Hoover Presto 2-in-1 Cordless Stick Vac

The design thinking that went into this product can be summed up with this example: there's a light to tell you when the vacuum is on, but no light to tell you it's seated properly in the charger and the battery is charging.

The only use i can think of for the light to tell you the vacuum is on would be a deaf person not currently touching the vacuum. That seems like a pretty small target audience.

However, a light to confirm charging would be very useful considering it's actually a bit of a pain to get the vacuum to rest properly in the charging cradle. It involves using one hand to position it while using the other hand (or a foot, if you're feeling adventurous) to hold what the product manual refers to as the 'nozzle' out of the way.

Also, you have to remove the hand vac from the stick-vac-attachment to empty the dust bin, which is pretty small since it's designed to fit on a hand-vac, and thus awfully inconvenient.

It has enough suction to be a standard hand vac. When working as a stick vac, it does okay on hardwood floors but is nearly impossible to maneuver on carpet, even extremely low pile area rugs. It's also much heavier than other stick vacs i've used.

If you really don't have the space or money to have a hand vac for spot cleaning and a stick vac for quick cleaning on hard floors, this product might be useful. However, as is so often the case, what probably seemed like such a clever idea in the corporate office ends up being pretty frustrating in reality. A decent hand vac with the option to click into a heavy stick vac adaptor just ends up being a decent hand vac and a shoddy stick vac, less than the sum of its parts.

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