Last summer my fiancee and I bought a house together. Shortly there after we realized that we needed to buy a lawn mower. We could have easily gone and bought a small gas powered one rather quickly and around $150 and it would have gotten the job done. But I didn’t want to have to mess with a gas can sitting in the garage and the maintenance or the oil and mess. Once I realized I wanted an electric mower I then had to choose corded or cordless. To me this was a no brainier, corded could cause problems, what would happen if I ran over the cord? And I’d have to pull the cord out every time I wanted to mow the grass, it just seemed to much of a hassle. It just didn’t seem very safe, so cordless it was! Now my fiancee also might need to mow the grass so I had to take consideration, she isn’t very big so a self propelled mower would be very handy. Remember, we also had a time constraint since our grass was growing and at this point it hadn’t been mowed in about a month and was getting pretty high. So we already had a few requirements and to add to them:
- Could be acquired pretty quickly.
- Electric.
- Cordless.
- Self-Propelled.
- Options for mulching, side and bagged discharge.
We looked at and read reviews online and found some interesting results. The Solaris model I originally looked at got mixed reviews on Amazon. The bad ratings were mostly due to the way Amazon shipped the mower. And the Black and Decker model I was eying had even more bad reviews. Those were due to the cut off switch for it not being very durable. After looking at a few other brands and the reviews for those we decided that the Solaris SP21HB
After one summer of mowing it has held up very well, better then I expected, and I hope that it will continue to hold up the same in the future.
