Dyson ball animal 2 (upright)

By Value hunter on Feb 21, 2019 | In In real life, In the home, Product reviews

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After battling with the Shark NV681UKT Powered Lift-Away True Pet Vacuum Cleaner, for almost 2 months, their tech help people decided we had, "the wrong type of carpet" and issued a code for me to return it to Argos and exchange it for another model.
The good people at Argos (tip of the hat for great customer service @ArgosHelpers) made the whole process very easy.
A quick ring to check the code out, at the store and we were good to go, to choose another vacuum.

We opted to pay our last remaining £100 (emergency budget) on the Dyson ball animal 2 vacuum.

So for your perusal, here's our review of it.

Positives:
Outstanding cleaning!
Picks up animal hair with ease (on medium power), leaves no lines where it's dragged back, the suction is A1, the best we have had for a vacuum. One to two passes over the hair and it was gone.
Some behind the radiator dust I brushed out over a week ago, right up against the skirting board, was gone in seconds (the shark machine couldn't get near it). At last, a true "pet" vacuum cleaner.
Very quiet, remarkably so, one of the quietest machines we've ever had.
Very long cable - ideal for an open plan house layout.
Usual selection of attachments, including a sideways roller adaption for the furniture and an extension head for getting under stuff with a suction powered attachment.
Cleaning our front room carpet, the shark took around 1 hour 10 minutes (still leaving bits that had to be scraped up with a rubber soled foot) - the Dyson ball animal 2 took around 8 minutes, without any bits left on the carpet!

Negatives:
The price.
We paid £299 in total, but considering all the messing about with our previous shark and it's performance, it still represents good value.

Overall:
Pet cleaning - outstanding!
Does exactly what it claims to do. 10/10
Suction - superb, even on the medium setting.
Suction remains strong on uneven surfaces 10/10
Gadgets - all the usual plus a pet hair settee adaption and an adapter to reach under furniture (suction powered) 10/10
Cord - almost 11 metres, very good for our open plan house. 10/10
Edge suction - very good, especially when head on. 10/10
Price - the only thing that lets it down a bit, but it is a new machine and one of the top of the range. 8/10

It's fair to say we are very pleased with the dyson, so much so, the better half and I have been hoovering up twice a day. This, in our house, is very rare!