Okay, so I purchased this Saturday, day before Easter Sunday…this was on sale and wanted a new Kenmore Canister…it’s a bit noisy {canister part} but I like it…I have always liked the Kenmore line of canister vacuums. I like that everything stores on the canister, including the powermate jr. It’s model 27515. It’s a deep blue in color…really works great for my house…it really deep cleans the upstairs wall-to-wall, but love it for the downstairs hardwoods…the powermate jr is awesome on the carpeted stairs and is motor driven, not air driven like on the Hoover WindTunnel, so it definitely beats the Hoover in that department…anyways…enjoy….
i would like to see how it handles on your carpeted stairs, is it good for crevices? i dont tend to use tools on the stairs i use the metal tube as it sucks it up quicker
i think we have that rug lol
The noise isn’t too bad if you consider the motor’s construction. It’s a short, can-style with a single fan that runs at a much higher speed than the big open-style motors. They are all about performance. When you want to just get something cleaned up, the Progressive will always make short work of it.
I have the same model and worls very nisley on our rugs 🙂
I am a home cleaner and had one of these vacs in white, bought 3 years ago; The mini-power mate died in 3 months and the main power nozzle in 2 1/2years…..This is a piece of *hit!!! Made by Panasonic for Sears…Great at first, but WON’T last!!!
sorry yours did not work for you….we have had ours for 4 years, and use it 3-days a week on large areas of carpet with cat and dog hair, and we have had no problems at all!! 🙂 sorry bout your luck
For every Miele sold…Kenmore will sell 15 of these…There are so many Kenmore canisters out there that you will hear more problems about them.But they are actually very good canisters for the money.But Panasonic does save there better ones for themselfs.Haha.
@panaclean775 i agree miele, rainbow, rexair, kirby’s, filter queens are way to expensive
its interesting on how loud yours is.. we just bought one of these to replace out 13 year old hoover and its VERY quiet
It is so loud because it is on a hard floor. the sound is echoing off the floor and through out the room… we have a red one and it is trhat loud on the floors but on our carpet…. it is almost silent.