Hoover H-FREE 500 Pets Cordless Vacuum Cleaner with Ultra Lightweight, Compact Design, Pet Configuration, 40-minute Battery Capacity, and Turbo Boost for Tough Dirt 1.5 Litre Blue/Black

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More information on quality can be found in this old but still very helpful article from Harvard Business Review. H-FREE 500 has 3 handy accessories stored onboard : combining crevice, dusting and upholstery functionality. A pets turbo brush is also included in the box, with rotating bristles to loosen pet hairs from your cushions or sofa.

Ideal for apartments or smaller homes, H-FREE 500 is under 70cm in height in storage mode, allowing you to keep it in a cupboard. The parking position allows it to stand up unaided, without needing to wall mount. To clean the white filter, run it under the tap and leave to dry completely before re-using. You get a spare filter in the box so this isn’t a problem. How does the HooverH-FREE 500 perform?

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On a single six-hour charge, the Hoover H-Free 500 is rated to last for up to 40 minutes on standard mode. This drops down to 25 minutes if you use the motorised floor brush. In Turbo mode, this drops down to just eight minutes. Given that I had to switch on Turbo mode regularly to clean up bigger spills, this isn’t a vacuum cleaner I could use for my entire house. Instead, I see it as a tool for smaller properties or as an addition to a plug-in vacuum cleaner. Of the 34 products, we discovered that 24 were more expensive and 8 were cheaper than Hoover H-FREE 500 HF522UPT Pet Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. Prices from Hoover Finally there is a hair removal tool with which to clean out the brush head. Features of the Hoover HF500? Fully charged over six hours, I have found that the battery lasts around 15 minutes when using turbo mode (which supplies additional suction) some of the time, although it is claimed that it will last up to 40 minutes maximum with the lowest settings and 8 when there are motorised accessories attached and the HF500 is in turbo mode.

With two children and a dog, the floors in my house are rarely spotless, but I do try. I have robot vacuum cleaners upstairs and downstairs which keep the majority of the floor looking OK, and a bagged, corded vacuum cleaner which performs consistently well but is heavy and cumbersome, and so doesn’t get brought out as often as it should perhaps. It has different modes; turbo, which increases the suction, and carpet which makes the bristles rotate to bring up hair and dust from deep pile. With the additional pet turbo brush and crevice tool, it does everything you’d want from a vacuum cleaner without taking up much space or being overly cumbersome to carry around; even kids can do it! How do you empty and clean the filter on the Hoover H-FREE 500?

Sound levels weren’t too bad: I measured the Hoover H-Free 500 at 78.8dB maximum on regular mode and 84.3dB on Turbo mode. This compares well with the competition. Should you buy the Hoover H-Free 500? At only 69 cm height in storage mode, you can easily keep H-FREE 500 in a kitchen cupboard or anywhere else in the house. The extraordinary small size of H-FREE 500 is designed to fit every room, ensuring a convenient vacuuming experience for a perfectly clean and tidy home.

Price is another really important factor for analysing the quality of Hoover H-FREE 500 HF522UPT Pet Cordless Vacuum Cleaner vs other products in the Cordless vacuum cleaners category. It’s obvious, but you will need to set your expectations of quality based on your budget and the price of the product you’re looking at, against the price of alternatives.A colour-coded LED light ring allows you to keep your H-FREE 500's status and power monitored at all times. The battery can be removed or charged attached to the Hoover, it is a simple charger plug which goes into the side of the batter. Find out why Hoover H-FREE 500 HF522UPT Pet Cordless Vacuum Cleaner scored an incredible review score of 9.6 out of 10. So let’s carry on with our Hoover H-FREE 500 HF522UPT Pet Cordless Vacuum Cleaner review and explore the product’s pricing.

If the brand you buy is important to you, our best advice is to spend some time writing up your own list of ideal brands. That way when you come to the point where you’re comparing product options you can filter to only show the products from brands in your list. The first is brand. Looking at the brand of the product is often a really good indicator for judging product quality. For example you’d expect a much higher quality product from a brand known for providing excellent quality than you would from an unknown or even a budget brand. While the G-Tech HyLite is smaller and can fit in a drawer, it isn’t significantly smaller than the Hoover H-Free 500. If you’re after a vacuum that you can fit easily out of the way, the Hoover H-Free 500 is by far the most powerful of the two. The next step after looking at products in the same category, was to look at products from the same brand, Hoover. As you can imagine, pricing is one of the most important factors of any purchasing decision. We can find the perfect product for our needs, that fits the brief in every single way. But if it doesn’t fit our budgets, we simply can’t (or at least shouldn’t) buy it.The next step for us was to look at all of the products that fall within the Cordless vacuum cleaners category, of which we found 34 products at Argos. So we pulled together all of the prices of these products to analyse the average prices as well as finding the cheapest and most expensive options. The brushless motor keeps suction strong, for up to 40 minutes of continuous performance in auto mode**. The LED ring turns red to let you know when it's time to charge the battery, so that you won't run out of power unexpectedly. This doesn’t seem like a huge amount of time, but I’ve found that it’s enough to go over the house from top to bottom each day in a three bedroom house; here, where there is already a robot vacuum doing the main flooring areas each day, there isn’t any need for more. Longevity On the top it has two lights to indicate battery level and mode (standard, hard flooring, auto and turbo mode) as well as an indicator to let you know when maintenance is needed. Next up is material. Read through the product description for Hoover H-FREE 500 HF522UPT Pet Cordless Vacuum Cleaner to get an understanding of the materials the product is made from. Some materials will obviously be known for delivering better quality item than others. You might also have decided that you’ll only accept a product made from a particular material.