Rating:

First, it struggles sucking in any sorts of little rocks that might be tracked in from sneakers–they rattle around in the bottom, endlessly, and, when one turns it off, they fall on the floor. It basically just moves things around the carpet…even tiny shards of broken glass won’t get to the canister, instead, they just get smaller and redistributed on the floor. The good news is, one seldom has to empty the dirt canister!

Second, using the hose, unlike most vacuums, requires one to first disconnect the another hose going to the vacuum’s base before attaching it to the body. Again, all the debris the vac couldn’t pull into the canister falls to the floor. The hose is so short, one must pick up the vacuum to get to cobwebs and other high areas for which most people use the hose attachment. Anything–even that pea on the floor between the counter and fridge is too hefty for this lightweight to pull into it’s canister! One must literally drop it into the hose and straighten it out and up to get it far enough into the “system” to get it into the canister. Switching between hose and back to floor vacuuming is a chore requiring getting on one’s knees each time.

It’s a good thing all the screws used to put this thing together are of uniform size because you’ll definitely be taking it apart–it clogs easily and burns through belts like nobody’s business! Putting it back together is fairly easy because all the screws are the same.

But wait!! There’s more to hate about this devil…it is as loud as a freaking shop vac! There should be a bright red warning tag on this thing BEGGING the user to wear ear plugs…unbelievable! One more thing, even storing it’s power cord is troublesome as the clamps to hold the hose are in the way of the posts on which to wind the cord.

In summary, this poor excuse for a vacuum doesn’t vacuum very well (LOW on Consumer Reports list), the hose attachment is joke, it’s as loud as a jet taking off and you’ll surely need a screwdriver and extra belts. I’d say this thing totally sucks…but it hardly sucks at all!

Do yourself a favor and get yourself a Hoover Wind Tunnel…sure, you’ll spend a few more bucks on it but it’ll last and last and you’ll not find yourself using the Lord’s name in vain every time you want to clean the house.

Rating:

mixes well, unless you have to many frozen fruits you want to blend into a smoothy.

you have to stir it with a spoon and mix it around..

if you do things slower, the mixer does very well……….and has steel blades and a fairly good motor again, for the price.