Ordered four Dyson Airblade's and they arrived a day later all perfectly packaged. Installed by our contracted electrician and they’re working perfectly, just as expected. Allowed us to remove four hand towel dispensers and save money on paper towels. We expect the dryers to be cost neutral within 24 months.
- Colin Naylor
Good price and service with free next day delivery too!
- Mike
Excellent service! Great website. Fast 24 hour delivery, kept informed throughout. Thank you for your amazing service. I ordered a hand dryer yesterday, received delivery today and it was fitted this afternoon and is working perfectly. We really appreciated the tracking emails and the phone call to say that it had been delivered. Thank you very much.
- Lynn
Perfect five star service. First class hassle free service. Would definitely purchase from them again.
- Ben McGuiness
Great Service and customers care
- Abuzer
Very help and extremely fast delivery! Overall excellent.
- Charlie
Delivered really quickly. Spoke to them on the phone and found them very helpful. The product looks lovely in the toilets and I’d say a great alternative to Dyson as I’ve now used both.
- Ron Garbutt
Got a great service, delivered the next day. Super professional and a great price. The product is great also, very powerful for a small unit yet I wouldn’t say it has a high noise output. Highly recommended all round.
- Kim Wood
Delivery arrived on time, product was easy to fit and performs very well. We have had positive feedback from the client.
- Andrew French
Great dryer, really impressed with the quality. Item arrived promptly, would use Handryersuk again.
- John Murphy
A very good hand dryer, we were pleasantly surprised. Very high speed. All staff are very happy we got them. Would also recommend company from the service we got!
- Steph Wilkerson
Got a great service and very pleased with these. They even turned out to be much more effective than I thought they would be. Overall they’re brilliant and very powerful. Very Happy!
- Hugh Marsh
Awesome bit of kit. Great value, works well and looks great. Install service was faultless. Highly recommend.
- David Raul
Customer service excellent would recommend. Suitable for restaurant use
- Jackie
Good service. Helpful when I telephoned (real person). The dryer arrived the next day as scheduled and seems as good as its description. (Dryflow Jetforce Junior - JJ01) It came with a good manual and a template to get the wall fittings in the right place and that made fitting it easy.
- Village Hall in Peterborough
Very happy. Would highly recommend this company. Great service, fast delivery and great product with sturdy build. Well pleased.
- Antony Hibberd
Excellent Customer Care. A minor problem with delivery from manufacturer sorted immediately through using a 3rd party courier. Appliance delivered as promised. Excellent customer service.
- Alice Goodwin
Great service as always - friendly helpful staff and excellent value hand dryers
- Jo Perry
Good service and prompt delivery and very good price.Will use again when further machines required.Nick T.
- Nick Tiffin
Great product. Fantastic customer service. Would definitely buy again
- Claire Kennedy
Really fast service with plenty of notifications to keep us up to date with our order. Highly recommend. Quality product, well built. Good and clear instructions and easy to install.
- John B
'Very good service. Ordered, and fast delivery, would definitely use again. Great reliable product 5 star
- jason willoughby
The go too website for hand dryers. Web site brilliant delivery spot on and well price. Value for money great website.
- Jozef Dziobek
Quick and easy to use their website. Payment was easy and when I’m needed to double check the order, super quick and friendly response . Slick operation
- Mark Wrigley
Excellent customer service, next day delivery and phone call to check we had received order.
- John Farmer
Great to deal with, this is the second hand dryer we have bought from them. Seamless ordering and quick delivery would definitely use them again.
- Andrew Marsh

The evolution of the Dyson Airblade

Posted by Andrew 14/05/2019 0 Comment(s)

 

The Dyson Airblade is an electrically powered hand dryer manufactured in Malaysia by the Whiltshire based, UK company Dyson. Dyson were originally famous for inventing the bagless vacuum cleaner and for changing the way that vacuums move by introducing a ball rather than wheels to give a greater range of movement. This idea came from one of James Dyson’s earlier inventions, the Ballbarrow which made wheelbarrows easier to manoeuvre.

 

The Dyson Airblade used the patented vacuum motor technology and HEPA filtration to revolutionise the electric hand dryer market. While they weren’t the first company to invent to dual airflow, hands in’ technology’, that honour goes to Mitsubishi in Japan in 1993, they were the first to popularise this design throughout the world. 

 

What was different about the Dyson Airblade?

 

Instead of the single jet or multiple jet technology used on recent innovations like the Xlerator or Airforce hand dryers, the original Dyson Airblade uses a thin sheet of unheated air travelling at around 400 mph and hitting the hands from both sides to strip water from the hands and into a water drainage tank. Subsequent Airblade models have removed the tank feature and as such there is debate that this design will eventually be removed from the range as the Dyson tap and dryer gains more recognition for its practicality. 

Although this technology was not unique, the speed of the airflow was a big leap at the time and changed the face of the market. Dyson can largely be credited with the huge glbal demand for energy efficient, high speed hand dryers we have today. The impact this has had on landfill waste and associated carbon emissions deserves huge credit.
Conventional electric hand dryers had largely relied on evaporation to dry the hands.  

 

The history

 

2006 – The first

 

The original Dyson Airblade AB01 was launched in the UK in 2006 and the US in 2007. The appearance is pretty much the same as the current model, however the original had a drainage tank and a lacquered steel finish, both of which proved to be problematic and were changed in later models. the lacquered finish frequently came off over time, exposing the raw material. The Ab03 which was also released in 2006 had a polycarbonate body as this is the material that has continued to be used in later models.

 

2013 – A range of designs

 

Three new models of the Dyson Airblade were launched, The Airblade mark 2 which had an increased jet speed of 430 mph from the previous 400 mph without the noise output increasing. 

The Dyson Airblade V (AB08/12) was their first ‘hands under’ offering, bringing angled, blade innovation and a super speed motor to compact models. The Dyson V was just 10 cm deep and therefore complying with legislation for US disabled toilets.


The Airblade Tap (AB09, AB10, AB11) which is a sensor tap and hand dryer, often referred to as the Wash and Dry system, was truly unique in that the hands could now be dried directly over the sinks, overcoming the age-old problem of wet floors. All three hand dryers use a new Digital Slim Motor, the Dyson V4.

 

2016 – The current Dyson Airblade AB14 was introduced, further utilising noise reduction technology in response to an issue that was becoming increasingly important for customers. The product received the Quiet Mark. The decibel level at 1 metre was reduced from 85 dB(A) to 80 dB(A). An effective 50% reduction.

 

2017 – The second-generation Dyson V was launched, continuing the trend of noise reduction. The Hu02 was again 50% quieter at 80 dB(A), however unlike the ab14 this caused a 2 second reduction in dry speed from 10 to 12 seconds.

 

Controversy

 

The impact The Dyson Airblade has had on the paper towel industry has been huge, cutting off large revenue streams in public facilities across the world, as such there has been a concerted PR smear campaign targeting the Airblade. The battle going on within the industry has been encapsulated very well in the Guardians long read. The paper towel industry has continuously raised concerns about the hygiene of Dyson Airblades, despite the product bring approved by HACCP for safety within the food production industry and the NSF for hygiene. 

 

Dyson has responded to the unhygienic claims but the PR machine continues to roll on.

 

In December 2012, Excel Dryer, the producers of the Xlerator filed a lawsuit against Dyson, claiming that Dyson's advertising comparing the Airblade to the Excel Dryer XLerator were deceptive. Dyson produced national advertisments in the US stating the XLerator produced twice as much carbon dioxide, were not as good for the environment, and running costs were far higher. Excel Dryer claimed that Dyson was the falsifying basis the comparisons by stating a 20-second dry time for the XLerator, rather than their own 12-second dry tested time.

 

What’s next?

 

There are rumours circulating Dyson have recently dropped hints that they are about to release a new Airblade model. Speculation that it will use the silent technology from their supersonic hair dryers abound....

 

To view the current Dyson Airblde models including the taps, ab14 and HU02. click on the link.