Hoover Freedom 2in1 Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, FD22L, Handheld, Above Floor Cleaning, Lightweight - Blue

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That said, the tool clips are positioned on the cleaner body rather than on the tools, which makes dismantling awkward. This is a good few minutes shy of the similar Vax SlimVac or, indeed, Hoover’s own claimed run-time. Glide effortlessly around your home and enjoy the benefits of a powerful cyclonic clean for up to 25 minutes at once. The pistol grip at the rear of the cleaner with motor, battery and bin in front give the Freedom a very front-heavy design.

Its cleaning power on carpets and hard floors is equally limited, however, and its disappointing build quality and poor ergonomics make it an ongoing challenge to use.

A powerful 22 V motor uses the latest cyclonic vacuum technology to suck up dirt more effectively for great results each time. One assumes that after a few months of stuffing the charging cable into the wrong hole and nothing happening, you’ll get used to that.

The main body offers up the same angular design of the Vax, so it’s no surprise to discover it’s seriously uncomfortable in the hand. With a continuous power mode, you can let go of the trigger and make larger, more difficult vacuuming tasks an absolute breeze.Although this happened less frequently with the Hoover than on the Vax, it was often enough to suggest that this cleaner is far from pet-friendly. Today, we have millions of users a month from around the world, and assess more than 1,000 products a year. The Hoover FD22L Freedom Lite comes with a lithium battery that’s capable of lasting up to 20 minutes.

From a completely flat battery, it turned blue to indicate it was fully charged some five-and-a-half hours to six later.The action of agitating the tool against the carpet shifts a fair bit of debris – but again, you need some arm strength to do it.

There was a fair-sized band close to the skirting that remained untouched, and the cleaner didn’t do a great job of picking up the heavier granules of carpet freshening powder. Using the cleaner above floor level, the angular design causes various edges of plastic to dig into your hand. An affordable cordless cleaner, but difficult to handle and delivers poor cleaning results across the board. Clean all over your home with the freedom of portability and the power of cyclonic cleaning thanks to the Freedom 2in1 Cordless Stick from Hoover. Since the floor-head appears to have some stick-down when the tube is more vertical at the end of the backstroke, pushing forward to overcome that creates some alarming flex.The cable-free Hoover Freedom Cordless Vacuumis a practical and powerful cleaner for carpets and hard floors. It took about a nano-second after getting the Hoover Freedom out of the box to realise that the main cleaner is all but identical to arch-rival Vax’s SlimVac Total Home. However, there’s certainly a little more suction power on offer than the Vax – and a more efficient floor-head – so we’re happy to lose that 4 minutes. A couple of different mouldings and slightly different colour, but essentially the same item straight out of the same Far East factory.