I think this vacuum cleaner is excellent value for money and certainly copes with picking up all the dog hairs from my carpet, so it has a good power to it. I bought mine from Argos for about £70 but I now see from the website that the same product is for sale for only £54.99. I had a problem with the first one I had delivered (which I will explain about later) and Argos were happy to collect it and promptly replace it with a new one, so I would recommend Argos as a good place to buy it from although it is stocked by many retailers. This is a very cheap price for a decent vacuum cleaner and I am pleased with it.
On the down side, I do not like having to assemble products when I buy them but this vacuum cleaner does come in several pieces which have to be screwed together. I am the kind of impatient person that gets bad-tempered over
having to assemble anything but I admit this was pretty easy and the instructions were easy to follow. This is a full-size, upright vacuum with a cylinder to collect the dust and dirt so there is no necessity to spend further money on buying bags. You lift a lever up and the cylinder comes loose and then you remove the lid to empty the dirt into the bin. You then slot the lid back on, which sometimes does not happen easily but I find that to be firm with it helps it go back on easier. I have found attempting to get the lid back on a bit irritating sometimes so maybe for the elderly who are not good with their hands, this might be a bit fiddly to do.
This machine really picks up well. I have a short-haired dog which moults terribly but this vacuum will pick it all up, along with lint and dust and dirt. It is satisfying to see what ...
re : When I was unscrewing it to get it back in the box to return it, I found a great clog of hairs in the tubing which I removed
I bought this vacuum from Argos clearance. At first it worked well but it repeatedly gets clogged up with fluff and hairs, not in the main tubing but in the channel between the main cylinder and the tube. This has to be manually cleared every other time I use it. Although it does work well until it gets blocked, it is too much hassle and I would expect better from Vax to be honest.