After 7-ish years of using the vacuum we got when we got married, Jodi and I finally decided that it just wasn’t cutting it anymore. We’d heard the buzz about the Dyson vacuums, and thought we’d investigate this multi-hundred-dollar marvel.
Well, we talked ourselves into it. We came home from Lowe’s (half a block from our house) with a Dyson DC-14 Low Reach. So… was it worth it?
Heck, YES.
This vaccuum SUCKS. And I mean that in the best possible way. It’s pretty quiet, the thing is engineered to the hilt (execpt for one removable peice that I’m still scratching my head over - “why is that removable?”) and it handled pretty much everything I threw at it, including the two cat-hair covered IKEA Poäng armchairs that Jake and Lucy sleep on all day long.
Before I was done vacuuming the house, I had to empty the bin several times from all the dust, dirt, and cat-hair the Dyson sucked out of my recently-vacuumed carpets. It also does bare floors better than a broom, and (using the included low-reach tool) gets under furniture with a mere 2.5” of clearance.
Yes, I’m hyperventilating over a vacuum cleaner, it’s that good. And heck, it’s a toy that both a geek and a house-wife can love!
Update: |Seth| wondered on IM if I was now a BzzAgent. Um, no. Not my bag. If I’m shrieking about a product here it’s probably that I own it and love it, or just want it really really really badly. ;-)
I had to chuckle when i read this post. Two years ago when I first saw a Dyson (borrowed from a friend), I went nuts over it - in a good way. The raw 'suckability' of it was something and so was the engineering of it. I thought it was a bit weird for me to get so excited about a vacuum cleaner but I guess I'm a sucker for quality stuff, no matter what it is. Anyways, I've gone on to talk about the virtues of the Dyson to other friends and they in turn have bought one too! Oh, and I ended up purchased the refurb unit instead of brand new - best money I've spent on an appliance in a long while.