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Ah, but what wonderful suckage.
This is a Dyson DC16 Root 6 hand-held vaccuum cleaner. It was our main Christmas present to one another as well as using anniversary money from my parents, and it is absolutely brilliant.
When we were looking into vaccuum cleaners, I had a preference for one of the stick kind, i.e. a miniature upright–until I saw them in Target. They were too large for our little space and we had no place where such an item might realistically be stored. So, we looked at hand-helds and decided to take the plunge and pick the expensive one. We don’t regret it.
Designed to mount on a door, we have it inside a closet where it tucks away neatly in its little charger. The suck-fu is so strong that it brings up dirt as well as cat litter, bits of shredded paper, cat hair, and other interesting things. I’m not sure how it does it, but the machine also creates tidy little hairballs inside the cup which are easy to dispose of and provide endless entertainment as they whirl around. Dyson obviously thought of this when they made the collector cup transparent. ;)
Additional entertainment possibilities stem from Silver who, every time we come close with it, will attack it; and from pretending it is a phaser gun from a science fiction movie. Never before has vaccuuming been such fun.
I used to sneeze my brains out every morning when I got up: the rig wasn’t cleaned before we got it and without a real vaccuum cleaner the dust didn’t improve. Since starting to use this critter, however, much of the accumulated dust from the rig has been extracted and I hardly ever sneeze. My eardrums and the cats thank me.
You can buy extra attachments, but the two provided–a brush and a nozzle–are plenty.
I have a bit of difficulty with the release cap for the cup to empty it, but can do it with two thumbs. Maybe it will soften up with time, but if you have weak hands you might have trouble with this. The charge is short, too, just six minutes, but you can get a lot done in six minutes. When I went to Amazon.com and read the reviews, I had to laugh at the one from another RVer: “As for the 6 minutes, I was running out of things to do. I was about to start vacuuming my socks just to run down the battery. Decided to give up instead. I have a 24′ motorhome with cloth walls, which also need the Himalayan cat’s fur vacuumed off now and then.”
I really can’t recommend it highly enough, and it even comes with a two year warranty.
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2 Comments, Comment or Ping
sandy (tempestsans)
my teenaged son had to do a verbal report with visual aids on an inventor last year and chose Dyson. he wanted me to buy a vacuum to use as his visual - yeah, right, like i’m made of $$. instead we drew and cut out 2 foam board ‘tornados’ and created a sandwich board type of get up with them for him to wear…then he spun his way into the room and began his oral presentation…when i met with his teachers on conference day they all expressed how relieved they were that his report had come off this way. everyone was entertained and he got the information delivered as they had hoped…of course their relief , they told me, was in the fact that he did not enter the room as they had expected and begin the report with “IT SUCKS!” your title and then the fact that today’s topic actually was a Dyson product really made me remember that and laugh.
Jan 12th, 2008
Linda R. Moore
* chuckle * I can just imagine. I do hope you got photographs–it’s not every day your kid dresses up as a vaccuum cleaner. :)
Jan 20th, 2008
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