Electrolux Oxygen Canister Vacuum Cleaner, EL6988E
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Electrolux Oxygen Canister Vacuum Cleaner, EL6988E
Customer Review: It sucks good
Summary: 4 Stars
I love this vacuum. I have two beagles whose only job in life appears to be shedding. I had a persian-style rug that looked all faded and all the fibers were good and smushed. I'd tried everything from standard vacuuming (with my old clunker) to brushing it with the dog brushes and trying to get the fur off with packing tape and I just couldn't get the fur out. One pass with this vacuum and the rug looked like new! The colors were just fine under the layer of fur and this machine took it off like magic!
When the bag is full the light comes on. The suction seems to stay pretty consistently good until the bag is well and truly full, and I appreciate that. Once the bag is full it can't suck up anything, but that's to be expected. The difference in suction power and how quickly it changes actually surprised me, but in a good way. No wasting time with poor suction on a half-full bag.
The only down-side is that it doesn't come with a stair attachment. Trying to use the power head on the stairs is tiring and awkward and no other attachments really do the job right. I don't want anything special or fancy, just a 3" or 4" wide by 1" deep head that would be less awkward than the power head and more efficient than trying to do it with the crevice tool. For the couple of bucks that kind of simple plastic part would have cost them, I'd expect to have it in there. It would have been far more useful (and cheaper to produce) than a dusting brush (does anyone actually use those?).
Customer Review: Best. Vacuum. Ever. Even though it punched my mom in the face!
Summary: 5 Stars
I did a lot of homework before deciding to buy this bad boy. I am not a vacuum expert nor do I really vacuum. I bought this as a Mother's Day gift for mama-dukes. Well, what I heard from her was that this was by far the best vacuum she had ever used, and not simply because I bought it for her for Mother's Day. This thing is very quiet compared to any vacuum I've ever heard in our house. I don't even hear it when I am in a different room. It is so quiet that it deceivingly feels a little weak. But it is ANYTHING but weak.. specially when you turn on the spinning motor thingie (it gets a little louder with that on, but not so bad.) MY GOD, this thing sucks up EVERYTHING! Not in a bad way where it destroys your carpets or eats your cat, but in a good way that it really digs up dirt in between the carpet and makes vacuuming a joy and extremely effortless. Oh and if you were wondering how it punched my mom in the face.. well, while she was vacuuming under my bed, she bent down for a second to get something and the vacuum spinner thing was on and it sucked up her hair, lifted up off the floor and smacked right into her face. The funny(?) thing was, she couldn't reach the off switch on the handle to turn off the motor! We all had a good laugh about it and she had a bloody lower lip for about a week. My poor mom. She has a great sense of humor though.. she laughs every time she tells the story. Anyway, GREAT vacuum.. buy one!Customer Review: Great for home with different floor surfaces.
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this vacuum on sale so I got a good price. I needed to replace an old upright...a basic $200 bag upright that lasted about 6 years. I wanted to switch to a canister because I have multiple levels in my home with different floor types, rug, tile, wood and stairs. I was getting to the point that I was tired of using the short hose attachment on my upright to clean 80% of my home and having it fall over all the time because of short reach. I love using a canister style now and find it so much lighter and easier to use than my old upright. Especially easy I like using my foot to turn it on, change from the floor attachment to the motorized carpet head and it drags behind easily. No, it's not the "perfect" machine, and there are even more expensive models out there, but that doesn't mean they work any better or worse. Considering I paid only a little over what a new upright would cost me, it was worth it. I would have liked to have gotten a motorized furniture head for the price, like the Oxygen3, but I see I can buy this later if I want to. I have 4 pets and it gets all the hair very nicely. My old vacuum just went across the surface leaving alot of deep dirt behind as I saw when I replaced my old carpets. So far I like this one very much and it is doing a good job. I no longer find it annoying to drag out a vacuum to clean something. I hope I get many years out of it. So far so good.Customer Review: A very cheaply made machine
Summary: 2 Stars
I have done tons of research on the web concerning vacuums and decided, based largely in part by it's rating in Consumer Reports to buy the Electrolux 6988D. Long story short... it's made in China and it shows. The canister was fairly well made, but the brush head was cheap plastic all around and made a sharp plastic on plastic noise when I put it on the Medium height setting. It also didn't really get deeply into the carpet. The head is too lightweight for that. So, I packed it up and sent it back. Thank God for Amazons return policy. I have now looked at Miele's (expensive and mostly plastic) and Riccar, which are OK and the high end machines are made with some metal and even a wooden rooler on one! I'm still not satisfied, so I have plans to go see the Sebo brand. With any of them I'll end up paying over $800 or more for a halfway decent canister. I was impressed with Riccars uprights that have this whole long hose thing going on. It works like a canister when you turn off the suction to the floor. Still high priced, and I don't want the akwardness of an upright. They really do a far better job on carpets, though, hands down.
Stay away from these Electrolux. They are all plastic and I could just see the potential problems. Electrolux EL 6988D Oxygen Canister Vacuum
Customer Review: Buyer Beware
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had the Oxygen for about 4 years now. I spent a lot of time researching before making the purchase, and thought I'd made a great choice.We have all hardwood floors and two area rugs. Within the first few months the tool caddy broke off so I never really used any of the attachments. The power head for carpet is great and I felt it was doing a nice job of cleaning the carpets...however, just as the warranty expired, within weeks it seemed, the power head stopped working. I took it to a local repair shop and the connectors in the wand had blown (melted plastic, as other reviewers noted.) It cost around $110 to replace this part. The hardwood floor brush is just OK, it almost seemed like it was for a different vacuum...I found it kept falling off in the beginning and was a bit awkward to use. Anyway, long story short, the power head has stopped working again. This time I was told it's the electric hose...another $90. I'm on the fence between ditching the vacuum completely and purchasing something new like the Panasonic MC-CG885....or spending the money and hoping I get another couple of years out of the Oxygen. Hmmmmm. It is pretty good when it works, but beware of costly repairs. The guy at the vacuum shop said Electrolux are some of the worst vacuums, they are basically designed to break...fatally flawed... Somehow the pretty design and featured wooed me 4 years ago.