While I can’t say that there are a lot of household chores I enjoy, vacuuming is one I actually don’t mind. There is something about a clean floor that just makes the entire house feel cleaner.
Photo Credit: Dyson
We live in a two story house with carpet upstairs and tile/laminate flooring downstairs. Because of the different types of flooring in our home, we need a versatile vacuum that is powerful and efficient. For the last few weeks, I’ve been using Dyson’s brand new Digital Slim Vacuum. It’s slim, lightweight, and more powerful than I would have expected a cordless vacuum to be. The vacuum is powered by the Dyson digital motor which spins up to 3 times faster than conventional motors. What this means is that it’s powerful enough to remove even the finest dust particles from hard floors and ground-in dirt from carpets.
At first glance, you may not recognize that this is a cordless vacuum. That is because the vacuum has a motorized floor tool (aka a brush bar like many conventional vacuums) with anti-static carbon fiber brushes for hard floors and stiff nylon brushes for carpets. Even when you’re striving to reach awkward spots, the cleaner head stays flat for constant floor contact. The 26 inch, detachable, long-reach wand makes it versatile enough to reach places like under the fridge, in between the seats in my car, and even my mini-blinds.
Because we have carpet upstairs, we leave all of our shoes at the bottom of the stairs. While this doesn’t eliminate things like dust, it does help prevent stains and germs from being tracked up into our bedrooms. As I mentioned in a previous post, we own Dyson’s Asthma & Allergy Upright Vacuum. I really like this vacuum…but it’s heavy and not something I enjoy lugging up and down the stairs. At present, we leave it stored upstairs and use it for our carpeted areas. This means that we rely on a broom to pick up dirt, dust, and crumbs on our floors downstairs. While I realize it’s not feasible for most people to own two vacuums, it’s been nice using the Digital Slim Vacuum downstairs to clean up as opposed to the broom.
I have to admit that when I first read that the lithium-ion battery pack allows for 15 minutes of constant suction, I wasn’t sure if that was average or not. After some research, I did learn that this is pretty typical for a hand-held vacuum. The Dyson difference is that there is constant suction. I have an older hand-held vacuum that probably lasts about that time but towards the end of the charge loses it’s power and suction rendering it pretty much ineffective. If you run the Digital Slim Vacuum at the higher suction, the time is reduced to 6 minutes.
Later on this week, I’ll highlight a few cleaning tasks I have managed to accomplish with Dyson’s new Digital Slim Vacuum. Here is one of Dyson’s engineers discussing some information about what goes into designing and testing this new vacuum.
Dyson’s Digital Slim Vacuum is available at Walmart and retails for $299
Disclosure: I participate in the Walmart Moms program and am compensated for my time and honest opinions.
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I’d love to know if this vacuum will pick up cat hair from carpet! (Do you have pets?) We keep our heavy vacuum upstairs, too, where it is mostly carpeted. I need something I can use downstairs where it is mostly wood and tile, but also on the stairs where it is carpeted. The lightweigt vac i have works fine on the hard surfaces, but won’t pick up the kitty hair from carpeting!
Hi! Unfortunately I don’t have a pet but I am going to see if any of the moms testing out the vacuum have pets! Stay tuned!