Safety First! Please make sure your appliance is switched off before beginning any maintenance work. With a noise level of 80 dB, the H-Upright 300 HU300RHM is moderately loud but not excessively noisy. There is no dust container full indicator or storage compartment, but the vacuum cleaner is relatively lightweight and easy to store away after use.

The dust capacity of this vacuum cleaner is 1.5 L, allowing for extended cleaning sessions without the need for frequent emptying. The dust container is also designed to be bagless, eliminating the need for disposable bags and reducing waste. You can attach each tool to either the lift-out wand or the hose, which unplugs from the motorised brush. The Hoover is reasonably light for a corded model, weighing just 4.94kg. This is lighter than its similarly priced competitors, with the Shark DuoClean with Lift-Away NV702UK weighing 5.25kg and the Dyson Small Ball Allergy a hefty 6.9kg. It’s easier to carry around but isn’t small, standing at over a metre tall (1,147 x 300 x 320mm). The mains cord is 8.1m long and there’s a built-in hose for connecting the attachments to, which stretches to 2m. To use the hose and attachments, you have to disconnect the hose from the floor head. This is easily unclipped and then also needs to be freed from a retaining clip. Attachments connect on to the end of the hose or, if you want extra reach, you can release the handle from the main body and use it as an extension.Once you’ve finished cleaning, the bin lifts out of the cleaner, and you can flip open the bottom to empty dirt quite easily. There’s one filter here and a another in the cleaner, both of which should be cleaned with water to maintain maximum suction. Performance The Hoover HU300RHM is a lightweight, easy to use upright vacuum. Weighing only 5KG it is easy to carry, manoeuvre and use all around the house. The ergonomic soft grip handle means its comfortable to hold whilst the 80 steering angle makes getting around furniture a breeze. First, I started with the carpet test, sprinkling a teaspoon of flour onto the floor. Giving the H-Upright 300 a single sweep through the mess, with the head set to carpet mode, I found that it left a trace of the mess behind.

I was particularly fond of the collection bin on this model. It releases easily and emptying it is a simple job: a latch opens the door at the bottom and most dirt and dust simply drops out. It’s a reasonably solid job for the price but the slightly more expensive Dyson Small Ball Allergy did a better job. Although it suffered the same ploughing problems with larger particles on hard floor, it was near perfect when it came to carpet, and was better with flour on all surfaces. If you have a lot of hard floor, the Shark DuoClean with Lift-Away NV702UK has both a brush and a soft roller in its floor head, so can capture anything from hard floor, even Cheerios. Second, the labelling on the device is a bit unclear. In the grand scheme of things it probably doesn’t really matter if you open or close the top vent when you’re cleaning short pile carpet and you can adjust as you see fit, but having a carpet setting that isn’t for all types of carpet is confusing.Thanks to a motorised rotating brush bar, the HU300RHM makes light work of both carpets and hard floors. With hard floors or deep pile rugs and carpets, its recommended to turn off the rotating brush bar for a more suitable clean. The vacuum cleaner has a 1.5 L dust capacity and a bagless dust container. This makes it easy to empty and clean out the dust container when it is full. The vacuum cleaner comes with a flexible hose that is 2 meters long and a crevice tool. The cord length is 7.1 m, which provides ample reach for cleaning large rooms or hallways.