When it comes to high tech for the home, there’s one name that dominates above all others: Dyson.
Long a leader and innovator in the world of home electricals, Dyson fans are not only a superior way to take the edge off a heatwave, but they’re a status symbol in their own right - as aspirational as a designer handbag, or slick car parked in the drive.
Whether you’ve got a sleek cordless Dyson vacuum in the utility cupboard or your dressing table is home to the brand’s game-changing line of hair care tools, Dyson has become a byword for master engineering and sleek design, consistently outstripping its competitors while putting its user welfare first.
What exactly do we mean by this? Well, in Dyson’s vacuums, the more recent devices monitor and trap harmful particles that are dislodged during cleaning, leaving you with cleaner indoor air as well as sparkling floors and surfaces.
In beauty tech, Dyson’s hot hair tools - from the Supersonic and Airwrap to the revolutionary Airstrait - share the same feature of automatically adjusting the temperature so as never to frazzle your delicate strands.
It’s a similar story with Dyson’s range of fans and heaters. Aside from having zero blades to pose a risk to curious pets and infants, they all boast air multiplying technology, flooding the space with cool or warm air as required. Some fans trap particles like pollen, dust and cooking smells, scrubbing the air clean before propelling it around the room. There are options for the desk as well as floor, and for most normal room sizes.
But are there options for every price bracket? Technology and innovation like this costs a pretty penny, and Dyson’s products are far from cheap. You’re looking at triple figures at the very least, but for your money you’ll get a considered piece of home tech that’s designed to streamline life while outlasting many of its modern competitors.
Best Dyson purifying fans at a glance
- Best for small homes and hot sleepers: Dyson Pure Cool Me - £299.97, QVC
- Best for super quiet operation: Dyson AM07 White/ Silver Cool Tower Fan - £349.99, Argos
- Best for triple-action talent: Dyson HP00 Pure Hot + Cool Purifying Fan & Heater - £399.96, QVC
- Best for adding moisture back to dry homes: DYSON Purifier Humidify+Cool Auto React - £599.99, Currys
- Best for locking away nasty particles: Dyson Cool Auto React Purifying Fan - £449.99, John Lewis
- Best for turning hot dirty air into cool and clean: Dyson Purifier HEPA Cool™ Formaldehyde Purifying Fan, White and Gold - £549.99, John Lewis
With temperatures rising, now is the perfect time to invest in a Dyson fan in anticipation of the heatwaves to come (and before they all sell out).
With so many options on offer, we’ve ranked them all below to making finding the right one for you and your home a breeze.
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Dyson Pure Cool Me
Best for: small homes and hot sleepers
If you’re looking for a personal fan for your home office or bedroom, Dyson’s Pure Cool Me will clean the air of pollutants while keeping your space’s temperature regulated.
The little gadget scrubs the air clean through an activated carbon and glass HEPA filter before using patented Dyson Core Flow technology to blow cooling, freshly filtered air just where you need it. It works via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and is compatible with Alexa, Amazon and Siri.
Use it with the Dyson Link app to monitor dwindling levels of dust, allergens and bacteria. So satisfying.
Also available in white.
Buy now £299.97, QVC
Dyson AM07 White/ Silver Cool Tower Fan
Best for: super quiet operation
A pioneer in ‘air multiplying’, Dyson knows more than a thing or two about bringing breezes to stuffy spaces. The AM07 offers reliably steady airflow - enough to ruffle your hair - but impressively, operates at decibels barely above a whisper so you can nod off with it on when it’s particularly warm out.
One for larger spaces, Dyson’s fan comes with a remote control and timer that runs on pre-set intervals ranging from 15 minutes all the way up to 9 hours.
Buy now £349.99, Argos
Dyson HP00 Pure Hot + Cool Purifying Fan & Heater
Best for: Triple-action talent
Despite looking like it has ‘POO’ in its name (oh, grow up!) and also despite James Dyson backing Brexit prior to fleeing the country to Singapore so he could continue to peddle his wares to places Britain’s exit from the EU wouldn’t allow, Dyson make some quality kit. And this, the HP00 is one excellent example.
Essentially a fan that can cool or heat depending on the season, but with the built-in benefit of being able to air purify too, the Dyson features a thermostatic control to keep you toasty, a Dyson Air Multiplier fan to keep you cool, and a HEPA filter to keep you free off all the awful things floating in your own air space, to the tune of 99.95 per cent of allergens and pollutants as small as 0.1-microns.
Two modes are available, to keep you warm/cool/uncontaminated and the whole shebang comes with a magnetic remote control so that you can achieve your ends without lifting a buttock, while design-wise, the HP00 Pure Hot + Cool is pure Dyson.
Buy now £399.96, QVC
DYSON Purifier Humidify+Cool Auto React™
Best for: adding moisture back to dry homes
Dyson is a fan of multi-tasking products (forgive the pun), so while other designs in its line up may look at purification elements alongside cooling and heating, this option is made for homes that could do with a little more humidity.
This machine is similar to its purifying sisters boasting three air-quality monitoring senors, a two-step purification, and trapping 99.95 per cent of particles in a fully-sealed system. So far, so very Dyson.
What makes this different is that it has the option to purify and humidify without cooling, propelling airflow through the back of the machine so there’s no chilly current. If you’re quite happy with the temperature but have noticed dry air from central heating causing irritation (usually manifesting in the form of a cough), this is a helpful way to reintroduce clean and healthy moisture back into the air. Simply fill the water tank at the base of the unit to run the humidifer option.
It works best on room sizes up to 27m2 and offers UV sterlisiation too. Other features include an eight hour timer and an LCD display to help you monitor the war against the nasties.
Comes with a two year guarantee.
Buy now £599.99, Currys
Dyson Cool Auto React Purifying Fan
Best for: locking away nasty particles
It’s all about the numbers when it comes to Dyson Cool Auto React Purifying Fan. It has three sensors that work together to keep watch over your air quality and offers two levels of purification to clean the air of pollutants and lock them away for good. The carbon filter gets rid of gases like benzene and HEPA filter captures 99.95 per cent of particles - as small as 0.1 microns.
Like the rest of its Dyson family, the purifying fan is fitted with Air Multiplier technology, powerful enough to clean the air in the entire room - even those dusty, forgotten corners. It comes with a remote control to allow you to switch it on from wherever you are in the room, but this is an old-school design, so there’s no complementary app to download to go with it.
If you’re the type who likes to watch real-time reports of the air quality rising, the lack of app might rule this option out of the running for you. But if you’re happy to place your trust in Dyson and simply look at the display to know the unit is working to purify the air, the Dyson Cool Auto React Purifying Fan could make a worthy investment.
Buy now £449.99, John Lewis
Dyson Purifier HEPA Cool™ Formaldehyde Purifying Fan, White and Gold
Best for: turning hot dirty air into cool and clean
Keeping air flowing around the room is all good and well, but if you live by a busy street, you run the risk of bringing unwelcome pollutants to your space too.
Enter Dyson and its Dyson Purifier HEPA Cool™ Formaldehyde purifying fan which not only cools warm air, but ‘washes’ it of nasty particles like formaldehyde (emitted from household paint, varnishes and printers), nitrogen dioxide (caused by road traffic, tobacco and fuel-burning heaters), PM10 particles from pollen and allergens (a godsend for hayfever sufferers and asthmatics) and general household odours (think unwanted cooking, pets and kid smells).
It comes with a magnetic remote control but can also be controlled through a Dyson Link app too. There are 10 speed settings, and it propels cool air into the room using its patented air multiplier technology.
The smartest thing of all is that it continually detects dust, allergens, mould and formaldehyde particles in the room, before trapping them into high-performance filters that never need replacing. So, while it’s expensive at nearly £550, continually buying new filters is one cost you won’t have to factor in past the inital purchase of the machine.
It oscillates yet can remain stationary, giving you the choice of focused or circulating cooling. And you can set it to a timer or keep it on Night Mode to keep sticky nights at bay.
As flexi-working means we spend so more time at home and with busy roads and general pollution tainting our space, Dyson’s latest device is a real investment in home air quality improvement. The twin action function - purifying and cooling - means it will become a household must-have this summer. Simple to set up and even easier to use, after just one night we felt the difference.
Comes with a two year guarantee.
Buy now £549.99, John Lewis
