For those really tough detail cleaning jobs Vax has also thrown in its mini turbo tool, making this a well tooled-up cleaner all round. The handle on the rather fetching green and grey body is telescopic for easy storage, and then unclips clear of the cleaner to form the main wand. The main flexible suction hose from the dust bin simply unclips from the side of the floor head and clips onto the wand. This gives you a reasonable reach, better than most upright cleaners in this respect in fact.

With a decent 1.5l capacity, this is a bagless vacuum that you won’t need to empty regularly, more than efficient for a home or small office.

As an upright, the Air Stretch Complete is quite a large cleaner with a firm feel in the hand. Its certainly no lightweight and, unusually these days, the head and the body only pivot up and down with no side to side movement. This makes steering distinctly old-school – pushing and pulling while moving a few inches over at a time. This came as quite a surprise after so many pivoting, steerable models on test but we soon got used to it. Need more? Vax also supplies an additional hose, also stored on the body, that you can add to the ever lengthening rig. Both the body hose and the extension hose are ludicrously stretchy and combined with the telescopic wand give an incredible reach around the room. Add the ridiculously long crevice tool and you could probably reach your neighbour’s house. The Vax Air Stretch Upright is an incredibly powerful vacuum. It is an energy efficient machine, using a relatively low amount of energy at only 800 Watts. Most vacuum cleaners will use somewhere between 500 and 3000 Watts. This means that you can keep your house impeccably clean when using the Air Stretch whilst also maintaining a lower carbon footprint. You agree to indemnify and hold Vax (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation; Like all of the vacuums Vax has in their lineup, the Air Stretch Upright vacuum cleaner is designed to deliver superior performance in all of its features. Weighing in at less than 5 kg, the Air Stretch Upright can be carried around the house with ease, even when you need to go up or down the stairs.

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That close-to-your-carpet action and beater bar from the floor head and great suction power did mean the Air Stretch cleaned open carpets very well. The floor looked well-groomed with the pile lifted where the cleaner had passed and the test powder was removed completely in a single pass. It’s not too noisy, though. While the 86dB rating sounds a bit intrusive, the reality over carpet is a good few dB less, even if it is a fair bit louder than models specifically designed to be quiet. Having a canister with a 1.5-litre is more than sufficient to handle the everyday needs of the typical home or small office. However, if the vacuum is going to be used in high traffic and large areas a vacuum with a bigger capacity might be needed. That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);