 "Love this little vaccum!" | 2008-08-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A33AIERGB07TV6 |
| I recently installed hardwood floors in the dining room and living room, also have vinyl flooring in kitchen/utility rooms. Have 2 english setters and was looking for something to pick up the dog hair. This works great for that purpose. So much easier than hauling out a big vaccuum. Has decent suction, but cord could be longer. Just attached an extension cord and can now do all without changing outlets. Have a couple of low pile throw rugs and it will grab the hair off of them also. Well worth the money if you have dogs/cats and wood/vinyl floors. |
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 "It's The Boss" | 2008-07-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1B3990ULOSYM6 |
I'm going back to college in the fall, so I was poking around walmart for cleaning stuff a few weeks ago I saw this vacuum for only $15. I thought "its so cheap, it probably doesn't work very well, if at all". I bought it anyway, thinking that I could easily return it if it didn't do the trick. When I first opened it and put it together, I thought it looked like an inexpensive child's toy (esp. the floor attatchment) with it's brightly colored shiny plastic. After trying it out on both hardwood floor and rug, I was really impressed with its pickup power. It picked up dog fur, crumbs, sand/dirt and even bits of string!
Its small size makes it ideal for a dorm because I can hide it away under my bed or in my closet. The cord is the appropriate length for the kind of cleaning I do, because my space is limited. It's easy to use and lightweight, making getting it out and setting it up quick and easy (which is motivation to use it more often). I love that it's bagless and virtually mess-free; why would I want to clean up after a cleaning appliance?
The sleek design and bright colors (mine is hot pink) are what caught my initial attention. Eureka did a great job making it look nice! I also love that I can use it to clean out my car with the options to use the crevice tool and as a regular hand-held vacuum.
Downfalls: Wrapping the cord up is annoying and time-consuming. The cord holders are awkwardly spaced far apart and close to the body so the cord needs to accommodate to the convex shape. I gave up on the cord holders and just kept the plastic tie it came with, so now I fold up the cord and secure it with that and it works just as well. A retractable cord would be better but would be hard to do with this vacuum and keep the small size. Additionally, the cord would look nicer if it was the same color as the vacuum because it sticks out like a sore thumb.
With this type of plastic wheel hair and fuzz can easily get wrapped tightly around. It is difficult to remove and really affects the motion.
The telescopic handle is awesome, but I wish it was about 3-5 inches longer.
A little too noisy.
Basically, if you're looking for a small, lightweight and aesthetically pleasing vacuum this is the perfect choice. The positives outweigh the negatives- I can't recommend it enough!!! |
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| "$25 King" | 2008-07-14 |
| - Reviewed By j_lowerdeck |
| This is a bargain for $25, there are no belts, rotating brushes, or major parts to break. It picks up hair extremely well and gets dust as well. It is not intended to be a replacement for a full sized $100+ vacuum but gets the little jobs done better than those other cordless stick vacs. The cord is also short because it is meant for light jobs, not cleaning entire houses. |
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| "Great for "cat cleanup"....." | 2008-07-04 |
| - Reviewed By jcroberts |
| Got this product to clean up litter in a room where we keep our cat litter box. Perfect for this job! Also good for use on any bare floor areas and for small rugs where one can't use a large vacuum cleaner... |
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| "LOVE IT!!!!!!" | 2008-06-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3PD0GZ1F576I1 |
| I love this Vacuum! I needed something to sweep the floor and rugs in my laundry room/mud room. I have two back doors both entering in the laundry room, anything on your shoes ended up on my rugs, so when you folded laundry and dropped something, it would be dirty again. I even let my 4 1/2 year old use it in the kitchen and he loved it (it was just his size with the handel down). Very easy to use. It's a little loud, but not bad. The only thing I don't like about it is the cord could be a little longer. Very easy to empty and the filter cleans up great. I had bought a Bissell 3 in 1 stick vac and it was horrible. This is 100 times better! |
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 "Cleans well enough but hard to open and noisy" | 2007-08-09 |
| - Reviewed By lmarks1 |
Good news first - it does a nice job of picking up cat hairs and bits/pieces from the carpet surface; the dust cup holds a fair quantity.
Not so good - noisier than I expected; hard to open even tho my hands are fairly large - you have to depress a button and use both hands at the largest diameter to take the vacuum apart into two pieces to empty dirt. I find it difficult to get my hands even partway around the middle to take it apart.
For this reason alone, would not buy the Eureka 166DX again. |
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| "Good vac for quick pickup-deserves 4 stars" | 2007-08-09 |
| - Reviewed By lmarks1 |
This is a complete revision of an earlier review in which I complained about noise and hard-to-access dust cup - would now give it 4 stars but apparently am not allowed to change my initial rating during an "edit". Once I learned to press the release completely, I find the dust cup easy to access. It does a good job of picking up cat hairs and bits/pieces from the carpet surface and hardwood; the dust cup holds a much larger quantity than I would have expected from a vacuum this size. So lightweight - easy to grab out of a closet and give the house a once over. Would have given it 5 stars if it were not so noisy - I use earplugs when running it. People who seem to expect this vacuum to substitute for a full-size on carpet aren't being reasonable - this one does a great job for what it is intended.
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| "Finally found it!" | 2007-07-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1WC9FW94X3QKR |
| I have looked and tried numerous small vacs and I finally found exactly what I want with this little magic vacuum. I have tile floors that are white. I also have a black haired dog. This vacuum picks up all the dog hair and cat hair with ease along with the crumbs from the kids. I like the fact that it's not cordless because it's not convenient for me to recharge a vacuum. The large bin is also a plus as I can vacuum the living room, kitchen, hallway and den without having to empty it between rooms. The only thing that could be better is to have the kids use it. |
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 "Designers could have done a better job -- downgraded to two stars" | 2007-02-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2CAZ5600MJHFN |
On the plus side, its three different functions (floor, hand held, and crevice tool) are excellent options Had I been able to test this for the designers, I would have told them the size of the dust bag enclosure is large and awkward. That makes it very hard to hold the unlock button (which is a little on the dinky side) and grasp the two sections in order to get to the smallish filter. Compared to the old Eureka Superbroom, this one falls short. For example, the on/off switch is smooth and almost flush with the surface making it a bit hard to operate easily. It's almost impossible for my smallish hands to grasp the too large and too smooth section. Either make it small enough (on some area) to hold easily, or put some sort of material that allows for some sort of friction for a human hand. (I will probably have to wear latex kitchen gloves when acessing the dust cup.) Again, compared to the Superbroom, the dust cup is smaller. Also, the pull-out handle is shorter than the Superbroom. Though, it is quite attractive--and so far the three ways it can be used are positives--but, if it weren't such a pain in the patootie to box up and take to the Post Office or UPS (not to mention the cost), I would ship it back. I was planning this to be a replacement for my old stick broom, but have elected to keep that one... I've had it for eons and dropped it more times than Bush has said "Stay the course." It's a good little workhorse, and will probably outlast its pretty and shiney successor. Hey Eureka... next time you design a new stick broom, let me test it for you. Addendum:
After using this equipment a few times, I'd like to add that while the cord holders may have made the design "prettier" re-wrapping the cord is made more difficult because they are set in close to the body. Also, would it have killed them to find a way to attach the crevice tool, somehow... even some Velcro the customer could chose to place somewhere. It should be convenient, not somewhere else in the house when you find: "Gee, I need to get in there a little tighter... now where the heck is that crevice thingie... oh, that's right, it's way up in the front of the house in the closet... I hope." All this is why I'm downgrading it to only two stars. |
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| "Exactly what I needed" | 2007-02-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1R4ZB24NCCO59 |
| This works very well for what I need. I use it in the kitchen and mudd room for dirt, dog hair and crumbs on bare floors and area rugs. I occasionally use it on carpet for loose debris. It can stand alone which is helpful and I love that it has a crevis tool for the hard to reach areas. It could use a longer cord, but I can live with it. I do have to say I have only had it for about 2 months. |
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