Home Appliance Reviews

Around March last year, our home was disgustingly infested by fleas. Not willing to outright poison our home, our pets and ourselves, or to expose ourselves to obviously dangerous toxins, we desperately researched alternatives online and decided to try out some “natural” flea remedies including Only Natural Pet Store’s diatomaceous earth, Flea Busters’ boric acid treatment and the De Flea Natural Chemical Sprays line. The combination of these products on the furniture and carpets literally clogged up and killed our one-year-old $300 Kenmore canister vacuum within a month’s time, and so we had to buy another one - quickly! After further extensive online research, we settled on an equivalent (bright-red!) version of the Eureka Boss Smartvac Bagged Upright Vacuum for $149.99 and free shipping via Amazon.com (it came in three blessed days!). We are so glad that we did, and here are some of the reasons why!

Having bought many vacuums over the last 28 years of marriage, I am so glad I bought this Eureka Boss.

I would never be able to afford the expensive Dyson’s and such. I had read all the reviews on so many vacuums and many talked about how the Eureka Boss sucked as well as the more expensive ones.

They were right, I was so happy with the suction power, both with the rotating brush for carpets, the bare suction for floors and especially the hose attachments.

After my last vacuum bit the dust…I bought this on a whim and from a recommendation from my mom, and also Consumer Reports…(when my usually thorough-research-happy husband was out of town). Did I make the right choice?

Floor option Very easily to get started using this model. With the model in an upright position, select the height of the carpet, depress foot pedal and go. (After plugging in of course.) Also, you can easily vacuum bare floors. There is a switch for this, however, it does require a little force to get it into place.