Dyson Pencilvac Fluffycones Review: Almost The Perfect Floor Cleaner For Tiny Apartments

The large woody pinch Dyson’s new vacuum is really mini it is. While “pencil” is surely an eager noun to comparison a level vacuum to, nan slender assemblage of nan PencilVac Fluffycones ($600) brings to mind mops and brooms alternatively than hulking cyclone-suction tech and connected cleaning. As we described it past year, it’s nan company's astir stick-like instrumentality vacuum yet. Dyson has been repurposing its motor tech into smaller shape factors for years, specified arsenic its hairsbreadth dryers. However, this is nan first clip it’s been utilized for level cleaning.

Dyson precocious launched nan PencilVac Fluffy, pinch a much accepted dual-roller system, but I’m focusing connected nan Fluffycones loop and will telephone it simply nan PencilVac for brevity. It combines respective delightful creation features, and while amazingly potent, it’s — predictably — not rather capable to lucifer nan powerfulness of its bigger brothers. The full vacuum weighs nether 4 pounds, which adds to its easiness of use. That said, it’s heavier than it looks, arsenic nan rod style holds everything inside.

With a 40mm-diameter (almost 1.6-inch) handle, it’s usable moreover pinch a azygous hand, if you want to beryllium other casual successful your cleaning habits. It’s besides a delight to use. As pinch respective erstwhile Dysons, for illustration nan OmniGlide, nan dual-roller strategy seems to thief nan PencilVac glide crossed difficult floors. It tin beryllium pulled and coaxed astir furniture, array legs, nether low-profile credenzas and more.

When astatine rest, nan PencilVac sits connected 4 cardinal wheels, but erstwhile you commencement cleaning, nan suction creates a benignant of floating effect. Those 4 Fluffycone heads are designed to defy hairsbreadth tangles, pinch immoderate captured hairsbreadth bundled for illustration yarn astatine nan tips of each cone for easier cleaning astatine nan halfway of nan PencilVac. The tips of each cone mean nan vacuum tin scope nan edges of my flooring, too. The Fluffycones aren’t really capable to excavation into nan pile, meaning that while they tin surely propulsion and assistance a furniture of ungraded and dust, thing deeper will enactment there.

That said, nan PencilVac is simply a dedicated difficult level cleaner. If your location is wholly hardwood aliases has tons of tile, past it’s not an issue. But if you person carpeted rooms (or ample rugs), you mightiness want to see different models. Also, astatine higher suction levels, nan PencilVac’s rollers would occasionally trim retired while vacuuming carpets and rugs.

The PencilVac is besides equipped pinch beforehand and backmost Dyson Detect lasers, making it easier to spot wherever you’ve missed (and really unspeakable your level cleaning habits are). Compared to bigger, much powerful models for illustration nan V15 Detect, nan PencilVac had a greater inclination to spit retired ungraded erstwhile overwhelmed by larger amounts of debris. This only happened for maine erstwhile I pushed nan limits of what nan PencilVac could handle: a fistful of plot ungraded connected my hardwood floor.

Because it’s 2026, of course, it’s a connected vacuum, too. When I put together and charged nan PencilVac, nan first point it does is task a QR codification for pairing. A speedy firmware update later and it was fresh for use. The only characteristic successful nan MyDyson app that you mightiness find useful is attraction reminders (i.e., erstwhile to cleanable nan filter). Everything else, including a artillery readout, is built into nan handle.

Everything other is built into nan handle. Compared to Dyson’s different instrumentality vacs, location is nary removable particulate canister aliases artillery block. The postulation bin is cleverly integrated, drafting successful ungraded and utilizing nan aforesaid suction to compact it pinch force. When you request to quiet nan compartment — which holds a astonishing magnitude (0.8 liters, according to Dyson) — you region nan cleaning head, constituent nan assemblage astatine your garbage tin and ‘slide’ nan particulate (compacting it further successful nan process) into your trash can. The postulation area is besides see-through, truthful you tin spot everything you’re pulling into nan PencilVac build up for illustration a benignant of gauge. When emptying nan instrumentality vac, I besides noticed it doesn’t nutrient nan particulate unreality you often get pinch vacuums, which is different bully improvement.

Unlike its different instrumentality vacuums, Dyson’s PencilVac comes pinch a free-standing charging dock, alternatively of a wall mount. This makes retention a small much versatile. If you’re a renter, there’s nary request for immoderate drilling. I deliberation this besides speaks to really it’s meant to beryllium used: briefly, successful bursts.

To that point, artillery life seemed to beryllium astir 20 minutes, depending connected nan powerfulness level utilized and really soiled nan surfaces were. Running wholly connected boost, I sewage nether 10 minutes of use. This weakness is exacerbated by a sluggish charging clip of complete 3 hours. For smaller spaces and not-too-messy lives, that’s much than capable cleanable time, though.

The PencilVac besides comes pinch that Dyson premium, too, priced astatine $600. That’s still little than nan company’s different caller instrumentality vacuums. For example, that’s $50 little than nan aforementioned V15 Detect. If your location has a batch of carpeting aliases rugs to clean, nan bigger, much powerful models mightiness beryllium a amended choice. The newer PencilVac Fluffy has a much accepted dual-roller strategy and it's besides $150 cheaper.

With its minimalist shape factor, nan PencilVac is still an engineering marvel. Its precocious grade of mobility makes it easy to cleanable successful tight corners and betwixt furniture. I conscionable wish it were somewhat much powerful.