Bissell 3575 Upright Vacuum
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An excellent bagless vacuum
Pros
Excellent cleaning power, easy dirt disposal.
Cons
Rolling effort a bit too high. Loud, and can heat up the room.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
I would highly recommend this vacuum because of its excellent cleaning power, ease of cleaning and reliability.
Six months ago I moved into a huge apartment with carpeted floors, and needed a vacuum cleaner. After considerable research, I settled on the Bissell CleanView Bagless vacuum. Here is my opinion based on six months of use.
Assembly
This vacuum is remarkably easy to assemble. Unlike some other vacuums that come in bits and pieces, this one comes pretty much fully assembled, with only the hose detached. You only need to attach the hose with some screws (takes a screwdriver and a minute of work) and you are ready to roll.
Features
You get a bagless upright vacuum (duh!). The brush has seven levels of adjustment; the seven levels cover a very broad range of settings - you can use the vacuum to clean anything from bare floors to very deep pile carpets.
Like most vacuums now-a-days, the Bissell comes with a hose and several attachments. You get a crevasse tool, a brush, and an extension wand - to reach those places under the couch. I'll be the first to agree that this is not a huge assortment, but I have never found myself needing more.
There are three air filters built into the vacuum: one at the exit of the dust collection bowl, another one before the motor, and a final one just before the air is expelled from the vacuum back into your room. All three require regular but infrequent (about once a month) washing. The filters are easy to remove and install, and washing takes about a minute for each filter.
Finally, the vacuum comes with a headlight. In my opinion, the headlight is for cool factor only, because it is of absolutely no help during vacuuming. If you are vacuuming an open area, sunlight or lamps provide much better lighting than the headlight. If you are trying to vacuum a spot that normal light sources don't reach, it is probably too tight to vacuum directly anyway.
Operation
Press the foot lever to release the locked handle, flip the switch on the left side, and you're rolling. The rolling effort is on the higher side, but is not terribly bad.
Using the hose is very easy--you just unclip the hose end from its storage attachment... and that's it. Other vacuums require you to plug the hose in into a separate receptacle before using; no such silliness here.
The dust is collected in a transparent plastic bowl. Emptying is effortless - you slide a lever to release the bowl, shake out the dust, and clip the bowl back in place. Bissell manual hints that it is not necessary to empty the bowl every time, but I do it anyway - it takes almost no time and means that next time there will be less dust spinning in the vacuum when I clean.
Cleaning results
This vacuum cleans very, very well. I was amazed the first time I used it - when it picked up almost a full bowl of dirt from what I thought was a clean carpet. I guess the people who lived here before me weren't meticulous about their vacuuming, and the carpets grew clogged with dirt. Using Bissell regularly, I noticed that the amount of dirt I picked up decreased gradually over the course of a month or so - I was catching up on the cleaning the previous residents neglected. I've even had someone mention to me that my carpet had become lighter!
Negative points
I am a big fan of this vacuum, so the points I mention here are more nitpicks than real drawbacks. But, if I must...
The vacuum is both loud and hot. Loud is pretty self-explanatory; hot is not. If you place your hand in the jet of air exhausted from the vacuum, you'll be amazed at just how hot it feels - like a hair drier running on medium. After 15-20 minutes of cleaning, my large one-bedroom apartment becomes noticeably warmer. This may not be a problem in the winter, but in the summer, with the AC running full-blast as it is, the last thing you want to do is make your apartment hotter still.
There used to be a time when I thought the cord that comes with the vacuum is not long enough, and wished for a longer one. I no longer do. With some experience, I can vacuum the entire apartment re-plugging only twice.
Update
A year and a half after purchase, I still stand by my initial opinion. The vacuum still works, the cleaning results are still excellent, and I have had no trouble with it. I have also noticed that the superintendants of the building I live in use an identical vacuum to clean the lobbies of my building. If it's good enough for such heavy-duty uses, it's definitely good enough for home use.
Assembly
This vacuum is remarkably easy to assemble. Unlike some other vacuums that come in bits and pieces, this one comes pretty much fully assembled, with only the hose detached. You only need to attach the hose with some screws (takes a screwdriver and a minute of work) and you are ready to roll.
Features
You get a bagless upright vacuum (duh!). The brush has seven levels of adjustment; the seven levels cover a very broad range of settings - you can use the vacuum to clean anything from bare floors to very deep pile carpets.
Like most vacuums now-a-days, the Bissell comes with a hose and several attachments. You get a crevasse tool, a brush, and an extension wand - to reach those places under the couch. I'll be the first to agree that this is not a huge assortment, but I have never found myself needing more.
There are three air filters built into the vacuum: one at the exit of the dust collection bowl, another one before the motor, and a final one just before the air is expelled from the vacuum back into your room. All three require regular but infrequent (about once a month) washing. The filters are easy to remove and install, and washing takes about a minute for each filter.
Finally, the vacuum comes with a headlight. In my opinion, the headlight is for cool factor only, because it is of absolutely no help during vacuuming. If you are vacuuming an open area, sunlight or lamps provide much better lighting than the headlight. If you are trying to vacuum a spot that normal light sources don't reach, it is probably too tight to vacuum directly anyway.
Operation
Press the foot lever to release the locked handle, flip the switch on the left side, and you're rolling. The rolling effort is on the higher side, but is not terribly bad.
Using the hose is very easy--you just unclip the hose end from its storage attachment... and that's it. Other vacuums require you to plug the hose in into a separate receptacle before using; no such silliness here.
The dust is collected in a transparent plastic bowl. Emptying is effortless - you slide a lever to release the bowl, shake out the dust, and clip the bowl back in place. Bissell manual hints that it is not necessary to empty the bowl every time, but I do it anyway - it takes almost no time and means that next time there will be less dust spinning in the vacuum when I clean.
Cleaning results
This vacuum cleans very, very well. I was amazed the first time I used it - when it picked up almost a full bowl of dirt from what I thought was a clean carpet. I guess the people who lived here before me weren't meticulous about their vacuuming, and the carpets grew clogged with dirt. Using Bissell regularly, I noticed that the amount of dirt I picked up decreased gradually over the course of a month or so - I was catching up on the cleaning the previous residents neglected. I've even had someone mention to me that my carpet had become lighter!
Negative points
I am a big fan of this vacuum, so the points I mention here are more nitpicks than real drawbacks. But, if I must...
The vacuum is both loud and hot. Loud is pretty self-explanatory; hot is not. If you place your hand in the jet of air exhausted from the vacuum, you'll be amazed at just how hot it feels - like a hair drier running on medium. After 15-20 minutes of cleaning, my large one-bedroom apartment becomes noticeably warmer. This may not be a problem in the winter, but in the summer, with the AC running full-blast as it is, the last thing you want to do is make your apartment hotter still.
There used to be a time when I thought the cord that comes with the vacuum is not long enough, and wished for a longer one. I no longer do. With some experience, I can vacuum the entire apartment re-plugging only twice.
Update
A year and a half after purchase, I still stand by my initial opinion. The vacuum still works, the cleaning results are still excellent, and I have had no trouble with it. I have also noticed that the superintendants of the building I live in use an identical vacuum to clean the lobbies of my building. If it's good enough for such heavy-duty uses, it's definitely good enough for home use.
