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Recommend your Vacuum
I'm looking for a new one. A good one. We have tons of dog hair. All of our floors are hard surfaces though we do have area rugs.
Do you have a vacuum that you love. My ILs are going to get us one for Christmas and I'm supposed to check them out and see if I can get a good deal on BF.
TIA!
Re: Recommend your Vacuum
I have the Dyson Animal. And I do love that it gets the dog hair, but I'm not fond of the wand extension. In order to use the wand/attachments, I have to have all the cord unwrapped to be able to get the wand off the unit.
This is a pain in the butt if I just need it to vaccum crumbs quickly.
Other than that I'm happy with my Dyson, but, if/when it comes time for a new one, I'm thinking Oreck.
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Well, I have the Dyson Animal and while I loved it in the beginning (we got it as a wedding gift from my family), it is not great on hardwood floors.
We are considering the dyson multifloor (they have them on sale @ Target and Lowe's for BF) but honestly, I really don't think it is worth the $$
We have a mini powercyclonic vac from Dirt Devil and we really love it. It picks up the cat hairs no problem.
I have the dyson animal and it does a great job at sucking up the dog hair. I haven't had any issues with it losing suction. I do have to be careful about area rugs, some it vacuums fine, but others creates the terrible noise that Mary mentioned. But I miss that our old vacuum fluffed up the carpet better. So while the dyson does great at sucking up dirt and dog hair I miss having the nice fluffy vacuumed looking carpet.
I think it transitions great from carpet to hardwoods. It is way easier to vacuum our kitchen then it is break out the broom.
I think I have the same Dyson as Kara... the only thing I can't stand is the stairs. I wish it was easier to vacuum that with... (I really shouldn't even give advice since I think I've vacuumed oh like5 times since we bought it 3 yrs ago... DH uses it mostly). It's a 1000x better than the dirt devil piece o'crap we had before this.
we also have a dyson - the model right before the ball, I think the DS 24 or something that they don't make anymore. I love it. It is tricky on area rugs that are smaller like Mary said, but I feel like it really gets things clean and I find the wand extension great for cleaning stairs b/c I can leave the canister at the bottom of the stairs and it reaches all the way to the top - super easy.
also, this is the ONLY vacuum I've ever had where the spinny bar thingy didn't get wrapped in my hair and seize up after like a year. In fact, I've never had to even go after that bar thingy with scissors to remove my hair, which I always had to do with old vaccums.
As an aside, my mom LOVES her Oreck (Orek?) upright.
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Paige, I was flipping through BF ads on-line and it looks like Costco will have the DC25 animal (ball version) for $100 off normal price.
I have the ball and love how easy it is to maneuver.
I use one of the attachments to do the stairs (not sure what you do) and I think it's so much easier!
And ours is a ball one too like others have mentioned - I LOVE IT
Lowe's will have it on sale too.
Hmmm...seems like the ball one is the way to go. I might have to convince DH to upgrade. The one we have is not the ball one.