Black and Decker CHV9600 9.6-Volt Cyclonic DustBuster
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Black and Decker CHV9600 9.6-Volt Cyclonic DustBuster
Customer Review: Needs improvement
Summary: 3 Stars
After using this handheld vacuum, I thought back to my mother's first generation DustBuster from the 80s and decided that the invention has not come very far since then. The suction is barely sufficient for most jobs and mostly scoots around anything clingy (pet hair, etc). I think for the money, it does its job, but I would prefer to go up a step--possibly to something heavy duty--a shop vacuum of some sort. I don't know what the "cyclonic" claim is trying to indicate, but I have seen no evidence that it functions any differently from other DustBusters in the past.Customer Review: OK product, about what I expected
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had my Dustbuster for about 3 years, I think. When it was new, it performed great! Excellent suction and long battery life (maybe 10 minutes? I never actually used it that long at one time). It still performs OK, although suction is maybe half as powerful and it runs down fairly quickly (maybe after a minute or two?). I've come to expect Dustbuster batteries to only last 2-3 years. Disappointing but what else are you gonna buy? (My previous Dustbuster had removable batteries. Unfortunately, the replacement batteries cost more than a new unit!)Customer Review: easy to clean and enough power
Summary: 5 Stars
We purchased this DustBuster last month because our bunny started to shed. It is powerful enough to pick up his hair and surprisingly his poo poo. Further, it actually sucks up the hay our bunny drags around the carpet and the wood floor as well. For a small vacuum cleaner like this, we are very surprised at its efficiency.
The cup and filter are very easy to take out and clean. We don't know the max time each charge is though since we put it back onto the charger right after each time we use it (which is not more than 7-8 minutes).
Customer Review: As good as I hoped.
Summary: 5 Stars
We just bought a new van and it seems to always have grass on the carpet. (should have got a bagging mower) I was skeptical that a DustBuster would do much good as the grass gets ground in often.
The reviews were so good I gave it a shot and have been completely amazed. Battery last long enough to do the whole van, unless it's real bad. Upholstery brush works great.
I was going to buy a shop vac for the same purpose. I'm very glad I'm not tripping over one of those. Instead this is neatly hanging on the wall in my garage.
Customer Review: Not as great after a year
Summary: 2 Stars
I admit, this was a great vaccum for the year that I used it but after the year was up, its age started to show. It had a tremendous amount of power and could vaccum for up to 7 minutes before it started to die. At the end of its lifespan, it started to fade right after I started using it so I got about two minutes of slowly dying suction power.
At this point, I've had it with cordless vaccums. I'm going to a corded model for now and leaving the cordless for the times when I need to pick up a few crumbs, as that's all it can do now.