Dyson’s latest gadget for coping with dust in your house is a mechanical mop. Not like the British engineering firm’s flagship followers, hair dryers, and vacuums, the brand new Dyson WashG1 ground washer doesn’t use precision-engineered followers or a fine-tuned Hyperdymium motor. As a substitute, the mop depends on mechanical agitation to scrub up moist spills, picks up dust and particles, and provides your exhausting flooring a very good wash.
The WashG1 moist ground cleaner — aka mop — prices $699.99 and is the corporate’s first devoted mopping gadget. The cordless, battery-powered mop is slated for launch this fall, and you’ll signal as much as be notified when the world’s fanciest mop arrives on Dyson’s web site.
Whereas it’s positively fancy, this isn’t a wise mop — there’s no robotics concerned or app connectivity. And whereas there are many firms on the market that can promote you robotic vacuums and mops that clear the ground for you, Dyson depends on you to push this one round. Dyson does promote an upright vacuum / mop combo — the Dyson Submarine — however the WashG1 serves only one goal: mopping.
Nevertheless, as that is Dyson, it’s delightfully over-engineered to be the world’s finest mop. In accordance with Tom Moody, president of Dyson Dwelling, the large downside its engineers got down to clear up is that almost all mops unfold soiled water over your ground when mopping — , how whenever you stick the mop into the bucket filled with dust water after which swish it again throughout your ground whereas “cleansing”?
Dyson thinks it’s cracked this conundrum by consistently pulsing clear water onto its two rolling microfiber mop heads whereas they work. As a substitute of exhausting handbook labor pushing the mop backwards and forwards, Dyson makes use of mechanical agitation with counterrotating rollers to clean up dried-on stains — that means it is best to simply must information it whereas it does the exhausting work. A built-in bristle brush scrapes out any bigger particles you mop up, akin to Cheerios, and flicks it right into a separate particles tray.
You continue to should empty the soiled water and clear the particles tray manually (it and different parts are dishwasher protected). However the WashG1 can self-clean its rollers, so it’s able to go the following time you have to clear the flooring.
Whereas there’s a small pump and the brushes have motors to drive them, the dearth of a giant vacuum motor means there is not any filter to get clogged. In accordance with Dyson, that is one cause the WashG1 is way lighter than Dyson’s stick vacuums. It’s battery-powered, however once more, as a result of there’s no highly effective motor, they might get away with a smaller, lighter battery. Dyson’s engineering supervisor for floorcare, Ketan Patel, says the battery lasts as much as 35 minutes, and its 27-ounce tank of fresh water can mop as much as 3,100 sq. toes in a single go.
It’s honest to say that mops right now aren’t nice. The truth that the Swiffer is the very best factor to occur to handbook mopping within the final decade… says rather a lot. Dyson’s very costly mop does have a singular strategy, and I’ll be very to see simply how effectively this $700 floor-washing machine works.