Customer Reviews

Bissell 2680 Perfect Sweep Dual Brush Sweeper

5 star:		(41)
4 star:		(37)
3 star:		(26)
2 star:		(12)
1 star:		(22)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

The sweeper works as well as you can expect from any carpet sweeper and I have been happy with that, but the handle consists of several metal tubes that fit into each other poorly. The instructions say to give the tubes a solid wack to keep them tightly together.

Well, my husband, my father, and I have all wacked the handle as hard as we can to try to keep it together, but the pieces pull apart if you lift the sweeper by the handle (say to move around an item on the floor) or even if you just pull on the handle too hard. The lowest tube on the handle screws onto the base, which makes me question why they just didn't make the other pieces screw into each other, as well?

Just bought the Perfect Sweep and it does carpets really well and hard floors okay. I tested the handle and, yes, it does fall apart easily. I took some plumber's thin teflon tape and wrapped it around where the handle sections join (before putting them together... the tape goes on the male end). Each section now goes on and stays on and you can't see the teflon tape because it's under the thinner section of each adjoining section. Try it... you don't see the tape (as with a previous duct tape on the outside of the handle sections solution) and you don't have screw heads sticking out either (if you decided to drill pilot holes and use a sheet metal screw). It works out quite well and you can still remove the handles if you want. Ah, if Bissel had only designed the handle sections so they could twist lock... their ratings would be much better.

I have a cat and the litter box is in the bathroom. It seemed like I was always sweeping litter and emptying dust pans and washing my hands, again. I keep the bissell in the bathroom, run it in front of the litter box and I'm done! No dust pans every time! And it's manuel so there's no charging. This thing is great! The handle is kind of cheap but otherwise, this is a great product!

I bought this sweeper yesterday and am deeply in love with it already. Like many other reviewers, I dreaded dragging out the big vacuum three times a day to pick up the crumbs around the table after my one-year-old and two-and-a-half-year-old ate. Also, I had been repeatedly disappointed with small, rechargeable sweepers and hand vacs as they lacked power and lost their charge quickly. So, a manual sweeper seemed like a good solution.

The Bissell was simple to assemble and works like a champ. It picked up everything from cereal to small crumbs to pet hair to whole blueberries. (My boys are some messy eaters.) Regarding the handle that some reviewers had a problem with, the directions say to assemble the handle and then strike it firmly (they suggest placing a book or magazine on the floor so you don't cause any damage to that surface) to lock the pieces together. I did this and have had no problems so far...and I've been putting it through its paces.

For me, it has it all...low price, ease of assembly and use, quiet, versatile, well made, lightweight, small, and efficient. Perfect Sweep, will you marry me? (Sorry, honey.) ;o)

The handle for the Bissel Sweeper is made of 3 parts that you push together and come apart everytime you pick the sweeper up. Even a cheap $13 sweeper at Target has a screw-together handle. But neither Bissel, nor Amazon, apparently tried this product out before they made it and sold it. It's practically a crime to advertise you can save space by hanging this sweeper up -- since each time you pick it up the large metal head separates from the handle and crashes right on the floor (leaving dents in wood) or on your foot (and making you curse at it). Should be a ZERO star product.

I was looking for something to sweep laminate floors. Something that would pick up fluffy dog hair and gritty sand (we live in a country setting). Everytime I swept the floor or dust mopped or used the bare floor sweeper I would see this fluffy hair scooting across the floor trying to get away. I could just imagine all this stuff being thrown into the air and breathing it into my lungs. Once I found this sweeper that has enclosed bristles, I have become a happy camper!! NOW that stuff gets picked up instead of thrown into the air.(great for allergy suffers) Nothing fancy to it but a box (lifetime warranty)with a handle and 2 rollerbrushes with their own separate dustpans.(Everything stays contained) It does the job!! No electricity or cords to have to worry about either. It was well worth the amount I paid for it. Who would have thought I would own a manual sweeper broom in our electronic society. Bissell is a name well trusted and great construction material. It also comes with its own rollerbrush comb to remove the hair etc..how cool is that. I remember my grandmother owned one of these.....LoL

Just what I wanted! Perfect? No, for that I would get the vacume out. 3 year olds spill cherrios from family room to the other end of the house, no fuss, no problem, sweep 'em up and empty in the garbage, and move on to more important things! note: the handle comes off sometimes, so I glued it on.