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Hoover Slider Bagless Stick Vacuum: I can't BELIEVE they still manufacture this piece of junk!
Date of Review: Jan 21, 2009
The Bottom Line: The Hoover Slider Bagless, although convenient, is a cheaply made product that will not last long.
While looking for a good price on my daughter's most wanted birthday present, I recently received the shock of my life at Wal-Mart. No, it wasn't a sense of claustrophobia from the crowded aisles. It was the shock of seeing a packaged-up Hoover S2105 Slider Bagless Stick Vacuum available for sale. I had never seen one in the store before and assumed Hoover had come to its senses and stopped making it, but apparently I was wrong.
What it is
At first sight, the Hoover Slider Bagless Stick Vacuum seems like a useful household tool. It is a lightweight broom-type vacuum with a long, slender handle. The base of the "vacuum" folds down and can hold about two cups of debris in a plastic compartment. The compartment has a re-usable cloth-like filter inside (known as the "dirt cup"). A useful aspect of the Hoover Slider is that it does not require a cord for operation. It runs on a 12 Volt rechargeable battery that you can plug in when not in use. The Hoover Slider also has an inch long ring on the end, which can be used to hang on the wall when you store it.
Getting Started
When you take your Hoover Slider out of the box, assembly is minimal. You just have to connect the two pieces of the handle together and plug in the vacuum for 16 hours before first use.
Once the vacuum is charged, the Hoover S2105 Slider does a pretty good job on hardwood or tile floor. We had vinyl in our kitchen and bathrooms when we used the Hoover Slider, and to be honest, we absolutely loved the novelty of it in the beginning.
But then...
One day, about three weeks after we started using the Hoover Slider, I cleaned out the filter so I could do some sweeping. (Cleaning the filter was easy to do, by the way--take out the dirt cup, shake it out above the garbage can and put it back in the vacuum.) I had already charged the Slider the night before, and I was ready to clean my kitchen floor. Unfortunately, the slider made a whirring noise, and that was it. It didn't pick up anything. I turned it over to clean the brush underneath the base, but everything looked fine. There were a couple of hairs to cut out, but nothing major.
My husband took it to a Hoover store and found that some internal part broke off. According to the tech, it would be cheaper to buy a new one than to get ours fixed. It was also covered under warranty for the first year, but Hoover does not cover the cost of transportation. We chose not to spend any money on fixing the Hoover Slider because we actually got it for free when we bought our heavy duty Hoover vacuum. Since it was not something we would have otherwise purchased (a broom does just as good a job), we could not rationalize the added investment in it.
The final word
If you hate to sweep, but want to pick up minor debris from your hard floors, you might find the Hoover S1205 Slider Bagless Stick Vacuum useful. However, don't expect it to last very long, and bear in mind that you can just as easily empty a dustpan into the garbage can in the time it takes to clean the filter.
Not recommended.
