This is our detailed review of the highly buyer rated Flymo FTL330 Turbo Lite Electric HoverMower. This hover mower came out as the number three buyer rated hover mower, on our top 5 list that is currently available in the UK.
The Flymo brand is of course a well known brand in the UK. They currently produce gardening tools for the UK market, that include; mowers, grass trimmers, lawn rakes, hedge trimmers,leaf blowers and vacuums.
Flymo are best known in the UK however for producing and manufacturing a range of hover mowers. This FTL330 Turbo is one of the highest rated of these, with an overall buyer satisfaction rating of 88%.
Most hover mowers have an average price of around £70-80 and this one sits within that price bracket. It has a powerful 1,150 watt motor, a 33 cm cutting blade and 4 cutting heights (10-30 mm).
About the Flymo Brand
Flymo are a brand that forms part of the Husqvarna group, who are known primarily for their chainsaws, and also for their robotic lawn mowers and garden tractors.
They have dominated the hover mower market in the UK for many years, and make a range of different types of hover mowers. Flymo do build all their own mowers here in the UK, and have been doing so for 50 years.
About the Hover Mower
Hover mowers are small, lightweight and very easy to use. That makes them an ideal choice for anyone with an irregularly shaped lawn, a sloped lawn and work well on small to medium sized gardens.
They are also a good choice for someone who wants a compact lawn mower to store in a tight space.
Hover mowers work on the following principle. The drive shaft of the motor, powers a fan which is attached above the cutting blades. The impeller draws air from above the cutting housing which creates pressure on the underside, lifting the mower from the lawn
Important Features on this Flymo FTL330 Turbo Lite Mower
Just below we have included what we believe to be the most important features of this Easi Glide 300 model.
- Has a small but powerful 1,150 watt motor
- It has a 33 cm cutting width from 10-30 mm using a metal blade
- The cable length is 10 metres
- Measures 69 x 43.5 x 29 cm
- It weighs 6.5 kg (just over 14 lbs) - approx the same weight as 7 bags of sugar and one of the lightest mowers on the UK market
- Foldable handles for easy storage
- A great choice for small gardens
The good thing about this mower is that it comes fully assembled straight out of the box. That means you don't have to put anything together and no tools are required.
This mower is suitable for small gardens but not for larger gardens. This mower does not collect the grass so please be aware of that. If you want a Flymo that does collect grass, then please check out our review on the Flymo Easi Glide 300, by clicking here.
The four separate cutting heights allow you to vary the length of the grass depending on the weather. This mower uses a metal blade for clean cutting and that reduces the risk of tearing your grass.
if you are a gardener you will already know that tearing the grass ultimately results in the grass drying out, and that is a common cause of yellow grass.
How Buyers Rate the Flymo FTL330 Turbo Lite Hover and What They Have to Say
Many buyers turn to the Flymo brand when they are thinking of buying a good hover mower. That is because that is the most recognised brand for this type of mower.
This Flymo FTL330 is one of their lighter options and at 88% buyer satisfaction is also one of their highest rated. Here at this website we like to read the reviews and then summarise those for you.
Hopefully that will save you a lot of work having to find, read and then try to make sense of all the different buyer ratings and comments.
In the pros and cons table below, we have listed in summary form both the good and bad points that buyers made when they left their reviews. In other words what they liked and did not like.
There are hundreds of buyer reviews online so that should tell you that this lawnmower has sold in its tens of thousands throughout the UK and in Ireland.
- 60 out of every 100 buyers rate this model as a 5 star product
- 4 out of 100 buyers gave this a bad rating
- Overall the buyer satisfaction rating was 88%
- Buyers say this is a small mower that is light and easy to manoeuvre around the gardens
- Takes just a minute to attach the handle and it is ready to use
- Most buyers who bought this did so because it is one of the lightest mowers on the UK market, and that makes it very easy to use
- Buyers also said that the mower was quiet
- Good for doing fiddly parts of lawns where other mowers can't reach
- Does not collect the grass
- A few buyers said it did not perform that well on long grass
- Nowhere to coil the cable
This is the classic type of hover mower. It is very light, easy to manoeuvre and overall does a really good job at cutting your grass. As it is made in this classic lightweight style, there are no frills with this one.
It does not collect grass, so no grass box and it is made of a hard plastic, and all of those are designed to keep the weight down. It is super easy to assemble, very easy to use and relatively easy to clean.
In terms of storage it probably does not get much smaller or easier than this model.
Video of the FTL330 Being Used
Our Verdict on the Flymo FTL330 Turbo Lite Electric Hover
This Flymo Easi Glide 300 hover came out as the number three choice in our top 5 list of hover motors, thanks to a good solid 88% buyer satisfaction.
It is well priced and will do a very good job at cutting small sized gardens. It is also useful for reaching parts of your garden that a larger mower can not get to.
You will need to clean up afterwards as this mower does not collect the grass.
If this is not the hover mower for you, then why not check out our top 5 list of hover mowers by clicking here.
This is Flymo at its basic best. This type of mower was designed to be light and easy to use. People who have back problems, recovering from injuries, or simply not as strong as they used to be struggle to use a heavy lawnmower.
Hover mowers for the most part are light in weight and are much easier to assemble, use and store. Those are the reasons that people buy these in the first place.
They cut the grass really well without tearing it up, and although changing the blade height is fiddly, at least you have the option.
