The Henry we had broke, a brush welded itself to the commutator. Strippe= d it down, emeried the commutator, all worked again.
Then sold it for =A320 in a garage sale as it was much harder work shovi= ng the head about to get the (short pile) carpets clean and didn't do anything like a good a job as the DC04 does with much less effort.
The cheapo Earlex wet'n dry is better than the Henry.
Of course. One is specifically for cleaning carpets, ie an upright, the other a general purpose machine for anything. Pretty well any upright ever made would be easier to push than a cylinder for this purpose. That's why they were invented.
You call that a service? ;-) I also empty them and only change them once in a while. Say a quid's worth every couple of years.
Doesn't seem to do much good - otherwise they'd not catch one.
Like buy a new Henry?
:-)
The nay-sayers seem to fall into two groups: those who say Dysons are unreliable and those who say they don't work very well (there's a third group who can't manage to say anything intelligent at all, but hey this is Usenet!).
As far as unreliability is concerned I haven't personally found that to be the case, but I accept that a sample of size of 4 is far too small to conclude anything meaningful. I am happy to believe the verdict of Which that they are neither particularly reliable nor particularly unreliable (with some evidence that things have improved in the last few years).
However as far as performance is concerned my personal experience (and that of most other Dyson users I'm sure) *is* relevant, and that is that they work very well. They also score highly with me for ease of emptying, weight and manoevrability (at least the models we have). I am mystified that some people are claiming that they "don't pick up"; that is totally at variance with the Which test reports which typically describe Dysons as 'excellent', 'superb' or 'outstanding'.
Richard.
Ours is a lightweight one. Most obviously the dirt canister is half size. /She/ puts up with that for the weight.
Andy
Sebo uprights are the mutts nuts.
The forth group is those who say they are both unreliable and don't pick up very well either.
A guy I know runs a large vacuum cleaner repair centre on the south coast. At any given time he has a room full of dead Die Soons. He loves them, the repairs pay for his 3 holidays a year.
I've spent most of my working life selling cleaning machines & have experience of every type of vacuum you could imagine - and some you couldn't. Based on that experience Die Soons don't pick up very well at all.
You think Which has detailed test results? You must be joking.
And do they mention stuff like lens aberrations or sensor size? No.
If I want "detailed test results" about DSLRs I'll go to dpreview or photozone, thanks.
Quite. Which never claimed to do reviews for enthusiasts. Plenty of mags around for those. But they can be daunting for someone who may just want a decent camera which works.
That may be the case for commodity items like toasters, but for anything that embodies any degree of complexity their reports are laughable. The only way to deal with such items is to become a bit knowledgeable yourself, such as listening to the "experts" debating amongst themselves.
Neither do I. To me, the Dysons look fugly, unlike the sleek sexy models you get from most vendors. However I'm uninfluenced by that, just as I'd never buy B&O hi-fi. I bought my Dyson 18 or whatever years ago on a recommendation from a relly whose judgement I can trust.
Jew expect me to do carpets with one of those?
Which is a useless device for carpets. If you want to get muscles like Popeye cleaning your carpets, feel free, I don't intend to.
Those mags are not just for enthusiasts, IMO. They're for people also who want to get up to speed on some topic, to a depth and for long enough to enable them to make a purchase they're gonna be happy with, just like we did with double glazing a couple of years ago (although the web sufficed there, rather than mags).
My BiL is a typical Which user. A few years back (when tellies were still CRT), he bought a large-ish CRT telly on the basis of a Which recommendation. Thought it was wonderful, because it was a Which Best Buy.
I didn't have the heart to tell him that the colour registration on a whole quarter of the screen was buggered. So much so that it made TeleText unreadable on that part of the screen.
But as I keep on saying, 'experts' with these hobby things very rarely agree about anything - leaving a non expert confused.
B&O usually performs perfectly adequately, so if someone is willing to pay extra for its looks, it's their money. But you don't tend to have to look at a vacuum cleaner other than when it's in use.
Well, yes. Dyson fetishists always try for recruits to their cult.
The Henry has long been relegated to sucking up wood dust but cannot be lifted as the latch connecting the top and the bottom doesn't work (nor can I see how to make it work)
Over 4 years use, and I would suspect nearly every day, nothing broken. As the 'operator' has had multiple joint replacements they probably woiuldn't be able to use *any* of the alternatives.
The mixer or the dough hook?
Yes.
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