<p>The Dyson container is super easy to empty. You just put it over (or even IN) your trash can and pull a trigger-like ring that opens the trap-door in the bottom. Shut the door, snap it back in, and keep on vacuuming. One other thing–the purple color is so cheerful!</p>
<p>Dysons are more than cool - they’re geek chic. They advertise them in Wired Magazine. My wife bought one, and the thing’s so cool, I insist on doing all the vacuuming now.</p>
<p>Got a Dyson after 2 Kenmores (Consumer Reports) went bad on us within 6 months. Love the Dyson and it takes out MUCH more dirt than those models with bags. The cool factor is gravy.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the advice. Those of you with Dysons- what do you think about the bagless feature? Is it hard to empty?<br>
Weenie - I was thinking the same thing about the bag-- is bagless really better than the bags? Doesn’t the dust get everywhere?</p>
<p>Miele with a HEPA filter is the ticket for asthmatics. I have had mine for years now. If the hair gets wound around the brush and heats the vacuum head, it will shut off to prevent damage to the cleaner. A screwdriver is all you need to quickly disassemble the head and clean the rotating brush head.</p>
<p>The Dyson is extremely easy to empty. Pushing a button releases the canister from the machine. Hold canister over trash bin, pull release latch. The bottom of the canister will open and the dirt will drop into the trash bin. Close the bottom of the canister and return to machine. It really is that simple. It’s a beautifully engineered machine.</p>
<p>Beesknees: according to the Dyson product information, all vacuums with bags start to lose suction power as soon as the bag starts to fill. The Dyson suction stays uniform because it uses a different suction method (the tornado whirlwind effect). It is quite cool in a perverse way to see all the crud you are sucking up off your floors.</p>
<p>It also has other cool features–it is easy to pull out the hose and use that to vacuum the corners and crevices. I am quite unmechanical and I can use this vacuum better than any other one I ever had.</p>
<p>Dyson is unbelievable – sucks up everything in the vicinity (check Costco for good prices). I also read a great review of miele.</p>
<p>I’m with weenie…I like the bags. It seems that no matter how careful I am in emptying bagless models, dust flies. I use hypoallergenic bags and place the whole full bag into a plastic grocery store bag to discard. I’ve never owned a Dyson, but this bag system seems to be a pretty clean method for me, and I have asthma.</p>
<p>Is the Dyson better at removing long hair than any other vacuum? My daughter sheds way more than my dog!</p>
<p>Does the Dyson have one of those filters that you have to get the dust off of? Another really annoying thing about my Hoover wind tunnel is that not only do you have to empty the container of filth, but then you have to take out this long filter thing and bang away on it to dislodge all this dust that is the texture of talcum powder. Now, no matter how careful I’ve been emptying the container, this job is horrible! A cloud of tiny dust particles swirls all over. Does the Dyson have that too?</p>
<p>There is a filter. BUT, it only has to be cleaned once every six months.</p>
<p>Somehow with the Dyson technology the filter is way different from those other models which quickly get clogged filters. The filter in no way obstructs the airflow. Hey, I don’t know how it works, but it just …works.</p>
<p>The literature I got with the Dyson says that James Dyson hated the old vacuums that got clogged with dust so he developed this one that somehow uses centrifugal force to separate out the dust. The filter just cleans the expelled air after the dust has been separated.</p>
<p>When you push a button on top, the drop down door on the canister (which easily removes from the vacuum) opens and the dirt just falls into the trash.</p>
<p>A new thought to ponder. Does anyone still have the canister vacuums? What do you think of those?</p>
<p>Beam central vac. It’s the best. It CAN be put in after a house is built. I’ll tell you, the canister is HUGE, and located in the basement utility room. There is no exhaust into the house, it is in the utility room (some folks I know have theirs in the garage). The thing has to be emptied every six months about…We have a sheddy dog and cat…and a kid with a lot of hair. We have never had an ounce of trouble with ours.</p>
<p>So, after months and months of deliberation, I finally bought the Dyson. I can’t believe this, but I actually enjoy vacuuming now. I still have to take the bottom off to cut off the hair that tends to get caught around the roller, but it’s pretty easy to handle. It’s so pretty too.</p>
<p>I am looking for a new vacuum cleaner. What model would you <a href=“Dyson%20users”>i</a>* recommend?</p>
<p>I have the basic Dyson (yellow model) and have had it for over 3 years without any problems. I have found, however, that I must occasionally cut and remove longer hairs from the roller bar/brush (this only takes a moment as compared with fighting with other brands). If I were to be buying a new model today, I would purchase the Dyson model with the attachable floor/upholstery brush. Also, the brush-part/pick-up head of the vacuum itself it too tall to fit under the lip of my lower kitchen cabinets (along the baseboards of my kitchen), so I would make sure the model I purchased included the attachable head/part that will go low and under things. I tested the swivel ball model and really didn’t like it; while it rotates on the ball well, it is really not too easy to manuever the overall machine. Also, when you “dump” the canister contens, make sure you put the canister well down into a garage bag as dust cannot float back up at you. I have also found that I must sometimes vacuum over a spot a couple of times to get the result I want, but this is a great improvement over arguing with pet hair clogs in other machines (I have a collie/eskimo mix and she can really shed/blow her coat).</p>
<p>Overall. I great machine. I design ergonomic appliances, and I think the Dyson is absolutely wonderful. You’d have to pry it from my hands to make me give it up!!!</p>
<p>Long-haired girl here…</p>
<p>*You can invest in a good razor and cut the hair off the brush after each vacuum.<br>
*As stated before, you can manually pick the hair balls
*You can pick up the hair balls with a hose attachment, which doesn’t have the rotating brush problem
*Too bad your house doesn’t have a central vac - could just use that</p>
<p>Whatever you do, get one without a rotating head, because the hair will get tangled, no matter how high-quality the vacuum. </p>
<p>Alternatively, vacuum twice - quickly once with a cheap Dirt Devil ($40 or so) that can get the hair, then again with a real vacuum. Might have to replace the Dirt Devils (or Dustbusters), but they are cheap.</p>
<p>I was wondering about Dyson…does dust fly everywhere when emptying the container into the trash can? How often does it need to be emptied? Is it easy to get service and parts such as belts?</p>
<p>We have a bagless Bissell Turbobrush that we boght at Wallyworld for less than $90. It as a HEPA filter that we replace every few months for about $8. It works amazingly well. I can’t imagine the very pricey Dysons take any more out of a carpet than we dump out of this thing’s can.</p>
<p>Anyway, if long hair burned it out in a year or two you coud afford to replace it. (In fact, if you live near us, you can have ours when we leave in our RV next May!)</p>
<p>We have carpets in the mid-70s brown-on-brown period, post-mustard, post-post-avocado, and it is beginning to go bare in spots. Luckily we have a half-Airedale/half-German Shepherd who sheds alot, keeping the carpet looking as “good” as it did in the '70s. </p>
<p>Why would we want a vacuum cleaner to ruin a good thing? ;)</p>