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The Dyson Submarine V15s, above left and below right, and the Dyson Wash G1, above right.

Hard floors are staging a hard takeover in our living spaces. That’s if we’re to believe the hype and the headlines.

The Dyson Global Dust Study (published in 2023), which monitored the cleaning habits of 30,000 people from 39 countries, showed three-quarters of homes in Britain now have some or all hard-floor surfaces. This figure rises to 95% internationally.