Dyson DC08 Animal

I've aways had Dyson upright cleaners and found them very heavy. So I thought for a change I would buy a cylinder cleaner and with owning two dogs and being owned by three cats I thought this cylinder cleaner would be the perfect answer. However I now wished i'd never bothered. A bit about the inventor and Dyson Company James Dyson first invention was a Sea Truck whilst he was studing at the Royal College of Art. A few years later came the Ballbarrow. In 1978 he noticed how the air filter in the Ballbarrow spray finishing room kept clogging with powder particles, so he designed and built an industrial cyclone tower, which removed the powder ...  Read the complete review

I regret to write that my experience of this dyson has been a painful one... We bought it a year or two ago, around christmas, when our previous Panasonic vacuum cleaner finally gave out. We had already made the decision to go dyson, but we selected this particular model because at the time, we had both a dog and a cat, and the hair was becoming a real problem. On bringing the dyson home, and assembling it (which I must say, was relatively straight-forward), we were astounded by it's miraculous ability to remove animal hair from the carpet. The 'turbo-head', a large carpet attachment with a spinning brush interior, was particularly adept at sucking ...  Read the complete review

If you are looking for just another vacuum cleaner and your not too fussed about features, suction or looks then you should probably stop reading now! If, however, these things matter to you then you are potentially on to a winner. What you get in the box and how useful it is: A crevice tool: not too bad, useful for (duh!) crevices, especially in your car. A brush tool: works well on cobwebs, not much else though. A stair tool: the tool you'll probably use most often, great on car seats aswell as curtains. The Animal Turbo tool: annoyingly fixed in position but very effective at removing hair. Hepa Filter: Difficult to guage its efficiency but reportedly ...  Read the complete review

Patented cyclone technology - you just can't beat it - or so Dyson say and I have to agree. When I moved into my new place the one thing I had completely forgotten about was a vacuum cleaner and this lead to much rushing around when I realised that my cough and wheezing was down to the amount of animal hair left by the previous owners. Not being well off enough to pay for new carpets I decided that I had to go forth and buy a Dyson - after all everyone I had spoken to raved about them. I paid £223 for my DC08 from www.vacs4u.com and the picture above shows it off - it's small, compact and sits nicely in the storage space by the front door - something an ...  Read the complete review

After I had figured out how to attach everything, I went straight up to the bedroom to hoover, I bought this dyson because I have a dog my dc07 seems to have problems with dog hair, it was lovely to use and seemed to have little problem with dog hair, until i looked at the hoover head, however it was so easy to get the hair out of the head, I dont see the point in being niggly. I then decided to tackle the stairs, changing the head to use the stair tool, no problem, I then put the main head back on and tackled the laminate, there is a button to press to change flore types and hey presto I cleaned the floor, I bought the cylinder as my dc07 is an upright, it was nice to ...  Read the complete review