Re:Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filt...
by leesalminen on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:39PM
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My wife has caused every vacuum we’ve ever owned to literally catch fire. Ranging from cheap Bissell to expensive Dyson. It’s quite impressive, actually. The cheap ones usually last <1 year while the Dysons last ~2 years. So now we just buy the cheapest one and run it into the ground. It probably doesn’t help that we have 5 animals + 1 husband in the house.
Re:Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filt...
by jandrese on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:17PM
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Ouch. Maybe you should be more aggressive about cleaning out the filters? Our Dyson says to clean them every 6 months or so I think, but if your house is especially dirty (say because the dogs track in a lot of dirt and shed) you should do it more often.
If you have not done it in awhile it can be surprising just how much better at picking up dirt it will become after a good cleaning. Because the filters are trying to get down to 2.5ppm they clog easily.
Re:Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filt...
by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:12PM
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I wonder how much that Hoover cost brand new (adjusted for inflation, of course).
I've always had the narrative in my head that appliances have become flimsy and have shorter lives because people tend to buy whatever is the lowest price. A race to the bottom on prices means a drop in quality.
A Dyson would probably clean better, but she's not going to upgrade until her old one breaks, which may be never.
That said, it hasn't been completely care free. My parents have had to replace the belts several times, but those parts that are easily available and very cheap. The light bulb is more of a special order part, but you can find them on the internet.
In comparison I bought a Dyson vacuum back in the early 2000s and it died due to the plastic at the joint between the handle and the body breaking after about 15 years. There was no repair that didn't cost more than a new vacuum cleaner. Also, the hose that connected to the corner brush never connected properly because of a factory error, so it always had tape holding the hose on.
But we replaced it with a Dyson ball vac because my wife was convinced they did a better job getting the dirt up. The ball vac is still going strong, although I think we may have shortened it's life at one point. It had gotten plugged up at one point and after my wife had tried to vacuum two rooms it suddenly shut off. I took it apart and removed the blockage but it still wouldn't turn on. So I used a shop vac on the blow side to force air through the motor to get it spinning again and discovered that it had probably thermally shut down because the air that came out the other side was so hot you couldn't put your hand over it. A few seconds of that and the vacuum turned back on and sent out a blazing hot stream of air for several minutes. I'm pretty sure if I took it apart I'd find cooked and now brittle plastic around the motor housing.