Dyson DC39 Multi Floor Canister Vacuum Cleaner - Clearance

The Dyson canister with the tangle free turbine attachment is the first after thousands of dollars and hours with scissors, box cutters, and dissassembly that works to remove hair from my carpets. I NEVER have to stop and clean the tangle free attachment. For the first time I can do the entire house unless the canister gets full. I tried and still have a brand new Oreck upright, a new Eureka Pet Lovers upright with power paw attachments, a Hoover, two stick vacuums and a $800 Dyson upright. After two or three passes the uprights all stop steering and I have to pick them up and move them over. I have a joint problems so my shoulders, elbows, wrists, back, and hands can't keep up with this. The inability to steer is infuriating. My home helper was less diligent than I about cleaning the beater bars so she caused more damage to the carpets with melted rubber and fringe damage to the Persian rugs because she wouldn't pick it up to steer. I finally resorted to brushing the entire house with a hand held dog brush on my hands and knees before vacuuming myself which was exhausting and only moderately helpful. Since I am disabed this got more and more impossible. My helper would put it off so long that the floors were always filthy especially when the dogs shed. My helper still had to disassemble the vacuums two or three times and she was not happy about brushing rugs. Rug rakes did not help. Daily vacuuming was out of the question. It wasn't a buildup problem but tangle melt combo of my hair and dog hair. Something about my foot long hair and Golden hair combines to tangle around the beater bar and burn or break the belts. This results in melted rubber on expemsive area rugs. Or hair encases the beater bar and actually melts into the bearings or axle on the edges permanently freezing the beater bar. My uprights did not have room for cutting tools on the axles. So cutting the hair away numerous times doesn't work since the hair wraps around the bearings and completely cocooned the brush. I have to take all of the vacuums completely apart. No vacuum is designed for this so involve removing several very difficult screws several times to do one room. The Pet Lovers power paw hose attachment was worthless lasting only a month at $70 a piece. Even completely clean neither works because the disassembly broke the air seal that drives the beater bar. Screws on most of these vacuums are too soft to use this frequently so most strip or the heads are destroyed quickly. My only hope is that Dyson makes a wider tangle free attachment. This one must be designed for upholstery since it is hand tool narrow. I am so thankful not to have to crawl around my house. I never owned a canister vac so was very pleased at the steer ability of the Dyson ball, both canister and wand and how light and easy this vacuum is to use. Dyson is correct, even with a canister full of Golden hair it never loses suction. This is very surprising for a bagless vacuum. I wasn't super impressed with the $800 upright Dyson for the price. This canister is well worth the extra dollars. I did not like the auto height adjustment on any upright I tried. The auto height on the Dyson canister is perfect. My only negative comment is that small rugs are almost sucked into the vacuum. I discovered using the smallest flat hand tool at a very high angle, so that much of the suction is rendered incomplete, makes is easy to vacuum small rugs without standing on them. Even at a fraction of total suction my bathroom and kitchen rugs are hairless when I'm done. Much of my current house is tile and this Dyson sucks dog hair from feet away. So I don't need to crawl into each corner or even vacuum alll of the tile. Awesome.

This is by far the best vacuum cleaner I've ever owned! Powerful, easy to use, gets in the corners and under things. Pulls along like a dog on a leash. Pretty easy to clean, I empty it outside. And no bags to buy, a very big plus! I love the turbine head rather than the head with its own motor, which seem to break down and is expensive to replace. It works great on rugs or bare floors. I also like being able to turn off the turbine by pulling up on a lever in the handle. No bending over pushing levers and buttons, like my old upright. I have just a few small complaints: I would prefer the on-off switch on the handle, and there's no way to control the suction. But, not enough problems to cancel out the very big plusses. It's a bit pricey to start, but discounts are available if you shop around. I paid $326 from Amazon because I caught a sale and used ebates and points on my Amazon credit card. This machine is worth every penny!

When I was away, this little guy showed up at my door and my husband tried it before I did. He said it has great suction, he could not believe all the hair and grit that was pulled up out of the carpet. But he complained to me that the canister did not roll very smoothly and it kept tipping over, and that it was not as light as he thought it would be. When I used it, it was all the expectations I thought it would be. It does wonderful vacuuming knowing that I was getting cleaner carpets. The weight is as I thought it would be, and it trailed behind me without tipping over. What I like is the cord. It is long and it rolls back into the canister. Just take good care of the machine and this vacuum will last. If it is not cleaned as instructed, then there will be problems. As a side note, my sister had problems with her new upright Dyson. I believe it had to do with a part that gave out within the year, anyways, she called the Dyson company to complain about it and with no question they sent her a new part for free. Maybe it was that she had their free five year warranty that helped her out for this free part. I have talked to the Dyson company and they are helpful. My only complaint, wish they put the part numbers on the booklet.

I was getting a bit nervous before this arrived because it's a pretty big investment for a vacuum (although I purchased it during the 25% off sale), AND because I'd read a couple of reviews after my purchase that complained about the brush bar being vacuum-driven, rather than belt-driven. According to those customers, this necessitated their cleaning the brush bar multiple times as they vacuumed. More about my experience with this aspect later. At first, I didn't think it was actually vacuuming up anything. I have used upright vacuums for over thirty years, and I'm used to the feel of that heavy machine going back and forth across the carpet, with me pushing and pulling it. Just pushing and pulling a lightweight wand somehow didn't seem/feel like it could be working. I even tested it by going back over the same area with my old machine. My old machine picked up NOTHING. So, yeah, pushing that lightweight little wand actually worked! No more shoving and pulling on a heavy machine. Of course, this I chalk up to graduating from upright to canister---a move I rejected for years and now feel foolish for having done so. The other major plus of a canister is that I can now vacuum under chairs, couches, my china cabinet and right up against the baseboards. No upright can do any of these things. I even purchased the duster attachment (I highly recommend) and was able to vacuum my blinds in no time! I have NEVER been able to vacuum the blinds. I had two choices: clean each individual blind by hand (a project that would take days), or have my poor husband take them down, drag them outside and wash them. We always opted for that route. Hubby is now elated that he will no longer have to perform this task. This machine whisks them clean in minutes! For that alone, I am considering naming this thing in my will. I live in a desert and am almost always dusting! Swiffers are okay, but they send about 25% of the dust into the air and then it settles back someplace else. With this machine, outfitted with the dusting brush, I can vacuum the TVs and all those nasty, dust-collecting cords without a speck of dust flying through the air. AND in just a fraction of the time I spent "swiffering." As to the complaint about the brush bar: While it is true that it is vacuum-driven, rather than belt-driven, all my fears that this might effect the power and efficiency were for naught. With regard to the cleaning of the bar, you have to clean the bars on the belt-driven models, too, though probably about half as often. HOWEVER, here's the difference: With my old, belt-driven (and less effective) vacuum, when it was time to clean the brush bar, I had to lay the thing out flat like an appendectomy patient and arm myself with various sizes of screwdrivers. Then, I had to remove about a dozen different sized screws, pile them up in different piles, pull the machine apart and hope that I would remember which screw went where. Meanwhile, puddles of dust accumulate where ever I am operating on the machine. After cutting off all the hair, I have to stretch the bar and the attached belt back into place, carefully lining up the notches and wheels, and then put back all the screws. With fibromyalgia, this is no small task. THEN I get to vacuum up all the dust that fell out of the disemboweled machine. With the DYSON, you unscrew one little cap (using a coin, not a screwdriver or any other tool), pull out the bar, cut off the hair, push the bar back in and replace the cap. Instead of a twenty minute messy operation, it's a two minute twist-pull-snip-replace procedure. I much prefer that, even if I have to do it more frequently. And, no, you don't have to do it multiple times in the same vacuuming session unless your room mate is Cousin It. My German Shepherd's hair didn't wind around the brush bar---only mine and my daughter's did. It's only long hair (or string) that wraps around. Other hair just gets vacuumed up. All in all, I am very pleased with this machine. The only drawback is its high price. I was lucky and caught a good sale. On the other hand, however, I went through four different vacuums in the past five years, each one unable to keep up with my Golden Retriever and now my German Shepherd. Not to mention the two cats. Moreover, with other machines, I have ALWAYS had to vacuum at least twice---once to pull up all the animal hair, and then the second time to get up dust and dirt. With this machine, it's one and done. That's worth a little extra cost, because my time is worth something, too.

I have owned and used this vacuum 4-5 times a week for seven months now. I have owned another canister vacuum (Panasonic), as well as a Hoover upright. I decided for my birthday to treat myself to what I thought would be a real splurge, an expensive Dyson. I'm not going to list any Pro's here, because there is not a single Pro that would outweigh the nightmare this vacuum has become. 1. Most important to know, is the opening from the brush bar attachment to the tube which goes up to the handle has a narrowing (to increase vacuum maybe?) and it is about the size of a penny. Why a penny? Because I've dozen of times removed a penny from this opening, where it becomes lodged and spins around until enough other debris completely blocks the opening. And who hasn't occasionally vacuumed up a coin under a bed or couch? The end attachment with the brush bar is designed in a way that it is extremely difficult to unlodge anything in that opening. 2. The beater/brush bar is only powered by vacuum. So on a thick plush carpet it tends to sit there sucking, while losing all ability to propel itself forward, and the brush almost completely stops rotating. Its sucking alright, just not moving. You don't see any evidence of having vacuumed a carpet after going through the room. (No lines or patterned brush marks, even after all the pushing and tugging to get it across the carpet.) 3. I was hoping if it didn't do well on carpet, it would really excel on hard floors. NOT THE CASE. The brush bar head is too low to the ground and just pushes most debris around. Oh, except flat pennies. I have to sweep or dustbuster after vacuuming now and its disgraceful how much the dyson does not pick up. 4. The canister is small, which I don't mind emptying more often. HOWEVER, the space between the canister outside and inside wall is very narrow. So if you have anything light or fluffy, that doesn't get weighed down with the spinning in there, you have to manually stick your fingers in and pull it out. Think dog hair, dried grass, anything light. So it defeats having a "hands free" button to empty, when you are digging in there with your hands. 5. The lid of the canister is not flat, so when you open it to empty, you have to use your hands anyway to completely pull it back180 degrees to get the debris out. Just pushing the button and letting it open has it hang down, but all the texture to the lid traps debris. 6. The way the canister sits on the flat base leaves a wedge between the two. So when changing directions while vacuuming, the cord gets in the wedge, and you just knock the whole canister over, and drag it around. The "ball technology" is useless. 7. The cord is annoyingly short. 8. It always takes more than 5 tries with the trigger to go from hard word to carpet (turning the brush bar on and off.) 9. The little insert on the front of the canister to allow for hooking the hose/tube onto it for easy storage is too small and needs to be held at an odd angle, while wrestling with it on your knees, to get it to work. I just shove the whole thing in the closet. It takes up much much more space than you would think. PLEASE, do not buy this vacuum. I can't afford to buy another vacuum. My husband wants to throw it away, he's so sick of pulling things out of it, and being unable to get through a single room with sucess. I have a $20 Bissell "stick" vacuum I bought from Amazon that does 100x better on hardwood than this Dyson. DO NOT BUY!!!

I previously owned a Dyson upright which I liked. After a brief intermission with a small thirty dollar Dirt Devil (which actually had a lot of power when the filter was clean and lasted a long time, but was ear-splitting and too small), I decided on this canister - kind of retro but smart to not have to lug the whole machine. Overall it's a good machine, a pleasure to use. The brush bar is a bit weak, just doesn't beat the carpet like a belt-powered bar. Yet it does fluff up my low-shag carpet and gives it that 'just vacuumed' look and feel. And smaller carpets it lifts to itself and there's lot of friction with the brush bar then, so height counts, but in general it has a weak feel if you're used to something that really beats and vibrates the carpet. Sometimes I need to go over a spot a few times to get it fluffed. And this weakness affects its ability to pickup heavy small stuff that requires a beating to lift, like cat litter in a carpet, but it still does well - at least as well as the Dirt Devil which had a powerful brush bar and good suction. I'm less concerned with the brush bar the more I use it - it does clean well and what the brush bar lacks in force, the sheer suction makes up for. And with no belt, there is no cord required to the part you hold, just the hose, making it a light setup. It's easy to underestimate this machine because it's fairly quiet, lightweight, and easy to move - it just glides along. It's almost like you're just pretend-vacuuming with a toy - just making the motions. Yet it leaves the carpet looking great and the dust bin reveals it's doing its job well. I would especially recommend this vacuum for persons who can't lift and lug. The other minor weakness is the crevice/brush tool, which has a brush which slides along it and locks to the end of it, or retracts to the base. The crevice tool is short and fat (large enough to suck keys off a keyboard) and not suitable for any narrow space due to the wide brush and handle. But the brush works well - the finer longer bristles work well because they clean themselves and dust better than short stiff brushes. Great suction. When using the hose it WILL grab everything within your reach - carpets, drapes, curtains, even just stick itself to the wall or floor. It's a comedy of errors at times - the force required to remove it from one thing will stick it to the next (until you learn to use the suction release, which somehow releases all of that suction easily with just one finger). I like the power and cord retract buttons on the canister - they're clearly meant to be foot-operated and work easily. Cord retraction is excellent - a treat after owning uprights. Dust bin removal and emptying into a bag is very smooth and easy, with a decent size bin. Cord is adequate length - covers a large apartment without swapping plugs. Canister rolls and turns easily and mostly keeps its balance. When it does tip it doesn't seem to mind it - no change in sound even. I much prefer the idea of a lightweight hand piece and the canister that follows easily. Plus the air is being blown out far from where you're vacuuming, so it's pure suction at your end (unlike an upright which will blow stuff around as you're trying to vacuum it). Wand button to switch off brush bar is handy - a little touchy but you get used to it - speed counts. And there's a pull-lever that releases the suction momentarily, which is handy. Does fine on hard floors. My last Dyson the attachments were forever sliding off while in use. These attachments have locks that can support your body weight if required. Not the easiest to remove them due to odd placements of the buttons - but well made, smooth and secure. I prefer them staying on until I remove them, even if it takes a moment of effort. This machine has great reach under beds and smaller furniture, up the air, etc. So light you can twist and turn the end around table legs and into the smallest spots, has great flexibility. I find the hose just the right length, and the wand long enough at full extension (I'm about 5'10" with longish arms). Mostly I find this a good vacuum cleaner. I think Dyson might have been better off putting a belt-driven brush bar on it, but without it you gain a lighter head, no cords to that section, and it still seems to do the job well. And come on - give us a real crevice TOOL, not a toy. But mostly this machine behaves as a well-engineered tool, without being super noisy or heavy.

This is a fabulous vacuum cleaner. It handles a bit differently from my old Kenmore, which means it took a little getting used to as far as movement, but it works SO much better. It picks up the tiniest of dirt. My only two complaints (although they are very minor in comparison to how much I love this vacuum) - 1. The head is actually quite tall, meaning it doesn't fit under the things that my old vacuum could slide under, like my couch and another piece of furniture. This is annoying. 2. This vacuum is not made to pick up bigger things on the floor. With having three kids, there are often 'chunks' of whatever across the floor, and I actually have to sweep or vacuum those with my cordless vacuum to get them up - if you try to get them with this, they will get stuck behind the spinning sweeper in the head and you'll have to take it apart to get it to work again. But definitely awesome at getting my floors super clean, especially if I've gone over it with a broom first.

I used to clean houses for a living. I have used a variety of vacuums - uprights, canisters, central vacs. So I think I know something about vacuums. I bought this machine because of all the hype from my friends. Now I wish I would have done more research. For the price I paid, I want something that is near perfect. This machine is not. PROS - Lightweight - HEPA filter - Can stop turbine with a pull of the trigger - Can see dirt in canister - Looks sexy CONS - All plastic (nothing has snapped yet) - When you take the hose off of the shaft, the shaft cannot stand upright (due to the lack of a lock at the joint to the turbine head). All other vacuums I have ever used can stand up. Instead, you have to lay the shaft on the ground and then pick it up after (VERY INCONVENIENT) - Turbine head is unable to pick up anything larger than a dog food pellet on hard floors. Seriously, it just pushes the pellets around. BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. - Maybe the adapter for hardwood floors works better for picking up pellets, but unfortunately it does not come with the $500 vacuum...and costs $50 for a piece of plastic. What a scam! - Air-driven turbinehead weak on carpets Now that I've written this up, I'm really considering selling this vacuum for something that doesn't annoy me when I use it. Sigh. Don't make the same mistake I did. Update: I bought the hardwood floor tool and it works well.