Bought as a birthday gift for my missus (for a joke! I'm not that mysoginistic)A lot of sucking power for a vacuum, effortlessly moves from vinyl to floor boards to carpet. Really pleased with it!

This cleaner came in 24 hours! It is as advertised, light, easy to follow instructions and a powerful cleaner. This new model replaced one 6 years old, which was noisy, heavy & could no longer purchase filters for it. Happy to recommend this Vax model..

Great for general cleaning. Long flex so easy to do a large area and the stairs. As previous reviews state, do not run over cable. This happened today and I have exposed the electric wiring. Will not use it now as I don’t feel safe. This is a major fault.

Oh my...I have never enjoyed vacuuming before...but what a thrill to see the container filling with dog hair and 'stuff' that I really didn't notice too much on the floor ! I love it's power. .I used to hate going backwards and forwards with my old vacuum and still not getting anywhere. You have to watch where you waggle the end...I nearly sucked up my tea towel !!well I mean I certainly plucked it off its hook.. I am sure my breathing will benefit by not inhaling a whole load of dog hair ! Also my clothes look better without a coating of white hair. ! Thankyou Vax for having this reasonabley priced vac doing an excellent job. Thankyou BargainFox for making it available to me.

A great vacuum but the flexible Hose placement design is awful. The hose end is on the floor right next the main hoover head. This means To take out the hose so you can clean the nooks and crannies, you have to get on the floor and tug away to release the hose. The hose is then reduced in size by a hose guard. This makes it hard to use the attachment, and makes the flexible hose really short. Used it for the first time today, and feel sure that this ridiculous hose guard won’t take long to cut through the flexible hose. Whoever designed this, has obviously not used it before putting it on the market. No wonder there was no video for this model.

The Positive:
First off, this Vax sure does suck! In a good way. If you're mostly after an upright cleaner to zoom over carpets & floors it's a pretty good choice.
Sadly, that's kind of where the positives screech to a halt. While I can forgive the machine from feeling very 'plasticcy' and a bit cheap (after all, it WAS pretty cheap!), it really doesn't come close to the excellence of a Dyson cleaner, but obviously this is reflected in the price - I didn't want to fork out the ridiculous sum a Dyson costs on this occasion, hence the Vax purchase. But Vax should be capable of designing a machine far better than this by now!
The Negatives:
A big consideration to bare in mind is that if you want to use the hose option on a regular basis, you'll be disappointed. The VERY SHORT hose is positioned at floor level and this is where it has to stay while you struggle to make use of it with the various attachments. Pretty hopeless, I'm afraid.
The 'push & pull when upright' handle is not ergonomic and really quite uncomfortable on the hand, rigid, hard plastic and not user friendly at all.
Another very irritating error is the positioning of the power cord. This is positioned at the base of the machine, so you spend your whole time reaching down to grab it in order to move the cord out of the way. It has a small pointless hook under the handle you're meant to use to bring the cable up to user height but it just falls off this the entire time - I got so fed up with this I ended up putting a knot in the cable and attached it permanently to the useless hook... which obviously makes the power cord shorter.

This vac was bought to replace a clapped out machine. It is lightweight and very efficient.

The suction of this hoover is unbelievable, I can’t hoover doormats even holding them down it just sucks them up. (There is a little reduce suction bit and definitely need to use this on mats, rugs) overall this is great, and a bargain for the price. I have 1 dog and 3 very hairy cats that malt. Brilliant for this. Easy to use the only downside to this is the handle height can not be altered. From floor to the very top where the purple bit is above the handle it is 114cm. I’m 5,7 and find this ok but much shorter people may find it uncomfortable.

it is very light , has great suction and super long cable , however a big dawback is the extra short hose, and the fact you have to remove it from the base to attach to the handle to do edges etc , this is very difficult but also impossible to do anything up high due to the etremely short hose that barely stretches , especialy to do anything high up , i have low ceilings but still it cannot reach , and it is fasten on with a non removable fastener which furthr restricts the hose , a very bad design here as far as that is concerned

I asked advice from Vax for a suitable cleaner as I had 4 golden retrievers and needed something that would easily cope with a lot of dog hairs, I have to empty the cylinder after each room and I hoover everyday the brush gets easily clogged with dog hairs which then affects the amount it picks up. Would not recommend to people with more than 1 dog.