris while maintains decent section with hard floors) and a traditional brush roller behind it. The Dysons I have seen come with two heads that are interchangeable, and in my apartment changing the head between hard floors and carpet is a total non-starter. If you want to suck sand out of a groove in a hard floor with sheer power, or get the most debris you can out of a thick carpet, Dyson might be a great choice. But if you just want to quickly do a routine vacuuming of your (smallish) home I think there are better cheaper options.
- rootusrootus 5y agoWe mostly end up using ours for touch up work between deep cleaning with a corded commercial vac that I bought years ago. The battery just lasts barely long enough to make a halfway decent pass over the living room. Good for when I want to just quickly get the place tidied up without dragging out the rest of the cleaning gear. I find that we keep the house cleaner in general if it's trivial to run a vacuum over the floor pretty often.
- antoniuschan99 5y agoI have a Shark Vertex Cordless. It has a duo dry roller and a no-tangle roller. No other Cordless Vac had that. It's last year model though, not sure what the improvements are now!