Daddy Dyson keeps it in the family and hoovers up son’s energy biz Blighty billionaire inventor, philanthropist, and land owner Sir James Dyson has snapped his son's energy efficient lights company, Jake Dyson Products, placing Dyson Junior in pole position to take over the family biz. In an interview with the Financial Times Dyson said: “I want the business to remain a family business." He …
He does well for a person who has un-invented so many perfectly good things.
We have a vacuum cleaner that doesn't pick up visible dirt, whose flexible pipe contracts in a most annoying way, that makes a bloody racket, jams up with hair and that is now held together with gaffer tape.
Just give me back my Hoover please.
Salesmen have taken over the world.
Yeah, the old diecast Junior. Replace the 90 degree twist o-ring drivebelt occasionally, clean and dehair and regrease the beater drum bearings even more occasionally and the brute will go on almost forever. AND it'll get under places you couldn't get a Dyson even if you smashed it into tiny little bits. (A month's normal use?)
The onlly upright I know that can cope with a border collie in moult.
I find the opposite, the handheld I have is great for cleaning up small messes, the upright is great for main cleaning, and when something does break, Dyson just sends replacement parts out! YES they support the customers! I know its shocking, the Dyson is repairable!!!!
I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with for a robo hoover, my LG is pretty damned good, the only robot vacuum on the market that actually vacuums rather than sweeps! (well it was when I brought it!)
Could James Dyson be King then as he owns more land than the Queen?
Imagine the ceremony. Him there on the throne, crown on head and the ball and sceptre in either hand. Then the Archbishop asking him to lift his legs up while he vacuum’s the rug with the Royal Dyson DC69 (or whatever model - it's up to them).
Yeah but only a mug buys brand new dysons. Get a returned model from the UK factory. If it breaks and is returned they generally send a new one out whilst the old one gets full service and parts replaced and because that's done in the UK its better than a brand new one. Grade B is the best, I had £95 knocked off the price.
The best vacuum cleaner in the world in my opinion is British made Kerstar http://www.mwcleaningsupplies.co.uk/Products/VacuumCleaners/KV45%252F1W%252FD
One will cost you over £350 but will literally last a lifetime and is designed to be repairable. I have used them on site, wet or dry and they are almost unstoppable. A mate of mine used to sell and repair them.
I found a Dyson DC01 in the dump with the mains lead cut off. Next to it was a Flymo with a very long lead. I can now clean my whole house without changing sockets. I've been using it for about 10 years, lots of spares to be had for free or on eBay. It's great for slurping up dog hair, a borderline collie is the culprit :)
If you wash the filters under a tap a couple of times a year, the thing should last forever. The only problem I've had is the darling wife wrapping the cable up too tight, which split the cable sheath. I shortened the cable by two inches and yelled at the wife and it's been fine for 10 years.
Dyson - in upgright mode on domestic carpets it is excellent, using the attachment hose it is hopeless.
Henry - Picking up DIY rubbish and domestic detritus it is excellent, on domestic carpets it is totally and utterly shite with the standard brushhead (which wears out domestic carpets). Even with the optional turbo-head it is a bit better but still comes up short.
So you need both.
He gets points for making prototypes out of cardboard. The fact that his core tech is based on the same concept as a 1956 Filter Queen tech costs points. Since the old school metal one moves far more air at nearly the same pressure, the new plastic stuff isn't such a winer. Dyson also loses points for failing to certify any of their modern hepa filters. Is an H14 or U15 that hard to put in the marketing materials assuming the modern ones can even get close?
/mines the one with the vacuum gauge in the pocket
//and the dust in the other
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