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

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