Hoover U5269-900 EmPower Bagless Upright Vacuum

I am so disappointed with this vacuum. I have hard wood floors and berber carpet. Like another reviewer, I found that it threw dust everywhere leaving a thick film of dust all over our furniture. This is a shame, because it is a really powerful and nice looking vacuum. I am surprised that it gets such good reviews. If you have a problem with dust allergies, avoid this vacuum. Bummer. I am contacting Amazon today to see if they will exchange it.

I have used this vacuum for 3 years now. Yesterday, I was vacuuming my stairs (which this vacuum doesn't do well at all) and the vacuum fell down the stairs on my head and the plastic part on the back of it, which holds the tools, gashed my head which caused it to bleed and I thought I was gonna have to go the hospital. I still have a lump and it hurts bad. I really thought this vac was ok but all the hardwood comments are true too. I used to have just carpet and I love this vac for carpet, hardwood and tile...not so much!

I've had this for about 2 years and it is an ok vacuum. My major complaints are that it eats belts and filters can be expensive. The belts are hard to find, even stores that sell this vacuum. Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Lowe's don't carry them. I found a package of 2 on clearance at True Value, but they no longer carry them. So now it sits until I can find the stupid belts. Very aggravating. I think I'll look for a new vacuum instead.

Awesome!!!! this is a powerful vacuum cleaner. I recently had minor renovations done to my home, and the carpet in the bedrooms became quite dusty and dirty. The vacuum cleaner sucked all of the dirt up out of the carpet. Before vacuuming I sprinkled carpet fresh on the carpet and not ony did it smell fresh, it was so clean it looked new. Money well spent!

This is the 2nd EmPower bagless upright that I've purchased. It has terrific suction especially in a home with mulitple pets. It is lightweight and dependable. The only improvements that I would make relate to the attachment. The hose pops off the main part of the vacuum to attach a couple of different heads onto it. The negative is the hose doesn't attach securely to the vacuum itself, so it will pop off when I am vacuuming regularly. The attachement holders are on the side and if you get too close to a wall they will break right off. That's an operator error...but speaks to the flimsy nature of the holder. Now all this said it is a great vacuum cleaner for the money...they do a better job at regular vacuuming than the more expensive Hoover models.