Aaron KLevel 1 10 Reviews
I love to vacuum. There are few sounds as satisfying as the click clack sound of debris you could not even see getting sucked up by the vacuum. I love the futuristic look of these vacuums. I love the thoughtful details like the color coded parts: moveable parts one color, levers and buttons another, parts you can clean or replace another. It seems so well-thought out. And yet....there are some major annoyances. 1. Expensive. This would not be such a big deal if they were more durable. They are not. 2. Not durable. The shell plastic is brittle. Four (4!) prior Dyson I have owned have succumb to the same fate: Broken body plastic. 3. Not actually that well-thought out. For the purpose of creating suction: 7/10. For daily uses as a tool for cleaning your home 4/10. The stick vacuum has no position of stable equilibrium other than in its wall-mounted charging bracket. Do not put it down, rest it, or try to lean it anywhere. It will topple, roll, slide, tip, fall and... break. "Oh I'm really careful, especially with an $800 device I uses every day while trying to clean." No I'm not. And I shouldn't have to be *that* careful. 3. The Detect is incredible. (major annoyance #3) I think this used to be a standard thing on vacuums back in the day. At some point it went away. And now it is back and has a name other than "vacuum light." It really works, but if you are at all OCD, save yourself the psychological frustration of being able to see your dirt better than ever and only ever being able to vacuum up 80% of it. What you do not know, what you cannot see, in this case, will not hurt you. After you have been over the same patch of floor twenty times before you grabbed a wet rag you will wonder what the vacuum is even for. 4. Which is likely how we ended up with the V15 Submarine Absolute with Detect (i.e. with light). So the dust is gone, but I can still see the beads and streaks of water. So now I have to grab a dry cloth and what am I even doing on my hands and knees again. I just spent $1450 (in aggregate) and I still need to wipe the floors. ? Something is wrong with this picture. And I am fully on board with the idea that I am the problem. But I can't be the only mildly OCD person who wants to buy an expensive vacuum to address it. That seems like the Dyson target market right there. And for us.... for me.. they come up short. I gifted my two recent Dyson purchases to friends who seemed like they would not obsess about their defects as much as I seemed to. I still have four other vacuums (this sounds just as crazy to me as it does to you): Miele Boost CX1 (love it), Festool CTC SYS (super love), Nilfisk GD5 (get out of my way, I am vacuuming all day), Fein Turbo 1 (meh, now I have a bag of dirt). Two of these are shop vacs so fine, normal. The perfect stick vacuum does not exist. Maybe it will be a Dyson when it does, for now, I am putting my mental health in the hands of other vacuums. Oh PS I have also owned air purifier (skip it) humidifier (very good, plants love) hair dryer (gentle, loud) and hand dryer (in a restaurant, fine, also loud.) 6/10 is my bottom line, an average.
