Dyson has announced a new flagship vacuum: V16 stamping animal. It has lots of exciting features, but one that especially caught my eye is the fact that this vacuum will be available in a submarine version.
This is the same vacuum cleaner, but with an extra submarine floor head bundled in, which transforms it into a mop. So you would use the regular floor head for vacuuming and then attach the submarine’s head to wet cleaning your hard floors.
It is not the only 2-in-1 machine in the Dyson set-up-the last-but-a-flagship ship can be purchased as Dyson V15S registers submarine. My Australian Techradar colleague Sharmishta Sarkar tested it, and while she was impressed with the design that avoids the need for a separate vacuum and mop, and it found that it was great for small mopping cleaning, she had some problems with the design of the submarine head -and unfortunately it seems that these have not been attached to V16 Piston Animal Smarine.
More frustrating is the fact that this floor head hair been improved in other ways. I chatted with one of the engineers behind V16 and she told me that Dyson based on customer feedback has fine -tuned water delivery to make it more even. It’s great (although during my practical time with V16 Piston Animal Submarine still seemed pretty wet and drippy), but there are several things to be addressed.
Sharmishta’s most important complaint was that the dirty water tank is not fully sealed, and it was too easy to waste it on the floor on the way to empty it. It is aggravated by the fact that there is no indicator to show when the dirty water tank will be drunk and that it is stored in a place where you cannot see it.
This is not a problem with the brand’s dedicated wet cleaner, Dyson Washg1, which came out after V15’s detecting submarine (you can see exactly how they compare in my Dyson Washg1 VS V15s register submarine article). I had hoped that the improvements that were introduced would also contain in later 2-in-1 machines.
I haven’t had a chance to try the Dyson V16 Piston Animal Submarine version at home yet, so I reserve judgment until I’ve put it through its pace properly. Will this model be good enough to include in my roundup of the best wet and dry vacuum? Let’s see.
V16 Piston Animal Submarine can now be purchased in the UK and Australia at a list price of £ 899.99 / AU $ 1,649. The piston must be sold in the US sometime next year, but there is no word yet as to whether the submarine version will also be available or pricing for one of them.
