We regularly host guests, and that calls for a lot of touch-up vacuuming to keep our place clean and ready for friends to stay over! These types of vacuums are extremely handy as they are lightweight, easy to handle, don't have a cord to deal with, and can do a good amount of work using the variety of attachments that come with the unit.
We use the smooth floor, carpeted floor, and crevice tools the most.
This is all pretty standard stuff for these types of light "mini-cyclone" types of vacuums. We chose the Dyson after one of our sons told us how happy they were with theirs.
So far, we've really enjoyed having this household tool. It's fast, light, and effective. It has sufficient vacuum, and the powerheads work just fine. The heads are easy to service - cleaning out wound-up hair, lint, and fiber. The battery holds up for a sufficient amount of time. You can run at medium or high. Of course, high "burns" through the battery faster, but you can run it in bursts and get a surprising amount done before putting it back on the charger base.
One initial concern is that the battery isn't modular. We have several cordless tools for the shop and we wish the vac manufacturers followed this approach as well. We'll see how it works out in the long run. It would be great to have another battery to grab and swap out when you do go through a battery!
The filters are easy to clean, and they DO NEED TO BE CLEANED regularly. This little tool moves a LOT of dust-laden air through the filters, so they do need to be cleaned after every few cleaning sessions.
The Dyson V8 (like their other models) let you know when there is either an obstruction in the head or pick-up tube or too much dust in the filters to allow air to move through at low pressure. If the airflow is impeded, the motor will "pulse" letting you know one of these areas requires your attention.
Based on our initial experience, we think that we'll have the Dyson V8 around for a long time! So, we mounted the charging base in our utility/mudroom, and cleaned up the wiring to it so it was neat and clean and looked like part of the room plan instead of an afterthought!
Additionally, we'll come back to this after long-term use and give you an extended review after several seasons of use. Watch for it!
Hi friends.
I want to introduce you to one of my new best friends.
This is my Dyson V8 Absolute Vacuum.
Now I was a rainbow girl for many, many years and a rainbow makes a great vacuum.
It does a great job picking up, especially on carpets, walls, anything.
It sucks really well.
It goes on forever because it's a plug-in vacuum, but it is really heavy and bulky to
carry upstairs.
And I live in a three-story house with an Airbnb where I'm constantly cleaning bathrooms
and bedrooms and going up and down the stairs.
So when I got this vacuum, my whole life changed.
So I'm going to tell you, first of all, some of the things I really like about the vacuum.
Number one, it is totally lightweight.
I can put it under one arm and carry four attachments in my hands and go upstairs or
down to the basement and all in one trip.
Never have to struggle with the weight of it.
It's also lightweight enough for you to hold it with one hand and get cobwebs off the ceiling
or whatever you'd like to do there.
It comes with these attachments.
This one is for smooth floor, as you can see.
It doesn't have much raised stripes as opposed to this one for the carpet that has a little
brush on there.
And it really does a great job with carpet.
We have low-nap carpet in all the bedrooms, and it does a decent job.
Every once in a while, I break out the rainbow just to clean it really good, but it does
a good job on carpets as well.
Then, of course, you have your crevice tool.
This one is great when you've got a little bit bigger of a mess.
It picks it up faster.
This is great for stairs because I have wooden stairs up and down.
I'm constantly vacuuming them.
Let me show you how the attachments come on and off.
They're very easy.
You just push the red button, pull the handle off, and then I can attach this to this if
I want to.
Here's a cool thing.
Do the ceiling.
Now this is straight up, and I can just vacuum like that if I want to vacuum the stairs.
Now it's for floor or stairs.
You can take the handle off, put the attachment right here, and just have a handheld to vacuum
out your car, any small space.
It's really, really handy.
This attachment here I like because it kind of gets fine dust, and I use it around my
kitchen chairs, all the little spindles that go into the back of the chair.
It's really easy to do that.
Let me show you how it works.
I'm going to put the smith back on.
I use the smooth more often, and you'll see that Dirt Farmer Jay wrote smooth on the smooth
because he was constantly putting the wrong one in.
So I'm just going to do a little rice on the floor, sugar.
Where we live, we have a ton of fine dust.
We have powdery clay dirt, and it's very fine, and you can see that's a lot of rice to pick
up with a smooth thing, not even using the carpet one.
It does a really great job.
Let me show you how you empty it, and this is both a good and bad thing.
One of the things I love about it is I hate vacuums where you have to catch it in a bag,
and the bag gets full of dust, and it never feels like it's actually clean.
This little puppy, you pull up this little thing.
It's got garbage on it, but it's kind of hard to do.
So I kind of have to hold it, and you have to lift it suddenly.
See it didn't open.
There it opened.
You can see down in there that there was a lot of stuff that it picked up in there, and
also when you close it, it doesn't close until you put it on a hard surface and put it down.
So Dyson, that's one thing that I would like to see improve on, is make this guy easier
to open and release.
The other thing that I don't like about the vacuum is the battery.
I love it that it doesn't have a cord.
I hate plugging in a cord.
You're always running over it.
You're always having to pull the vacuum around.
This is awesome for that reason, but the battery is right here, and there's a little hole right
there where it goes into the charger, but it's part of the vacuum.
You can't change out the battery and put another one in.
And you'll notice here that there's a maximum and a just regular.
Now I always run it on regular, and it works fine on regular, and it picks up most everything,
but one time I had it over to max on accident, and in five minutes I was out of juice.
You can see here on the side, these little light, this light bar, three lights is fully
charged.
When it gets to one light, it just stops.
So Dyson, I love your vacuum, but we need to have a changeable battery pack so that
we can have additional batteries.
Happy to purchase them from you.
Give us additional batteries that we can plug in so that we can continue to vacuum and make
it easier to empty.
There's a little design flaw there, I think, that if you don't yank it up just the right
way, it won't open, and you have to do it several times to get it to open.
As far as a product review, I would highly recommend this vacuum.
It does a great job.
I love that it's so light and so versatile.
It's great with mini blinds with a little attachment on there.
Go out and buy one.
This is Dirt Farmer Maggie.
