Bissell Featherweight Cordless Stick Vacuum, 3061

LOVE this vacuum. So light and easy to get a good vacuum in a few minutes, we both pick it up for a quick partial house vacuum whenever we notice a need. It easily gets under a good portion of the bed and sofa, the legs of furniture, and between spaces because it's not too wide and the handle drops very low. It completely cleans cat hair and dirt/dust off our hard floor and mats, but there is so much that a few days later it's worth running it again for 5 minutes. Separate handheld piece easily pops out for tight spaces, couch surfaces, with it's own attachments. Easy to clean and no need to change the filter constantly. We have to clean the inner and outer filter after every vacuum, but it is a snap. Easy to snap off the 2 parts and take both the inner and outer filter out to shake. The 2 filters clean up completely with a water rinse when needed. Roller easily pops out for cleaning. I can pull hair (the longer human kind) off the roller usually, and only pop out the roller if there's too much (the first few times I didn't think to check this and it had built up to cover the roller). Charging takes quite awhile after a long vacuuming session. I was able to completely cover a very hair-covered, dust-dirty 3 big rooms of hard flooring while moving furniture around the first time I used it, before re-charge needed.

This thing is great! Very lightweight, easy to maneuver around and under furniture, good suction, and easy to use. The detachable hand vac is just as strong and lightweight and beats the heck out of my B&D Dustbuster. My guess is that this one wasn’t introduced as a whole-house vacuum, but as an electric broom. Cleaned both my hard floors and my carpet I love this thing! I have only given it four stars because it takes quite awhile to charge. Otherwise, it would be a perfect five star rating.

My old small vacuum died, so I purchased a replacement. The first replacement didn't do anything; it just redistributed the dirt. The second one, an Electrolux, I ordered new and what was shipped was refurbished. The noise extremely loud and when I went from a tiled floor to low pile carpeting the brush stopped working, again I returned this one. Then I found the Bissell. It works great, plenty of suction, light weight, and very maneuverable. My new best friend!

Okay when this thing actually worked, 5 stars! But I have had it just 2 years and it's stopped working. When I turn it on the roller doesn't spin and within 3 seconds the red light comes on and it shuts off. I have taken it apart a few times, cleaned it out etc., and nothing fixes it. I can still use it for hardwood without the spinning brush but it works much slower I have to go over the area multiple times. It's so lightweight and easy to bring around the house. I found the battery life to be good, I could get through 2 big rooms, two small rooms and a hallway before it would die so it was brilliant for what I needed it for. I liked it so much that I am tempted to buy another one even knowing that it might crap out on me in 2 years.

I’ve had this for nearly a year. I wanted to wait to write a review until after the shine wore off. This replaced another stick vacuum that worked great until part of the roller brush head broke and there was no way to replace it—that was the risk I ran with a no name company, so this time I spent a few more bucks on a name brand. The pros: - it is very easy to switch between the stick and the handheld. I will often pop the handheld “dust buster” off while I’m vacuuming to grab something that’s giving the roller brush head trouble (more in that in a minute) and it is very easy to pop out and back in one handed. - on easy surfaces, and until it fills up or clogs, the suction on the roller brush head is decent. Not stellar, but right off the charger, it does well. - charges relatively quickly. I have a small house (~1100 sq ft) and I can do a quick pass on one full charge, or a couple of rooms very diligently. Takes about an hour to get enough juice back to go anymore. - easy to clean dust cup. It is easy to pop the case off and get the filter out to dump it. Which is good, ‘cause I have to do that a lot. - the roller brush can be taken all the way out without too much trouble to cut off long hairs or strings that wind around it. It could be a LOT easier, but it’s still doable. - it is lightweight, and not very loud. You know you’re vacuuming, but it’s nowhere near the scream of the Dyson that used to live here. Cons: - the roller brush head does not do very well on uneven surfaces (like the edge of a low pile rug on a hard floor), or on edges. You have to get it *over* the debris—so, against walls, for example, be ready to pop the dust buster off. - there are two points where this things clogs on the REGULAR and the only way to know that’s happened is that the roller head starts throwing all the stuff on the floor out behind it as you go. The first is the “neck” that connects the roller brush head to the dust buster body. It’s ridged, so it can curve up from the head into the body of the thing, and I don’t know if the neck is too narrow, the ridges are too deep, the curve is too acute, or the suction just isn’t that great once it gets about half full—but mine clogs often. And there’s no way to unclog it unless you have something that can fit down into the narrow hole — I use a pipe cleaner type thing meant to clean bottles. I do hve long hair, and a short haired dog and cat, so the dust bunnies can get epic if I’m not on them, but a dust bunny shouldn’t clog a vacuum IMO. The other part that clogs even more often is the mouth of the dust buster body. There’s a flexible rubber flap that opens to let dirt in and then flaps closed to keep it from falling back out, but again, if it gets about half full, that flap easily gets wadded up with junk that the vacuum can’t pull in. You are still vacuuming because there’s zero indication it’s clogged, but the vacuum is just blowing the dirt out the back and behind you while you walk. - it’s got a “quick stop” feature that is probably a safety thing, where if the roller brush feels resistance, the vacuum stops and flashes a red light (why not when it is clogged, for heavens sake?!) this is good if you are regularly vacuuming over people or pets with long hairs, I guess, but otherwise it is just annoying in its fickleness. Sometimes the looped rugs in the bathroom and by the back door trip it up on every.single.pass and sometimes not at all. - once the dust cup is about half full, the suction on the roller brush head drops dramatically. Once you figure this out, and just dump it about every ten minutes, you’ll be okay—but there’s no indication it’s getting full so you won’t know it isn’t sucking unless the dirt you are rolling over is highly visible. - the last one of these I had included a charge percentage indicator. I really miss that. This one just flashes red while charging until it flashes green and while running it goes until it flashes red and then for only about two more minutes. - there is no edger attachment. I have a regular dust buster that has a long narrow piece that pulls out of the mouth of it, so there’s no piece to lose, and I wish this thing had something similar, or even a little attachment stuck to the stick handle, to get the corners and edges that the bulky body or roller head can’t manage. Overall, it’s about 75% good, for my uses. I have a shark robot vacuum that is probably handling about 50% of the hair, outdoor debris, and dust my country house accumulates at an impressive rate. If I follow behind with this, I get almost everything except the corners and edges. I have to get those with the dust buster. Luckily, I don’t ever really have to use all three at one time, unless I’ve let it go too long.