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Well, the worst product I own is one of his bagless vacuum cleaners. The crummy look and feel, the unbelievably loud and high-pitched whine and the accompanying

Well, the worst product I own is one of his bagless vacuum cleaners. The crummy look and feel, the unbelievably loud and high-pitched whine and the accompanying tinnitus-inducing higher order acoustic harmonics, and just the overall plasticky shittiness of it after about an hour of dragging it around is simply vomit-inducing. My pet hate is the 100x added friction between the retractable bristles and my plush carpet. It's costing me extra in time and energy to push this thing around. My next vacuum cleaner will instead be a janitor-grade Nilfisk.

mas-ev 5y ago
I love my Dyson SV10. Bought it 3 years ago and it's still working like a champ. I don't use it to vacuum a whole room but more for rugs or clean up jobs. I've got a Roomba S9+ for whole floor jobs. Swiffer wet jet for mopping/dust/hard floor.
blitzar 5y ago
> just the overall plasticky shittiness of it after about an hour of dragging it around is simply vomit-inducing Get the battery one. No more hour of dragging it around - you only get 5-7 minutes before it is dead, then back on the wall. The downside is I think they found an even lower bidder for the plastic when they made them, so that 5 minutes feels like a lifetime.
- freshpots 5y ago
  Really 5 minutes? That has not been my experience, not even close.
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123pie123 5y ago
>My pet hate is the 100x added friction between the retractable bristles and my plush carpet. It's costing me extra in time and energy to push this thing around. we had the same issue, there should be a slider on the front to turn down the vacuum power. We turn it to about 50% on the deep pile carpets
xahrepap 5y ago
I don't have a Dyson vacuum. But when I got new carpet the company I bought it from gave us a "How to care for your new carpet" brochure. And one of the first things was "do not use a Dyson". I asked about it and they said that they can ruin your carpet. Too much suction, I think is what they said. It's been a few years.
LeoPanthera 5y ago
It's funny how polarizing they are. I have one of the handheld battery powered ones with the long stick so you can clean the floor, and it honestly works better than any vacuum cleaner I've ever owned before, and pulling the lever to dump out the contents into the trash is immensely satisfying. I love it. I definitely think that people hate more things, in the past few years. It's no longer enough just to dislike something, you have to really despise it, tell all your friends, and advertise that online. I don't think I like this trend.
- tigerlily 5y ago
  You know, you're right, and I mislike the trend too. Yet, my battle with the vacuum cleaner in question is one I face each week, and of all the things I'm faced with, I do so loathe it. It's just a feeling, maybe of being nauseated. So I hate the vacuum. It's ok to hate a thing right? I mean, I don't hate people. I don't even hate James Dyson. But then hate doesn't describe a feeling, in the same way that yuck is not a taste descriptor. Hate's become an individual reflex, that when aggregated seems to boil over online like an orchestra of diet coke and mentos. To be fair to the vacuum cleaner, it probably has saved its worth in bags :)
- belval 5y ago
  It's one of the weirdly polarizing HN topic, depending on who comments first you will have threads full of praise or threads full of straight hate for their product. FWIW: I like my Dyson handheld and it works well. We had one at my parents as well and it could do the two floors without any issue.
  - adwww 5y ago
    It's a bit hard in the UK to separate his products from his politics. Maybe like reviewing a MyPillow in the US.
- mattbee 5y ago
  For me, the battery-powered vacuums do what they say, but you need to fuss them a lot. The lever to dump the contents broke after a year, so it works but doesn't stay attached to the handle. I have to be careful opening it to avoid dumping the small bin in the big bin. It doesn't click back on without some force, so you can be pushing it around looking like it's working while there isn't actually a seal, so it pushes the dirt around the floor. The filter clogs at the slightest provocation, so if you don't wash (and dry) it daily, it will start pulsing uselessly until you do. It doesn't work unless the filter is bone dry. The high-powered speed busts your eardrums; my children scarper when I use it for even a few seconds and I find it painful. It burns the battery up in under 3 minutes. So it is fine but there are a lot of trade-offs that you have to learn about. I still keep their mains-powered vacuum too, which is a lot less stressful. Also because I like pain, their robot Heurist 360, which is generally awesome except for 5% of the time when it gives up in the middle of a run for no obvious reason.

mas-ev 5y ago

I love my Dyson SV10. Bought it 3 years ago and it's still working like a champ. I don't use it to vacuum a whole room but more for rugs or clean up jobs. I've got a Roomba S9+ for whole floor jobs. Swiffer wet jet for mopping/dust/hard floor.

blitzar 5y ago

> just the overall plasticky shittiness of it after about an hour of dragging it around is simply vomit-inducing Get the battery one. No more hour of dragging it around - you only get 5-7 minutes before it is dead, then back on the wall. The downside is I think they found an even lower bidder for the plastic when they made them, so that 5 minutes feels like a lifetime.

freshpots 5y ago
Really 5 minutes? That has not been my experience, not even close.

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123pie123 5y ago

>My pet hate is the 100x added friction between the retractable bristles and my plush carpet. It's costing me extra in time and energy to push this thing around. we had the same issue, there should be a slider on the front to turn down the vacuum power. We turn it to about 50% on the deep pile carpets

xahrepap 5y ago

I don't have a Dyson vacuum. But when I got new carpet the company I bought it from gave us a "How to care for your new carpet" brochure. And one of the first things was "do not use a Dyson". I asked about it and they said that they can ruin your carpet. Too much suction, I think is what they said. It's been a few years.

LeoPanthera 5y ago

It's funny how polarizing they are. I have one of the handheld battery powered ones with the long stick so you can clean the floor, and it honestly works better than any vacuum cleaner I've ever owned before, and pulling the lever to dump out the contents into the trash is immensely satisfying. I love it. I definitely think that people hate more things, in the past few years. It's no longer enough just to dislike something, you have to really despise it, tell all your friends, and advertise that online. I don't think I like this trend.

tigerlily 5y ago
You know, you're right, and I mislike the trend too. Yet, my battle with the vacuum cleaner in question is one I face each week, and of all the things I'm faced with, I do so loathe it. It's just a feeling, maybe of being nauseated. So I hate the vacuum. It's ok to hate a thing right? I mean, I don't hate people. I don't even hate James Dyson. But then hate doesn't describe a feeling, in the same way that yuck is not a taste descriptor. Hate's become an individual reflex, that when aggregated seems to boil over online like an orchestra of diet coke and mentos. To be fair to the vacuum cleaner, it probably has saved its worth in bags :)
belval 5y ago
It's one of the weirdly polarizing HN topic, depending on who comments first you will have threads full of praise or threads full of straight hate for their product. FWIW: I like my Dyson handheld and it works well. We had one at my parents as well and it could do the two floors without any issue.
- adwww 5y ago
  It's a bit hard in the UK to separate his products from his politics. Maybe like reviewing a MyPillow in the US.
mattbee 5y ago
For me, the battery-powered vacuums do what they say, but you need to fuss them a lot. The lever to dump the contents broke after a year, so it works but doesn't stay attached to the handle. I have to be careful opening it to avoid dumping the small bin in the big bin. It doesn't click back on without some force, so you can be pushing it around looking like it's working while there isn't actually a seal, so it pushes the dirt around the floor. The filter clogs at the slightest provocation, so if you don't wash (and dry) it daily, it will start pulsing uselessly until you do. It doesn't work unless the filter is bone dry. The high-powered speed busts your eardrums; my children scarper when I use it for even a few seconds and I find it painful. It burns the battery up in under 3 minutes. So it is fine but there are a lot of trade-offs that you have to learn about. I still keep their mains-powered vacuum too, which is a lot less stressful. Also because I like pain, their robot Heurist 360, which is generally awesome except for 5% of the time when it gives up in the middle of a run for no obvious reason.