Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

The launch of the DC23 from the Canadian website is up.

Dyson DC23

vacmanuk wrote:

I think that's subjective to regional carpet types. Aren't carpet piles in the UK and elsewhere across the pond considerably lower than the carpets we have here in the United States? I always thought that was the reason turbine nozzles are more popular overseas: because you do not need an electric power brush to clean lower pile European carpets.

CarmineD wrote:

Air turbine brush rolls date back to the mid 1950's in the vacuum industry with the very first P/N attachment made by Preco.  At the time the tooth belt driven revolving brush tool was an after market add on attachment for $30-$40 for straight suction tanks and canns which at most had 1/2 to 3/4 horsepower motors.  That translates into about 500-700 watts which was the standard for the time.  As Procare noted in a post here recently Lux came out with the first electric driven brush roll power nozzle in 1957 with the Model AF and SEARS Kenmore copied about a year after.  It is sad that over 50 years later, a company founded by an engineer which prides itself on leading edge technology can't replicate this old technology successfully in a standard current day full size canister.   It's a joke to me on that company.

Carmine D.

iMacDaddy wrote:
Turbo nozzles on canisters/cylinders as we call them aren't actually that popular - certainly not on bagged cylinders - more so on Dyson machines of late. Most UK buyers prefer the traditional upright - we have deep pile, velvet, synthetic, Berber and thick wool carpets to clean up- basically because aside from the South of England, most parts in the UK are colder than most.

I have the TurbineHead version & been happy with it, does a nice job on plush carpet.  Even outperformed the XXX Royal Crown Signature Series cyclonic, which was pathetic junk.