Electrolux SuperBroom: Better to buy a broom instead! (Electrolux 168A Superbroom)

Member Name: devevre

Product:	Electrolux 168A Superbroom
Date:	30/01/03 (708 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap, light, small

Disadvantages: not enough power, must be emptied regularly, doesn't work well

Having bought the Electrolux Superbroom for just under 20 quid at Argos, I didn't expect it to be wonderful. But, being a vacuum cleaner, I expected it to vacuum up dust. It doesn't. We are now going to buy something a bit pricier.

The first time that I used the Superbroom it managed to clean the carpet of the living room relatively well. Then the bedroom, too. It looked at first like 20 pounds well spent. But after the second room that I vacuumed, it stopped picking up much dirt.

I emptied it (it is bagless), and it began to work again. But only, I found, if I emptied it every five minutes.

We have a very small house and don't wear shoes inside so it is quite clean. Even when it has just been emptied it doesn't pick up small bits of fluff. Yes, you can pick them off the floor, but who wants to? The vacuum cleaner is supposed to, and every other vacuum that I've had has been able to. The fact that I have to empty it so often shows that it does pick up some dust, but to be honest it is not a lot.

I think that it is worth spending more money in order to get something that does the job. If I had the money, I would go for a SEBO. They get excellent reviews, wherever I've read about them. However they are significantly more expensive.

Still, better to pay more for something that works, rather than paying less for a vacuum cleaner that doesn't work and will have to be replaced.

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