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53 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Improve your life, January 8, 2006
This review is from: Bissell 2680 Perfect Sweep Dual Brush Sweeper (Kitchen)
If you are like us and you have crumbs, grass, dirt, etc., that mysteriously appears on your floor and it stresses you out, then this will improve your life. I used to avoid picking up the dirt because my options basically consisted of using the big vacuum cleaner (overkill), a paper towel (inefficient and wasteful), or a little handheld brush and dustpan (requires lots of bending over). So while I avoided cleaning up the dirt, the stress increased. No more. This thing is great. The kids make a mess, someone tracks in dirt, no problem, you just roll this over it and the whole mess is gone. We considered an electric gadget, but this is so much better.
That all being said, this is not the perfect product. It costs very little and it shows in places. Sometimes you have to go over things more than once, but that's still fine because it's so easy to use. It doesn't have the highest quality moving parts, but if it tears up in a couple of years, you just buy another one (and you won't be able to live without it by then). If you're even thinking about this product then you should buy it.
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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hard to rate., March 5, 2007
This review is from: Bissell 2680 Perfect Sweep Dual Brush Sweeper (Kitchen)
You have to keep in mind that this isn't a vacuum cleaner, and doesn't compete with one. It brushes stuff off the surface of your carpet, it's not going to suck dirt and dust from way down deep.
I bought this sweeper to use when my year old son is having a nap. Babies like to eat anything they can find on the rug, and this is great for getting up the pine needles and cat hair. It is not as good as a vacuum but better than I would have thought.
I would have rated it higher except for the handle. The handle is 4 pieces of metal tube with a taper on one end, so you can force them together. As you might guess, they fall apart constantly. It's really not an acceptable design, and I marvel that Bissel actually would just send a product like this out on the market without fixing this obvious flaw. How hard would it have been to thread the ends of the handle pieces so they screwed together? I'd gladly have paid an extra couple dollars for it.
I hot-glue gunned mine together and so far so good. But you should never have to glue a brand new item in order to make it work.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Easy and Fast Quicker Picker-Upper., February 22, 2006
This review is from: Bissell 2680 Perfect Sweep Dual Brush Sweeper (Kitchen)
I was pleasantly surprised when I tried the Bissell on dog hair, cat hair and kitty litter. It picks it all up! No longer do I have to drag out the 12.5 amp Kenmore when the kids drop crumbs on the floor. We have low pile carpet and linoleum and the Bissell works great on both. It fills up fairly quickly if you have a mess to clean, but it only takes a few seconds to empty the machine.
My mom had a similar machine 40 years ago and I can see the improvements Bissell has made over the years with dual rotating brushes. Also, I can use it when everyone is sleeping as it makes no noise compared with my old handheld Boss Stick handheld vaccuum. The Boss died and when I tried to find a battery for it, I found it would almost cost the same to replace it. So I checked around for a cleaner without battery or electric power and I found it with the Bissell.
I recommend the Bissell to everyone who does not have High Pile carpet. It works well on low carpet and bare floors.
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