Hoover - The One Pet Review

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Doc Brown's Review of Hoover - The One Pet

16th Oct 2008

Overall Rating

0 stars
  • Value for money
    0 stars
  • Special Features
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  • Durability
    0 stars
  • Service & Support
    0 stars
  • Owned Product For:
    1 - 6 months
  • Ease of Use
    0.5 stars
  • Style
    0.5 stars
Good Points

The point where I finally threw it into a skip!


Bad Points

It's cumbersome and heavy but made of cheap plastics.
Filters clogged very quickly and suction suffered as a result. Internal dust seals failed clogging up the motor. Kept on overheating and shutting down due to filters blocking easily.


General Comments

What a complete waste of money has this Hoover - The One Pet been. I bought this with high expectations as Hoover have been around for a long time and we have dogs, carpets and wood floors so was expecting the One Pet to work well. In did the job okay for the first few weeks then the problems started.
Motorised brushbar doesn't have anti-jamming feature which means the toothed drivebelt strips its teeth.
Turbine hair brushbar accessory only works if main filters are clean otherwise the brushbar keeps stalling!
It kept overheating and shutting down even with half empty collection cyclinder. The filters had to be washed before each use and then allowed to dry just to be in with a chance of maximum dust and hair pick-up.
The main body moulding cracked just behind the dust storage cylinder because of stress loads concentrated on the thin plastic.
The last resort was final overheating and strong smell of smoke!! As a car engineer I know my way around machines so I decided to carry out a mechanical 'autopsy' on the vacuum. The motor casing was dust and hair contaminated and there were signs that the thin rubber dust seals and gaskets which are supposed to keep dust out of the guts of the machine were not sealing due to not being tough enough for the job.
Hoovers claim of 'Cyclonic filtration' for the Pet One is laughable and actually false as when observing dust and hair collection (when it worked!) within the clear dust collector, you could see the dust and debris simply plopping down but there was no spinning of air at all. If Hoover want to see what cyclonic collection looks like they should study a Dyson - whoops they already did but Dyson patented it first...

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