Housewares Reviews

It's easy to handle, has easy-to-change accessories, it's lightweight, and fits all my vacuuming needs.

As a minister that believes in working for an income and before I succeded in investing ... I owned a small house cleaning service that cleaned homes of numbers of wealthy people in our City. I have owned perhaps 6 of the same model ... Panasonic MC-V9644 [Branded by Kenmore] These were by far the best vacuum on the market [at the time] for heavy duty daily abuse. I doubt that there is better even still for the bagged canister style model ... yes even now.

1] Potent suction
2] Solid hose and connection strength and life
3] Excellent dual motor system [12 amp main, 3 amp power head]
4] Works best with micro filtration bags to reduce airborne dust {that a professional cleaner doesn't want in the house they just cleaned.}
5] I bought 6 in 9 years using them 60 times a month times 2500 sq ft. [Thats a lot of mileage, abuse, and beatings ... hence I broke what could break]
6] Never had a bad motor in either the main unit or power head.
7] Hose cracks and/or wand retainer coupling cracks happened at around vacuum #500 ... or after 1,250,000 square feet of vacuuming.
8] Power Head Belt would break at about every 100 Vacuum sessions. [Or every 50 oriental rugs]

I moded all of mine to be backpack models and used a 50' cord in addition to their 25' cord and essentially backed my way out of a clean house with a nice light purfume scent and a "printless" fan pattern quality vacuum job.

Price to value ... even retail is fair compared to all of the cheaply constructed competition. However a heafty percentage off or a couple of pricing breaks make this one a winner. [I would have bought it for sure this time if its price to value was even close to the Hoover S3639 WindTunnel]

I did not however buy this one for my home on my last 2 purchases. [I simply hate the sound of a vacuum cleaner now ... btw]

I bought a bagless 12 Amp 15" path Eureka Upright. [I like it but won't use it. My wife doesn't like bagless due to the extra work of cleaning the dust container and stage 1 filter. She helped in the Business for 7 years.]

Hence I bought the Hoover S3639 WindTunnel Canister bagged vacuum and am expecting it to be 3/4 as good as the Panasonic at half the price and be 1/2 as durable but used 1/20 th as much ... so price to value on the hoover was a sweet deal.