Hoover Air Pro Bagless Upright UH72450 Review

In this Hoover Air Pro bagless upright, UH72450 review, we’ll look at the Hoover Air Pro. It is a rival to the Dyson upright vacuum and upgrade to a number of Hoover upright vacuums.

Pros of the Hoover Air Pro

• This vacuum new is regularly listed for $230 but can often be found for less than $175.

• The vacuum is a little over fifteen pounds. It is highly maneuverable, designed to let you turn it and reverse it with little wrist motion or pressure. That is particularly valuable if you have limited upper body strength or carpal tunnel syndrome.

• The Hoover Air Pro has a Windtunnel design similar to the Dyson to eliminate the bags that can aggravate the mess when you try to empty it. This vacuum has a very high capacity dirt cup instead.

• This vacuum has a low profile, allowing you to clean under a lot of low lying furniture.

• The filter can be rinsed and re-used for months, reducing the unit’s lifetime operating costs.

• You can use this vacuum to clean as high as fifteen feet of the floor with its wands. The dual cyclone Hoover can only reach ten feet. You can detach the hose at the handle grip or at the pole.

• You have the ability to turn on and off the brush roll via controls on the handle. This is useful so the brush does nor leave scratch marks on sensitive wooden floors. However, you can’t adjust the nozzle height to fit floor surfaces. Ideal for low to medium pile carpets.

• It has a 30 foot cord to let you clean the whole room without having to migrate from plug to plug.

• This vacuum has a rubber bumper so that you don’t damage the vacuum or the wall when you vacuum along the edges.

• This vacuum has very powerful suction.

• This vacuum has a filter system that removes 99.9% or so of all dirt, dust, pollen, etc. This is far better than the bagged vacuums that say the vacuum itself acts as a super air filter.

• This Hoover is quieter than a number of other Hoover models.

Cons of the Hoover Air Pro

• The vacuum advertises that it is multi-cyclonic, with 12 cyclones to pull dirt from the air stream and minimize the impact on the filter. This is akin to the three blade razors competing with five and six blade razors – it reaches a point where the additional complexity has no bearing on its ability to remove hair or dirt. Multi-cyclonic is a selling point, not a performance enhancement.

• The cord does not automatically rewind on this Hoover vacuum like it does on the Hoover total home or Hoover Rewind.

• This vacuum doesn’t have an onboard holder for its tools. That is awkward. However, it is easy to change from the standard vacuum mode to the wand.

Observations

There is information that should be included in this Hoover Air Pro bagless upright, UH72450 review that are neither pros nor cons but nonetheless affect a potential buyer’s decision.

When it comes to vacuum cleaner reliability, Hoover was middle of the pack. About eight percent of Hoover upright vacuums needed to be repaired in a given year. This is worse than the most reliable brand Kirby but is only one percentage point worse than Dyson or Eureka.

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Hoover had a vacuum cleaner among the top five bagless uprights reviewed for the 2014 Consumer Reports. However, the second place winner was the Hoover Windtunnel Rewind UH70120, not the Air Pro, model UH72450. The Hoover Windtunnel T-series rewind was even a best buy at only $130. The UH72450 came out in 2013 but may not have been out in time to be included in the 2014 Consumer Reports guide.