Carpet Cleaners Reviews

If you like recharging ever 10 minutes, cleaning HEPA and other filters often and pushing dirt around your house this vacuum is for you. Just another product with bells and whistles and no substance.

I really wanted to love this vacuum, but I will admit to being skeptical. I waited until I was able to purchase it at a deep discount, brought it home and got it set up. First thing I noticed, the battery is very heavy, I didn't weigh anything, but it feels like it almost doubles the weight of the vacuum when its installed. Overall the entire unit is very heavy too, I certainly wouldn't want to schlepp this sucker up and down the stairs every couple of days! The filter system may be effective, but I won't know, since I' returning it tomorrow. I did feel that the schedule of cleaning all the filters, including the filter for the battery charger would be something that would end up slipping my mind. I might have tolerated all the picky filter recommendations if it had been a spectacular vacuum, but it wasn't! The charger fan is quite noisy, I found the noise slightly irritating. After conditioning and charging the battery for the recommended 24 hours, I plugged it in and got to cleaning. The vacuum did an okay job of picking up the cat hair on my dark green carpet, but I noticed a considerable lack of actual dirt in the canister. You know what I mean, the deepdown sandy dusty stuff that your old vacuum still seems to get. Hmm....okay, well then, I'll move on to the stairs. The vacuum has an extension wand with a few attachments. The two dusting type brushes aren't usable on a carpeted stair, they didn't even pick up cat hair, and who the heck wants to vacuum a stairway with a crevice tool? The extension would only reach about four stairs at a time, leaving me to lug it upstairs to reach the top four stairs, (so I could use a crevice tool to vacuum them!) I simply gave up on vacuuming the middle four stairs, heck with it, I'll call it my oasis of cat hair in the middle of a stairway! It's not like the vacuum was really getting the top and bottom stairs clean anyway!
Bottom line, iffy suction while vacuuming the floor, practically non-existent suction using the attachments. This baby is going back to the store on Monday, and I'll continue my search for the perfect vacuum.

First, there was a six month learning curve on "locking" the hose in place but it was so convient I persisted. We sent back one battery 3 times before it held a charge and 30 minutes was not near long enough to vacuum my house and furniture(necessary with a toddler).

Now neither battery works and will probably do work necessary to replace at least one of them because of the investment and the convience.

Cleans window sills well.

Does not work on shag carpet. Gets stuck. Most of my floors are wood so it works fine. But, my oreck will pick up stuff this one leaves behind and it doesn't fit under counter edges as well as the oreck either. All in all I would still use both vacuums for different jobs if I had another battery.