Dyson has introduced its latest flooring cleaner, the WashG1. Because the identify suggests, it’s a moist flooring cleaner. It’s the primary devoted cleaner of its kind that Dyson has produced – though there’s a moist cleansing head on the V15s Submarine (learn our evaluation to seek out out extra).
For the primary time in its flooring care vary, Dyson has moved away from cyclone expertise. Or, because the Dyson press workplace would have it (cruelly pre-empting related puns from journalists), the WashG1 is “a moist flooring cleaner that doesn’t suck”.
The 4.5kg WashG1 has a easy, minimalist design. Its color scheme is a bit more muted than different Dyson cleaners, with a black flooring head, deal with and equipment, and a easy, angled, metallic blue wand. Mounted on the entrance are 1-litre clear and soiled water tanks.
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The controls and show are equally pared again, with an LCD display screen that exhibits water stage and remaining time, and simply three buttons. One is for energy, one cycles between low, medium and excessive water utilization – plus there’s a lift button if you really want to offer the ground a superb soaking.
I used to be one of many fortunate few allowed to strive it out at Dyson’s Malmesbury campus earlier than it was formally introduced. We’ll give it a full evaluation as quickly as we’re in a position to take a look at it correctly – however from a brief trial, I can say that there’s quite a bit to love about it.
It feels gentle and manoeuvrable, its show is obvious, and it’s intuitive and straightforward to make use of. In the case of emptying and refilling, the clear and soiled water tanks pop off collectively, which makes it a lot much less of a faff to do.
However there’s one design ingredient that I don’t like one bit…
Dyson could be very eager to show the effectiveness of its cleaners. All of its vacuums have clear dustbins, and its most up-to-date fashions (together with the V15 Detect and the Gen5detect) characteristic a piezo sensor and LCD display screen that work collectively to indicate you the amount and kind of mud and grime particles you’ve vacuumed up. The message is as clear because the bins: these vacuums could also be expensive however they’re efficient.
The WashG1 is not any completely different. Not like many different moist flooring cleaners, which have smoked, frosted or colored soiled water tanks to obscure the unpleasantness inside, the WashG1 has a wonderfully clear, extremely seen tank – as a result of Dyson desires you to see all of the muck you’re eliminated out of your laborious flooring.
And think about it you’ll, as a result of because of the sparse, elegant design of the WashG1, it’s proper in entrance and inconceivable to disregard. Personally, I discovered it a bit bit gut-churning because it fills up.
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It’s comprehensible that Dyson desires you to see how significantly better the WashG1 is than your common ol’ mop. However for those who’ve spilt half a can of soup on the ground, it’ll be pretty apparent when it’s gone, so do you really want to have a look at a tank filled with watery orange mess?
It doesn’t use suction within the conventional sense, in that it doesn’t suck water up from the ground, like most rival moist flooring cleaners
How the WashG1 works
Charlie Park, VP of Dyson House Engineering says: “Dyson engineers clear up the issues others ignore and we thrive on the problem of making higher expertise. The Dyson WashG1 is the results of this; our first devoted moist machine to clean laborious flooring, correctly and hygienically.”
Dyson’s method was attribute. The ground care business has three standardised checks for moist flooring cleaners: dried-on blobs of tartar sauce, mustard and low. Dyson felt this wasn’t enough for the breadth of issues a cleaner would wish to deal with, so it developed its personal checks for extra sorts of probably spills. These included moist spills, make-up, hand sanitiser and extra, with the concept it’s not simply what’s within the pantry however what’s within the toilet that’ll must be cleaned up.
What it got here up with is a whole moist flooring cleansing system for all laborious flooring varieties that may take care of each moist and dry particles. What’s extra, it separates moist from dry, so that you gained’t must take care of the unpleasantness of pulling a handful of hair from the soiled water tank earlier than emptying. (I’ve been there.)
It doesn’t use suction within the conventional sense, in that it doesn’t suck water up from the ground, like most rival moist flooring cleaners. As an alternative, it disperses water through 26 factors alongside the cleansing head and employs two counter-rotating microfibre-coated rollers to select up soiled water and particles. A bonus of the dual rollers is that the WashG1 cleans because it strikes ahead and again, in contrast to single-roller rivals.
Nevertheless, it does use suction within the type of a small pump that sucks air out of the water tank. Because the pump by no means comes into contact with water, because of a spigot which closes the air valve, there’s no want for a filter to guard the motor from liquid. This allowed Dyson to banish the replaceable filter you’ll discover in most rival moist vacuums, which picks up odour and micro organism.
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The clear water tank and battery life will provide you with as much as 290m2 of cleansing, or about 45 minutes of cleansing time. The limiting issue within the WashG1 isn’t battery life – it’s water use. So, for those who use the very best water stage, you’ll solely get 7-8 minutes of cleansing time earlier than the water depletes and the soiled tank is near filling up.
Like every moist flooring cleaner, you’ll get the perfect outcomes by operating an bizarre vacuum round first as there’s much less likelihood of clogging up the system. Nevertheless, Dyson reassured me that shorter hair, akin to pet hair, gained’t be an issue because of the secondary brush bar. Microfibre on the cleansing rollers will grip pet hair till it comes into contact with the bristle bar, which is designed to flick hair and particles into the particles tray, which might be emptied individually.
The WashG1 stands in a charging dock and, after use, you can begin the self-cleaning mode, which is one other factor you gained’t have to fret about. There’s no scorching air drying for the rollers, nevertheless, and lengthy hair might must be faraway from the bristle bars by hand.
Dyson WashG1 worth & availability
The WashG1 is priced at £599 within the UK and $699 within the US.
It’ll be that can be purchased later on this yr however, as but, a exact launch date hasn’t been confirmed. You may enroll at Dyson US or Dyson UK to seek out out about it and different upcoming launches.
Within the meantime, for those who’re sick of mopping by hand, take a look at our round-up of the perfect moist and dry vacuums to seek out the perfect mannequin for you.