BISSELL 2254 CleanView Swivel Rewind Pet Upright Bagless Vacuum, Automatic Cord Rewind, Swivel Steering, Powerful Pet Hair Pickup, Specialized Pet…

I never thought I would ever gush about a vacuum but this little thing is great. First of all, you can’t beat the price for the features.

It’s really easy to assemble out of the box. Get a screwdriver to attach the handle and hook up the hose and you’re done.

I want to say it’s only about 15lb so while you can’t pick it up with one finger, if you can handle a gallon of milk then you’ll find it nice and light. It propels itself really well on hard and carpeted floor (just adjust the deck height) and I had no problems with it snagging or having a lot of resistance on a medium to deep pile carpet. I really like that there are no hand controls–incline, power, and cord retraction are all pedals you can operate with one foot. A really nice touch is that the wheels are rubberized to roll on hard floor, so it moves nice and smoothly without clanking and screwing up your floor.

The suction is really surprising for a vacuum this size. It almost looks like a toy when you get it set up, but get going and this thing can *suck*. I used this in a new rental that looked pretty clean when we moved in, and it filled the canister on the carpet in one room. This cute little sucker does. not. play.

I bought this primarily for hard floor (and it’s great for carpet too!), and I could not be happier with its performance. It does a fantastic job picking up both dust and debris, and IT ACTUALLY CLEANS THE EDGES. I didn’t think the swivel motion would be that useful, but it is *so* easy to maneuver that you pretty much just have to turn your wrist and you can run it right along the baseboards, where it SUCKS UP EVERYTHING. Yeah, I know it says it has edge bristles and suction, but this is not the first vacuum I’ve owned to make that claim. It is, however, the first one to actually live up to it.

I don’t have a pet, but I have a hairy husband that sheds like some dogs, and this thing does a great job. I would definitely recommend this to anyone, pets or no pets.

I have several vacuums in my home. The very best vacuum, of those is a very expensive corded Miele canister vac. I also have a Dyson V6 pet vac (which I hate because it only lasts 15 minutes on a battery charge and never completes a job before running out of juice…extremely overpriced and over-hyped), and a Eureka battery operated stick vac, which is great for quick jobs don’t warrant hauling out larger vacuums, as well as an “old school” Eureka upright which works very well, but is a bit on the clunky side.

So, I have a broad range of vacuums to compare to. Why so many? I have a tri-level home and like having a vacuum on each floor, so we don’t have to haul them up and down stairs. I do like this vacuum very much and deducted one star for some minor considerations which I will explain later.

To start out new, I chose a 10×15 area of carpet in the center of my living room, which had been vacuumed previously a couple weeks before. I have attached pictures showing the amount of debris from that one small task, beginning with the brand new vacuum with clean, empty canister. I was quite surprised, considering that it was not an area that had been neglected for a period of time, and we don’t have a lot of traffic in this room, between my wife and I. Also shown is a pre-filter sponge like screen and the amount of pre-filter dust from running the vacuum over the 10×15 area, which took only about a minute or two to traverse. This thick pre-filter sponge can be cleaned under running water. So you get an idea of what the vacuum really does, in use, insofar as collecting dust and debris.

Things that I like, as far as features go, is number one, its light weight and maneuverability. It has a ball swivel like action like a Dyson, which allows you to turn the vacuum head with the twist of your wrist. I deducted one star because it presents some glide resistance when turning the vacuum head on plush carpet (but not so on hard floors). Not much resistance, but one does notice the need to exert a little bit more in the way of forward force or arm exertion when doing so. Again, not enough to dislike the vacuum. Just an observation. I did notice that the height of the brush roller head was such that it did not get under my sofa more than about an inch (as it slopes up from the front edge, to its maximum height), so the head could be a bit shorter/flatter to navigate under furniture. Its clearance is 3″. So any furniture front openings that are shorter than 3″ will not allow the vacuum to go all the way under. I also noticed it will not go all the way back into the toe kick plate recess on my kitchen cabinets where they join the floor. Again, the 3″ height of the head prevents that.

One thing that impressed me, unlike many other vacuums, was that when I run parallel to and along the wall, this vacuum sucks up every bit of debris, all the way up to the baseboard where the wall meets the floor. In addition, there are what I call little “cat whisker” brushes that stick out on each side of the brush roller head, which undoubtedly help in pushing dirt away from the baseboard so that the vacuum can suck them up. Good feature and well executed.

Another huge positive is the retractable cord. I hate having to wind cords onto the exterior clips on most upright vacuums, when done vacuuming. This one has a foot button that you depress, which quickly and firmly reels in the cord to a slot on the bottom of the vacuum. It is not necessarily aggressive but there is no hesitation in this spring loaded action of reeling in the cord. There is a retention clip at the top of the vacuum handle, which can be used to suspend the cord while vacuuming, so it does not drag across the floor (pretty standard feature).

I found the canister removal for dumping debris, to be very straightforward and easy to remove and put back into place, with a handle at the top of the canister that facilitates its removal and reinsertion. And the canister can hold a substantial amount of debris (unlike the Dyson V6 which fills quickly and clogs when full, requiring a stick or screwdriver to be inserted into its canister to dislodge debris from its narrow clearances at the top of its canister).

There are 5 height settings for thick carpet all the way down to hard floors. And I ran my first cleaning experiment with the vacuum on the middle setting, for my 40-50 ounce plush carpet. In total, there are 3 foot activated switches or actions. One releases the upright handle from a locked upright (for storage) position, to allow it to go into action mode for handle angle and head swivel. A second activates the cord reel retractor. And the third is a red button that is the on/off button.

There are 3 tools which are stored onboard, which can be interfaced directly with the flexible vacuum hose, or in conjunction with a straight extension tube to increase your reach. The 1st is a triangular corner crevice tool with vacuum ports running along each of its 2 triangular edges, along with soft short “capture” brushes for crumbs etc. There is no action necessary for use of the 3 tools, beyond simply removing the end of the flex hose from its mounting post near the bottom of the vacuum upright. A 2nd tool is a small oval head brush tool, which I guess is for upholstery and hard surfaces. Although I have always questioned the value of such brush tools in most vacuum offerings, thinking that the brushes just move debris around instead of allowing suction to interact with it. But it is there if you use something like that. And the 3rd tool is a rotary brush tool which can be used on stairs or upright surfaces possibly, like drapes, and on sofas etc. I really like the idea of this tool, BUT, for some reason Bissell decided not to use brushes in the rotary, instead going with flexible rubber like plastic “flaps” which are segmented. The problem with these flaps is that when they come into contact with carpet (i.e. on stairs), the carpet caused them to bog down and stall the vacuum head so it no longer creates suction. I think the flaps, when they stop turning, due to carpet friction resistance, end up blocking any suction coming from the hose. So, if you press down much at all, on the carpet surface, the suction stops and the rotary flaps stop turning. You have to glide over the surface with a very light hand to keep this tool working the way it should. Too bad that Bissell didn’t just use brushes instead, bit maybe, with no actual electrical power being supplied to this small rotary head, it requires the plastic flaps to be turned by suction, which works both for it and against it. All in all, I can live with this shortcoming, since I can still use the other hand tools to get suction to areas, off the main floor, where needed. Thus one other minor reason for a one star deduct.

Out of the box assembly is very simple, with this arriving in only 2 parts, in order to keep the shipping box a bit shorter. The only thing needed is a phillips head screwdriver to attach the upper black plastic handle to the entire main assembly. Two screws inserted into guide holes and you are done. The flex hose and onboard tools also come loose and have to be mounted (very easily and intuitively) onto the posts and ports on the vacuum so everything is stored and easy to use in a well thought out manner.

No reason not to give this vacuum very strong consideration, in its price range. It has no real weak points beyond the aforementioned rotary hand tool which bogs down with the slightest hand pressure, on carpet.

So much better than my crappy $700 dollar D*s*n.
I absolutely LOVED this vacuum so much….until it snapped in half while I was in the middle of vacuuming after only owning it for 5 months. I’m so sad. I’m hoping I simply got a defective one because this thing literally picked up years of crap I never knew my Dyson was leaving behind. I will buy again but if the plastic connections break again that easily, it won’t be getting a third chance 🙁

Excelente, de buen material, es super facil de armar. Trae 5 accesorios y tiene una potencia bastante buena, ideal para los que tenemos mascota, aspira sin problema el pelo que tiran de cualquier superficie, sillones, alfombras, tapetes piso. Bastante comoda, no usa bolsas, el tanque se lava en casa. Excelente compra

LOVE this vacuum! Between two large dogs and three dirty little boys, this thing is a snap to whip around multiple times a day. I thought I could give or take the swivel feature, but it really makes getting around the furniture and tight spaces a lot easier. Once I bought this one, I realized there was another model with a portable canister and allergen filter…but it didnt have the retractable cord OR the swivel feature! I decided to stick with the one I got 😊