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Edited April 1, 2024
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Costco has Dyson ball animal 3 for $279.99.
Original price $349.99
Features:
Ball Technology for Smooth Navigation
Automatically Clears Wrapped Hair From the Brush Bar As You Clean
3 Cleaning Modes. Optimized for a Variety Of Tasks
3 Dyson Engineered Accessories
Engineered For Larger Homes With Pets
https://www.costco.com/dyson-ball...79573.html
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- It's REALLY powerful. You'll get dirt out of your carpet that you didn't know you had.
- It's so powerful because it forms a 'sealed' chamber around the brush roller
- The downside to that sealed chamber is it will suck up any thin or lightweight rugs instantly. There's no power setting to tone it down a bit. You can turn the brush rollers off though.
- It's not compatble with high pile carpet/rugs. The brushes will stop.
- The build quality is suprisingly poor. The plastic creaks, things that look like handles aren't for carrying the vacuum around.
- The chord is VERY long, which I like. You can plug it in a central location and reach nearly every room on the floor.
- It's easy to empty, but debris tends to get stuck in the filter quite a bit (especially pet hair). You may have to dig it out with your hand.
- The attachments work very well. If you have a dog the lint brush attachement will keep your couch nice and clean.
- It's a bit heavy, and like I said, the built quality makes you feel like you need to baby it when you lift it up.
- Everything is modular on it, so it's easy to repair and service.
All in all, I like the performance, but I don't think I'd buy another one. Similar models by Shark are made with better materials and have similar performance.
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I am struggling which one to buy:
1. Costco for $280, with extra Tangle-free turbine tool
2. Dyson for $299, with extra Soft dusting brush, multi-angle brush, articulating hard floor tool, and carbon fiber soft dusting brush.
I think main question is: how useful are the extra tools.
I am struggling which one to buy:
1. Costco for $280, with extra Tangle-free turbine tool
2. Dyson for $299, with extra Soft dusting brush, multi-angle brush, articulating hard floor tool, and carbon fiber soft dusting brush.
I think main question is: how useful are the extra tools.
The articulating hard floor tool is awesome for hard surfaces. The others I don't use often, but they do have their time and place.
I am struggling which one to buy:
1. Costco for $280, with extra Tangle-free turbine tool
2. Dyson for $299, with extra Soft dusting brush, multi-angle brush, articulating hard floor tool, and carbon fiber soft dusting brush.
I think main question is: how useful are the extra tools.
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- It's REALLY powerful. You'll get dirt out of your carpet that you didn't know you had.
- It's so powerful because it forms a 'sealed' chamber around the brush roller
- The downside to that sealed chamber is it will suck up any thin or lightweight rugs instantly. There's no power setting to tone it down a bit. You can turn the brush rollers off though.
- It's not compatble with high pile carpet/rugs. The brushes will stop.
- The build quality is suprisingly poor. The plastic creaks, things that look like handles aren't for carrying the vacuum around.
- The chord is VERY long, which I like. You can plug it in a central location and reach nearly every room on the floor.
- It's easy to empty, but debris tends to get stuck in the filter quite a bit (especially pet hair). You may have to dig it out with your hand.
- The attachments work very well. If you have a dog the lint brush attachement will keep your couch nice and clean.
- It's a bit heavy, and like I said, the built quality makes you feel like you need to baby it when you lift it up.
- Everything is modular on it, so it's easy to repair and service.
All in all, I like the performance, but I don't think I'd buy another one. Similar models by Shark are made with better materials and have similar performance.
All good points and mirror my experience with this model. Two more thing worth mentioning are
1) because of the ball design it needs higher clearance to fit under furniture than other vacuums. It would not fit under our bed and couches where other vacuums we owned fit easily.
2) The attachment hose is a bit cumbersome so access. I frequently like to use the attachment hose to pick up bigger junk that would get stuck in the brush head or to quickly vacuum a baseboard or corner or spider web on the ceiling etc. With other vacuums we owned you can quickly disconnect the hose for fast and convenient access. I found the Dyson design more difficult. It's fine if you don't go back and forth frequently but for our use it was a noticeable downside.
We ended up returning ours, mostly because of the two points above and the lack of adjustable suction which made it very hard to push on our medium pile carpet.
I've seen people complain about Sharks for years. They always tout on how Sharks are designed to be the BIC lighters of the vacuum world. In my personal opinion, I think it's due to Shark's range of models. They have so many models in different price points. On the low end, it breaks because it is cheap. In the middle range, it breaks because the user may not know vacuum maintenance (Just something I noticed perusing rtings a bit and my experience with the Shark Navigator is you beed more maintenance), and high end, some models have the Shark's power fins, which I have heard bad things about for durability.
I purchased it from the warehouse for $279.99.
Biggest con is it is pretty heavy.
Downside is you can not use it with other extensions
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