Dyson releases ultra-slim wet and dry floor cleaner – PencilWash

Global Vacuum giant Dyson has revealed their second ultra-slim floor cleaner, this time addressing the wet spills on your floors with the PencilWash, a follow up to the ultra-thin PencilVac released last year.

It’s a strangely unique design that is hard to comprehend when you consider what we used to drag around the home to clean our floors, but in the PencilVac the entire vacuum system is built into the handle and head of the vacuum, with literally no bulk.

That same design principal comes to wet and dry cleaning, probably the fastest growing floor cleaning category of the last two years.

PencilWash weighs just 2.2kg, and has a handle just 38mm in diameter yet it’s head has fresh water to allow for hydration agitation and extraction of spills and stains.

Dyson’s Tech boss John Churchill says “We’re keen on making machines smaller and lighter while dramatically improving performance. PencilWash™ applies that thinking to wet cleaning: our slimmest, ultra light format that glides effortlessly and reaches where others can’t. Using hydration, agitation and extraction, it delivers a hygienic clean with fresh water only, supported by our filter-free system. It brings the simplicity of a broom together with the precision and power from Dyson engineering.” 

With it’s small size, the PencilWash can also lay flat to 170 degrees to clean under furniture, something many competing products will struggle with.

And if you’re worried about the smells of dirty stains, the PencilWash has a “no filter” design – this means the filter can’t be used to breed bacteria or emit odors. This sounds fascinating as the smells of a wet-dry vacuum is often the biggest downfall of a product.

Dyson say a 300ml tank of clean water can clean up to 100 square meters of flooring.

The PencilWash will be on sale in Australia for $499 from March 5th.