Absolute Rubbish (Proaction Wet and Dry Handheld Cleaner)

Member Name: DavyMichelle

Product:	Proaction Wet and Dry Handheld Cleaner
Date:	17/11/08 (104 review reads)
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Advantages: It's Great (if you only use it once)

Disadvantages: Filter Clogs, Poor Suction, Battery Quick to Die

I must have missed something with this handheld vacuum as I'm absolutely amazed to find that someone has given this five stars! Differences in opinion like this sometimes make me wonder if some appliances are made by parts of differing quality in someway and that's why some people find things excellent while others find them appalling.


I had this handheld cleaner for using in the car. My work means the car can get messy sometimes and also the grandson doesn't help matters, especially not when he was little. The idea with this is that you charge it up in the house on the mains and then take it out to clean up the car afterwards. Obviously you can have it as a household one if you prefer and just use it for household spills and such like.


I found this to be pathetic when it came to performance. It sucked things up like magic the first two or three times I used it but thereafter, the filter would simply not clean out well enough to allow any kind of decent suction. So this just picked bits up then spat them out again! I am sure that it was trying to suck up liquid that caused the irreversable blockage through making all the dust inside wet which in turned clogged up the filter. But even after allowing it to dry it just wouldn't work the same again.


On top of this I found that the battery life was dreadful. The first time I used this it lasted a good ten minutes, but then every time after that it lasted less and less. I owned this for all of three months using it just once every other week before I threw it in the bin. I paid £15 for this and the one I replaced it with cost three times that but has so far lasted six times longer. There's a white version of this available from Argos for £20 if you're silly enough to want to waste your money on it.

Summary: Avoid Avoid Avoid

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