Hoover Tempo Widepath Upright Vacuum, Bagged, U5140-900
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Hoover Tempo Widepath Upright Vacuum, Bagged, U5140-900
Customer Review: cheap, works great, box is theft target
Summary: 5 Stars
Read a lot of reviews, watched prices, and bagged this vacuum for $65 with free shipping. The day it was supposed to arrive I got home and it wasn't there. I reported it missing to Amazon and UPS, but no response from Amazon and UPS investigated but they only work with the shipper. After two weeks I contacted Amazon again using the chat option, asked what the status was, and the rep sent a second one with two-day shipping. This time I stayed home to catch the UPS guy and although he put it behind the gate, it was still visible and the box is big and colorful with pretty pictures of the vacuum to tempt your less-honest neighbors.
Unpacking and assembly were simple, although one of the bolts needed some force to get the nut started and the diagram of where to thread the power cord doesn't match this model. Once I got it running I was amazed at the suction power. This could hold it's own against my Rigid wet/dry vacuum. Fuzz that the old vacuum couldn't touch was gone in a single pass, and you could feel it clinging to the carpet, trying to move on its own from the force of the brush. I used the extension wand under some furniture and it was just as good. All this and I forgot to mention that there is a crack in the hose (it works well but it's not "high quality"). I did the whole house and there was a big scary ball of hair and fuzz in the bag.
This vacuum is great on short-nap or berber carpet, and probably great for any high-quality, dense carpeting. I would recommend it for pet hair. It might be too aggressive for cheap shag, but at this price I'd try it anyway. It's not abnormally loud. You don't need a light. The lower handle makes it easy to pick up the whole thing to do the stairs. I don't understand the people who try to use a vacuum on hard surfaces - that's what brooms, dust mops, and sweepers are for. At this price you can afford the right tool for both jobs. Definitely recommended for both initial performance and price.
Customer Review: Great for carpets, could be better on bare floors
Summary: 4 Stars
I've used this vacuum for more than six months now, and I can tell you that this is a terrific overall vacuum and a great value for the price. Suction pressure is excellent, design is very simple and easy to use, and the light weight makes it easy to push around the floor and transport up and down stairs. However, when you get a machine like this that is generally so well designed and built, it does make you shake your head in perplexed amazement over how the product engineers would allow a major and obvious performance flaw, namely the vacuum's performance on bare floor. As has been mentioned, the carpet brush on the head of the vacuum runs continuously, there's no way to turn it off, and its rotational speed is so high and brushing action so strong that most anything on the floor, even just dust, gets pushed away from the vacuum before the suction has a chance to pull it up. The obvious solution is to pull the suction hose out of its normal socket connected to the head (which is elegantly simple to do), connect it to the extension wand, and use one of the attachments on the bare floor. If there were only a bare-floor nozzle attachment at least nine inches wide, this would be a more than adequate solution to the problem and I would have rated the product with the full five stars. However, such an attachment is not included (which I find inexplicable given the product decision not to provide a means of stopping the floor brush), so you have to use the furniture nozzle that's only 3 inches or so wide. In smaller rooms, this is an adequate solution, but with larger areas of bare floor I find it more efficient to use a broom to sweep the dust into one corner where it's quick and easy to pick up with the furniture and crevice nozzles.
Aside from this most unfortunate combination of poor product decisions, I don't find any other real flaws (including the motor noise, which I find quite tolerable), so I still recommend it.
Customer Review: Excellent Vacuum/Excellent Value!
Summary: 5 Stars
We received this product quickly, and it works (vacuums) better than any we've ever owned. No, it's not the so-called "luxury" edition, but it beats any so-called luxury model we've ever tried, so ... it's luxury in a different way: IT WORKS, and it works VERY WELL!!! For those who say it isn't easy to turn on and off ... well, it's not the SAME as other models I've used, on which you do that with a tap (or stomp) of your foot, but is it EASY to turn on and off? - YES! - If you can extend your arm an inch or two in front of you and push the little red switch (like many other buttons in my home, from my coffee pot to the warmer on my stove) in the "on" or the "off" direction, depending on your need! NOT DIFFICULT! REALLY EASY! Is it quiet? No, but it's a vacuum. I don't run it when folks are sleeping. I run it to clean, and it does that VERY WELL. Is it loud beyond measure? No. But I don't recall ever thinking a vacuum cleaner did, or should, sound like a light spring rain or a lullaby. I don't talk on the phone while using it, but, can I HEAR my phone ring while I'm using it, yes. (Do need to be in same room or close enough by phone, but I have a cordless I can clip on, so that's fine. - Not to mention caller ID should I miss a call.) Noise isn't a problem, as I just continue to be SO AMAZED by, and SO THANKFUL for, the FABULOUS job this machine does at being a VACUUM CLEANER! ---- Could've gotten the #1 Consumer Reports pick, for over $200, and surely would have been satisfied with that, really, I'm sure. BUT we decided to try this Consumer Reports "best buy" at around only $60...LOVE IT, and will be ordering another one soon, and have one upstairs and one down, BOTH for LESS than the price of ONE of the other one we were thinking about buying. - Tried it. For the price, we had almost nothing to lose. We gained SO MUCH, and SAVED so much too!!! Will be purchasing another soon!Customer Review: Just like in the cartoons!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well if you are on a budget or you are a snooty rich person who demands only the best like Dyson,Oreck or Kirby, You should consider buying this vacuum. On second thought just buy it. Look no further. The price is DIRT cheap, The power of this thing is unbelievable for the price. And it is a Hoover after all. This is the only vacuum that I have found that actually picks up cat hair with the attachment hose instead of it just sticking to the brush. I have a large shop vac and I think the HOOVER U5140-900 TEMPO WIDEPATH BAGGED UPRIGHT VACUUM has more power. Example: I was cleaning the cat hair off of my chair by the window. I went to move the cushion so I could clean the sides off and b4 I knew it the curtains were being consumed by this thing. Along with my t-shirt my socks, my girlfriends underwear, my underwear, the cats underwear,??? the cat, The bedspread, the bed, all the items out of the closet, the night stand, the dresser, and my girlfriend. It took awhile to extract all of these items out of the bag except my girlfriend, she can stay there till I throw the bag away, but anyway it was all clean as a whistle, my bedspread had been dry cleaned our laundry was spring fresh the furniture was polished and the cat was declawed and nuetered. What a wonderful machine this is. I also used it to capture the evil monkey that lives in the hall closet and the escaped convict that killed 2 guards and robbed that bank. I even got a $10,000 reward. So this thing has paid for itself along with paying off the final payment on my private island near Fiji. I even had some left over so I bought a taco supreme and a burrito. So I think that if you dont buy this thing with all its incredible features and benefits, the brain has already been sucked out of your head. Did I mention it is also cabable of towing a full travel trailer while towing a Review: Good Value For The PriceSummary: 5 Stars I purchased this vacuum about a month ago and I have used it several times now. I originally was going to purchase a Dyson because I was tired of buying vacuum's that always give out or looses suction after a year or so. I decided to give this Hoover Tempo a try first since the Dyson is so incredibly expensive and I am struggling with the idea of paying so much just for a vacuum. I figured what have I got to loose if this one gives out in a year or so? I would still be ahead in the pricing game. I am not one bit disappointed with this Hoover Tempo. It has been working beautifully. It has awesome suction and power. I especially like the fact it has a bag with all that I have been reading about allergies (bagless is NOT good if you have allergies). Everything I read says a bag style vacuum is the way to go when you have allergies and all the Dyson's are bagless. This Tempo is lightweight, easy to push along, and has been easy for me to clean my stairs with. I have two dogs and it picks up the hair with no problem. It is much better than my other Hoover that was a LOT more money than this one was. I am very happy with the Tempo so far. For the price, I don't think you can go wrong with giving it a try.
UPDATE!! It is now 9/26/10.....2 1/2 years later and my Tempo is going strong! It still has incredible suction. I am so happy I purchased this product instead of spending several hundreds of dollars on a fancy vacuum like I originally wanted to. I stick by what I said before: For the price, what do you have to lose? I love the fact it has a bag system. I have read and heard so much negativity about bagless vacuums and the allergies they cause. We have 2 dogs and 3 people in our two story wood floored home. We have carpet on our stairs and in one bedroom. The Tempo works wonderful on all our flooring surfaces. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!