BISSELL 3910 Momentum Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of BISSELL 3910 Momentum Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner
Customer Review: A great Vacuum!
Summary: 5 Stars
We needed another vacuum for our house and after reading many reviews decided to try the Bissell Momentum. Our criteria when were were looking were:
1. We wanted a bag model (hard to find these days and getting harder)
2. Price at around $100
3. Wanted a turbo brush type accessory (on board)
4. Excellent suction/cleaning
5. Long cord.
While the Momentum was bagless, it only has essentially one filter to change. Better than many others. Plus, the prefilter is washable! What a concept - a resuable filter.
We have owned a Kirby for about 15 years (very happy with it) and are amazed at the dirt lifting ability of this Momentum model. The amount of dirt you pick up with the Bissell makes us want to gag - and we clean often AND don't wear shoes in our house. I am always amazed at how much dirt gets in the carpet. The accessory hand held turbo brush is great for doing the stairs and furniture. We really like the extra long cord and for a manual push model, the momentum is easy to push and pull. The low front profile of the brush also allows it to get under the edge of our furniture - something more difficult with the Kirby. All in all, a great vacuum. We have been looking for months - and my husband who researches EVERYTHING also liked this one. Highly recommend, two thumbs up!
Customer Review: I LOVE it.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've never used a sub-$100 vacuum that worked so freaking well. Pet hair? No problem. Big pieces of (insert here)? No problem. The huge tube/wands they give you are excellent, but if you pull on the unit just right it DOES fall over. After about two or three times of doing this, though, you get so used to it you stop doing that.
Suction is great. I'm still sucking out fuzz from my carpet, and I really don't think the apartment's been this clean in a long time. It's definitely a must have for pets, and it'd probably be great if you needed it to use for cleaning a car, though I'd probably recommend something other than an upright for that application.
The additions are great. There's a pet hair adapter (the thing that is like a mini-spinning brush you can put on the hose). It's great for small rugs (bathroom/entrance rugs). There's an extender hose, a crevice tool, and one of those things that have bristles on the end (still haven't found a valid use for it).
Changing settings on the carpet level is a cinch, and emptying the holding bin is easy as 1-2-3.
My only complaint(s) are that it's unable to get into a few places (under coffee tables, beds, etc) very far because the unit's so tall. This being said, the pluses, including the price, are well worth the negative.
Customer Review: You need this vacuum!
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW! Our old vacuum finally bit the dust and it was time to buy a new one. Concerned about quality and function, my wife and I looked at all the "big price" vacuums on the market yet we were hesitant to pay a small fortune for a vacuum. Cleanliness is a high priority in our household, especially with a one year old son who puts everything in his mouth! I read a ton of reviews and finally decided to take a chance on this vacuum and I am so glad I did!
We thought our house was clean, but after using this vacuum just one time in one room, we were frightened at just how dirty our floors were based on how much this vacuum picked up from our floor. This thing has great power, a nice wide head, and is so easy to use that my five year old wants to help vacuum. We love it so much we are buying another one for our clothing store.
The vacuum is a bit loud and heavy. However, if you are vacuuming the noise shouldnt matter all that much. The weight actually enables us to move it around furniture easier than a lightwieght because it tracks better. Don't spend $500 for a vacuum. We bought this for less than $100 with free shipping and we couldnt be happier. If you need a vacuum and have a family or pets, this is the vacuum you need, you wont be disappointed!
Customer Review: Workhorse of a Vaccum
Summary: 5 Stars
In the last years I have gradually become disabled and my vaccuuming was primarily of the lick and a promise varity. Sadly I am owned by four cats so it was more of a promise than a lick. I qualified for a Home Worker and knew I needed a new vacuum for her use, but also had to find one that was reasonably priced.
The machine wasn't too difficult to put together nor overly heavy for someone with moderate physical limitations. I had to try it myself but after 5 sq feet it was filled with cat hair and dirt. I decided to wait for my Home Worker. She and I were astonished and chagrined at the amount of fur, dirt and debris she cleaned from my carpet.
Since she was doing a deep clean for me, she was only vacuuming one room a day which was good. If you are using this vac after a long time use of an inferior vac or simply neglect, you will most likely have to clean the pre-motor filter freqently, easy enough to do even for me, but the sponge needs to dry before reinstalling.
Now that the heavy cleaning has been done, this vacuum is light weight enough that a lick and a promise with it ( a quick 5 minute sweep over the surface) is sufficient for my comfort until the Home Worker does a thourogh cleaning with it on her day here.
Customer Review: The beauty won't last.
Summary: 2 Stars
Sure, it's easy to buy this vacuum cleaner, use it a few times, and rush to the computer to write a 5 star review. Brand new, it is a dream come true. But, for the sake of other consumers who really need to know if purchasing this vacuum is worth it, give it some time first. I believe we've had our Momentum for 2 1/2 years, and it lost its momentum after about a year. At some point during that first year, it suddenly became very loud, deafening actually. I cleaned out the filter and other places that I thought might have created the noise problem, and it still was loud. My husband, mechanically inclined, took it apart to see what was amiss. It seemed fine, but the noise still blared! Then at some point it suddenly became slightly less loud. It has NEVER picked up stuff off bare floors very well. Sucks up about half or it and spews the rest out all over the place. So, it takes a long time to do bare floors, and I never feel that it gets up everything. A broom and dustpan work better. It does work on carpets still, removing lots of gross dirt and such that is easy to empty out into the trash. That I will give it, but shouldn't a vacuum for this price perform well for at least a couple of years? Or is everything made so shoddy these days?