With lots of tile and a cat, I really wanted a lightweight, cordless vac that I could zip around the kitchen and hall every day or so, just to get up the visible crumbs and hair. (Getting out the big vac that often is never going to happen!) On that basis, after over a year of trying, I have to declare this vac a failure. Here's why:
-- The cup won't tolerate more than a tablespoon of (very fine) debris before it quits drawing. (I promise, the filters are clean, almost insanely clean.) That gives me 1-2 minutes of use before I have to empty the canister.
-- As others have noted, it is not powerful enough to pick up anything heavier than dust or cat hair puffs. It sometimes picks up some stray litter on a nearby rug, but not consistently.
-- Also noted previously, the canister is tricky to re-install - I always have to try several times before it clicks into place.
For the time it takes dealing with all these shortfalls, I could've just hauled out my big vac and done a great job. Instead I end up annoyed and frustrated, and with very poor clean-up results.
I don't quite get why a stick cordless should be weaker than a hand-held cordless vac, since it is primarily just a hand-held attached to a stick. But in this case, it IS dramatically weaker. (My Dirt Devil Kone hand-vac is 10x more powerful and has 4x the dirt capacity!) So, reluctantly, the Power Stick is going to Goodwill and I'm just going to use the Kone.Get more detail about Dirt Devil M083414 Extreme Power Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner.
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