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Comment on Vax U91-P1 Power 1 Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner Buy Now by J Cattermole "jenikacattermole"

J Cattermole "jenikacattermole" — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:28:31 +0000

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

Never had such spotless carpets!, 21 May 2009

This review is from: Vax U91-P1 Power 1 Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner (Kitchen & Home)

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This vacuum is such a joy to use and im amazed how cheap it is!! It is the best value vacuum i have ever seen, especially for a Vax! in my opnion after owning many vax's over the years, i have found, however expensive, the amazing suction is always the same, so you dont need a high end one, this model is perfect, i used it after previously vacuuming with my old one and still found the barrel full of dust! and fluffed my carpets up beautifully like new! It's very satisfying!

The weight is relatively light, and compact, initially there is a fair bit of simple assembly, the usual attaching the handle and adding the barrel and you do need a phillips screwdriver for a couple of little screws - but it is all simple and takes 5 minutes, then you're ready to go and comes with all the usual attachments.

The only difficulty was actually locating the power button initially! It's down the bottom and i was used to my old vacuum being up the top and on my first few go's i did hit the foot-release instead of the power and vice versa, but it's easily overcome with practice! Also the cord is long for most standard rooms but we do seem to have an overlly long living room so we did have to change sockets half way through, but all over rooms it is fine, so if you have a more square than long rectangular room you should be fine and it probably won't be a problem!

Fantastic hoover! amazed at the bargain price, i'd of happily paid double for it! Highly recommended to everyone!

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Comment on Vax U91-P1 Power 1 Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner Buy Now by Ash

Ash — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:40:48 +0000

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Noisy and cheap - but powerful and effective!, 23 April 2009

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This review is from: Vax U91-P1 Power 1 Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner (Kitchen & Home)

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The Vax U91-P1 upright vacuum cleaner is rather like a Citroen which has received the Max Power treatment: brash, loud, cheap and plasticy, but by jove it gets the job done!

It arrives in a small box, which initially got me thinking that it was some sort of miniature thing I had ordered accidentally! But after some fairly straightforward assembly, it all slotted together nicely. One word of advice - you have to really push the main upright part on to the motor base in order to locate the screws properly.

The build quality isn't brilliant - the handle is click, cheap plastic with no grip on it whatso ever, the mains lead is too short and badly placed at the bottom of the unit, and the dust containment unit is a bit fiddly to remove and replace. Its also quite large and ugly, though it is pleasingly lightweight, certainly compared to Dyson's of similar size which tend to be much much heavier. I was displeased that there are none of the usual brush tools you normally get, just a couple of pipes to go on the end of the hose. But then, how often do you actually used those tools anyway?? I luckily kept the 'Turbo Brush' from my old Hoover and it fits on to the end of the Vax's pipe, so that was a pleasant surprise.

When you start it up, the Vax sounds like it could suck up the entire Earth in to a black hole for the amount of racket it makes! Luckily I don;t have much carpet, because if I had to use this thing for more than about 15 minutes I'd be worried about developing tinnitus! However, I'm not sure that its a great deal louder than most other cleaners at this price.

The big question is - how's the suction? Well - I'd only just vacummed the carpets with my old Hoover the day before, but I thought I'd give the Vax a quick test drive after I'd assembled it. It picked up an astonishing amount of dust and hair from my 'clean' carpets. I was shocked! The Vax also made my Turbo Tool spin at a much faster rate than the old Alyx Hoover, and it was sucking up cat hairs from all over. I really can't fault it. Whether it will maintain this performance is to be seen, but having used it around 6 times so far I haven't noticed any sort of drop off in suction power, so fingers crossed. My only final comment is that the filter in this is very large so requires much longer to clean, though it is somewhat easier to clean than the much smaller ones too.

I'm pleased with my Vax!!

UPDATE: 19th June 2009 - For no discernible reason the suction of the main hose (i.e. the flat bit that runs along the floor) has stopped working - the bar won't go around and there's virtually no suction. This is quite strange as the hose attachement still works perfectly fine! I'm a bit annoyed if the drive belt has broken already, after just 2 months' use. I will check for blockages as the Vax website suggests, but this is a bit disappointing, especially as I have been quite meticulous on cleaning the filter. I will update if/when I get the situation fixed.

FURTHER UPDATE: It turns out the drive belt on the brushes had broken for some reason, and these apparently are very important in terms of picking up more debris. So I eventually managed to find a replacement on the Vax website (hint - email them, cos its a nightmare finding the right part) and managed to fix it, though it took me a while to get the thing open. It worked perfectly again, but then I sucked up the edge of a rug and the belt melted again! Luckily they send the belts out in packs of two, so here's hoping that its 3rd time lucky!

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Comment on eSecure – 12 X Pack Vacuum Storage Saving Space Clothes Bags Find Best Deal by Chrisbb

Chrisbb — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:45:35 +0000

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

eSecure - 12 X Pack Vacuum Storage Saving Space Clothes Bags, 9 April 2011

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This review is from: eSecure - 12 X Pack Vacuum Storage Saving Space Clothes Bags

these bags are larger than expected for the price and get loads of clothes in them. they seem to be working ok so am very pleased with my purchase.

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Comment on eSecure – 12 X Pack Vacuum Storage Saving Space Clothes Bags Find Best Deal by HCbuff

HCbuff — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:47:17 +0000

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

spacious enough and well built, good value for 12, 24 May 2011

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This review is from: eSecure - 12 X Pack Vacuum Storage Saving Space Clothes Bags

These bags are made of tough material and well welded.

The double seal at the top is difficult to seal compared to your average Ziplok baggie.
Seal one ridge at a time with your fingers paying attention to alignment.
Feel the lock snapping in place. Ignore the plastic runner, it does nothing helpful at all.

Once sealed, it's all easy. remove the knurled cap, twist the outside portion of the valve 1/4 turn and vacuum.
The instructions are not clear that the cap is not the valve.

I would have given 4 stars because of the slight difficulty of use, but the great value compared to what you find in the shops persuaded me to give it five.

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Comment on eSecure – 12 X Pack Vacuum Storage Saving Space Clothes Bags Find Best Deal by Mr. A. Bautista "chunli"

Mr. A. Bautista "chunli" — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:27:17 +0000

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

Space saver!, 1 Mar 2011

Mr. A. Bautista "chunli" (UK) -

This review is from: eSecure - 12 X Pack Vacuum Storage Saving Space Clothes Bags

As the tin says. A brilliant idea! Love it to bits. Although there are new products coming out now similar to this one and you can label them for easy organisation of stuff. Still love this one! Will suggest to buy the ones you can label if you are buying space saver bags.

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Comment on The Original Shark Steam Mop Microfibre Replacement Pads. Sold in packs of 3 SRP £24.95 Find Best Deal by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:08:26 +0000

Shark steam mop pads, 14 Dec 2011

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This review is from: The Original Shark Steam Mop Microfibre Replacement Pads. Sold in packs of 3 SRP £24.95

I am not sure that these pad are made by "Shark" as there is no trademark on the product but they are a reasonable price and they do the job although the velcro strips on the bottom were not quite in the right place for the steam mop I purchased. The old saying "You get what you pay for" is very true.

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Comment on The Original Shark Steam Mop Microfibre Replacement Pads. Sold in packs of 3 SRP £24.95 Find Best Deal by Mr. K. H. Plunkett

Mr. K. H. Plunkett — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:41:40 +0000

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Essential extra, 31 Aug 2011

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This review is from: The Original Shark Steam Mop Microfibre Replacement Pads. Sold in packs of 3 SRP £24.95

I recently replaced my old steam mop for the Steam Shark and was delighted not only to find it a better tool for the purpose; but also that I could readily get replacement pads, and at a reasonable price. These pads need proper cleaning between uses; and will not last forever, so these reasonably priced spares are essential for the cleaning cupboard

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Comment on The Original Shark Steam Mop Microfibre Replacement Pads. Sold in packs of 3 SRP £24.95 Find Best Deal by R. Llewellyn

R. Llewellyn — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:09:51 +0000

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Good product, excellent supplier!, 8 Nov 2010

R. Llewellyn (Anglesey. Wales) -

This review is from: The Original Shark Steam Mop Microfibre Replacement Pads. Sold in packs of 3 SRP £24.95

Bought the Shark Steam Mop from Smart Innovations. It works very well. Purchased these pads so that we would always have spares whilst others were in the wash. They work very well. The supplier is extremely good -very fast delivery, well packed, exactly as described, so recommended.

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Comment on Electrolux Z4735AZ Gazelle Stretch 1900w Cyclonic Upright Vacuum Cleaner – Silver & Red In Stock by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:38:12 +0000

Vacuum Cleaner Assembly, 25 Jan 2012

Mike W -

This review is from: Electrolux Z4735AZ Gazelle Stretch 1900w Cyclonic Upright Vacuum Cleaner - Silver & Red (Kitchen & Home)

I was expecting the cleaner to arrive complete and ready to use. Instead it needed to be assembled, following quite detailed and fairly complicated instructions.I have a technical background and found it challenging,so anyone who would have difficulty with DIY would really struggle and need assistance. The information on this product should state self assembly. I also found that I needed to enlarge a hole in the base in order for the screw which fixes the rear housing to the base,to be used. The original hole was too small and there was no chance of the screw fitting.
The cleaner works fine.

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Comment on Electrolux Z4735AZ Gazelle Stretch 1900w Cyclonic Upright Vacuum Cleaner – Silver & Red In Stock by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:39:05 +0000

First class vacuum cleaner, 8 Feb 2012

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This review is from: Electrolux Z4735AZ Gazelle Stretch 1900w Cyclonic Upright Vacuum Cleaner - Silver & Red (Kitchen & Home)

I purchased this product as a replacement for a Panasonic cleaner that never really did the job. It was easy to assemble in about 20 minutes. Tried it out and with the great suction and brush bar the carpets have never been so clean! The dust cylinder detaches easily to empty. So I got a vacuum cleaner for £74.99 that far exceeded my expectations. Why would I spend the earth on a Dyson when I can have this?

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