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K**C
Good vac, great value
Editing tio add some DIY repair advice (since the company doesn't seem to exist anymore to answer our questions when the beater bar stops turning) since I wasn't able to find any when I needed it.First thing is opening everything without breaking stuff! Well, you'll be happy to know it's all screws, all the same screwdriver too, sweet! You need a medium sized philips with a pretty long shaft because 2 holes are over an inch deep, well, tbh also a small flat screwdriver for prying. You DO NOT need to pull the screw in the center of the leading lip. Pull the others you can see, iirc 4 of them. THEN (this is the trick!) you gotta pry off those two tiny wheels and there are a couple more screws hidden under them! Then it'll flop open, now have a gooood look at the slack of the wires as you open it, because I didn't and had a hard time figuring out where to run them upon reassembly, that they'd not be pinched. You'll need to flip things around a bit and find the last few screws to get the motor and stuff free to examine. In my case the problem turned out to be the shell around the bearing had melted/shredded due to unknown jam, just a fuzzy or something, so the roller kept turning and this part of the plastic got hot and stuff I think. Anyway I scraped the residue all out of the groove with my wee flat screwdriver (y'know, the ones for eyeglasses) and hoped the melted portion was not essential. Reassembled it and woohoo, it actually works!The belt and bearing are still flawless but now I know how to get inside the guts anytime I need to check on that sort of thing. (I didn't check if they're standard parts though... if they're unique, then the company going under will make finding those impossible :-( )I hope this can help someone rescue their no-longer-beating vac!This is far from perfect but I am still very happy, because it is a very good machine for the price. I tried two other ones before & had to return them. One was Moosoo or something like that. It blew exhaust air that stank like tires. This one does exhaust a bit of "cheap plastic" stink, but just a bit. I am hopeful that if I run it outside awhile once summer comes, I can air it out. The other vac I tried was a Shark and it made a whining noise that scared my pets badly and left me feeling anxious too. A weird pitch. This vac is so quiet that not only do I like it, two of my cats don't even leave the room when I use it! The Shark had a similar advantage to this Beaudoins, that not all stick vacs have- as well as a bristled beater bar for carpet, they have a velvet roller for picking debris up off hard floors. I love that because we have mostly hard floors but a few rugs, & I want to do both with one tool. The rollers on the Shark are both in place at all times, and a button switches between them, activating just one at a time. The Beaudoins rollers are a bit smaller so maybe 10% less effective, nothing major. And you have to put the one you want into the machine & set the other somewhere- there is only room for one in the machine. That's less convenient but, to get a vac for hundreds less, I am willing to deal with a tiny inconvenience. The suction on this is as good as the Shark, despite being cheaper, lighter & quieter. I can grab everything from kitty litter to dust bunnies. The rollers wrap with hair of course, that's how it is with any vac. (I have long hair myself, and several cats) What matters is how easy it is to remove the hair. I can't imagine a way to make it easier than with this. You remove the roller by sliding aside the clasp holding one end of it and then just lifting the roller out of its groove. It goes in & out super easily. To cut the hair off you can slide scissors along the roller without any worries. There seems to be no way you could damage anything. And you can get ALL the hair- there's no little gap that can't be reached (as my full sized vac has). Very easy. Speaking of cleaning... the canister. I hear Dyson has a system where you can knock jammed stuff out with a device rather than fishing around with your finger. I would like that, assuming it works, but again, to get a vac for a fraction of the price, occasionally sticking my finger into vacuum lint is a sacrifice I am willing to make. It tends to only require a finger if it gets over half full though. If you dump it at a quarter full it isn't packed hard enough to stick in there, and falls out with no fight. I'm sure dumping frequently improves performance & prolongs the life of the machine too so it's a good move. You may want to carry a bin around while you clean so you aren't running back & forth to dump it in the kitchen every time or whatever. I washed the filters & it seemed ok. When I tried just rinsing under a tap, mud caked in the creases of the HEPA (is it a HEPA? looks like one) but after a brief soak that came out easily. So I suggest using a soak rather than rinse method. Everything dried fast & reassembled intuitively. The battery life is INCREDIBLE! I ran the other two brands for maybe 20min and they were kaput. This thing, I can do my 1600 square feet of floors on TWO occasions before the battery loses power. A detail I hate seems to be what everyone else wants the way it's boasted about in vac ads: a floppy joint where the head meets the stem. If you like that you'll love this because it's the floppiest! I admit it's somewhat helpful for getting around furniture feet, but I wish there was a "stiff" setting and you could change between the two. The floppy neck is super annoying when doing stairs, or trying to grab an elusive bit of lint, anything where you want to lift the vac up and set it down. And forget scrubbing away at a dirty spot (ie when my woodworking spouse tracked sawdust onto a rug). To me, it's as useful as a floppy neck on a shovel or a toothbrush. But I can't find any stick vacs with a head that can be locked (30degrees would suit me) or even one that just flops up & down but not side to side. So I guess people like the floppiness. The other peeve I have is the wheels are tiny and seem to not move well so it may as well have no wheels. This bugs me when I do the basement as the small imperfections in the concrete floor are enough to render the tiny wheels useless. I hate the sound of the head dragging across the concrete instead of rolling. And the buttons. Rather than press the power button once for low, again for high, third time for off, they have TWO buttons, one for on/off and one for lo/hi. I'm always pressing the wrong one but I will get used to it I guess. The on/off button is in the way of your hand which is my number one complaint about this device. You'd want it in the grip if you had to hold the button down the whole time you were running the machine (like a drill or grinder) but since this stays on once you turn it on (like a light) there's no need for the power button to be on the grip! I am always bumping it by mistake & turning the vac off. I have to hold my index finger out (like the "tea pinkie" but other finger) as the button occupies the space on the grip where that finger should rest. I am a 5'9" woman with medium sized hands. If you are very petite or have very tiny hands, MAYBE you will be able to fit your whole hand in the grip despite the button being in the way. If you have huge hands you would likely find this strange design flaw intolerable. All in all I think this is a great vac for the money. If money is no object, I have heard Dyson is marvellous, but I haven't tried one myself.
J**O
Almost perfect.
I recently returned a Moosoo stick vacuum because it wasn’t what I expected. The Beaudens vacuum was my first choice but I went with the Mosso for one single reason. The Led light on the brush section. The Moosoo is not bad. Just the wrong choice for me.Upon receiving this Vacuum and immediately thought that I made yet another mistake. The Moosoo Box was huge. The Beaudens box was so small that I honestly thought that Amazon sent me the wrong item. Well, don’t let the size of the box fool you. After unpacking, I immediately noticed that this Vacuum was heavier than the moosoo and felt well designed. The handle/battery pack are separate section from the motor housing and dirt collector. The dirt collector is smaller than the moosoo, yet big enough. The brush section is heavier, and it came with two brushes. One for hardwood and one for carpet. The moosoo had only one. Another improvement that should be standard on all stick vacuums. The wall mount and charger are one unit. No more reaching for the cord to plug it to the back of the Vacuum. Just hang the unit on the wall mount and walk away.As good as this Vacuum is, it has a few things that I didn’t like.1) It has no front Led2) Motor/Container section does not turn 90 degree left and right like on the Moosoo. Limiting the reach under beds lower than 9” to about 35”.3) The brush section swivel turns too easily. On carpets it’s just right, but on hardwood It was like a drunken sailor trying to ride a bicycle. After a few days I am getting better maneuvering this thing, but I still wish it was stiffer.4) The container door lock is just a piece molded plastic (see photo 1 / # 2). If you pull on it too hard it could break. Rendering the vacuum useless until you can find a replacement part. The Moosoo had a nice spring-loaded lock.5) On the amazon product description. it showed the container and filter sections submerged in water. However, in order to completely remove the container from the wand. You need to push a plastic tab on both side and carefully detaching the container (see photo 1 / # 1). I wasn’t about to take a chance breaking the tabs, so I carefully washed the container. While still attached to the wand.Extra Nice features: if you decide to tear it down to clean it. You can still connect the handle/battery section to the wall mount and charge the unit while the parts air dry. (see photo 2). Dirt and hairs won’t stick to the Hepa filter and Pre-filter because they are inside the Metal filter. Even on the high setting (9Kpa), the Vacuum is very quiet. It only weight 4.75 lbs.Regardless of the few things listed above. There's No need to spend $500 on a Dyson. This one is a keeper.
H**O
Good for sweeping. Not good for anything else like toddler messes.
This vacuum has pros and cons. I’ve used Dyson stick vacuums in the past and I know to compare this $100 vacuum to a $300+ Dyson is unfair but let me just say THIS IS NOT A DYSON or even close.I have an almost 2 year old who makes a mess every hour at least and I wanted something easy and cordless to make for an convenient cleanup. I am unsure if this is helping me with that? There are a lot of things that aren’t convenient about this vacuum.Firstly, the low power suction only works for “sweeping” my hardwood. It really only picks up dust and small particles. If you want to vacuum on carpet or suck up anything pea sized or larger, it has to be on high power. Otherwise whatever you are sucking up just perpetually floats in the tube and when you turn it off it all comes back out. And I’ll just say the button to increase suction is not great. Sometimes I have to hit it hard multiple times to get it to respond.Secondly and also my least favorite part of this vacuum: emptying the tank. The internal chamber that houses the filter has the disc that flares out. There is less than 1/2” clearance between the disc and the sides of the chamber. This means anything remotely large in size gets stuck and doesn’t fall down and doesn’t fall out when you empty the chamber. I’m talking popcorn, pasta noodles, large dust clumps. To clear it out you have to completely take the whole thing apart like you would if were cleaning the filter. Because of what I bought this for.... 2yr old messes..... I find myself doing this EVERY time. So much for conveniently cleaning up the mess.Pros are it seems to be good quality. The runtime is good even though it has to be on high mostly. I like it for sweeping instead of using my broom. Would I have bought it if I could have tested it first... no way.
D**R
$200 as opposed to $6-800 for a Dyson.
This is a great little vacuum! I say little because the dirt canister is on the small side, and needs to be emptied a couple of times during a complete vacuum of the main floor. But I suppose all vacuums of this type need to be emptied numerous times too. Very light, and very quiet too. You can actually carry on a conversation with it on high, and not have to yell. I have not had much luck with cordless vacuum batteries lasting past 1 year, so only time will tell with this one, as I have only had it a couple of months.
D**Y
This stick vacuum exceeds our expectations
The long battery life and ease of operation are just two of the great features of this appliance
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