Customer Reviews

Dirt Devil M085850 Featherlite Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(15)

 

 

All vacuums have an air exhaust somewhere on them. Incredibly, the Dirt Devil designers placed their's right up front just below the headlight, so air blows hard on the floor directly in front of the vacuuum. Anything loose (e.g., dog hair, dust, paper, grass, etc.) is blown away BEFORE you can reach it with the vacuum. Vacuuming with the Dirt Devil becomes a game of chase. Good luck as you try to sneak up on the dirt before its blown away from the vacuum. (Don't even TRY to use this lemon on a tile floor!) No wonder I got this on sale for 60 bucks. Looks like it's time for the Dirt Devil company to go in the dustbin.

Here is a good trick, try putting cleaning powder on your carpet and vacuum it up using this dirt devil vacuum. You create a massive dust storm that does exactly the opposite of what you want to do....clean. Afterwards you are left dusting all other furniture and coughing up the powder (which i can't imagine is that safe). The design of this product is flawed...put a blower on the front...nice job Einstein. Seriously they should offer a refund to all who purchased this product.

I've had this for about a month now, and I'm very happy with it. The blower is on the front near the bottom, but it doesn't blow the air at the floor, it blows up. I have a three bedroom apartment full of tile, and have had no problem on bare floors. It's also done a really good job on my rugs that I have hear and there...picks just about anything up...and I have two kids! I also love that I can get under the edge of the couch. It's very easy to switch to the accessory hose...and has plenty of options.

p.s. 10grand on carpet and you got a $60 vacuum?

This vacuum is utter garbage.

When I first got it, it took maybe 20 minutes to vacuum my small sized living room, because I'd have to go over the same spot over and over just to pick up the dirt. It never worked on hard flooring, it'd just blow the dirt around.

A couple uses later, and the suction is nonexistent. I cleaned the filter and every other piece of the vacuum, and it still doesn't work.

Don't waste your money, spend a little more and get something that actually works.

It's been pointed out by other customers, but the design on this vacuum cleaner is astonishingly stupid. The exhaust blower is perched on front of the vacuum, meaning that particles of dirt and dust are constantly fluttering out of reach before you can suck them up. I chose this vacuum specifically because it was recommended for bare tile and linoleum by Consumer Reports, but I might as well be using a leaf blower for all the good it does. Plus, you need ear muffs to run this thing since it's noisier than a jet engine. It's a bad sign that I purposefully avoid running the vacuum during the morning hours on the weekend because I'm afraid I'll wake up my neighbors.

whomever designed this piece of junk has got to be out of his/her mind, no wonder is $49 (wife bought it not me), you get what you pay for I guess, but I know other ways to throw my money away and enjoy it, chuck-e-cheese ?? (maybe they were the designers). I use it as a leaf blower, unless I want to chase a piece of fur or a feather all over the house, trying to suck it in with the vacuum at the same time that it is blowing it away, (sometimes is fun when you are bored. . . . . . .NOT!) do not buy it, the exhaust air is stronger than the suction.

Hey, Dirt Devil, this is supposed to be a real vacuum cleaner, not a TOY.

Plastic wheels are not a good idea, especially when the manufacturer has attached them with GLUE.

This vacuum cleaner doesn't suck up dirt but instead blows it onto the top of the unit itself. There is a vent in front of this sweeper that is so powerful it not only blew a calendar off my kitchen wall, but sent my shower curtain flapping and a breeze into my face.

Just more cheap junk made in China. When is America going to wake up and start leading the world again by manufacturing the best things in the world?

We have a Bissel Healthy Home vac and I LOVE it. We have three dogs over 50lbs and two cats and LOTS of carpeting. People who are allergic to animals come to our home and never even get a sniffle. I wanted to get a second one for upstairs, but my husband got a "good deal" on this dirt devil. I was upset, but a it's a vacuum, so I used it. The belt broke the SECOND time I used it. When it does work, it doesn't even compare to the Bissel. I heard dirt devil was cheaply made and doesn't last long, and this just backed those claims up. Now we use it in the garage to catch spiders (we've only had it three months) and bought the second Bissel for upstairs. Don't waste your money folks...

This vacuum worked for the first few months just fine. I was pleased to see the canister fill up with all kinds of gunk from my carpet. Emptying out all that gunk, not so pleasing or efficient. Lately the vacuum has been less effective. Using it in my bedroom results in a cloud of fur and dust. I was suspicious so I went over a spot of the carpet very well. Afterwards, I took a lint roller to the spot. TONS OF DIRT AND FUR. This thing blows.

No bagless vacuums are good for allergy sufferers. The filter is in the center of the cup. So when you empty the cup into a bag to throw out, no matter how careful you are, the filter falls right out into the trash and all this hair and gunk is stuck on it. So you literally have to take it out of the trash filled w/all that dust and pull the gunk off. I even had to knock the filter against something to get the dirt and dust off. Even if you wear a mask and goggles, no bagless is ever good for allergy sufferers. I do this outside, and even that doesn't help. The dust just flies up all over the place on my clothes, hair, window, exterior walls of the house, and my car. I would not recommend ANY bagless vacuum to anyone. This is an engineering flaw that needs to be fixed. New improved technology isn't always better. I dread opening up the cup to dump it cuz it is always very messy.

Atleast the bagged vacuums are cleaner and neater to dump. You don't have dust floating everywhere.