Dyson V7 Trigger Cord-Free Handheld Vacuum Cleaner

This thing sucks!!! LOL literally. I mean it sucks great. It is very quiet for it's suction power at LOW setting. The suction at LOW is more powerful than any other cordless vacuum clean I have ever come across. I was blown away when I set it to max. Unbelievable! But the unit get really hot at max setting and the battery lasts like 5 minutes or perhaps slightly more.Emptying the bin is really easy. The miniature tool is great for upholstery.This thing is a piece of engineering marvel. It is costly but well worth the money.

This vacuum is WORTH EVERY PENNY. Yes, it's exorbitantly expensive, but it's fantastic. Great run time, highly effective (particularly the rotating brush). We have two cats who shed continuously. This gets the cat hair tumbleweeds. I can vacuum the couch cushions and their usual sleep spot on the bed easily. I keep it near the litter box and it's handy for sucking up the litter that would otherwise scratch up the hardwoods. Does a good job on baseboards too. It's more effective on "max" but you will run the battery out quickly. My only complaint is that it takes a little while to charge up, but the run time is good once you have a full battery.

I highly recommend this product. I bought it specifically for carpeted stairs. It works wonders. Cordless and easy to use for stairs. The suction is really excellent. Of course you can use it on other surfaces too. I did a lot of research on cordless vacuums for stairs. This was was definitely the best. It is very expensive, but could be worth the investment. I would not want to buy another brand and be disappointed. If you're willing to use a corded version, there are many good options too.

4 stars just because the battery life isn't great. I don't like to leave things like this plugged in all the time because I feel like it kills the battery faster. But either way, on a full charge, it's not going to do tough areas for very long. It's like if you need to push the attachment all the way down for a secure suction seal to get things up, don't expect to do that longer than 20 minutes. If you're doing this is lightly soiled areas or quick jobs, worth it. My dogs like to shred toys and this sucks up all the random fluff pieces that my Roomba won't grab.

I really really regret this purchase.This unit contains a pull up lever that allows the bottom to open for easy emptying.Except, bizarrely, the pull up lever also unseats the clear canister from the machine. So 80% of the time when you try to empty it, you unseat the canister from the machine which requires a wrestling match to get it reseated so it can function or be emptied. Sometimes, as an added bonus, the bottom flies open when you’re doing this wrestling match and you are covered in everything you just vacuumed up. The parts that make these things work are all hard plastic so every time I have to deal with this, I’m terrified one will snap and the whole thing is caput.Finally, I thought, this has to be defective, Dyson has such a great rep as an innovative, brilliant company. This just must be defective. So I called Dyson. First I had to go through their entire registration process and give tons of information before they would talk to me. So now I’ll get Dyson junk mail, spam calls and spam email for life to remind me what a poor choice I made.The pleasant, easy to understand customer service rep said, “oh, I’ll go get that floor model and walk you through it.” Then he says, “Oh. Hmm. I have the same problem. I pull the lever and the bottom doesn’t open but the container unseats. Maybe use a screwdriver to get it open?” I said, “Oh, that sould be a highly desirable feature to a $200 dust buster IF I could get the container reseated to do so but I can’t.” He issues me a return authorization to ship the unit back for repair/reseat of the container.The return process was super easy, just dropped off the unit at the ups store with the number and they box, ship and everything, no cost to me. Two days later, I get the unit back exactly as I sent it but with the same container, cleaned out and a hand scrawled note on the RMA paperwork “Emptied dust container”. This was the repair. So the machine doesn’t work anymore because I can’t reseat the container into it so it vacumns.Of course I contacted Dyson and was beside myself. I said I wanted them to take it back and refund my money. They told me it wasn’t possible because I didn’t buy it at Dyson.com. I said “Amazon isn’t an approved retailer?”.They assured me that Amazon indeed was an approved retailer but they would only consider a dissatisfaction return for items purchased on their own website.So whatever hype that is out there about Dyson must be around the company’s formerglory and not the current situation. Generally speaking, I’m incredibly offended by highly engineered and over-designed products that then work stupidly. This is one. An epic example of one. Then to top it off, this is an OEM that doesnt support their customers OR their distributors.Since the rationalization for overpaying for a dust collector would be innovative design, company reputation, durability and ease of use, friend, keep on searching because this ain’t it.