It sucks! (Dyson DC05)

Member Name: caralyn

Product:	Dyson DC05
Date:	21/08/02 (262 review reads)
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Advantages: it works!, very powerful and quick, snazzy design

Disadvantages: expensive, need to keep instructions for how to re-assemble

Having just bought a DC05 I wanted to give my initial impressions.

My carpet suffers an awful lot of wear and tear, and usually has crumbs, hair, dust and various unsavoury bits embedded in it. When moving into the house my initial reaction was to save money and get the cheapest vacuum cleaner possible. When it finally exploded last week (OK, OK well I didn't know I needed to change the motor filter!) I decided that I had had enough of economy, and it was time to invest in something that worked!

So, back home I went proudly clutching my new Dyson! Luckily, as a child I was always partial to jigsaw puzzles, so putting it together only took a few minutes (while my other half looked on making sarcastic comments about flat pack furniture!). I ran it over the sitting room and stairs, and quite honestly in that time, the container was about 1/3 full! All this was gunk and dust that my previous cleaner hadn't even touched for years! My landing is now clean and tidy for the first time in months, and the very powerful suction (at times a little OTT!) means that it can also be used more or less for dusting (just don't leave any lightweight small ornaments around or they will vanish!). The next job was working out how to clean it (since I thought I better had!) and again, the jigsaw training was invaluable.

Whether or not it is value for money, time will tell, but it certainly lives up to its reputation

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