Customer Reviews

Hoover L1405 SpinSweep Pro Indoor/Outdoor Sweeper with Swivel Casters

5 star:		(37)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(14)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This item is an impoved version of a sweeper called Clean Boy. I paid over 200 bucks for one. This is basicly the same thing, but well impoved for way less than half the price. I use it for cleaning the driveway, around the pool and the curb. It works very well, just dont excpect it to do anything unreasonable. Stores easy also, you can hang it up by the handle and the main unit will go flat againts the wall. sorry my reviews arent the best.. but I can tell you this item was worth it...

Although I was skeptical about buying the sweeper I decided to go for it & I'm glad I did.I got it for cleaning my horse barn aisle and it's AWESOME!It does what the company claims.My barn looks like it's been vacuumed! The aisle is 12'W x 72'L concrete with a row of 4'x6'rubber mats down the center & we have a smaller concrete aisle that goes from the barn to the indoor riding arena. I like my barn CLEAN so it's gets swept many times a day which is very time consuming & dusty - if you have a horse business you can relate.The sweeper picks up just about everything I need it to including the footing that's tracked back into the barn from the arena. I really like the fact that instead of dust being stirred up by hand sweeping it is for the most part picked up by the SpinSweep!It has a simple adjustment knob for different surface types, it edges really well, is very light weight & can be hung up out of the way.I still have to hand sweep under the stall doors but I now I just sweep it into the aisle and use the SpinSweep. I highly recommend this for any large barn owner.It's easy to use & it's cut my cleaning time way way down!Great for the driveway & walkways too.

When I first saw this sweeper, I did not think that it would work. I was wrong, it actually works pretty good. Esp. the sweeper does a good job up around the edges and in corners. It does better with picking up large objects, like soda cans or mulch that has found it's way out of the garden to the patio. It does not replace the blower, but works together with it to get the job done. It must be easy to use, because my 7 year old son loves to push it around. It gives him a job to do when we are out working on the yard. The best part is that it is easy to empty. I use the blower to round up as much as I can, then I use the sweeper to pick up the pile, and the bigger stuff the blower can not move. I give it four stars because it does not pick up quite as good as a hand broom, but its a whole lot faster and easier. I am not sure if I have a pro model, so maybe this one works even better than the one I have.

I, too, need to admit I love this thing. I buy too many gadgets - but this really works. We have an incline, rough pavement drive way that gets full of these prickly leaves from our neighbor's very strange tree. Sweeping & pick of the debris is difficult with a broom and dustpan. In addition, I have a baby ... I can actually clean our yard with this thing while holding her in about 10 min. It used to take about 30 - 40 minutes with a lot of hard sweeping.

If you like a clean driveway after mowing the lawn, but hate the work of sweeping or the noise of a blower, this is the perfect tool. It's assembles in a flash and stores flat against the wall. It gets right up to the edge of the drive, sidewalk or garage wall. Emptying it after cleaning is easy too. Save your back and don't annoy your neighbors. I've only had this 2 days and already my neighbor came over to check it out and said he wants to get one for himself.

Ok, I was a bit skeptical in reading the claims from the manufacturer, but now that I have a SpinSweep Pro, I have to say it rocks! I run a kennel, with large cement yards, and gravel areas, with LOTS of trees. I spend hours sweeping up leaves, dog hair, bits of shredded dog toys, etc. and can think of better things to do with my time. No, it doesn't work on the gravel, since it's so powerful, it sweeps the gravel right up, but it's more than halved my time that I spent sweeping the cement areas. Not only that, but it doesn't leave stuff behind the way most brooms do. What a pleasure to find a tool that actually works as advertised.

I bought this (L1405)after being a very happy owner of the previous model (L1400) for several years. The aluminum handles of the L1400 had broken/torn at a point where the tube is pinched flat in order to attach to the sweeper. I have been very happy with using the L1400 to sweep my driveway, primarily of pine needles. The needles stick a little in the middle scraper piece but I just pull in reverse for a few feet, they dislodge, and I sweep forward again and pick them up. Emptying is easy, and storing the unit on its end is very convenient.

I tried to order replacement handle uprights but Hoover wasn't very helpful. They are listed as not available from Hoover, and when I wrote to them they referred me to a local repair center without telling me if they were still made nor telling me a price.

I noticed one difference between the L1400 and the L1405 is the L1405 has a pivoting rear wheel while the L1400's rear wheel is fixed. This makes the L1405 much less stable - the rear moves freely from side to side so you have to stabilize it through the handles.

The real problem is the right wheel's gears stripped within seconds of first use. The L1405 comes with a piece of paper that says "If unit does not perform to your satisfaction DO NOT RETURN UNIT. Take it to your local authorized repair center." I can understand taking it to a repair center for a warranty claim, but if the thing fails straight out of the box I am not going to drive it to a center 20 miles away, drop it off, and return several weeks later to pick it up.

I thought about sucking up the entire $89.99 just for the handle uprights (which do fit either the L1400 or the L1405, so if somebody reads this review maybe that will help you - you could order the handle uprights from the L1405 parts list), but the rubber center scraper piece of my L1400 has worn a hole through part of it so I doubted it had much more of a lifetime left.

I sent it back to Amazon for a refund. I first told Amazon I would send it back via UPS, but UPS wanted $68 in shipping. Even though Amazon said they'd pay for the return shipping I thought that was obscenely high. I contacted Amazon again and got a prepaid USPS label and sent it back through them, which I think cost around $19. Amazon's customer service personnel understood what I wanted to do but kept messing up sending me links to get the prepaid shipping, so I had to file a new return request on my own in order to get a tracking number that would print out a prepaid USPS label. I worried that I wouldn't get my money back (because I had, in effect, two different return tracking numbers) but it worked out in the end.

I went to Frontgate's website and bought the Haaga standard outdoor sweeper, 20" width. It has two large rear wheels so it doesn't have any tendency to wobble about when pushed. It has the same weak pinched aluminum handle uprights so I expect to get about the same 5-6 year lifetime out of it that I got from the Hoover. It's a shame I can't get the L1400 again because the truth is the L1400 is the best one of the three. Hoover really made a great product right the first time. The L1405's pivoting rear wheel is a nuisance, a step backward rather than forward. The Haaga's bin is a fully separate piece than the head, not just a separate piece that sits on top of the main unit like the L1400/L1405. I find reattaching the pieces to be cumbersome. Also, the Haaga cannot stand on its end for storage. The large rear wheels cause the unit to roll and fall when I try to stand it on end.

As an aside, Haaga recommends lubricating the worm gears of each drive wheel with lube (a light silicone spray) every 10 hours of use, and includes a can of lubricant with the unit.

I Bought this, 5/2/06-Love it!! it really works-Just follow the directions and don't leave it on the brushs when not using. Picks up sand, gravel etc. A REAL TIME SAVER!!!!

We received the sweeper about the time we had a wind/rain/hail storm. The yard, our 16 ft. X 60 ft. driveway and the sidewalk in front of our 70 ft. lot were covered with branches and leaves blown down by the 60+ mph wind, along with 3 bushels of crabapples from a crab tree next to the driveway and a zillion helicopters launched by a maple tree in the parkway. My wife, who does our heavy lifting because I'm disabled, waited until the mess had dried up and then took a lawn rake and gathered up the big stuff. Then she took the sweeper and went to work. It didn't take her a half-hour to have the drive and walk completely clean, apples and all,with no strain. She was ecstatic, because she used to have to use a heavy pushbroom and dust pan, which wasn't an easy job. If you read Hoover's instructions explaining what it will do, and don't try to pick up large branches or wet debris it will do a great job for you. They say something about picking up cans and bottles, but that isn't important to us because we have a rule around our house not to throw those things out in the yard.

After reading the reviews, my expectations were really high. But the sweeper does an extremely reasonable job. I use it to clean the driveway after using the mulcher/mower.
But I can't justify the cost and the sweeper is overpriced. This will probably the most expensive broom I'll ever have. But it works.