Hoover Portable Lightweight Bagged Canister Vacuum Cleaner

I use this for baseboards, corners, dusting and anywhere else my robot vacuum won’t go. It’s easy to carry around and way more powerful than cordless models. The cord is very long and allows me to do multiple rooms without having to unplug. I don’t do open floors so the cord is never in the way and carrying the canister keeps the hose from getting in the way. Overall, it works much better than I expected.

Two things could be improved: Since the carrying method is just a sling, when you invariably lean for some hard to reach spot the canister tries to swing around to the front and bash into whatever you are reaching around. I think an additional strap will fix this. Second is that for dusting, the head with bristles surrounding the suction area works best, but it is a little small. This one works well for baseboards and corners, but the hard surface floor size would be better. It has bristles only down the center and hard plastic around the edges, so it think it might scratch. I’m going to try wrapping that in a microfiber cloth to see if that works.

All in all, very happy.

DON’T BUY THIS PRODUCT !!!!!!!!! I purchased this vacuum about 5 years ago and liked it so much I ordered another recently. Hoover must have changed the design on the lever that holds the main vacuum hose to the unit and the same lever is supposed to keep the bag door from opening. The new vacuum that I just received has a lever that does not perform the two functions. it either keeps the hose in place or it keeps the bag door closed. The failure of this lever to perform both functions means you need to keep a third hand available (if you have a third hand) in order to keep the vacuum together while you’re vacuuming. Really bad design change. Never had this problem with the same vacuum purchased 5 years ago. Thinking this was an anomaly, I contacted Amazon and they graciously send me a replacement vacuum. I received it today and it has the same problem. The issue is not an anomaly. It seems to have been a very bad design change by Hoover. I contacted Hoover customer service and have yet to hear from them on how they plan to address this issue, or if I need to purchase another supplier’s vacuum. I’ll update this review once I hear from Hoover. In the meantime, stay away from this vacuum cleaner.

UPDATE – Hoover did not respond to my email, so I called them and spoke to someone who simply gave me a contact for a local Hoover Warranty claims repair location. Before lugging the brand new vacuum to the repair center, I called them to describe my problem (with two brand new vacuum cleaners). I’m glad I called. The repair center stated that if I brought the new portapower vacuum to them, there is NOTHING THEY COULD DO TO FIX THE PROBLEM if that is the way the product is manufactured now by Hoover. Wow, who would have expected Hoover to assume their customers would tolerate such an inferior product.

Me encanta bien útil para el carro mejor que las de baterías pues porque no te quedas sin batería. Limpiar el carro desafortunadamente requiere más de 20 minutos porque eso duran las baterías de las portátiles y esta caray súper potente súper rápida y puede ponerle bolsita de papel que yo compré así que limpio el carro y tiro la bolsita de papel cuando se llene cosa que no ha pasado porque como es pura tierra tarda mucho y no se llena.

So this is our second version of this vacuum-which May seem like that would indicate this is not a good quality product… but let me explain we have 3 kids two giant breed sheepdogs, two cats and live on a farm. It’s a miracle that we didn’t burn the first one out in a year. So when our orginal needed to go to a better place aka the garbage it was because it had done a lifetime of regular cleaning…. But this fun hard works and super portable vacuum. You too can feel like a character out of ghostbusters while cleaning your home!

I absolutely love this vacuum, it works great, is not very heavy and easy to clean the bag. I recommend it.

Me gustó mucho esta aspiradora, es de buena calidad, muy práctica y fácil de usar