BISSELL 2680 Perfect Sweep Dual Brush Sweeper
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of BISSELL 2680 Perfect Sweep Dual Brush Sweeper
Customer Review: Perfect Sweep is the perfect solution
Summary: 5 Stars
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)
Customer Review: Great for daily messes
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to keep my cat's litterbox in my bedroom, and cleaning up the tracked bits and pieces is a hassle. The vacuum cleaner does a fine job, but it's a little too much work for daily cleaning in a small room. This carpet sweeper works beautifully on the low-pile area rug I have near the litter box. It takes less than a minute to pick up the litter and any pet hair. It's so quick and easy that I usually take it into the living room and kitchen, too. I'm always surprised by how much hair, dirt, and bits of leaves and paper it picks up.
I like that the purchase price is the only cost to operate the sweeper. No electricity, no refill sticky sheets, no bags. It's easy to empty, and it keeps the floors looking clean and tidy between vacuumings (which are further apart, now).
Best of all, it's quiet. I can use it any time of the day without worrying that I'm bothering the people in the apartment next to me. When I'm finished, it flattens against a closet wall, taking up a ridiculously small amount of space. Unlike others, I haven't had any trouble with the handle coming apart. The joints fit together very securely.
Customer Review: Hard to rate.
Summary: 2 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Improve your life
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Customer Review: This Is A Great Little Product
Summary: 5 Stars
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