Eureka LightSpeed Upright Vacuum, Bagless, 4700D
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Eureka LightSpeed Upright Vacuum, Bagless, 4700D
Customer Review: A Bad Choice
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this vacuum a few months ago to replace our previous one that lasted 10 years. At first I liked this vacuum with it's many attachments and great suction. But within a month it was having problems. It's cheaply constructed and the door to the HEPA filter would fall off every time I used it. It's very heavy and very hard to move up and down stairs. The attachment hose is not long at all and it too often comes unhooked while in use. Within 2 months the belt broke. I bought several replacements and now, a month later, the belt broke again. When the belt broke this time, it also broke off a plastic piece that helps hold the belt on and now a new belt won't stay on at all. It clogs easily and makes a huge mess when emptying it. There is probably still a warranty on it, but it requires returning it to the company which is a real pain. I'm planning to buy another vacuum and just chalk this one up as a real lemon and a bad buy. I highly recommend against buying this vacuum and to be honest, I think I'm going to avoid Eureka all together.Customer Review: Excellent cheap vacuum cleaner for carpet.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using my new LightSpeed for a few days now.
The good:
1. Cheap: great value.
2. Powerful (the suction provided by the 12 amp motor is confined to a 12-inch wide path, much more effective than my previous 12 amp machine's 16-inch path).
3. Easy to assemble, easy to use, all the tools needed for typical housecleaning if you have carpeting.
4. Lightweight.
5. Bagless, but there's a replaceable HEPA filter.
6. While you can't turn off the brush, the brush is lifted high off the floor whenever the handle is locked into the upright position. When the handle is released into normal use position, then the brush is automatically lowered to your choice of five carpet heights.
The bad:
1. Cheap: won't last long. Mostly plastic, included the thin molded hose and what the assembly screws screw into.
2. Noisy.
3. Not a good choice for hard surface floors. Exhausts out the front: blows dust and light dirt away before you can get to it.
Customer Review: Worst Vacuum EVER!
Summary: 1 Stars
This has to be the single worst vacuum I have ever had. It is not worth the money at all! Here is why -
1. If you have pile carpet, it get clogged with the fibers within two or three passes. My pile carpet is 6 years old, but as you know, when you vacuum it, it still gives off fibers. Because the filter for this vaccum is directly in front of the in-take hole, the fibers get caught against the filter. I have to empty it 5 times when vaccuming to small rooms.
2. It does not suck up anything that is on lanoleum or hardwood. It just spits it all out the back of the vacuum.
3. In the rooms with berber, I still have to empty it twice. It easily clogs!
4. After I vaccum, the carpet still does not look clean.
This vaccum is worthless!
I spend more time emptying the chamber than I do vaccuming. I still have to sweep the hardwoods and my floors never look clean. After 4 months of trying to baby it, I have finally given up and I am buying a different vaccum. What a waste!
Customer Review: Disappoinment
Summary: 1 Stars
I had high hopes for this product, as it claimed to handle pet hair particularly well. My experience was just the opposite. While the special hair filter trapped hair pretty well, within just a few minutes the hair backed up into the hose and clogged the whole system. The only way to get the hair out of the hose was to take the screw out that held the hose to the vacuum and push the hair through with a broom handle - a messy 15+ minute task. I finally stopped putting the screw in because I had to take it off at least once every time I vacuumed. The hair also clogged in the intake from the roller, so the four screws that held the base together had to be removed nearly every time I vacuumed to clean out that area. The suction got so bad that the hand-held roller would no longer spin and was worthless. Today the motor on the roller burned out because it caught a shoelace for approximately two seconds. We have only had the vacuum for about six months. Save yourself a whole lot of aggravation and buy a different product!Customer Review: Motor burned out after two weeks
Summary: 1 Stars
My old vacuum died after 15 years and I needed a replacement quickly, so I bought this machine at a local big box store, rather than Amazon. Paid about the same. Obviously, given the very cheap price, I didn't expect to get 15 years of service out of this vacuum, but figured I should get at least one year. Nope! I used it three times in my modestly sized living space which contains nothing challenging floor-wise - just three normal carpets and bare floor. Two minutes into the vacuum's third use the motor seized up. Burning smells followed. I disassembled the entire machine looking for clogs or anything else which may have been sucked up to cause such a problem. Zippo. Nothing. Called Eureka who told me I could take my $58 machine to a repair shop for a warranty-covered repair, but the shop was a $30 round-trip cab ride away. Instead, I pitched my two-week old Eureka into the dumpster and bought Amazon's $78 Bissell instead. So far, so good with that one, (although I haven't quite had it two weeks yet)!