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134 of 134 found the following review helpful:
 Perfect!!! Nov 30, 2008
By Alicia L. Silva
This is a great little vacuum!
Assembly:
Easy-as long as you read the short, clear directions (with pictures). I was using it within 10 minutes of opening the box.
Size:
small, which is great for me. I have a 2 bedroom villa style townhome, with tile everywhere but the bedrooms and stairs. This is a great size for me; but if you have a big home, or even a moderate-sized home with a lot of carpet, this may not be the best choice for you.
Handling:
Easy again. It's light compaired to the big vacuums, but the high end of average for the little vacuums. I like it though, it self-propels easily and turns well. The only thing I don't like is you have to manually unlock the base (or "foot") from the upright position by holding it with your foot while moving the handle back/downwards.
Cleaning:
You can't get much easier than this unit when it comes to cleaning it out- you push a button, and the container pops out. The top easily twists off, and you just dump it out. The filter has to be cleaned here and there too. It's just as easy to put it back in (unlike my last vacuum... ugh)
Effective?
Absolutely. I have 3 cats- that shed allll the time. Chairs and sofas were a constant battle between us and the kitties... but now, we've WON!
the power paw is especially great.
Value:
TOTALLY worth the money! As long as you don't have a huge house with wall to wall carpet, you should give this one a try!
80 of 81 found the following review helpful:
 works pretty well for the price Mar 31, 2009
By J. GARCIA
"Ms. Jessica"
first time i used it worked great, picked up all the hair & stuff on the carpet. the suction is pretty strong for being a little vaccum. compact size so it hides away behind the couch. i do reccomend cleaning the filter & empty the container outside! if you dont clean out the container after every other few uses obviously the suction/pickup wont be as good but as soon as you empty it out & knock around the filter it works just as good as the first time you use it. i have black carpet & a siamese/himalayin cat that drags herself along the floor so a vaccum that picks up all the hair is great & hard to come by!
63 of 65 found the following review helpful:
Love Love Love this vacumn! Sep 30, 2008
By Happy in NY
I love this little vacumn- it works great both on hardwood and carpeted (deep carpeting!) floors. It's amazing that even though I thought the floor was vacumned thoroughly with my other very expensive vacumn- I picked up enough fur to make a puppy! It's lightweight and easy to maneuver and I am using this as my main vacumn and the expensive one is now our backup!
23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Great except for the stupid dirt cup & filter's flawed design =( Oct 18, 2009
By Melissa Zimmerman
""Mad Mel""
I just got this vacuum, pulled it out of the box and assembled it fine with the instructions provided. Tested it out on the living room area, which is not a very large room and most of it is covered in furniture.
I like:
-the adjustable handle height
-the circular shape of the handle is easy to grab and comfortable
-the cord clip on the handle is nice to have
-the fact that I don't need to push a specific button to recline the unit (just hold the bottom down with your foot and pull the handle back)
-the amount of suction power seems to be okay as far as I can tell
-carpet fibers look groomed after vacuuming
-the fact that it's bagless
-the rubber/nylon bristle combo on the small attachment is kinda cool, would probably do a better job of grabbing fur from furniture and such but I didn't try that or the "power paw" thingy.
-it's fairly lightweight and compact, would probably do a great job on my stairs
-being able to turn off the beater bar is a nice feature
-being able to switch the suction from the bottom to the hose with a switch is nice, but it does that because the hose doesn't connect to the bottom like other vacuums do. So technically my old vacuum had that feature too, just not a switch labeled for that specific purpose.
I don't like:
-the dirt cup's design is the dumbest thing ever! It makes me sad because almost everything else about the vacuum is nice. This vacuum is designed to handle pet fur, but most of the fur sticks to the filter in the top of the cup, and then some of the fur sticks to the rest of the inside of the cup (static?), but due to the tunnel shape of the cup, it's hard to stick your hand in to pull the fur out. You have to dump out the cup, fish out the fur with your hand, then because a bunch of fur sticks to the filter, you have to sit there and pick fur out of the filter. This is after vacuuming ONE AREA, and not very thoroughly either because I was just testing out the vacuum to see how well it worked. I can't sit there and pick the filter clean after every room I vacuum. That is just not realistic. And I have one cocker spaniel who only sheds very mildly, it's not like I have a house full of animals. We just moved in and the people before us had one cat, but they own a cleaning company and the area I just vacuumed did not seem very furry to begin with. So it's not that our carpet is too furry. I'm not being unrealistic in my expectations at all.
-I wish the vacuum had a light on the front so I could see the floor better
-the vacuum does blow the dirt around on bare floor, which is fairly annoying, but I just aimed so it would blow toward the carpet where I could vacuum it up more easily. I wouldn't recommend this vacuum for a house with mostly bare floors, but just for a small amount of bare floor it's tolerable.
-the vacuum does not roll very well at all unless it's reclined. Like it only uses the wheels when it's reclined???? I'm not sure what that's about, just have to recline it to move it to another room I guess.
-I don't want to have to go buying new filters all the time... as fast as the filter got clogged full of crud, I wish I could just put a new filter in after every room, but that's not realistic. My old vacuum I could wash the filters and reuse them, which was fantastic. I never had to buy filters for it ever, and they didn't get as clogged so fast either, and that was in the desert of Phoenix, AZ. I'm in the Midwest now (my beloved old vacuum got left behind in the move, which is why I bought this one) and the filter in this Eureka got full very fast. If I wanted to sit there and pick it clean after every room it would probably last a while, but that's just not gonna happen. And I can't take it into the garage and blow it out with an air compressor after every room either. That's just silly.
I'm taking this back to the store tomorrow. It's a shame too because I read all the reviews and I liked almost everything about the vacuum's features, but everything about the dust cup's design is just anti-functional. I hate giving a negative review, and I wish I didn't have to. I like almost everything else about this vacuum, but the stupid dirt cup is a deal breaker. I need to be able to dump out the cup and move on to the next room. I can't do that with this vacuum. If I wanted to mess around with a bunch of carpet dirt and fur, hunched over a trash can, I would've gotten a bag vacuum. If I didn't have any fur in my house to stick to the filter, maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but it's a "PET LOVER" vacuum that's supposed to be used on furry carpets. How did the designer of the product not notice how dumb the dirt cup and filter are designed?
Lame!!! =( I really wanted to love this vacuum, really wanted to give it more stars, but I just can't. The flawed design of the dirt cup and filter make the whole thing useless.
23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 The Little Engine That Could (Most of the Time) May 24, 2009
By H. Reynolds
Some background first:
I have a 67 lb black chow chow mix dog (read: long hair, lots of shedding);
I have long hair almost down to my butt;
I have a 5 x 8 flokati rug (that sheds more than the dog and i put together); and
I live in a 510 sq foot condo w/ 1/2 carpet and 1/2 hardwood floors.
Important to note: this is a very petite vacuum. Tiny really.
Pros:
It has amazing suction. I had no idea my carpet was so white because my other vacuum left behind so much black dog hair.
It's very light, super easy to store, and to maneuver.
The adjustable handle is a great feature.
The switch on / off roller function (to clean hardwood / tile floors) is w/ the unit's on/off switch -- so handy. And, this allows me to easily vacuum the flokati (something i couldn't do w/ a regular vac).
It's pretty quiet and doesn't totally terrify my dog.
The "power paw" seems to work just as well as the actual unit and the hose has awesome suction, too. It's easy to switch from floor to hose.
You really cannot beat the price.
Cons:
I have a very small condo and i have to turn off the unit to clean the roller 3 to 4 (sometimes 5!) times b/c the roller is so small and so quickly becomes clogged w/ dog, my and flokati hair. It's easy to do so (turn off vacuum, pull hair off roller, turn on vacuum) but it's lame i have to do it so many times.
The cord is short as is the hose attachment. I cannot vacuum my entire 510 sq foot condo without unplugging and replugging it.
The filter must be cleaned every time (Note: i vacuum just about every other day, so it's not like there's a week's worth of dirt and hair). Most of the dirt and hair get stuck to the filter and never fall down into the dirt cup.
When using the bare floor (i.e., roller off) function it blows like crazy (it blows the cheap magnets (you know, the ones insurance agents and real estate agents mail you for free) off my fridge!). But, you can sort of move it to and fro and the dirt and hair being blown is then sucked up.
Bottom line: this is a great vacuum for the price. It's PERFECT for a small space (small condo, RV, dorm room etc.) but i cannot imagine it would be effective for a house. It may irritate me but i really love it and would recommend it to anyone who lives in a small space and has a long-haired pet (or two).
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