written by Marshall. on 28/02/2001
Good Points
Brilliant design features. Light weight.
Bad Points
Noisy. Green.
General Comments
If like us you live in a house with a lot of stairs and you're into Star Wars the DCO5 is for you. It is designed to be lifted up and dragged around by the hose, it balances gracefully on the stairs and rolls easily onto the next step as you move up.
As you'd expect from a Dyson the design is superb, putting it together and working out what does what is so simple a 5 year could do it and infact he did! My son followed the clear step-by-step diagrams and we were up and running in under 5 minutes. I thought the cleaning performance was impressive but my boy was a bit miffed that he couldn't get the light saber to work!
However it is very noisy and very green, I suggest two new attachments - sunglasses and ear plugs.