Dyson DC17 Animal Cyclone Upright Vacuum Cleaner
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Dyson DC17 Animal Cyclone Upright Vacuum Cleaner
Customer Review: Important note regarding refurbished vaccums, their techonology, and customer service
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought a Dyson animal a couple of years ago. I'll start there. We are "Animal House"...with one large dog, 2 small dogs, and 2 cats. AND, because there are coyotes living behind our fence, the small dogs cannot go outside without us and the cats never do. So that's a lot of indoor animal time.
The day I brought the vaccum home I could not BELIEVE how often I had to change the canister..it sucked up things that other vacuums can't! As your carpet wears, loose fibers come undone and make it look frayed...this sucked up all those laying on the surface and beneath it so the carpet looked new again and, even harder to do...on our wood and stained concrete floors it picked up every spec of dust rather than sending it flying!!
Fast forward a year. Suddenly the "vacuum that never loses suction" did. But bear with me, there's still a reason why I gave it 5 stars...
I sent it to Sears for repair. They sent it back saying it was a clog, charged me 50 bucks, and when I tried it it still was not performing as it once did.
I called customer service and explained that dust seemed to be getting trapped on my filter too often and it wasn't sucking as well. She asked me when I purchased it then asked me about the positioning of a rubber thick "O" ring on the bottom of the grey part of the canister. We discovered that it had moved up a bit, no longer creating as good of suction. But here's the best part! She said they had improved the vaccum in the last year with a thicker more stable O ring and so she sent me an entire new middle part of my vaccum...FREE! And she threw in a new filter.
Lesson here is...if you buy a refurbished one, or even a new one, know that they continually look for improvements through the years via customer feedback. AND if you do have a problem, even if you have owned it for years, don't send it out for repairs. Call Dyson.
Now that my vaccuum is basically new again, it works like it...no, it works better than that. There simply is no vaccuum that I've had (and I owned a 1,500 one before) that ever worked this well or was as easy to use as far as attachments.
I'm a Dyson for life customer!
Customer Review: DON'T BUY THE DYSON DC17 ANIMAL.....
Summary: 5 Stars
...unless you're 100% sure you're ready to see what's been hiding out in your carpet!! So after much debate, the wife and I finally decided to breakdown and purchase one of these "Animals"(I wanted to give this to her as a x-mas present but I lost her at "I"... don't recommend trying this fellas). Anywho, having built this house a little over 17 months ago, I really didn't expect there to be TOO much stuff hanging out in our carpet. I mean, we do vaccum with our 1 year old Eureka Altima (with "wide track surface, bagless container and side brush" psshh) once a week, so how bad could it be right? Wrong! After bringing home this purple beast, which we picked up at BB&B with a 20% discount coupon, we decided to put it to the test (as most nerds would who get excited about buying a vaccum cleaner). Side bar: the instructions weren't all that helpful, but I'm the kind of frontiersman who likes to forge ahead not having read the instructions, so for me it was a non-issue. With assembly complete, I reached down and fired it up. After 4 or 5 passes I had to stop and take a gag break! I couldn't believe what was being sucked in to that clear canister. Gross! So as any good husband would do, I turned it over to my wife and let her finish the rest of the house(what can I say, it's Thursday NFL football night). At one point, she emptied the canister after vaccuming the area where the x-mas tree was last year and we noticed glitter from the x-mas ornaments that had wedged deep into the carpet (or at least deep enough for the Eureka not to find it). Unbelievable!
Simply stated... this thing SUCKS! Literally! There's something to be said for a vaccum cleaner that can make an early 30's couple get excited over seeing dirt, hair and a multitude of other things being sucked from the carpet in the house of which they live. It could be, we just need to get a life... but whatever. I highly recommend this suction machine to any and everyone! It is a bit pricey, but hey, with a coupon from the paper and a credit card you're on your way ;-p! Ok, I shouldn't have said that given the current economic crisis. Just go get one, I promise you'll be grossed out! Especially if you have 3 dogs as we do!
Customer Review: The Best Vacuum 5 Stars
I read all the reviews on all the Dyson models before I decided on buying the DC 17 model. I have 3 dogs and I'm ALWAYS fighting dog hair. As much as I love my canine buddies, I HATE their constant shedding. Those who say Lab's don't shed are liars!!I just got my Dyson today, and like a child on Christmas morning I could not get it out of the box fast enough. I wish the instructions were better laid out instead of in picture form-I like descriptions to go with the pictures. But after a while and trial and error I figured it out. I have a central canister vacuum system that runs through the house (I've hated it from the beginning) because my husband thinks that's the way to go. The canister is out in the garage and he thinks it's healthier for him to not have the dust in the house when the vacuum is emptied. The 25' hose you drag from room to room always gets in the way, and I never thought it cleaned that well in the 1st place. It's always been a sore spot.
So I decided to put it to the ultimate test. I vacuumed my rugs and carpet with that old relic and then came behind with the Dyson. MAN, [...]that came out of my so-called "just vacuumed" rugs was beyond belief!!! I expected to get a lot of junk, but was still amazed at how much it actually picked up!!! What everyone else has said before me is true!!!! And the fact it has a Hepa filter that you clean every 6 months, and it appears pretty easy to clean from the pictured instructions, and I can take the bin outside to dump it out if he freaks out thinking the dust will run rampant in the house when it's time to empty it.
I have wanted a Dyson for quite a while. I've herd nothing but good things about them and the reviews I read about the DC 17 model made me finally decide to take the plunge. I'm sure glad I did. I can now feel secure in knowing that when I vacuum the floors from now on that they will actually be clean when I'm done!! And Dyson has extended their warrenty to 5 years-what other company does that for their vacuum cleaners?
I will recommend Dyson to everyone and anyone who will listen! And thank you Dyson for making such an outstanding and amazing product!!
Customer Review: Self Propelled Suction!
Summary: 5 Stars
At the risk of sounding like a broken record after reading the other reviews, this vacuum really, really works. I know its pricey (I am very frugal) but I figure the savings will kick in when I dont have to replace it every two years. I have owned lots of vacumms and FINALLY I have one that does the job!
I live in an old house with plaster walls and the dust is never ending. Add to that 2 long haired dogs, a cat, and the fact that I have better things to do than clean house, and you have an idea of the kind of vacuum I need.
I purchased the DC 17 Absolute Animal today after months of extensive research, reading reviews and drooling over it. I was nervous after spending so much money on a vacuum but when I got it home I was not disappointed in the least. It comes with so many extra attachments and the zorb powder and a spray etc...that I felt I got a really complete package for my money.
The instructions seemed TOO simple as I was used to textbook manuals with appliances but the little illustrated folding card was truly adequate because all you have to do is attach the wand and plug it in. It also comes with a booklet showing everything in simple, easy to understand pictures.
Suction? You want suction? You got it! The air flow is so strong it feels like those self propelled vacumms (yea, I had one of those too) as it glides effortlessly, almost by itself, picking up stuff you never knew was living in your carpet. I use those carpet fresh powders because the old vacuum was so smelly and the Dyson canister was full of it even thou I havent used powder in weeks. Now thats suction!
The wand is long enough to reach the corners of my high ceilings and easy to use since it is attached. I do not enjoy cleaning but this made it a joy and I havent even tried the other attachments yet. It even leaves those lines in the carpet, the ones I like to see after I mow the lawn. Animal? Its a work horse alright and I'm getting ready to put my other duct taped, waste of money vacuum out to pasture.
Customer Review: Awesome Vacuum!
Summary: 5 Stars
This vacuum is truely awesome! Worth every single penny. Here was my situation...
We are a young family with a 3 month old baby. We don't have a very stellar history of cleaning...in short we absolutely HATE it. But with our little one getting ready to crawl we figured that we better find something that could get our carpets clean!
What stood in the way? Our 3 year old Border Collie/ Black Lab mix. She is precious and very cute...we love her and getting "rid" of her was totally not an option. She has a gorgeous coat of fur...thus the problem. We have Frieze carpet and she sheds like mad year-round...with her long hair weaving it's way into our long carpet fibers...UGH!
I vacuumed on Tuesday night with my trusty Dirt Devil...pulled up a ton of hair. Got my Dyson on Thursday...pulled her out, put her together (really, really easy...) and started vacuuming (yeah, you know where this is going...) and pulled up 2 CANISTERS out of my living room carpet alone. Pulled about as much out of the bedroom. I vacuumed again this morning (Friday) and pulled at least another Canister full.
This vacuum is fantastic. I have read reveiws that say that it doesn't work on Frieze carpet...well, it works fantastic on mine...It has actualy pulled all of the fur out of it! It is easy to push...on the shorter-pile carpets it does push easier...it is almost self-propelled on my area rugs. It is also relatively qiuet. Look, no vacuum is going to be truely "quiet" but this one, well, the sound it producing just isn't nearly as irritating as most vacuums. For all the suction it provides I am a bit surprised at how almost-gentle the noise is.
Honestly, my carpets haven't looked this good since we got them put in 2 years ago. This vacuum is well-worth the money. In the end it will save us a ton of bucks...we won't have to replace our carpets with something more "fur-friendly" as we were thinking we were going to have to.
Spend the money...it only hurts until you see how much it was worth it!