Hoover S2220 Flair Bagless Upright Stick Vacuum with Power Nozzle

This vaccuum has one of the simplest designs I've seen. It has great value for money at $60. With both floor and carpet settings it can be used in almost all locations in a normal home and its lightweight design makes cleaning a breeze. Vaccuuming under sofas and beds is also pretty easy due to its design.

I bought this a year or two ago and still use it - sometimes several times a week. It's great for picking up crumbs from the wood floor under our kitchen table and for cleaning the area rugs and wall-to-wall carpet. Not meant to be a full-sized vac, just great for quick pick-ups. Lightweight, easy to store. Just wish it had a longer cord!

We needed a relacement for our old electric broom and after much searching around (both price & reviews) bought this Hoover. We've been really delighted with it and use it frequently to clean up the dog hair and random dirt that collects on our wooden floors and concrete (indoor) steps. A definite recommend.

This vac was most promising. It had one switch for two features - brush up for floor and down for carpet. Both worked well for the time that it worked, and the head did a lot of swiveling, which made pick-up that much easier. The bagless feature was nice and it emptied easily. As an aside, I realized how much I missed a crevice attachment, for the tops of moldings et al.
Alas, one month to the day, the floor switch ceased operation and it was brush down or nothing. Very disappointed - I won't get another but will probably upgrade to something better made - with a crevice tool.

I have been looking for months for a light-weight, cordless vacuum for bare floors only. I wasn't able to find anyone who really liked what they had in a cordless, and they all had something different. I realized one day that my 45-year old Hoover was still a superb machine and does a great job on carpet and bare floors even though it only has one setting. I just wanted something smaller and lighter to use on bare floors. I started researching what else Hoover had to offer and found the S2220 Flair. I LOVE IT. I especially appreciate that it swivels at the bottom so you can easily maneuver into hard-to-reach places. I should say that I don't use it for carpet, so I can't review that use. The only improvement I could suggest would be to add about five feet more to the cord because I have large rooms. Also, though I wanted a cordless, because this is so much smaller and light weight, I don't mind the cord at all. I am more interested in performance, and this seems to be a great little machine that gets everything!