Only buy this if you want a clean & healthy home and save money. In my opinion, no other upright vacuum can clean as well as the Dyson. Excellent cleaning, customer service, no belts or bags, low maintenance, long power cord. Constant Airflow!

Take the time and read my review!!

Mr. Dyson says his vacuum never loses suction. He is absolutely right, but all vacuums don't ever lose suction. What makes the Dyson different then 99% of the others is it will never lose 100% of its airflow. Only a small amount of the dust in a Dyson gets to the hepa filter so it loses only a very slight amount of airflow. I think he would have been more correct if he had said his vacuum keeps 98% of the airflow. I think he said "suction" instead of "airflow" because most people don't know the difference.

The conventional bag vacuum, and now bagless ones, loses by far the majority, up to 98%, of their airflow. Why all the chatter about airflow and not suction? Suction doesn’t clean, airflow does. Let me explain.

Does a toilet plunger have suction? Yes. Could you use a toilet plunger to clean your carpet? No. Why? Because there is no airflow. As soon as you lift the toilet plunger off of the carpet any dirt that might have been caught in the suction would just fall back to the carpet. Still don’t believe me?

Take a regular drinking glass and put it on a table. Drop something very light into it like a piece of a mini marshmallow or a very small piece of paper. Put your mouth over the opening in the glass sealing it around your mouth and suck. You can suck so hard it feels like your lips are going to be ripped off of your face but the marshmallow or piece of paper will not move. Why? There is plenty of suction! The reason is because there is no airflow.

Without airflow there is no air movement to carry away the dirt in a carpet, or a marshmallow in a drinking glass. Suction has no air movement. In order to pick up dirt, a vacuum cleaner has to have air freely flowing in from the head or brush bar area through the porous paper bag or bagless dirt collector and freely out of the vacuum cleaner. The dirt that is picked up from the carpet from a bag vacuum cleaner is carried (actually pushed) by the air all the way through the vacuum cleaner to the inside walls or sides of the bag, where because of the small bag holes, it is stopped.

Not only is the dirt stopped, because of the small holes in the bag, but the dirt stops-up or clogs-up the small holes causing the vacuum cleaner to lose its airflow. A vacuum cleaner has to use a porous bag in order to let out the air. Could you imagine what would happen if your vacuum cleaner had a plastic dirt bag? You’re right, nothing. Why? Because the air could not escape. With the air not escaping there is no airflow. See what I mean?

The motor is still turning and trying to blow air out the holes in the porous bag (or in a bagless vacuum through the air filters) but because the holes are clogged with dirt two things happen.

First, pressure builds up and forces the smaller dirt, dust, bacteria, germs, carpet mites and anything else small enough, through the holes so the air can escape. Congratulations! You have just moved all the filth from your carpet to the air in your house. Now breathe deeply. Smell that “vacuum smell”? Now you know what gives it its smell, filth.

Secondly, because all of the holes are clogged with this nasty stuff, the air flow is so restricted that only the lightest carpet fluff and dust can be picked up. Think about it. The average upright vacuum paper bag is about the size of a 15 pound bag of sand. However when it is chalk full and has to be emptied it probably only weighs 2 to 5 pounds at the very most. Why? Because of the restricted airflow it is full of only the very light dust and carpet fibers that could be picked up. You will also find some sand, maybe a couple tablespoons of sand, because the bag takes a few minutes before it is clogged-up so some heavier items will be “sucked” up for a few minutes.

So where is all the dirt that you saw before you vacuumed? Well since the vacuum couldn’t suck it up, because there is no airflow, the beater bars just beat it down into the carpet. If you have ever pulled up a carpet you have seen piles and piles of sand under the carpet and pad that have been beaten down by vacuuming. The problem with beating down the sand is that sand is sharp, like glass. As long as there is sand in the carpet every time you vacuum (beat the sand into the carpet) or someone walks across the carpet your carpet fiber is being cut to pieces. It is those pieces of cut up carpet that you find in your vacuum bag. One way to tell if your vacuum is working is you get less and less carpet fiber in your bag or bin.

Bagless vacuums are just as bad, and sometime worse because they don’t drop the dirt off into the canister before the air goes to the filters. The filters clog up with dust and dirt, often faster then bag vacuums, and you no longer have enough airflow to clean. Since Mr. Dyson’s vacuum does effectively drop the dirt from the air stream into the clear bin before it goes through the hepa filter, you constantly have airflow which in turn picks up the dirt out of the carpet.
The bottom line, vacuums, no matter if they cost $2 or $2,000, clog-up and stop removing dirt from your carpet minutes after putting in a clean bag. But you say, “After vacuuming an area on my carpet over 100 times with my vacuum a Kirby salesman showed me all the stuff that his vacuum picked up.” Let me ask you a question, “Did he remove, detach or by-pass his bag to show you how much his vacuum picked up?”

The answer is yes. Trust me. His vacuum is as bad as any $50 vacuum because it has a bag. If you would have taken off the bag on your vacuum and vacuumed the same area after he vacuumed it with the Kirby you would have picked up all the dirt the Kirby left behind. All bag vacuums have the same problem, extremely low airflow. This effectively removes all bag vacuums from the “good vacuum” list. You are left with only bagless vacuums. The Rainbow water based vacuum, and the Filter Queen also qualify as bagless vacuums because neither have bags.

Now that we have established the physics of a vacuum cleaner we can see why Mr. Dyson’s vacuum does work. He has successfully found a way to drop the dirt out of the airflow stream, letting gravity pull it into the clear bin. Regardless of how nifty the attachments might be, or how flat a vacuum might suck down your pillows (another great salesman trick that proves absolutely nothing), having the vast majority of the dust and dirt fall out of the airstream before it reaches the hepa filter effectively creates constant airflow and that is what makes the Dyson vacuums the best upright bagless vacuum on the market, bar none.
The first thing I noticed was the air coming out of the vacuum smelled cleaner then the air that was in the room. I figured it needed time to clog-up before it would start smelling like the old vacuums. It never did.
I was impressed when I noticed the swiveling head which kept the brushes in constant contact with the carpet and rugs no matter what angle the handle was in.
The carpet/floor knob, when turned to floor, stops the brushes from turning and possibly scratching expensive hardwood floors. I reached down and turned the knob with her hand from the carpet to floor setting. Later I learned that you could very easily use your foot (shoe) to turn the knob from carpet to floor and vice versa. No bending needed. Using your foot is quick and easy. It is designed for you to do that.
No dirt gets thrown around on the wood follr it gets sucked it!!

EMPTYING THE CLEAR BIN, OH JOY!
When you are done vacuuming you get to experience a real treat, emptying the clear bin without dust filling the air and without getting your hands all dirty. I think this one feature will cause the kids to fight over who gets to vacuum. They will all want to vacuum so they can be the one who gets to empty the bin. I have never seen such an easy, dustless, dirt free way of emptying a vacuum bin. Most people with a bag vacuum have to either go outside or lay down newspaper on the floor when they change the bags because so much junk is shot into the air, and dropped onto the floor when changing a bag.

I had a bagless vacuum for so long I just got use to beating the bin against the garbage can to hopefully knock all the fluff out of the bin. When that didn’t work I would reach my hand, and half of my forearm, up inside and grab the filth in order to pull it out. Yuck! With the DC14 there is none of that. A simple push of the white button just above the top of the bin on the vacuum and the bin easily comes off the vacuum. Another push of the red button (conveniently positioned right under your thumb at the top of the bin) and the trap door opens at the bottom of the bin and the dirt freely falls into your garbage can or whatever you are using to dispose of the dirt.

FEATURES
It works!: Bottom line Mr. Dyson has done it. It really cleans because it keeps a strong constant airflow.

Carpets & Floors: My wife loved that she didn’t have to use a broom to clean the kitchen floor that just throws dirt into the air. She can clean the kitchen vinyl, our hardwood entry area and the carpets with one machine, without putting on an attachment, and do a better job than by using anything else.

Clean, Filtered Exhaust: No more filth in the air and “vacuum smell” after “cleaning” the house like we had with the Bissell Lift-off vacuum. You don’t have to buy fragrances to put into your vacuum bag or squirt onto your bagless filters to cover up the vacuum smell when you vacuum. Not only are we cleaning the carpet but we are making the whole house a healthier place to live by cleaning the air (by not spraying filth into the air).

Warranty: One to three years. Mine has a two year warranty.

Customer Service: Toll-free 24/7/365. Always open. Easy to understand native English speaking support staff. Answered all my questions. Very knowledgeable, friendly and helpful.

Low Maintenance: The only real maintenance is washing out the hepa filter that is over the clear bin at least once every six months with water. No bags or filters to buy, ever! That alone can pay for the Dyson.

Tools & Attachments: Crevice, Brush, Stair tools all work and are conveniently stored on the machine. Mini Turbine Head worked flawlessly on heavy stair carpet. Wand and 12 foot long hose (17 feet total) worked great once you figure out how to best use them. I think the best use of the wand is in conjunction with the floor tool (which we didn’t use. We just turned off the brushes) or for cleaning hard to reach cobwebs on the ceiling with the brush tool.

Swivel Brush Bar Head: Because the head swivels it keeps constant contact with the floor or carpet thereby not missing any spots while you move the handle up and down.

Ease of Dumping Dirt: That says it all. No mess, no dirty hands, no filth flying around in the air, no water, no bags. Because the bin can be taken apart it is easy to wash down if needed.

Ease of Use: My wife said the vacuum pushes over the carpet easily. Because of the placement of the “lifting handle” it is easy to carry up and down the stairs or out to the car. It is not as heavy as other vacuums we have had. Large wheels on the back make it easy to turn and maneuver. 

Long Power Cord: I love the 36 foot long cord. It makes it much easier to do more vacuuming before having to find another electrical outlet meaning we can get the vacuuming done quicker and easier.

THE BEST UPRIGHT IS...
Without hesitation I can say the Dyson is by far the best upright vacuum available at any price for two reasons. One, it really does clean the carpet because of the constant airflow. Two, it doesn’t throw filth into the air, therefore keeping or improving the air quality and healthy environment in my home.

I sold my Kirby here on ebay, but before I shipped it I vacuumed the house and then pulled out my Dyson, I was amazed. I WAS so happy to ship it out. I truly feel that my house is now clean!
BUY THIS DYSON. IT’S WORTH THE PRICE.