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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Michelle (furbabystar) on January 25, 2007, 12:47:20 PM
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Up until a couple of years ago i had a Dyson but when it started to die i bought just a normal hoover.
I am obsessed with hoovering and hoover at least 3 times a day and carpets have always looked ok (so i thought)
Currys had a Dyson on offer, wasnt the lastest model or a pet hair one but for £139 i thought i'd get one.
OH MY GOD !!!!!
The amount of cat hair and dirt it has just pulled out of my carpets :wow:
I am ashamed LOL
So its Dyson from Now on - will still use my other one for sucking up cat litter but DYSON RULES - EVERY CAT OWNER SHOULD HAVE ONE !!
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I LOVE my dyson!
I haven't used it since we got the kitten a few days ago because its rather loud and scary. But is suppose she needs to get used to it.
I love hoovering (sad i know!) simply because the dyson makes the flat spotless again. My last hoover never did anywhere near as good.
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I remember the first Dyson we had, I think we had to empty it about 5 times after using it in just the lounge, admittidly it is over 25 foot long but talk about ashamed. We suddenly realised that we had a carpet with Oh I don't know what you call it you know pattens cut out. Not the carpet looks like a new one every day.
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I couldn't be without mine. Have had to order a new turbo brush attachment as it is no longer rotating. The man seemed surprised as he said they very rarely had to be replaced - must be on my fourth or fifth by now so guess it's because of all that fur !
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Um... either our Dyson needs fixing or the carpet needs to go - our DC07 just doesn't pick up all the dog hair!! Don't know if it's the Dyson or the old, cheap nylon carpet...? :scared:
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Depends on the heads you use Em, if it sucks up well and you have to clean it often then it works, the head you use may not be appropriate but if its not doing the above either your house is spotless or the dyson needs checking :rofl: Mine is a hypo allergenic one and I'm thinking of getting the animal hair head? Not sure if they do that one for the DC011 but hope so since mine cleans all the dust and heaps of hair but I can still see Lexy's hair in weird places!
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I remember the first Dyson we had, I think we had to empty it about 5 times after using it in just the lounge, admittidly it is over 25 foot long but talk about ashamed. We suddenly realised that we had a carpet with Oh I don't know what you call it you know pattens cut out. Not the carpet looks like a new one every day.
Ela, my Lounge carpet has changed colour LOL
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Um... either our Dyson needs fixing or the carpet needs to go - our DC07 just doesn't pick up all the dog hair!! Don't know if it's the Dyson or the old, cheap nylon carpet...? :scared:
Em,
Its the DC07 i have just bought and believe me it has just changed the colour of my lounge carpet !!
And as for cat hair - i could have made 15 cats with the hair it has just pulled out of the carpet :rofl:
Maybe its the type of carpet you have then - or maybe coz you have a Dyson your carpets are clean ?
But seriously, i am always hooving infact my OH calls the hoover the 4th member of the family as its always out and i'm always using it but i am so shocked at what the Dyson has just done !
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I have wood flooring right through and vinyl in the kitchen, the wood is very hard to keep hairless as it just sits on top! I use morphey Richards for pets its quite good 2000w.
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Ela, my Lounge carpet has changed colour LOL
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Yes this happened to us too when we first got the dyson animal - our dirty grey looking bedroom carpet suddenly became an apricot colour :rofl: We were both mortified, we genuinely had no idea that the carpet was this colour!
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I find Dyson are rubbish, mine busted after 18 months :innocent: I want a pet hair hoover, but i may go for a different make
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I have wood flooring right through and vinyl in the kitchen, the wood is very hard to keep hairless as it just sits on top! I use morphey Richards for pets its quite good 2000w.
We have woodern flooring as well, its a very light colour so Jess's hair really stands out, mind you its not just my hair that hubby moans about on the floor anymore :P
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I find Dyson are rubbish, mine busted after 18 months :innocent: I want a pet hair hoover, but i may go for a different make
I had my last one for years.
This one i only bought yesterday but for £139 i will be happy for 18mths use.
Only problem is this new one is making me more obsessed with hooving LOL
I havent left it alone all day - :rofl:
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I had an old Dyson DC01 and a few weeks ago decided to get a new one. I wanted the 'Animal' but didn't want to pay £285, Comet had a Dyson DC14 'Vroom' reduced from £329 to £179... It has the same features as the 'animal' including the pet hair tool (turbo brush) but is actually the next model up with a super duper bit to sort your car out with aswell - not that I will be cleaning mine, I've got far better things to do with my time!
Anyway, I thought that my carpets would be pretty clean for three reasons: 1) I moved into my house only 6 months ago as a new build 2) I was using a Dyson before and 3) I consider myself to be a clean person, regularly hoovering and dusting. Oh my God was I wrong, the stuff that came out of the carpet was unbelievable!
You can't really go wrong with a Dyson nowadays as they all come with a 5 year parts and labour guarantee, incidentally the one I've got is now £199 but still a bargain when you consider the Animal is £285 and it has been reduced from £329.
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I find the dyson quite good but the newer ones aren't as well made as the old ones. I find it works better if you empy it often and wash the filter every couple of months. We have just orered a wood-flooe attachment so hopefully it will be OK - I came across the receipt last week when I was finding receipts for the accountant and was shocked that it cost £269.00!!
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IOnly problem is this new one is making me more obsessed with hooving LOL
I havent left it alone all day - :rofl:
Michelle....you need help!!! :rofl:
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Em,
Its the DC07 i have just bought and believe me it has just changed the colour of my lounge carpet !!
And as for cat hair - i could have made 15 cats with the hair it has just pulled out of the carpet :rofl:
Maybe its the type of carpet you have then - or maybe coz you have a Dyson your carpets are clean ?
But seriously, i am always hooving infact my OH calls the hoover the 4th member of the family as its always out and i'm always using it but i am so shocked at what the Dyson has just done !
Hmmm... think maybe our Dyson needs servicing then - it picks up lots but not as much as it used to... we've had it for maybe 3 years now? It's probably due for a good clean out...
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Em if you use it regularly the filters need to be washed out once every 6 months minimum, and changed completely every 18 months. I did with mine and the difference was amazing.
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It's a lifetime filter - because of the amount of muck we get what with the animals, livin' in't country, the quarry down the road and next door's coal fired boiler - it gets washed every 3 months. It does make a difference, but doesn't get it back to how it was when new...
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I'm not even sure I know where to find the filter on it :shy: I had better investigate, as it's about 3 years old :evillaugh:
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I didn't know you had to clean the filter every so often until my son, who's also got one, mentioned it, after Id been moaning about it not working properly.
I have to wash it quite often, but I have to say my Dyson is quite gutless the minute I put an attachment on it. :'(
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It's a lifetime filter - because of the amount of muck we get what with the animals, livin' in't country, the quarry down the road and next door's coal fired boiler - it gets washed every 3 months. It does make a difference, but doesn't get it back to how it was when new...
Does your not have two filters? Mine has the regular and one lifetime one which is the one I wash. The other I change.
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I have no idea what ours has it is my husbands toy.
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I have no idea what ours has it is my husbands toy.
:rofl: Can I please borrow him?
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I have no idea what ours has it is my husbands toy.
Funny you should day that........
my Hubby has just come home and i was teling him how wonderful my new Dyson was!
I told him how much cat hair and dirt it had pulled out of the carpets, and said "its got a great suck" to which he replied "you better bring it here then " :rofl: :rofl:
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Can I please borrow him?
Sorry not enought time he has too much to do here
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I love my dyson and its old now but still good. My carpets also changed coloutr when I first got it and the an mount of fur it picks up is amazing.
My only complaint is that it is heavy and hard to use on the stairs.
Hope it lasts for a long time cos cant afford a new one :rofl:
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You should definitely think about it. Vet bills can easily run into thousands
The last one we purchased we ordered from the internet, it was £100 cheaper than the shop price and came within 3 - 5 days.
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I will remember that Ela thanks ;D
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I bought a Dyson animal about 2 years ago and I have to say that when I first used it I was horrified by the amount of crap that was suck out of my carpet ... I realised that for past 5 years all I had been doing was just rolling the cat hair and dust into the carpet rather than actually sucking it up LOL. I think our room actually got bigger after I used the dyson as I must have removed about an inch from the carpet! LOL
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Have to say I am always complaining about my Dyson as it is so heavy and clunky and manage to knock into everything and always having to clean out the filter ...saying that i used it the other day and only have a little bit of carpet upstairs and it filled the entire container ..eurgh ..
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It's a lifetime filter - because of the amount of muck we get what with the animals, livin' in't country, the quarry down the road and next door's coal fired boiler - it gets washed every 3 months. It does make a difference, but doesn't get it back to how it was when new...
Does your not have two filters? Mine has the regular and one lifetime one which is the one I wash. The other I change.
It's got one at the side near the bottom, a blue spongy thing which I rinse every three months or so, can't see another one except the one beneath the cylinder, which I can't get to?
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I love my Dyson too :Luv: and am a bit of a hoover addict although I'm getting better. I can now go for a whole day without hoovering ;D I never really got the dramatic improvement when I got mine as I got new carpets about a month before so they hadn't really had a chance to get too dirty.
Totally off topic - Helen - where did you get your animated penguins from?!! Love em! Did you animate it yourself or is it an actual real life video clip?
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Susanne
I stole them from an email someone sent me! I keep studying it trying to work out whether it's real but can't make my mind up, hope so as it's very funny! Feel free to steal them too, right click on the image and click 'save image as' (Firefox) or 'save picture as' (IE)...
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