Hoover Commercial Shoulder Vac Pro Bagged Backpack Vacuum Cleaner

My husband owns a construction company and it is often myself or our daughter cleaning. This is so nice to wear compared to hauling around a bulky shop vac that slams into the walls. It goes so much faster not having to maneuver the vacume as you go. The suction is great and the bags are reasonably priced. Other vacuums we have owned the bags are so expensive.

I work in a place where we have tons of material on carts everywhere, 36 work stations, thread and material everywhere. At the end of the week, it's fuzz for days everywhere. We use a lot of compressed air to blow the debris on the floor out from under workstations and material handling carts, but there's so much back and forth blowing and sweeping the same fuzz from place to place. This is great for our purposes as we can have a "blower" and a "sucker" working together to minimize the back and forth and dealing with the same fuzz that often just gets moved around the shop. It is really easy to navigate through our maze of stuff to get places that we couldn't practically get to before. You still have to think about the cord a bit, but it's SO much easier than trying to drag a shop vac around our crowded floor space. I find it to be very light weight for it's effectiveness, and it's comfortable enough to wear that I don't even think about it while I'm vacuuming. In fact, it's so effective that I'm amazed and having fun with it. I'm sure that will wear off as soon as it becomes more routine. When it arrived over the weekend, I couldn't wait for Monday to give it a whirl. What has two thumbs and gets excited to clean? Yes, THIS GUY! LOL. So, I gave it a go at my house on Sunday afternoon. I was able to do the ceiling corners for cobwebs, baseboards, blinds, window sills, kitchen cabinets, bathrooms and the like with amazing ease. Let's just say I'll be borrowing this from work occasionally. I was able to do the entire downstairs from one central outlet, and all of upstairs the same way in our 1,900 sq ft home in about an hour and a half. Mind you, It would go quicker if our home was cleaner to start with, and now that it's this easy, I won't stand to see cobwebs in the corners of the rooms as soon as I spot them. I do wish I had a better floor attachment for larger balls of fuzz for the shop, but I do have a unique situation, and I will find something that works. For my house, I was able to do it all without having to clear the filter. For work, I empty it out about three times before I'm done. Very pleased. I hope it keeps working like it does. It seems very sturdy and well made, but I just got it. I'll update my review if I have any problems.

good vacuum for professional cleaning and commercial use. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for reliable, lightweight, and powerful vacuum.

Two year/final update: Welp... I still have it and it's going as strong as the day I started using it. One of the plastic pieces for adjusting the shoulder strap did break at some point so I just created a loose knot so that shoulder can't be adjusted (it's fine) but the other one can still be loosened or tightened. The HEPA bag and 2 filters are hanging in there too. As long as you keep them clean and air dry them, they'll continue being functional. Tip: If you want your power cord to last and not bunch up or have a ton of loops in it, set the vac on the floor, pull the cord down a hallway/open area and "rotate" the plug counter-clockwise or clockwise which will "roll" the cord. That keeps the wire inside the jacket from twisting. --------------------- One Year Update: My backpack vacuum is still going strong. I'm still using the HEPA bag that came with it, but I did buy a ton of the paper bags inside of it to keep it clean. If the bag breaks (it's gonna happen), you'll obviously have to dump the dirt and wash it which is easy to do. I did end up buying a different wand since the clip that allows you to break down the wand into 2 parts broke after the 1st or 2nd week of use. I bought the extendable wand that comes with Hoover's commercial battery powered backpack vacuum. It was hard to get the hose on, so I expanded the hose connector a tiny bit (with a heat gun) to fix that problem. The velcro on the waist strap will eventually wear out so I just put in 2 button snaps. Besides those small things, I still love it! ------------------------- I spent quite a bit of time trying to find a decent backpack vac without spending a ton. I like it way better than my pro team vac. It's lighter, smaller and has much better suction in my opinion. The band that velcros around your waist is super comfortable. With my pro team vac, I'd always get shoulder and back pain and I wore it correctly. I don't have any pain with this one. The reusable bag deal is excellent too. I will admit it's a pain in the butt to clean but better than buying new bags constantly and it takes maybe 2 mins to clean. I love the color of the extension cord (matches the vacuum) and the length of it too. My only dislike is where the power button is located though. I've got big shoulders so turning it on is kinda tough sometimes. The attachment loops are kinda useless to me but I keep the attachments in my cargo pocket when needed. I highly recommend this one over the pro team vac. It's much cheaper, easier to maintain, much lighter and does a better job at picking up stuff.

If you have largely hard wood floors with the occasional area rug, just buy it. Don't think about it. Just buy it. I run a cleaning business in Oregon where absolutely everyone has hardwood floors and area rugs. This thing is a breeze and makes short work of large areas. I use to have some complaints about it, but have gotten over them by making a few changes in the way I use it. Once you are nice to your vacuum, it will be nice to you. Here is a list of why this is the greatest vacuum you will ever own and why you will want to buy it for all your friends and family: 1) small and light weight. At Green Clean Queen (my cleaning business) we are all pretty petite women. As long as you aren't stupid, wear at least the waist strap (those with large busts find the chest strap just makes things uncomfortable, but it's not that necessary anyway), and stand up straight, it will not hurt your back. Really. "W.O.W." It's on the side of the vacuum 'Wear right. Operate right. Work right." It does have a tendency to undress you. So watch out for that. The waist strap likes to pull your shirt up and the back of the vacuum likes to push your pants down. Either deal with your crack showing a bit or wear a longer shirt and a belt, or vacuum when no one is there to watch you. Problem solved. 2) the metal wand. I accidentally bought the C2401 (NOT C2401-010) and was DEVASTATED that they were not the same thing. The metal wand on this version (C2401-010) is straight. We use this to our advantage in my company by sticking the mop in the vacuum wand so we only have to carry one thing instead of awkwardly carrying two. Over time the friction fit has let me down, but I have learned to deal with it. The floor attachment is permanently stuck to the metal wand. That's fine by me because then it never falls off. The connection point between the two sections of the wand has become super weak and doesn't like to stay together. Not to worry, a bit of velcro and some zip ties has created a quick release strap to hold the two pieces together. Now they stay together when you want them to (vacuuming and carrying it around with a mop inside) and they easily come apart when you want to use one of the smaller attachments for upholstery, blinds, anything that is just out of your reach. It's alright on cobwebs, but if you have even a moderate cobweb problem, vacuuming them will just kill your neck, back, and hand (it's not the right angle for comfortably reaching up... perfect for down though). I find it annoying that the attachments don't easily stick to the vacuum in anyway. Easily remedied with a plastic baggie and a binder clip... Put the attachments in the baggie and clip the bugger to the belt. Problem solved. 3) the floor attachment. I hate, hate, hate brush floor attachments. To me they are useless. They gather dust bunnies and move them around your house and they make it difficult to suck up larger things like marbles, spare change, legos, crayons, etc... The floor attachment on the C2401-010 is seriously the best option for about 75% of possible floor types. It makes a horrible irritating noise across slate and tile, but it really sucks (in the best way). It is fantastic for wood floors and laminate and maneuvers easily to get around under things without having to move heavy furniture. The trick is to get closer to the ground (so squat, but keep your back straight), twist the handle and wand so it is parallel to the floor. If you don't do this, the back wheels will be like a lever and pull the business end off the floor so it doesn't get it all. And because it doesn't have brushes on it, but instead parallel, collapsible squeegee-like stuff you can easily move from hardwoods, to under the edges of rugs, to the tops of area rugs. It does not have a beater bar so if there is a lot of weird stuff in the carpet you have to be the beater bar and quickly run it back and forth bringing the stuff to the top to be sucked up easily. It does get tiring after a while and does require both hands, but it is infinitely easier than hauling out the upright to do an 8x10 ft area. I also love the floor attachment because it actually picks stuff up. Not just dirt and dust bunnies, but quarters and crayons and kitty litter. It only pushes around large stuff that is just a little bit too tall for it. BUT! Those are also the things on the floor that are easy to see so you just have to lift and place the vacuum to suck it up. The only thing that is has a problem with are garment tags. They seem to be everywhere and I always hope that the vacuum will get it because I don't want to bend down to pick it up. They will ALWAYS get stuck until you can suck up something big enough to dislodge it or shove your finger up there to try to fish it out because the high pitched squeal is starting to annoy you. The wand occasionally clogs if you suck up enough long rigid things like toothpicks and qtips, but it's easy enough to take apart and fix. It does not do well with high-pile or shag carpet. If you house is mostly tall carpet, this probably isn't for you. Though it does make cleaning corners, edges, upholstery, blinds, curtains, etc into really easy work. 4) HEPA filter. Enough said. The last thing you want is to spew what you just vacuumed up back into the air to settle later. No bueno. 5) volume. It's actually pretty quiet. Maintain it, and it will not make that horrible loudness of a dying vacuum engine. 6) clear dome lid. You can see all the nastiness that you are picking up! It's gross yet satisfying. It really sucks to empty the cloth dust bag, but if you empty it into an empty, kitchen sized garbage bag OUTSIDE and DOWNWIND. You'll get use to it. Because I use this vacuum literally every single day I have to empty it a lot so I don't want to get paper bags because of cost and waste. It helps to beat the cloth bag against something like a fence or tree to get the dust out. Be mindful of the wind direction! 7) it comes with a ridiculously long cord that you can replace if necessary. When you get your vacuum, do yourself a favor and throw away that white rubber thing that holds the cord to the vacuum. Just cut it off and throw it away. Either tie a knot, or buy a $1 "S" connector at the hardware store. With the cord being so long you can get a lot done without having to unplug and replug in every room. You also have about 50' of heavy duty extension cord to get stuck under doors and around chairs and pulling itself away from the vacuum. That's annoying when it happens. So tie a knot, get use to either getting stuck and having to backtrack, or get really good at carrying the cord with you. (We work in teams so whoever is mopping after the vaccumer has to mind the cord.) Also, by throwing away the white attachment thingy you save yourself the hassle of trying to awkwardly recoil the cord so it doesn't get all knotted. We just unplug it from the vacuum, unplug it from the wall, and coil it around something (arm or plastic coily thing). It will work it's own knots out then. Also because we have to carry a vacuum, floor attachments and mop, and buckets of cleaning supplies to and from the car all day, we invested in reusable velcro ziptip-esque things. Then we coil the flexible hose around the back and velcro the bend handle and the cord all to the top handle on the vacuum. You can also hook bags of rags and the like over the hooks on the top if you wanted. 8) TWO YEAR COMMERCIAL WARRANTY! TWO YEARS! Every other commercial vacuum only has a 1 year warranty. Not that I've ever had any problems with mine and I've been using it pretty much daily for the last 7 months. I'm sure I could come up with more reasons why this is the greatest vacuum ever, but I feel I've written enough. I have shared my tips and tricks and feel I have made enough of a case as to why everyone in the world should buy this vacuum (NOT the C2401 or any other vacuum, but the C2401-010). I think I'm going to buy them in bulk to give as wedding presents.

I have five of these vacuums. The cheap plastic buckles on the adjustable shoulder straps WILL break eventually. No matter how thoroughly you instruct your cleaners to adjust the straps with the vacuum weight on their back and to be gentle with the straps. These 'commercial' straps WILL break and break often. The prongs on the power cords WILL break, usually the ground goes first. No matter how thoroughly you instruct your cleaners to be gentle plugging in and out and not stress the cord by yanking the cord, these 'commercial' power cords WILL break and break often. Downgraded from 2 stars to 1 star. I've now had three motors out of four in these vacuums fail! Most right at the warranty period, which I think is two years. Literally TWO vacuums failed in the last TWO days. Left me scrambling to try to replace one on very short notice as I only had one in reserve. I can not discourage the purchase of these vacuums enough. Three motors burned up, ground prong breaking off of included extension cords and harnesses that are so cheap the strap adjustment buckles break very soon, within six months. There is NOTHING 'commercial' or 'Pro' about these "Hoover Commercial Shoulder Vac Pro Backpack" vacuums. Small and light? Yes. Good build quality? Very much no and I greatly regret purchasing four of them even if covered under warranty. UPDATE: Every single one of these vacuums has been a fire hazard. They smoke-check within a year of "commercial" use, leaving you embarrassed and scrambling to get a replacement to your cleaners! I cant dissuade you enough in purchasing these fire hazards!

I've had this vacuum for over a year and it still works great. I clean air bnb units and this vacuum makes it so much easier. Great suction and attachments . Definitely worth the money.

First, I want to say everything about this vacuum is exactly what I wanted and expected, except the wand pieces are defective...and I'll update review accordingly to how that is handled. I was very excited to get this, bought it for myself before Christmas. We have mainly hard floors and flat carpet, and my old Dyson weight a ton and lugging that thing behind me when vacuuming drove me crazy. Very cumbersome, always fell over, dragged it into furniture, etc... The though of a quality Back-pack Vac was great for my purposes, because of the flexibility to vacuum large swaths, get into corners easily, move things without disrupting vacuuming, all the while dragging just a cord. Its not for everyone, but if you are relatively active, fit, and want to get things done quickly, give it a shot. My first vacuuming was great. Great suction, easy to use, a lot of attachments. Its goign to take a few to figure out the most efficiently way to swap attachemnts during vacuuming, but like anythign, you need to adapt to and build up an appropriate operational work protocol. Beware! One Major Flaw. The wand pieces I received, do NOT stay together. When pushing on carpet, the top wand piece slides 1/2" forward into the bottom wand piece, and the locking pin unlocks and then the two pieces twist and come apart. Very frustrating if this is a design flaw. But if its an issue with my particular wand pieces, I am sure Hoover will honor a replacement wand. I am going to contact the manufacturer directly tomorrow to address this and we'll see

Serious vacuuming power. Love the extra long power cord. Plug it in the center of the house and can reach 85% of the area. Especially love the backpack feature as it make vacuuming easy and way less tiresome, especially going up and down stairs. The attachments are great and can reach pretty much everywhere. Not too loud considering it's right on your back. Sure made spring cleaning easier.

Muy buena vacuum cleaner y el motor es muy potente, la uso para la limpieza de mi casa, oficina y mi vehiculo, facil de utilizar y no su peso es muy confortante, muy potente en la succion y con sus diferentes attachments se limpia mucho mejor, muy altamente recomendable 100%.

Je travail dans l’entretien ménager c’est la meilleurs chose j’ai pu acheter au monde efficacité facile pas pesante et très parfait puissante et long fil je fait des 3 étage complet et elle est suppert puissante

I am returning this item. I’m genuinely disappointed. I purchased it after reading many positive reviews here and on YouTube, so I had high expectations. I needed it for a post‑renovation job and it was my only vacuum, but the accessories would not stay attached, despite following the instructions I found on YouTube. It was embarrassing and extremely inconvenient. I had no other vacuum available, so I had to keep using it even though the attachments kept falling off while I worked... eventually I had to stop using it and had to drive back home to pick up my cheap runned down Bisell Vacuum that works better. On top of that, the suction is quite weak. I’m not sure if I received a defective unit, but overall this was a letdown.

It was the best decision to buy it, I love it