Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Useless on carpets.

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Advantages: Budget price, lightweight, easy to operate
Disadvantages: Filter capacity, attachments are loose and hard to use

...With my old vacuum having just blown up it was obvious time for a new one and with 2 kids in the house it was required pretty sharpish. My parents had luckily not long purchased a new one themselves and after 3 weeks of using it were very pleased with it and so recommended that I follow suit and so there you have it, no trawling the shops looking for sales and bargains, just simple, hassle free vacuum shopping. Chosen product: Tesco VC005 vacuum cleaner @ £39.97 (May 2006) with 39 club card points to boot!! Reason for choice: Recommended from satisfied parents and at a good price Packaging: Box was as small as possible with minimum polystyrene and plastic wrapping - so thumbs up for being green Tesco! and it wasn't at all heavy which was handy for my parents as they collected it for me :-) Contents: Obviously... Read review

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Advantages: price, ease of use, specification
Disadvantages: smallish dust capacity

...This review is for the VC005 vacuum cleaner from Tesco. I bought this vacuum for cleaning a holiday let so did not want to pay a lot of money for it. Took a trip to Tesco and saw this for £29.99 and thought it was worth a gamble and did not expect a lot Boy was I wrong This model is a little gem. Familiarisation I purposely did not read the instructions to see how easy it would to get to grips with. No problems. It was easy to see how the hose connected to the unit, it has a hole in the top into which it firmly clips. The telescopic tube fits snugly into the flexible hose handle and has a good range on it. The floor brush is easily fitted and has the ability to be used on carpets and solid floors. I opened the unit and removed all filters without reference to the instructions, which has not been as straight forward on other... Read review

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Advantages: Very strong suction; good price
Disadvantages: Need to empty and clean dust container every 5 minutes!

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