It’s a brand new course for Dyson: a floor cleaner with out point out of suction, cyclone know-how or any of its normal vacuum vocabulary. The Wash G1 is the corporate’s debut hard-floor cleaner, and it swaps suction for high-speed rollers, water and nylon bristles. It’ll go on sale later this 12 months for $700/ £600, which is pricey however nonetheless cheaper than Dyson’s top-of-the-line Gen 5 vacuum. I bought to check out the Wash G1 at Dyson’s HQ, a couple of hours west of London within the UK.
The product was born from the elevated presence of hard flooring in our lives. Dyson says there are fewer and fewer carpeted rooms in properties all over the world. However, hard-floor cleansing (industrial processes apart) has remained a fairly guide course of, normally involving mops (or Swiffer cloths, you monster) that go away smears and streaks. Typical mopping additionally results in wiping diluted filth and stains round your flooring after the first dunk.
Dyson’s technique retains the recent and soiled water separate as you clear, with twin microfiber rollers that apply the water, mechanically eradicating stains and filth. The firm dabbled with this on its V15 Detect Submarine, which had a dedicated cleansing head with (a lot smaller) water compartments inbuilt. The Wash G1 pulls soiled liquid up into its personal container, capturing any bodily particles right into a slim tray with a mesh filter.
The rollers rotate in reverse instructions, which helps raise stains and filth. While testing it, the rollers additionally gave the cleaner a floaty sensation as I swished it round. The high-density microfiber cloths then take up and entice each liquids and strong filth, whereas hardened nylon bristles draw back greater filth and objects right into a tray. The soiled water can also be squeezed out of the rollers and pulled upwards into the machine.
The Wash G1 has 26 hydration factors to “precisely” soak the microfiber rollers, making certain they’re hydrated sufficient to sort out stains and dried filth. The firm claims there’s sufficient water in a single tank to scrub the floor space equal to a tennis courtroom – however that can depend upon the machine’s settings.
There are three hydration ranges, whereas an extra max setting drains the tank a lot quicker, making use of as a lot water as attainable for essentially the most cussed stains. This doesn’t notably have an effect on battery energy, as the utmost setting would on a vacuum, as a result of the Wash G1 isn’t pushing the engines tougher – it’s simply utilizing extra water. To attain floor edges, Dyson shifted the curler’s engines to 1 aspect so the fitting aspect can carefully brush up towards partitions and edges.
The Wash G1 may even carry out a self-clean, utilizing half of the clear water tank to flush out the system and clear the brushes. There’s no heating characteristic, however the rotation ought to wring out many of the water. This is all carried out whereas the Wash G1 is docked and charging, which, as a substitute of the everyday cable or rack that Dyson’s different vacuums use, is a flat floor that plugs into the wall.
After utilizing up the clear water tank, it was easy to take away and refill – a lot simpler than a espresso machine. The unit with each containers clicks out of the physique so you’ll be able to tip away the soiled stuff and refill it with clear water. The container for the filthy water has a large mouth, so it’s simple to scrub with out touching the gathered filth.
One problem although: The soiled water tank is… gross. I perceive the satisfaction of seeing the filth and muck as you clear your flooring, however a container of cloudy beige thriller is, in particular person, relatively icky. Perhaps Dyson may make it out of a smoky plastic that obfuscates the soiled water, not less than just a little?
The method Dyson separates out liquid and strong mess additionally reduces the quantity of sludgy muck you’ll get from cleansing flooring with water (to not brag, however I could have cleaned a carpet or two in my life). It does this by making certain that solids aren’t within the water for too lengthy. Dirty water is pulled into its detachable container by means of a strain differential, that means there’s additionally no probability for the filth to meddle with motors, filters and different delicate components.
A closing microfiber curler then takes up any residual water, and Dyson says it buffs the floor to keep away from a streaky end. During my transient time with the Wash G1, it was nonetheless leaving a streaky end, however perhaps Dyson will repair this. After all, there’s loads of time earlier than this ships to customers. In the UK, the corporate is aiming for a fall (effectively, Autumn) launch, with the Wash G1 coming to the US later this 12 months. The demo area was additionally a reflective marble floor – arguably a tougher floor to scrub completely. My hardwood flooring at house most likely wouldn’t have proven streaks.
This is Dyson’s first try at dedicated hard floor cleansing, and I nonetheless have numerous questions on how effectively the filtration tray works. How a lot are you able to cram into such a slender little factor? We hope to get extra solutions once we take a more in-depth look forward of launch later this 12 months.