Bissell 2252 CleanView Swivel Upright Bagless Vacuum with Swivel Steering, Powerful Pet Hair Pick Up, Specialized Pet Tools, Large Capacity Dirt Tank, Easy Empty

I bought a similarly priced Eureka Powerspeed last year when I wanted an inexpensive light vacuum to handle a few rooms to replace a heavy Eureka that was on its last legs. Most of our floors are wood except for a couple of area rugs and a couple of bedrooms. I needed another vacuum for my shop but wanted to try this Bissel at the same price point. After unboxing and trying it out we noticed several considerable improvements over the Eureka. Even though we had just vacuumed with the Eureka the Bissel almost immediately filled the cannister with dog hair and dust from an 8x10 area rug.... We tried a couple of the bedroom carpets and the Bissel was definitely picking up a LOT from just vacuumed carpets. Next we noticed that the Bissel was not uncomfortably loud. My partner would complain about how loud the Eureka was but hey it's a vacuum, they're loud! Complaint ignored except that the Bissel was NOT uncomfortably loud. Not even close. I have a decibel meter and measured both in a carpeted bedroom. The Eureka was 80db and the Bissel was 75db. That doesn't sound like a lot but it is! 5db is actually DOUBLE the volume and if you look at a chart 70db is a conversation, 75db is a comfortable noise level, and 80 is uncomfortable LOUD noise that can start to damage hearing. So half the noise and you can really tell the difference. Also, we had to use an extra extension cord with the Eureka whereas the Bissel came with a 27' cord which was long enough to reach everywhere with minimal replugging in. Last, the Eureka wand required removing the handle which then made accessing areas awkward and moving the vacuum difficult with the handle removed. The Bissel includes a straight wand extension and the handle is still right where you left it. This Bissel is an amazing value for a low end price point.

This is a very good vacuum, especially for the price. It is lightweight and it swivels! It has great suction and like the vacuum I owned before it it can be taken completely apart to be cleaned inside. I like this feature because I have a dog and the dander/dirt that builds up inside the vacuum over time is what can ruin a vacuum.I wish that the vacuum hose had a way to lock and unlock like my previous vacuum. It’s difficult to pull it off sometimes without moving the vacuum all over the place. There is no way to shut off the beater bar, which the way it is designed works for every application except vacuuming out your vehicle. I take the floor mat out of the vehicle to set the vacuum on, so it doesn’t suck dirt off the ground. When you use the hose and wand, the suction becomes way less through the main part of the vacuum, but it will vacuum dirt off the ground..All in all a great vacuum, especially for the price.

I've been a die-hard Shark fan for years, but when my shark needed to have the hose replaced I found out that Shark does not make replacement parts. I found this out when i called our local vacuum repair place and the guy on the phone told me that, and that they normally won't even work on Shark vacuums! It's nuts Shark wouldn't make replacement parts. I was done with them and did research for a new vacuum. I selected this Bissel vacuum based on the thousands of 4 1/2 star reviews and WOW...let me tell you I am so glad I did! This vacuum is so much better than the Shark I've always had. I have 2 collies and 2 cats in a tiny house and this vacuum made short work of cleaning up all that hair. I went over an area that I had just vacuumed with my Shark and the Bissell pulled out even MORE hair! Amazing! And best of all, I don't have to constantly turn the vacuum over and cut the pet hair off the rollers. The rollers stay FREE of pet hair! This is HUGE. I also love the rotating head, which makes vacuuming around corners easier. I could not love this vacuum more. If you have pets, seriously get this vacuum!

I have had this vacuum for 2.5 years now, so I think that's a pretty good amount of time to know what's good and bad about it. My previous vacuum was a Dyson Ball Animal, which I had for five or six years, so that's what I'm comparing it to. Overall the Bissell is a good vacuum, mainly because the suction power is amazing. Even when my Dyson was new it didn't have the suction power that the Bissell does, and for the last few years before it died I was having to use one of those scraper tools to pull all the cat hair up out of our rugs first before vacuuming, which was very labor intensive. We currently have 13 cats in the house, so it's extremely important for us to have a reliable vacuum that works very well and can handle all the cat hair. The Bissell can do that!So here are the main things I like about this vacuum: it has absolutely no trouble pulling ALL the cat hair out of the rugs, and of course hardwood/tile floors are no problem. The little side bristles help to pull in dirt and hair next to baseboards, which is also really helpful. It's very lightweight and swivels on a dime, so it's easy to handle. The tank is large and very easy to empty, and even when hair gets stuck up around the filter, it's big enough to reach into. That was a problem with the Dyson, because hair would get stuck up near the top but it was almost too small to reach into so I'd have to use a hangar to get everything out. I also like that the cord retracts, and there's a little thing near the top of the handle that you can clip the cord into to help keep it out of the way. Changing the belt is fairly easy - but I'll get into that later.The things I don't like as much: The hose works fine and some of the tools are good, like the one with the brush on it, but it could be improved. This is one area where the Dyson was much better - the hose was longer and had a sort of handle, and everything was better quality. The Bissell tools are cheap and don't work as well, especially the "triple action brush roll" that's supposed to pick up cat hair. I have tried and tried to figure out how to make that thing work and it just doesn't. That is probably the biggest disappointment with the Bissell - I absolutely need an attachment that picks up cat hair to vacuum the couch, chairs, and everything else that gets covered in hair. The Dyson has an attachment like that with little rotating heads that works incredibly well. Fortunately, it fits on the Bissell hose! If you have pets I highly recommend buying that attachment by itself to use with the Bissell. It's the Tangle-Free Turbine Tool that goes with the Dyson Animal DC40 upright vacuum. I also still use the "articulating hard floor tool" that came with the Dyson, because the Bissell doesn't have anything like that and it fits on the Bissell hose. The Bissell corner tool may be useful if you have carpeted stairs but I don't have stairs and have never found a use for it.The Bissell is bigger than the Dyson and doesn't fit under things as well. Also, when using the hose you have to be very careful not to pull too much or the whole vacuum will fall over because it's so lightweight. I have learned that you have to hold onto it or lay it down to use the hose. Also, over time it has gotten louder; I'm not sure why.Those things are all minor annoyances. The main negative is the same thing many other people have mentioned - the belt breaks too easily. I'd had it less than two months when the belt broke, because I had the vacuum sitting on the edge of a rug that had fringe. While I was busy vacuuming under something with the hose, it somehow sucked the fringe up and I guess it got clogged and that snapped the belt. I was prepared for that because of other reviews, so I ordered more belts from Bissell and they arrived pretty quickly.In the directions it tells you to remove the screws from the plate on the bottom, but there is one more than it says there are. After a few minutes I figured out how to get the belt in the right place and around the roller, put everything back together, turned it on, and there was immediately a horrible noise and I swear flames came out of the vacuum before I could get it turned off. I took the bottom plate off again and not only was the new belt broken but the roller was also broken. I'm not sure what happened because I followed the directions. I contacted Bissell support and told them what happened, and it took them a couple of days to respond, but when they did they said those things aren't usually covered by the warranty but that they would send me a new roller and belt free of charge! They arrived pretty quickly. The roller was a different color than the original, but I wasn't going to gripe about a free replacement. This time after I reinstalled everything it worked perfectly.Since then it has worked great, and no more broken belts! I have learned to be somewhat careful with it. If you buy this vacuum be aware that the suction is so good it will suck up small rugs (like bath mats), and don't roll over small cords or anything loose that could get tangled up in the roller. I never worried about that with the Dyson because even if something did get sucked up I could just pull it out. The Bissell is not as sturdy but will EAT things if you're not careful.Bottom line - even with the minor annoyances I would buy this vacuum again in a heartbeat just for the suction alone, but the price definitely helps.