Vax VEU-02

I have been in the market for a new vacuum cleaner for a while and when you have a dog that molts as much as my dog does, its not an easy decision to make because I have been getting along with a couple of vacuum cleaners all which have been marketed as vacuum cleaners that are great for picking up pet hair, however I have found with all of them they have been rubbish. Hoovering up with the cleaners that I had started to become a tedious job, even though they had on board turbo brushes it still became a pain and what should take not long to do was becoming a chore of a hour to get the job done properly and when doing this on a daily basis, you can imagine how annoying it ...  Read the complete review

Brought this vacuum from Argos back in October. We were needing something to replace our old vacuum and our spec was to find something upright, cheap, and light. The VEU-02 seemed to tick all the boxes and with the VAX name we felt that it would be a well built vacuum. Unfortunately the essentials range of vacuums seem like they were built in a cheap factory by another company only to be branded with the VAX name. This vax has a fair bit of power and sucks well, and it is pretty light meaning its easy to carry up and down the stairs (this is good as you need to hold it on the stairs while cleaning them) The plastic feels cheap and ...  Read the complete review

I picked this hoover up from Argos about 18 months ago, in the sale at 50% reduced. The big problem with this Hoover is the tiny collection pot, of only 2.0 L. This needs emptying every other time I Hoover the house, and it is not the biggest of houses. Also it is quite a process to empty the pot, as you need to remove the whole pot, and then take the lid off, find somewhere to put it, while you remove the filter, and again find somewhere suitable to place it, before emptying out the contents. Having said that, I do think that one of the reasons it needs emptying so often is that it does pick up the dust, crumbs, hairs etc. extremely well. The electrical lead is only 6m ...  Read the complete review

The worst-designed vacuum cleaner ever!. It's cumbersome to use, doesn't get in corners, is awkward to use on the stairs and is very noisy. The mains lead is too short to do the whole downstairs (first time we've ever had this problem). When you open the flap on the dust container to empty it, most of the dirt is still wrapped around the filters at the top, so you have to totally dismantle the container and remove the filters everytime. After we'd struggled for a few months with it, the head part disintegrated. We sent it back for repair but wished we hadn't bothered. It came back technically working but still as bad as ever. My daughter got one at ...  Read the complete review