Electrolux Z4431S Full Size 1800w Bagged Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner

This is my first review. I bought this vacuum cleaner whilst living in rented accomodation back in 2006, mainly as the shared Henry was never available when I wanted it and after a disastrous encounter with a cheaper cleaner, decided to go to a name I felt I could trust due to previous postive experience. Now I am back in my own house it came with me and is still in use. So one sunny afternoon I went to Argos to purchase the Electrolux Z4411 Powerplus but for some reason was supplied with the Z4431 at no extra cost at £39.95. Feeling that I had got myself a bargain, I went back smiling and hoping that I wasn't going to be ...  Read the complete review

BACKGROUND: This wasn’t the vacuum cleaner that I’d had in mind. Looking back, I have only myself to blame, but when our faithful old Hoover shuffled off its electronic coil back in May, I was frankly desperate. I must have been. After all, what else could possibly have induced me, on a Saturday afternoon, to dispatch a 41 year old man with a pathological dislike of appliance shopping and (in my opinion) negligible recent experience of vacuuming (enter husband at stage left), along with a two year old sidekick with a proven record for sabotaging even the most elementary of shopping expeditions (enter son at stage right) to secure the replacement? The Hoover’s ...  Read the complete review