Will never buy vax again

I've had problems with this vacuum from the start. The suction was great for normal hoovering but all the dirt collected at the top of the fancy spiral thingys and never made it into the clyinder. And using the nozzle end was pointless, no suction at all. I rang vax about the problem and the lady knew what was wrong straight away I was missing a rubber seal on the base of the cylinder; she sent a new cylinder out to me for free. Since putting this new cylinder on suction has improved dramatically, I no longer have to use the old Hoover for nozzle head work (normal hoovering with the old one was pointless that's why we got a new one) however the pet attachment thingy still doesn't work and alought quite a lot of dirt does go into the clyinder alot still get trapped in the sporally thing at te top. Oh and I changed the nozzle end for the one off my old Hoover as the one on this machine has little slits in the side reducing the suction at the end - very strange design.

Like others I still have to wash the filter after every other use, although when I did some DIY and was hoovering up sawdust and plaster I just took the filter out it seemed to work just as well! It does have habit of falling over all the time. It is noisy. The length of the cord and nozzle end pipe are ok. The on/off switch does my head in though as its temperamental as to if it is going to work or just rev up even though I press it firmly. I find it rather cumbersome to carry up and down stairs.

Overall the most annoying thing is the spirally part to the top on the cylinder it cloggs up all the time, I'm forever putting rubber gloves on and emptying it, which is the most fiddly design ever.