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Albohes Cordless Dorm & Apartment Vacuum Cleaner Reviewed
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May 29, 2025
If you live in a small space, whether it's a dorm room, an apartment or even a tiny home, you don't have space for a big, corded vacuum cleaner. Enter the slim Albohes Cordless Vacuum, a surprisingly capable unit not much bigger than a mop but with a lot of sucking power. Tip: Keep a close eye out for cameo appearances by the cat! Tech expert and parent to both dorm and apartment dwellers Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ put the Albohes through the flour test and found that, well, watch and find out! Check it out on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2M43iym
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is this the perfect vacuum for a dorm
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room or small apartment let's find out
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Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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looking at a vacuum cleaner this is the
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albo Hess cordless vacuum cleaner and is
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pretty nice let's start by taking a
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couple pieces apart so you can see that
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it's a disassembled sort of unit and
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gives you lots of flexibility so you can
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see here you can actually adjust the
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angle of this not sure when I would use
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that but it's nice to know what's there
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and then you can take this part out you
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can put something on that's just on the
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front so you know it's a very versatile
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sort of vacuum cleaner and of course one
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of the key things to know is how well
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does it actually actually you know pick
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stuff up so I thought we could run a
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test so here's what we're gonna do first
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off I'm going to reassemble it so it's
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in regular vacuum mode and it's pretty
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quick to do and then we're going to and
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I sure hope this works we're gonna dump
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some flour onto this sample carpet and
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then we'll see how well it does picking
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things up are you ready here we have bag
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of flour I'm not gonna put it off I'm
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not gonna buy the entire bag out but we
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will put out enough that you can see it
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on the camera
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and that should be a good challenge and
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get a little more just for good luck you
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ready there we go live test we'll see
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what happens so before we go actually
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let me tell you that the Alba has
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actually has two vacuum suction modes
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low and high and it's easily adjustable
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by here and I'm getting white
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fingerprints all over everything
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what a surprise and they measure its
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suction at 9,000 PA and PA or Pascal's
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and so I had to look it up it's like
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what the heck is a Pascal how does that
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actually apply to vacuum cleaners so it
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turns out it's a measure of suction and
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9,000 is pretty good for a handheld unit
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for a regular wired plug in unit they
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can run typically around 20,000 PA so
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this is about half of what you'd get
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from a big heavy-duty vacuum cleaner but
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if you're in the dorms or something
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something this small that you can just
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clip on the wall in your closet way
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better so has the 90-degree bendable
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attachment here has a wall mount and the
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wall mount you set up so it's also a
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charging unit so that makes it super
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easy and as you see it comes with one
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and then two separate attachments and
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here's the power cord because obviously
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you need to charge it and speaking of
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charging it well you know what let's
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actually try this vacuum cleaner because
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I'm eager to see how it works so we're
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going to start on low mode and see how
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low mode works
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well it's not bad but it's definitely
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not a single pass so let's put it on
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high mode and the high mode seems to be
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doing better but I gotta be honest with
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you it's taken a couple of passes to get
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the flour out but it's getting there I
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think we're actually all clear now
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notice the way the front head is working
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is it's a little actually let me turn it
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off now so that works the head is
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actually too flexible it's so easy to
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turn it so you get all these different
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angles that it's actually hard to keep
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it in a straight line so it's kind of an
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interesting problem to have and the
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other thing that they've done here
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that's interesting is that instead of
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having two different powered attachment
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they have one that does both so the
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front of it is a soft roller that's
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perfect for wood floors and then the
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back part is an actual brush which is
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better for carpet so you kind of got the
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best of both worlds which is kind of an
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interesting design but it worked it
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picked up all the flowers so that's
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pretty cool now let me tell you that we
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have the multi brush attachments I
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already talked to you a little bit about
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that and it is actually pretty light
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it's about two kilograms so 4.5 pounds
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right about there it's definitely easy
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to carry and easy to use and especially
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if you know if you take the attachments
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off then this part is really light so if
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you're gonna use this to quick vacuum up
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your car or something that works out
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pretty easy and then this part is
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actually the trash or garbage dispenser
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and there's a little teeny access port
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if you want to just port things out but
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if you want to do the full clean then so
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a little bit tricky you get the whole
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thing out and you can see that's the
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size of the container important to know
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is that there are actually filters here
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too so it actually is not a HEPA filter
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by any means it's just a piece of foam
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but it does help it does help the whole
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thing work well which is good a little
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tricky to get it back in but let's see I
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think we got it so it's back in and what
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I was going to tell you
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it is 2200 milliamp hour battery which
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gives you 20 to 40 minutes of running
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time obviously in high mode you get less
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time than in low mode if you're using
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powered attachments you're gonna get
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less time than if you're just using like
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the crevice tool it's all pretty
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standard and to cleaning levels and
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washable filters I would actually say
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rinsable filters but that's okay and so
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what do I think of it I think that this
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is actually gonna work really well I
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have a son who just moved into the dorms
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at college and a daughter that just
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moved into her own little studio
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apartment and in either case I think
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it'd be a really good choice for them I
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really like that you can just hang it up
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on the wall with the and with the
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included wall mount and then you just
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let it charge and whatever you need it
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you're ready to roll and you have all
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these different attachments or you can
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just skip all the attachments and have
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it permanently looking kind of like a
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broom and not a hundred percent sure I
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like the whole design of having the wood
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floor roller and the carpet roller on
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the same one but it works and so that
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does give you less attachments to deal
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with and that's kind of a big win to me
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and I can see in here it is definitely
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picked up some dirt so it actually works
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so you know you get that whole joke
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right where how what good is your vacuum
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it depends how much it sucks well this
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sucks
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9000 Pascal's now you know so before I
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get to the price let me just say if you
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can subscribe to my channel really
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appreciate it I cover a wide variety of
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consumer electronics and I'm always
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straightforward and honest so I'm not
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just kind of tell you what the vendor
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wants me to so that's a huge benefit now
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this Alba has cordless vacuum cleaner is
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gonna run you a hundred and forty five
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ninety-nine at amazon.com and I will
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admit it's probably not as nice as the
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dyson equivalent but the dyson and dyson
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makes great vacuums they're really
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mostly the vacuums we have in the house
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but the dyson equivalent is three times
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the price so if you are not looking to
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invest $500 or more in a small vacuum
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cleaner for your apartment or door
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then this could be a really nice choice
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at under 150 dollars this is Dave Taylor
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and I think I'm going to go ahead and
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clean out the garbage holder and then we
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might have another pass right here on
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the flower which means I'll catch you in
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my next video
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