Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I mostly hate vacuum cleaners. Better than a broom and dust pan, of course, but I've never found a machine that I liked enough to compel regular use. Vacuuming is drudgery and I put off engaging in drudgery for as long as possible. We've purchased a variety of machines over the years to clean our carpet-free floors -- bagless, cordless, canister and upright. They all bring their own level of drudgery. The canisters have to be dragged around. Or carried! The bagless require intimate contact with the accumulated muck. The cordless don't have any power. I hate them all. This machine doesn't completely remove the drudgery, but it does the best job we've come across at a reasonable cost. Our biggest floor problem comes from dog ownership. One short-haired mutt, much shedding. Our window sills could use more regular help. The cobwebs in the corners might not become so interesting if we took an interest. This Hoover helps with all of those issues quite simply and in a way that lightweight machines can't and other full-size machines don't. Snip, snap, you're ready to go from floor cleaning to upholstery cleaning. You know why that didn't happen in our former machines? Because the myriad attachments were never where we needed them to be as they'd become broken or lost. This machine has one useful attachment, snuggled securely in its place and ready to work. Excellent suction. Superb maneuverability. The dirt bin is the most easily emptied of any bagless machine we've used (although tissues or wrappers might need encouragement to dump). The cord is long enough to manage half our modest, one-story ranch-home before being relocated. Four stars instead of five because it is loud (what vacuum isn't?), the cord is not retractable (at this price, I'm good with that), and the motor runs hot enough that I can feel the heat emanating while I'm working. It's heavy-like, but this is a full-size machine, so one should expect full-size weight. Since it doesn't need to be carried around the way some other vacuum cleaners do, and wheels about easily, the weight is a moot point. We're in a one-story house, though. Good machine. Less drudgery. Clean house. Win. (At this price, if we had a two-story house we'd buy two of these machines to keep from carting it up and down the stairs, and it would still cost less than a Dyson.)