Heavy Weight Commercial Vacuum.
After unboxing, assembly was easy and quick. I like the machine overall, but have a few things that should have been better, come on Hoover !
I can't believe a company who has been in the buisness of making vacuum cleaners for so long, can over look some things so serious! The model really only has 2 carpet height settings in reality, ie: high carpet, and low commercial carpet settings. In between these two settings is space that doesn't have any clicks for in between selections, just to be able to dial the carpet height setting in more accurately if needed to be. Design Note; If the vacuum was made so that the area between the 2 selections was to be used as a non clicking variable are of carpet height adjustment, they failed! For as you vacuum if left in between the 2 settings, it will settle back down to the low commercial carpet setting. So your either on high carpet, or low commercial carpet height settings. Bummer!
The other, is the weight. This machine is on the heavy side it seems to me for a commercial vacuum that one is going to operate everyday, for long periods of time. Let's put it this way, there's alot more other vacuums out there that are lighter, that say Commercial on them.
The attachments they include, one small spear like, and a very short brush. Didn't try the spear one, I'm sure it will do fine for window gutters, small places to get to etc. However, the brush attachment, well not so well. Bristles are very short and stiff, it did not perform well at all in trying to dust my stereo glass racks, or amps. I will be looking for a replacement brush attachment that has longer brushes. On fabric covered couches, or other things of the same, I'm sure it will work fine.
What caught my attention after a while though was a small USA sticker on the machine. Then I read it, and it said assembled in usa.
Would I buy this model again ? No. Would I buy a different model that had Hoover's name on it ? Yes. Come on Hoover ! USA, you can do it !!!
D.M.
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