BISSELL 26706 Sweeper
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of BISSELL 26706 Sweeper
Customer Review: Bissell has gone downhill with this model!
Summary: 1 Stars
I had an older version of the Bissell sweeper 20 years ago, and it was fantastic, but I left it behind in a recent move. I decided to replace it with this similar model, for quick pick ups between vacuuming. Though this sweeper looks the same as the old one, it does not even come close in quality or performance.Most annoying is the handle. The sections of pipe refuse to stay together. The sections just keep coming apart while the sweeper is being used. (I'm not positive, but I THINK in my older Bissell Sweeper the handle pipes were threaded. I know that the handle never presented a problem.)
This newer sweeper also does not hold the debris inside very well. As soon as you stop sweeping, before you can even get over a trash can to empty what you just swept up, debris falls out from the brush area. The older design seemed to throw the debris into the end collection trays, where it remained for emptying.
The quality is NOT what I had come to expect from my past experience with a Bissell Sweeper. One addition since the old model, this sweeper includes a little plastic brush cleaning tool, that neatly stores on the handle. Would be a nice feature, IF the handle would stay on the sweeper!
The current scenario: sweep floor, handle falls apart, little brush cleaning tool pops off the fallen section of the handle, search for the little plastic tool, put it back on the pipe, reassemble the sections of pipe, sweep some more, empty the sweeper, sweep up the debris that the sweeper dropped, trying carefully to keep the handle together, put the sweeper away, trying not to drop more debris onto the floor, and get out the vacuum!
Customer Review: Good and Bad points
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had this sweeper for a few years now and have found this to be a usefull product for quick pick up after meals in the dining room(with a messy pre-schooler and toddler) and as a good quick brush up between vacuumings. While this doesn't replace a vacuum cleaner by any means, it does a decent job for it's purpose. The pockets in which mess is deposited are easy to flip to dump in the trash. This pickes up rice, cheerios, bits of paper, some dirt, cracker crumbs, ect prety well. Don't expect it to get anything *in* the carpet fibers.However, it has not stood up well with use. The two roller brushes which pick up stuff fall out often now since the plastic sides of the sweeper have become warped. The rollers are held in by a simple tab in hole design, and this is rather flimsy. Because of this, I haven't been able to use it much since it developed this problem.
It still has it's use as a fun cleaning toy for my kids though. While I vacuum my 3yo son likes to use the sweeper to imitate me vacuuming. It's light enough that he can push it around with ease and practice saying "'scuse me peese" lol :-). So, for the investment which isn't too much, I got a usefull sweeper which held up for about a year, which could be graduated to a toy after it wore out.
Customer Review: A Perfect Carpet & Floor Sweeper
Summary: 5 Stars
Bissell's 2650 is labeled, "Perfect Sweep": a totally accurate description.
After reading its reviews & being thoroughly disenchanted with the higher-priced Hoky 2600, I purchased this gem of a manual carpet/floor sweeper. Assembled within minutes, it cleaned the type of debris consistently abandoned by its rubber-rotored competitor. The Bissell Perfect Sweep has two 9" brush rollers & four corner brushes. It's equally effective on carpet & bare floors. As the handle lies flat, it cleans under sofas, chairs, & barstools with ease. Its sturdy steel construction is still lightweight enough to permit single hand use. It cleans on both forward & reverse motions; the debris remains in the dirt pans until I empty them...No surprise dumping! It is the perfect complement to my serious-cleaning-only vacuum.
Its best feature: it's so budget-friendly. At less than $30, it makes a really great holiday gift. Yeah!!
Customer Review: Easy & Quiet, Great for "Quick Pick-ups"
Summary: 5 Stars
We purchased this product at our local home building center store after having difficulty finding it at the large discount stores. We wanted to be able to do "quick pick-ups" in the entry area in-between our weekly vacuuming.
We've had this product for just a few weeks now but have no concerns or problems with durability, quality or ease of use as some others have mentioned.
We have a new berber carpet with a multi-level pattern that I thought would be difficult for the sweeper to handle, but even that doesn't seem to affect it.
Sweeper operation is easy and quiet, the same words I would use to describe emptying the clever spring-loaded dust catch bins; No problem.
The amount of cat hair that this handy sweeper picks up is tremendous and the sweeper does a great job of giving our carpeting that "just vacuumed" look.
In short, no problems or worries...so far
Customer Review: disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
While the sweeper does do an excellent job of sweeping up everything on the kitchen floor, the next time you use it it dumps most of the debris back on the floor. I have tried emptying the containers, rolling and using the comb to clean the bottom. No luck. It still dumps dirt on the floor at the beginning of each use. You then have to sweep over the pile several times to get it picked up again. The handle also has come apart but that I can live with. The base of the unit is a large square and even though I have a large floor it would be more useful if it was smaller and more rectangular. If you have a small kitchen floor that is not an open rectangle for cleaning the size may be a problem. I should probably have sent it back since it is more work to clean with it. But I keep hoping I can figure out why it is dumping debris. If I could get it to stop doing it it would be useful.