My wife decided that it was about time that we took a look at new vacuum cleaners. Our old Hoover had been going ever since we got married, I think it was a wedding present, and was just not picking up the dirt properly and also kept breaking down. It had become a bit expensive having to regularly get in carpet cleaning companies and she wanted to keep our home cleaner herself.
She asked me to get on the Internet (that's my place...) and find out what the best vacuum cleaner was for her to buy. So I asked her what her priorities were in choosing vacuum cleaners.
She said that her number one priority was that it should be lightweight so that she could carry it up the stairs very easily and not have to call on me to do it as she usually does.
Secondly she wanted something that was easily manoeuvrable around all the furniture. She only moves it all to clean underneath once a month. Something that would work on cleaning the tiles in the kitchen as well as the carpet in the lounge would also be an asset.
She then said that the cat hairs had been difficult to get rid of with the old one as that was important for her.
Then she said that she was fed up with having to empty the bag every time she used it. I think that they also kept splitting and ended up sending out the dust as soon as she had picked it up.
So I sat at the computer and started to look for a multi floor bagless lightweight vacuum cleaner with good manoeuvrability which she could use on all surfaces and would pick up ever crumb and hair that were lying around.
Traditionally a vacuum cleaner has been built with four wheels, one at each corner. Whenever I used ours it worked great in a straight line but I was constantly having to move it back and forth to go around corners or even manually pick it up and move it to where I wanted it.
I discovered a new idea to me which was to have a ball in the middle of the machine rather than the wheels. How many times do we hear "Don't reinvent the wheel" and yet we have put with with them on vacuums for so long. Anyway I decided that this would be a good idea for us. Of course it needs to be made of something strong to withstand all the bashing that it will get. As far as I could discover the only company with the patented ball technology is Dyson.
So I started to look at their models and came up with the Dyson DC25 Multi Floor Lightweight Dyson Ball Upright Vacuum Cleaner.
It certainly has the ball but I needed to find some other benefits before I introduced it to Pam.
I soon discovered that it has a motorised brush which will make it so much easier to dig down deep and dislodge the pet hairs from the pile of the normal carpet. The good thing though was that it can be turned off over a hard floor or delicate rugs.
Dyson were also the first company to get way from using bags which means that it never clogs up or you find it full just when you want to use it urgently. When you have finished the hoovering simply take out the clear bin (clear so that you can see when it is getting near to full) and top in the rubbish bin or, better still, onto the compost heap. You will be helping the environment much more by doing this.
Instead of the normal suction up into a bag, this machine uses root cyclone technology which is a posh way of saying that it spins at an incredibly fast speed to force every little particle of dust out of the carpet and into the clear bin. This means that you do not get any of the loss of suction or worse still a total blockage when they get trapped in the filter or bag of a normal vacuum cleaner.
Well I think that I pretty much covered all the things that she said that she needed so my wife is happy now and I do not have to spend more time looking at vacuum cleaners.
