Eureka Powerful Upright Vacuum Cleaner for Carpet and Floor, Household Upright Vacuum Cleaner for Home Pets, Bagless Lightweight Upright Vacuum, MaxSwivel Pro NEU350 with Pet Tool, Yellow

I needed a budget, lightweight vacuum with hepa and a sealed system that would do a thorough job on wool rugs, do wood and tile floors too, and be easy to use for above floor cleaning. I tried and returned the (lavender) Shark Navigator Lift Away, but am keeping this (red) Kenmore. It's not perfect, but it's strong and flexible, with a sealed system and hepa. I've been really pleasantly surprised at the difficult spaces I can get it into! It's to replace an old, beloved Dirt Devil Featherlite.Here's my take on the features that matter to me, with comparisons to the Navigator and old Dirt Devil.Hepa with a Sealed System.I have pets and allergies. My old Dirt Devil had hepa but wasn't sealed and left the house hazy. The Navigator was supposed to be sealed, and it did seem to keep the air pretty clean, but there was a ring of carpet fiber and pet hair where the hose meets the vac (my Dirt Devil gets a similar ring around the seam of the dirt cup). This Kenmore's seal seems perfect (!), so long as you don't inadvertently pull the hose out of the extender wand, which happened to me the first time I used the vacuum :-(, but hasn't happened again. Be sure those pieces are tightly fitted together when vacuuming. I'm pleased at how fresh the air feels after deep cleaning with this vacuum and I haven't needed my inhaler which is really great.Price.Hepa with a sealed system is hard to find in budget vacuums. But what's the point in vacuuming if the dirt goes back into the air? Might as well rake. This sealed hepa vacuum is about 50 bucks less than the Navigator.Longer Hose! But short Wand, unfortunately.I didn't realize the nice long hose on my Dirt Devil had spoiled me until I tried to clean above the floor with the Navigator. Although the wand on that is great, the hose is short, and since you grip the wand at its base, that hose is the whole distance you can move from the vacuum, so you have toy use the lift-away feature a lot. With the wand in one hand and the lifted away dirt cup in the other, I had no hand free to move or hold things. When I would try to use the wand without the lift away, that short hose would tip the Navigator over, constantly. Ugh. This Kenmore has more hose which really helps, but it has a less wonderful wand. The hose is 10 ft, but pulls the vacuum over if you walk 4-6 feet with it. Still, it's long enough to do 12 steps if you don't mind it tipping over. The wand is just a little short. If Kenmore could have added an extender attachment that would have been great. As it is, you can only reach about a foot and half, or two feet max maybe with attachment, beyond your reach.No Lift Away on this Kenmore.I thought I might like Lift away on the other vacuum, but I didn't, except for the stairs. It left me no free hand and gave me a back ache on the stairs. I think that has something to do with the handle on the wand of that other vacuum which seems to be at an odd angle. Personally, I prefer the longer hose to the lift away. This vacuum is light enough that carrying it upstairs isn't a problem for me.Strong Suction.Like crazy. But that's not all good. Both this and the Navigator seemed to me to suck up an awful lot of carpet fiber along with the dirt. My old Dirt Devil didn't do that. Still, we buy vacuums to suck and suck it does, with gusto.Attachments.The crevice tool is too short! That said, this has all the attachments I need, which is good because its wand end is kinda non standard and won't work with any of the Dirt Devil, Shop Vac, or other attachments I have around. I found all the attachments useful, but you can only store (any) one on the vacuum, so will need to keep the rest in a closet or something.Navigation.It's my favorite thing about this vacuum, which surprised me. It has kind of a big head compared to the Navigator, and it's an upright, so I expected clunky. The Navigator was my first experience with swivel steering and I liked it alright. When I first tried this Kenmore I thought it must be broken, the steering was so loose. It took me a few minutes to get the hang of it. It just wanted to wiggle all over the place, it seemed, with such a steerable brush head and so much power in the rotating brush. Very much looser than the Navigator. But in a few minutes navigating the machine becomes intuitive (I'm an older lady with little upper body strength, so don't be intimidated), and once you learn how it's really nice. I have a very small house with too much furniture and odd angles and nooks, and this vacuum, in upright mode, not using the wand, got into most of them. The brush head is wide, but it's so swively you can turn a pretty tight half circle to get it into tight spaces. That is very helpful around here.Lightweight.Very important to me! I find this easy to maneuver and to lift. The super swivel and long hose reduce the need to lift the vacuum too.Looks.Okay, so it's ugly. Ugly vacuums need love too. I've had uglier.Brush head.Pretty good. It's not height adjustable, but it moves easily on my rugs and between my rugs and floors. There's suction control on the wand that can be used to reduce suction if needed for very plush carpet, but I didn't need that for my mid pile rugs. It has a switch to turn the beater brush off for wood and tile floors. It's larger than the Navigator brush head, and might be slightly larger than my old Dirt Devil head. I thought I wanted a small brush head for navigability, but this brush head is the most navigable of them all in my opinion because the swivel is so great. A bigger head saves passes too.Effectiveness.It got my house clean and kept the air clean too.Dust Cup.Much like the rest of them. They're a little messier than bags, but seem more cost effective and sustainable to me.My overall impression is that this is a darn good vacuum at the price. It's got hepa and a sealed system. It's got a long enough hose and plenty of attachments. It's powerful. It's truly lightweight and it gets into hard to reach spaces. I wish the hose, wand and crevice tool were longer. I wish the wand locked onto place on the hose so they couldn't pull apart inadvertently. All in all, I'm happy with this vacuum.

We bought this vacuum when we lost our usual cleaning service to lockdown. I'm getting old enough that I can feel most of my joints when I move, and wanted something lightweight and easy to use--which my shopvac wasn't. I can't say how pleased I am with this vacuum! I think the most important thing about it overall is that whoever designed it actually used it--it's full of small, thoughtful features that make it a joy to use. But to start with the big things:--Suction power is great. The height of the brush roller on the front end is adjustable, from bare floor to high carpet, and between the brush and the vacuum this things does a great job deep-cleaning carpets, from tight/short-pile Persian rugs to handmade braided rugs to 20-year-old medium pile wall-to-wall. The front of the floor sweep is less than three inches high, so you can get under furniture/toe-kicks/etc. The brush depth adjustment is a big flat knob there on top of the front of the sweep, is easy to adjust, with solid, positive click-stop feedback at each of the half-dozen positions.--On stairs, it's a champ, mainly because it's incredibly light-weight, with a well-designed and carefully-placed handle that makes it easy to move from tread to tread.--Hair. We don't have pets, but we do have a couple of people in the household with very long hair, and a fanatic quilter who sheds bits of thread more than any dog I've ever had, and it does a good job picking up after them. Like any vacuum with a brush roller, if you turn the thing over and pull/cut out whatever gets wrapped around the spindle every few uses, you'll probably prolong belt/brush/motor life, as well as preserve its efficiency.Other things I like:--Emptying the dirt. Like most uprights these days, this machine uses a clear plastic cannister with a foam filter to protect the motor and keep fine dust from recirculating--no bags. To empty the cannister, you push one button conveniently placed at the top of the cannister and pull it off by a large handle. Hold it over (or, better, in) the trash, push a button at the bottom, and the bottom flips out of the way, dumping the contents. The foam filter at the top of the cannister is easy enough to remove and wash. I don't know how long the filter will last, but the material is not the flimsy foam rubber that you see, say, in cheap window air conditioner filters, but a slightly coarser, harder material that I've seen stand up to repeated cleanings in other applications. To my mind, the great thing about these cannisters is that if you accidentally scoop up loose change, you can usually see it sitting on top of the pile and fish it out.--Special tools. I love the way these work. There are three tools included with the basic unit (at the next price point up you get another tool, I think a slightly fancier surface sweep). They are conveniently placed around the body/handle of the upright--nothing to move out of the way to get at them. They're securely attached but easy to pop off, ditto for attaching to the vacuum. They attach to a hose that connects the motor/blower unit to the floor/brush sweep, usually draped over a hook on the back of the upright handle. You detach the hose (a simple pull) from the back of the floor sweep and there it is, ready to suck. You can attach tools directly to the hose or, if you want more reach, the handle of the upright comes off (again, you just push a button), adding about two feet more of reach, and a comfortable, sturdy handle. The hose goes into the top of the handle and the tool goes on the other end. With these, it's easy to get all the way under sofas, behind cabinets, etc., and control the population of dust bunnies. We have a lot of Victorian era furniture, and the brush attachment does a great job of getting the dust out of all the gingerbread.--The small touches. Take the power cord, for instance. It's a generous length, and there's a small plastic clip just below the handle on the back, which I believe is intended to hold the nearer length of the cord off the floor so you don't run over it all the time--thank you to the designer who put >that< in! To store, it coils between two prongs placed about two feet apart on the back of the upright, which isn't special but what is special is that the top prong rotates: to free the cord for use, rotate the top prong 180 degrees and the whole coil drops free. Love it! The controls (the handle release that allows the upright section to pivot back from the floor sweep, and the on-off switch) are both easy to get at with your foot, easy to tell apart, and separated well enough that you're not likely to mash one when you're going for the other.--Assembly, shipping: Easy to put together in under ten minutes, with clear instructions if you're the kind of person who reads instructions. It came in a sturdy carton, all materials recyclable, and despite the potential delays caused by the pandemic, it arrived (in perfect condition) in two days.All in all, I can't remember the last time I was so happy with a small household appliance. If its durability is on par with the rest of the quality I see here, I'm hoping it will last a long time. But even if it doesn't, the thing was such a bargain compared to everything else on the market that I won't feel abused even if it only lasts a year or two. Great job, Eureka!

This tool is seriously amazing, and I totally recommend it for sure. I did a ton of research before buying, and this was definitely the best choice out there.The only downside is the cable, but honestly, the power it provides totally makes up for it. Yeah, the cable is a bit too long for my liking, but hey, not a big deal at all.The accessories that come with it are top-notch, like seriously excellent.I have dogs at home, and let me tell you, this tool is a perfect 10 for dealing with pet hair. So yeah, highly recommend it if you have furry friends around!

I had been looking at many different places to find a good vacuum cleaner. After many evenings searching different stores websites I decided on one from Amazon. The price was better here than at the other places that I looked. The deciding factors for the vacuum cleaner were that it is highly recommending from people who already has one of these and it is has a extra feature that makes this vacuum cleaner a better one for dog and cat owners as it picks up their hair very well. I am and always have been a dog and cat lover and this vacuum comes in handy with all of its attachments that are easy to use.

This vacuum is very light and surprisingly powerful. I thought my vacuum had to be heavy to be powerful. I was wrong. I love that is has LED lights on the front so I can see dirt easily. It also swivels and I no longer have to switch the carpet height adjustment from carpet to bare floors. It does this automatically. And it hugs the bare floor and sucks up all the debris including my messy cat's litter he scatters on the floor. I can't wait to see how much dirt, dust and silt in the cup when I am done cleaning. It is a good price and a great vacuum!