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Dyson DC 14 All Floors Upright Vacuum, Steel Yellow
Named for its power and uncompromising approach to pet hair, the Dyson DC14 upright vacuum cleaner is skillfully engineered by James Dyson, inventor of the world's first cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner. Unlike bag or bagless systems that often lose suction power from dust clogging the bag or filter, there is nothing to obstruct the airflow of this unit. Its Root8Cyclone technology features conical chambers that generate 150,000 g's of centrifugal force, pushing dust and dirt out of the airflow into the vacuum's 5/7-gallon collection cup. With no bag to clog, the vacuum's 250 air watts of suction power remain steady.

Its large, transparent collection cup is easy to check and is both hygienic and quick to empty--simply pop it off, hold it over a trash bin, and pull the trigger to release the dust without having to touch it. There are no bags or filters to buy. The vacuum comes with a pre-motor filter that captures particles down to 0.1 micron (e.g., pollen) and is washable. Its post-motor electrostatic filter, which never needs replacing, traps carbon emissions from the motor. Approved for allergy sufferers by the British Allergy Foundation, the vacuum's lifetime HEPA filter doesn't clog and provides cleaner expelled air.

With its automatic carpet-height adjustment feature, this upright vacuum maintains constant contact with the floor to maximize dust pickup, and its brush bar turns off at the touch of a button to protect rugs and delicate floors. The Dyson is ideal for bare floors and carpets, with suction channeled right to the edges of the cleaner head.


Specially designed edge-cleaning whiskers, angled to reach down between the skirting board and the floor, flick dust from the edge into the airflow. Its wide channel picks up large pieces, and for instant stair and high-reach cleaning, the vacuum comes with a cleverly stowed, 17-foot quick-release hose. Its 35-2/5-foot power cord, along with the hose, provides a maximum reach of 52-2/5 feet. The unit weighs 18-3/5 pounds and features a low handle that makes it feel lighter to carry. Designed for heavy-duty household cleaning, the upright vacuum measures 44-7/8 by 14 by 13-3/8 inches and carries a two-year limited warranty.

Bags Clog Suction
When the vacuum cleaner is empty, clean air flows into the machine and out through the pores of the bag. However, as soon as you start to use the machine, the bag starts to fill with dust and debris. The bag acts as a filter and the machine starts to lose suction. This is because the pores of the bag begin to clog with the dust that the machine has picked up. This restricts the airflow, which causes loss of suction power.

Customer Test

BUY !! The DC14 is best "all around" buy! / Report June 7, 2006
I researched other units for 2 weeks+, engineer background who over-analyzes everything, and this vacuum won me over...got it on sale (phew!) for just over $350 and am now glad I spent the $$. After many Eureka's (in the $120 price range) and 1 very heavy Hoover (never get one again), this Dyson blew me away! Dyson is GREAT for cat hair, has smooth transitions from hardwoods to area rugs / rooms with carpet. For the cheap, thin rug by the door, just turn the knob to hard floors so it doesn't suck up the rug! Best Features worth mentioning - 1) it's QUIET! I never realized how loud other vacuums were, until the Dyson. You can put kids to bed and probably get away with running this vacuum! 2)love the "quick release" of the hose and the 3 standard attachments do all common cleaning - I use it to reach corners, behind dressers, dust baseboards, dust ceiling light fixtures, etc. 3) very long power cord... 4) great power - had mine for 3 months, and it's great. I think I love this thing! The carpet pile has actually re-lifted, and I can see tracks again!

Cautions to be aware of: 1)if you're used to bags, frequent emptying of the cup is annoying, but easy to do and worth it for the power 2)it could be heavy to carry upstairs, but rolls really easy and smooth, like it's lighter than it is! If you go into it knowing these things, it's not a problem!

You will like this vacuum!


Hello Dyson!! / Report May 21, 2006
Sooo, my Hoover died yesterday and I unexpectedly found myself in the market for a new vacuum, again. I had been researching online and decided on a Bissell lift-off since my biggest struggle has always been the stairs. I got to the store and found they were out. The fellow asked me why I was so interested in that particular model anyway so I responded with the stair requirement as well as my allergies to both types of dustmites. He proceeded to tell me about the Dyson. I was concerned about the expense since it was twice as much as the Bissell I was looking at, then I found out the price of the replacement filters, $30 a pop. I couldn't tell from the forums where I had researched the vacuum since it's rarely in Canadian dollars and here I was in a store that sold them. At that price it certainly wouldn't take long until the two cost me the same anyway. So I brought home the Dyson.
There have been some complaints with the Dyson and I think it's all about perspective. For instance I'm 5'5" and to some that's tall for a girl, in my family, I'm a midget. I have no trouble handling the Dyson and not only am I short, I'm a notorious wimp. The Dyson is actually lighter than my Hoover and the Hoover had just as much trouble getting under things. The light on the Hoover didn't do anything for me either. I'd recommend that if getting under things is important, get one of those little swiffer carpet cleaner things since you're not that likely to find a lot of ground in dirt or stir up dust in those locations anyway and use the hand tool every so often to get it done well. (or if you're small like me just crawl under and breathe deeply, jk)

My favorite things:
- the wandy thing; not only is it cool, it does an excellent job on the stairs, no more lifting the vacuum with me because of the long hose which I found easy to use. On the bottom stairs though it wanted to follow me so it was a bit wierd at first but once you're higher up and the vacuum is against the bottom, I had no trouble with the hose and stretching it to where I needed it. I also had no trouble with it on the second and third set of stairs either. It was so easy I was doing all the baseboards too just for fun. It's also cool that the roller turns off when you're using it, we did a nice job of destroying the lino with the old one when we were doing the stairs.
- suction! non stop! it picked up a ton of the fine dust my other vacuum missed the day before as well as some dog hair. We bought the house from the dog owners a year ago and the steam clean and regular vacuming had failed to get these renegade leftovers. The fine dust from the different rooms (since of course you don't have to dump as often as my old one) kinda reminded me of those jars with layered colored sand, there was SO much!
- cleaning; with my allergies to dust the old vacuum may have had allergen filtration, but that doesn't protect me when I'm wacking the filter against the side of the house and getting the canister out to dump it, both of which had to be done everytime I vacuumed. The spring loaded canister dumping mechanism is brilliant! No more stuffiness/tiredness after cleaning day from the allergies. The hepa filter looks easy to clean too so I almost can't wait the several months it will take until it's time to clean it.
- detachable parts for clog killing; my old vacuum would get clogged ALL the time, we'd have to take parts of it apart with 2 different screwdrivers and then stab it with a coat hanger in all kinds of wierd angles to declog it. Vacuums will get clogged, especially if you live with furry friends so it's nice to know that when it happens, it's super easy to get where you need to be to clear the obstructions. I didn't even have to read the manual to find this handy parts.
- the little edge brushes; obviously this is not as good as going around with the wand for when you want to do a deeper clean but it certainly does a good enough job so that you have the luxury of not having to use attachments EVERY time like most vacuums I've used. It also doesn't seem to attack my bed skirt as violently as others have.
- auto shutoff when the motor gets hot; this is especially good considering that's what killed my Hoover yesterday

Bye bye Hoover, Hello Dyson!!



Superior Design / Report May 18, 2006
All my past vacuums especially my last Eureka had a few design flaws. Like the tilt back button that was a chore in itself to push down hard enough to work. The little plastic cone inside the collection container broke way too soon. Plus it would just shut itself down when it became over heated which seemed to happen rather quickly sometimes.
The new Dyson seems to have eliminated those flaws. There's no hard to push tilt back button and the collection container is readily emptied. The only problem I have is that it like all my other vacuums doesn't clean along the sides of the carpeting against the base-board. Enough dog hair collects there every week to make a whole new dog! Overall so far I'm happy with it.



Loving it! / Report May 15, 2006
We agonized over the expense of this machine, but in the end settled on it after reading through many reviews and weighing many factors. We've run through the house since cleaning everything from floors to curtains to a 6' cat tree, and it's really blown us away with its power and utility. I won't repeat everything everyone else has said, other than to say that it really is as amazingly powerful as they claim; it took a full cannister of fine dust just out of the bedroom, and we'd vacuumed it three days before. However, I will list a few key factors in our decision that I haven't seen others mention:

(1) It has easy-access lift-out parts to facilitate clog-clearing. This single feature is largely what sold me on the Dyson, as I've spent a year with an upright that theoretically works, but only if disassembled with a screwdriver and painstakingly cleared after every room. Mind you, thus far the Dyson has not clogged at all despite sucking up the same mixture of pine needle pieces and dog hair that has choked many a lesser machine. Part of this may be its power; it sucks with a force much greater than my other vacuums. Clogs or no clogs, though, it's a wonderful thing to know that if the pine needles and dog hair and pennies and hunks of plastic eventually get stuck in there somewhere, I can reach all of the bends and joins in fifteen seconds without any tools.

(2) The dustcup empties easily with one hand. It's got a spring-loaded bottom; just hold it over a bag and release. No other bagless I have used works this way; they've all required both hands to seperate a filter from a base and get the gunk off of the filter.

(3) It has no parts that require regular replacement. There's one filter; it's a lifetime part; you can wash it yourself. We looked at the Bissell LiftOff Revolution and noticed that this was not true there.

(4) The "turbo brush" is brilliant (but check - it only comes with some models, and is about $80 if bought seperately). I was hesitant about this because I had used a cheap knock-off of the design with my Eureka and it lasted about five minutes before terminally failing. This brush, however, is much more robust and is very impressive in action. We used it on our dogs' beds and watched it leave bright stripes across them as it cleared out dirt and hair. They'd just been vacuumed with another machine a few days before, as well.

(5) We bought ours at Sears, where they offered a five-year all-service plan for $99. That really helped us to make up our minds. We had not had an upright vacuum cleaner work effectively for more than a year, and I was willing to spend the money on the Dyson if I felt sure that it would last at least three years. Now we're covered for all damage and problems, including accident and wear and tear, for five. We figure that in that time we'd have gone through two or three $200 vacuums, so the deal wasn't bad - and now we actually have clean floors in a way we have never seen before!

There are a few cautions on the Dyson. We tried the new DC15 "ball" model and agreed that it was not very comfortable to use. The DC14, the machine we have, is a solid thing and not light to carry, although I find it easy enough to push in use. The extending hose does extend quite a ways, but it can be a struggle, as it keeps a constant tension. It takes some effort to keep it extended. The wand portion of the DC17 doesn't have to be flipped around like it does on the DC07 - it's much handier - but it *can* be flipped around, which at first confused us until the salesperson showed us how to use it. You just flip open the top of the handle as the machine is standing upright and pull up the wand through it. You can also detach the wand altogether and just put the attachment heads directly on the hose, which is good to keep in mind because the wand is long and awkward in tight places. The "flat floor" tool head (which also does not come with all models) picks up well but is awkward to use when getting under beds and still has relatively high clearance if you're trying to reach under a dresser or similar. The "turbo head" works wonderfully, but is designed to prevent you from using it "flat" in relation to the wand; it hooks into the wand at an angle that you can't alter, so you can't use the turbo head under a bed.
That said, I love this thing. It totally master our berber carpets, which were too low and too fur-and-pine-needle-infested for anything else we've met with. If it has the longevity I'm hoping for, we're converts.

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