Hoover SteamVac F7452-900 All Terrain Steam Cleaner with SpinScrub: Maintain a clean home environment with help from this steam cleaner, which delivers 12 amps of power to efficiently remove soils from carpets, bare floors and other surfaces. SpinScrub brushes remove set-in dirt without harming your carpets.
Customer Rating
4
Everything as expected
on December 29, 2011
Posted by: Musky300
from Indiana
This cleaner got the highest ratings on Consumer Reports and mostly good reviews, so after researching we took ours home.
The one evident item from nearly ALL the posts is that the plastic tabs on the handle of the fill tank are very brittle and break off after little to minimal use or wear. Well, I must be the exception because mine didn't even make it to the first use as one of the tabs was already broken from the brand new packaging and the other snapped off even with VERY careful placement on the first fill. Oh well...I guess if it was to be expected I can't complain too bad. You can still use it with those tabs, just a little more annoying to keep the handle in place.
On to the performance. I have used another Hoover model in the past that was half the price of this one and I will be honest in saying that this one does not clean all that much better, but whereas I had to wait 6-8 hours for the carpet to dry before with that model, this one has the better suction and dries the carpet MUCH faster. We could walk around the floor in socks within an hour and they were barely even damp.
The attachements are nice and work fairly well. The tank doesn't hold vast amounts, but its also about how much water you inject/use in your cleaning and the area you are cleaning. Overall it got our 15 year old light-colored carpets pretty clean and got most of the stains out. Just wish Hoover would not use such cheap and brittle plastic, especially since this seems to be such a known issue for a long time.
What's great about it: Good suction and ability to dry. Above average cleaning
What's not so great: Cheap plastic used on certain parts...prone to breaking
Print, copy, scan and fax with this all-in-one laser printer that features fast printing speed up to 17 ppm* in black and 17 ppm* in color. The flatbed scanner scans documents up to 1200 x 2400 dpi (19,200 x 19,200 interpolated) for clarity.
Purchased this printer for my wife's home business as she does graphic design for jewelery making etc... The printer produces excellent bright colors and sharp printing. It is fast and has lots of features. Wi-Fi set-up is fast and easy, and all the controls are straighforward with pretty good software.
The printer is fairly large, but expected from a laser unit. Also is not very loud at all, though could not qualify as quiet.
My only complaint is that after 500-700 prints, we are already getting a low toner message on the black. After a little research I found out that apparently Brother sells these units with some sort of "starter" toner cartridges which don't last as long as a full OEM new cartridge, which should last for ~2000 pages. Depending on where you buy, 4 new toner cartridges can run you in the $200-$300 range, so not cheap at all, but I guess giving starter cartridges is better than giving you none at all. Just had to order new cartridges for $200+ and hope that these last a long time.