I did not have a good experience here. Brought my 20 plus year old Hoover Elite upright here because the bag cover on the front of the machine had snapped off. There was nothing mechanically wrong. Spoke with Kat over the phone first, and she said she could probably find an old cover for me, if my cover couldn't be repaired, and also offered a $40 diagnostic check. Due to the age of the machine, I accepted. After taking a couple of weeks to get back to me, she informed me that basically she wouldn't recommend putting any more money into it, because virtually everything was going bad on it. (Keep in mind it was working fine when I took it in, this was just a diagnostic, a checking things out). In fact she cautioned me against ANY use of it, even when I said I intended only to use it for small jobs such as my hall runners, in place of hauling out my new canister. After some thought, I decided to pick up the vac anyway (she had said she would dispose of it for me). I purchased a used cover for $10. I ended up taking the machine to Kirby in Temple, as the lady there offered to look it over and give me a second opinion (no charge btw). She called later that same day and informed me that one of the belts had broken apart. She told me it was a Eureka belt and was not supposed to be used on a Hoover machine. She said she would order the right part and fix it up, but that it looked to her like there really wasn't anything wrong with it otherwise. She did fix it up and I picked it up today. She ran it in the store for me and it appeared to pick up dirt easily. I'm not sure what was going on with Kat at A-1 but I had much better results with Kirby. Another odd thing was that when I purchased the bag cover from Kat and asked her to dust it off for me first (I guess it had been in a back room somewhere), she apologized profusely for not doing so before. No big deal right? However two days later, she called me again to apologize for not dusting it off. Weird and a nuisance. I cannot recommend A-1 and suggest you take to Kirby or somewhere else. The total bill with Kirby (replacing belt, cleaning the works out/labor) was less than the $40 I paid Kat for basically nothing. Save your money folks. read more