After years of warning customers against using unofficial mop head attachments, Dyson has decided to step in and create its own.
The British tech giant urged consumers to avoid “fake” water attachments after customers flocked to buy a $65 product that went viral on TikTok last year.
Now cleaning fans won’t have to risk damaging their expensive vacuums in a quest to have an all-in-one device, as the brand has just unveiled the Dyson V15s Detect Submarine.
The $1549 device is the brand’s first all-in-one wet-and-dry cordless vacuum cleaner.
While the V15 detect vacuum has been on sale for two years, it now comes with a wet roller head that can be attached to wash and clean hard floors.
Wet-and-dry cleaners aren’t new, with rival brands dominating the space in Australia.
But Dyson said its delay in entering this area of the market was down to its quest to offer customers solutions to common issues found in existing wet-and-dry devices.
“Current wet cleaning formats are commonly met with owner frustrations; largely around manoeuvrability, maintenance and pick-up performance,” Charlie Park, vice president of floorcare at Dyson, told news.com.au at a top secret preview event in Singapore recently.
“We wanted to ensure we came up with a solution that firstly performed well as a wet floor cleaner, actually removing dirt from the floor and not smearing it.
“The biggest piece of feedback we received around existing wet floor cleaners was how complicated maintenance is.
“You use them once and they’re great, but then they’re filled with this mixture of water and dirt from the floor, and they only get worse from there.”
Dyson reckons it has cracked this complicated issue with the invention of an “eight-point hydration system” that uses a pressurised chamber for even water distribution and optimal saturation across the full width of the roller.
Eight water jets, evenly spaced along the roller, release precisely 18ml water every minute to wash floors evenly without leaving excess wetness – a feat Dyson has said will give a “next level clean” without over-saturating floors.
“We spent a lot of time on the Dyson Submarine that allowed us to ensure it was easy to clean and hygienic while also effective at floor cleaning,” Mr Park said.
“We also wanted to add it as another string to our bow when it comes to the floor cleaning experience which is why it is an attachment.
“We didn’t want to stray too far away from the importance of carpet cleaning, soft furnishings and the ability to clean hard floors with our traditional fluffy attachments.”
Remarkably, the attachment isn’t using any of the vacuum’s suction power to remove dirt and debris from floors, with Mr Park explaining it’s all thanks to the microfibres on the roller head.
“When you put the wet cleaner head on to the machine, the vacuum will recognise it is the wet floor cleaner and flip it into that mode,” he said.
“In that mode, it’s not using any suction, it’s purely the microfibre roller and the water that is picking up the dirt and leaving it in the dirty water tank.
“As soon as you take that cleaner head off, the machine will recognise that and flip it back into the dry mode which is using suction to drive its performance.”
Alongside the snazzy new wet floor cleaning function, buyers of the Dyson V15s Detect Submarine will also get all the features of the vacuum, which was first released in May 2021 – including optic light to illuminate hidden dust in your home.
It still contains the brand’s world famous Hyperdymium motor which spins at up to 125,000rpm, to deliver 240 air watts of powerful suction, though it’s worth noting, this is no longer the brand’s “most powerful” engine following the release of the Gen5detect at the end of 2022 which boasts a powerful 262 air watts of suction.
The Submarine attachment is currently not suitable on any other Dyson vacuum model other than the V15s.
However, Dyson’s HEPA world-class filtration system has been introduced to the new V15s model, which captures 99.99 per cent of particles as small as 0.1 microns, to expel cleaner air.
The Dyson V15s Detect Submarine – which goes on sale in Australia on July 6 – is one of three new home cleaning products Dyson has announced this month, including the Dyson Big+Quiet Formaldehyde, a larger and quieter version of its cult purifier.
The brand’s first robot vacuum to be sold in Australia has also been announced, the Dyson 360 Vis Nav, which is six times more powerful than any competitor on the market.
The writer travelled to Singapore as a guest of Dyson.
