We purchased this over a year ago on sale fortunately. While it worked well for awhile it is now a useless lump of plastic and metal. On the back is an access panel which lets you rescue things that have been sucked up inadvertently, great idea you would think. However I have had to use this twice in the past year and now after the second time it wont suck. That is because the self tapping screws supplied have stripped the plastic and that panel will no longer stay tight, so the vacuum just sucks from around those edges. We did not have any problem with the belt snapping though.
It is a shame because it has some good features, which worked well on both hard floors and carpet.
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