Bladeless fans

[Zetec-S]

Anyone got one? I’ve always liked the idea of them but not sure if they’re just an expensive gimmick. How do they compare to conventional fans? Quieter? Not as powerful?

TIA

[Jiebo]

If it’s dyson, save your cash. They are noisy, perhaps not dB but frequency which is higher. The output is fine. It does look quite nice.
The price for this mediocrity is frankly a joke.

[anonymous-user]

I have 2 Bladeless fans
Ok not the ones you are meaning but I believe they are bladeless. they are the tower type fans with the rotating cylinder inside
A long long time ago I can still remember there was a company in Manchester called EHS who were a manufacturer/importer / whatever of these and they were sold by Argos and many other sellers. EHS went bust
Anyway I bought some for both work and home and they live on. In fact I got one from my favourite junk shop for just £4 a few weeks ago and after a thorough cleaning and greasing it works great. It's a particularly ugly looking thing that I'm quite fond of.

Noise levels are noticeable however but in reality quieter than a free standing bladed one

[Penelope Stopit]

I thought a fan was no longer a fan if it had no fan blades

I mean to say, a 4 stroke engine is no longer a 4 stroke engine if it has no pistons

[sealtt]

If you mean the Dyson one please avoid it. I felt like the biggest sucker ever when I bought it and realised it’s just a regular fan, just it costs 1000% more. Dyson is the biggest scam going.

I now see they have a heating and ‘cooling’ model for £550 (so guess I’m no longer the biggest sucker ever), by cooling they just mean it is a fan. And by bladeless they just mean the fan blades are hidden. So basically it’s just a normal fan with a heating element. £550 would buy you a proper air conditioner though not cover installation costs.

Buy a regular fan and if you want better than that get air conditioning installed. Anything in between those is likely a waste of money.

In my house I have AC on the 2nd floor for master suite and in kids rooms on 1st floor I put fly screens on the windows and fans in the room. Works very well for us all.

[Teddy Lop]

You gotta hand it to that Dyson fella, he's like the apple of home appliances. He must be worth billions. Well done that man.

If you want a decent fan, seriously consider a ceiling fan, I have no idea why these aren't more popular.* Ignore the £30 happy shopper efforts with all their wobble and shake, around £150 gets you a 42" r/c westinghouse that's just about silent, the larger blades give a much gentler but fuller air movement that kills the stuffiness, and its always available but never in the way.

• full disclosure I am a sparky

[sealtt]

Teddy Lop said:

You gotta hand it to that Dyson fella, he's like the apple of home appliances. He must be worth billions. Well done that man.

If you want a decent fan, seriously consider a ceiling fan, I have no idea why these aren't more popular.* Ignore the £30 happy shopper efforts with all their wobble and shake, around £150 gets you a 42" r/c westinghouse that's just about silent, the larger blades give a much gentler but fuller air movement that kills the stuffiness, and its always available but never in the way.

• full disclosure I am a sparky

That’s the thing, Apple are a lot of marketing, fancy packaging and Sky high prices but their products (especially the pro stuff) are to be fair very very good. Meanwhile Dyson does the marketing, fancy packaging and sky high prices - but with an absolutely mediocre product. You can probably tell how much I hate that I fell for it...

Ceiling fan is a great shout, I forgot about those. Had one previously and it was very good, even in a very hot loft conversion at our previous property it was enough. Best option up from a regular fan without spending full AC money.

[parabolica]

I got one of the Dyson ones as a long-service award from my last company; currently going like the clappers in this heat. The air output is smoother/less choppy than a normal fan, but otherwise much the same. I wouldn't have spent my own cash on one, but I've nothing really bad to say about it either.

Wouldn't mind knowing how the cooling model works; right now mine is just pushing hot air around the room.

[Tony1963]

I equate Dyson to Bose ‘hifi’.

Heaps of marketing, but mediocre sound for most products, excepting headphones. Have you even tried finding the specifications of their home cinema systems?

[Down and out]

Anyone tried one of the Chinese bladeless knock offs?
Isn't a ceiling fan a bit, erm, American dinerish?

[Timbergiant]

I have a couple of the dyson fans, a desktop AM06 and a tower AM07.
The desktop is OK but seems VERY focused, the air is delivered in a spot, oscillation swings it around but compared to the tower its not very good, the tower is miles better, its a large tall strip of wind.
Neither are a patch on actual AC but the tower is a good alternative.

[JulianHJ]

Down and out said:

Anyone tried one of the Chinese bladeless knock offs?

I ordered one from EBay and it arrived today. Despite being advertised as 60dB maximum, it’s way too loud, so I am sending it back. It’s much louder than the Dysons we have at work.

[anonymous-user]

The gent who mentioned the ceiling fan is my new bestie
Superb suggestion and one I'm seriously looking at for both lounges and dining room as we speak

[ARHarh]

I have a ceiling fan in the bedroom. Bought it in the early 90's. It has now been in 3 different houses. In our last house it was on approximately 50% of nights each year. It must have had 1000's of hours use and still going strong. The paint has completely worn off the ends of the blades. No idea what make it is, but pretty sure I bought it from Ikea. So much nicer than a normal fan.

[98elise]

"Bladeless" fans do have blades, they are just hidden.

[vikingaero]

Muji sell a desktop fan for £42. Really good quality plastic, quiet for the high output too.

Edit to add that it's a bladed fan. Buy Dyson, send my mate to the Caribbean! My mate has an appliance repair shop. Plodding along to years until Dyson turned up with his overpriced plastic o' ste. Now people can't bear to throw a £400 vac away and he repairs them for sometime hundreds.

Edited by vikingaero on Saturday 29th June 21:53

[jimmyjimjim]

Ceiling fans are excellent. This time of year, the one in our bedroom is on 24/7. 72" 9 blade version from Lowes. Utterly silent.

[Mike335i]

I bought a Dyson AM05 for about £150 years ago. I used it at work in the office and it works pretty well at both cooling and heating. It is quite effective for what it is and had lasted very well. I think a lot of the cost is in the durability of Dyson products, our Dyson DC24 is about 10 years old and still works ok. Thinks the big difference with apple then, Dyson stuff still works fine 10years on

Having said all that, I wouldn't buy full price Dyson stuff as it really is very expensive for marginal (if any) gains. They are not crap, but they are not amazing either.

[Zetec-S]

Thanks for all the responses, general consensus seems to be they are overpriced for what they do.

However... despite my objections Mrs ZS insisted she wanted one as they look sleeker than all the other ones. So a Dyson AM09 is on it's way to us today - when we get some warm weather again, possibly next year, I'll report back with my opinion

[98elise]

Mike335i said:

I bought a Dyson AM05 for about £150 years ago. I used it at work in the office and it works pretty well at both cooling and heating. It is quite effective for what it is and had lasted very well. I think a lot of the cost is in the durability of Dyson products, our Dyson DC24 is about 10 years old and still works ok. Thinks the big difference with apple then, Dyson stuff still works fine 10years on

Having said all that, I wouldn't buy full price Dyson stuff as it really is very expensive for marginal (if any) gains. They are not crap, but they are not amazing either.

I would disagree on the reliability. We have a Dyson Cordless Vac and it's needed 3 new motorised brush bars. The vac just starts pulsing for no good reason and it can't be fixed without a new brush.

It's a common problem Dyson know about. As soon as you say it's pulsing they say you need a new brush.

Unless immaculately clean our current (3rd one) is pulsing so we're going to have to shell out for another brush soon. That's pretty crap for a £300 vac.

Our home is 50/50 carpet vs laminate, and we don't have a dog or cat.