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Bissell 37601 Lift-Off Revolution Turbo Upright Bagless Vacuum
- Bagless upright vacuum with 15-inch clearing path; from industry leader Bissell
- Vacuum’s sealed HEPA filtration removes up to 99 percent of air impurities and allergens; removable dust cup
- 12-amp motor extracts dirt with turbo-powered suction; 7 height settings for different carpet and floor types
- Onboard accessories include handheld Turbo Brush for pet hair extraction and vertical cleaning; 30-foot power cord
- Vacuum measures 15 by 13-3/4 by 44 inches and weighs 27.9 pounds upon shipping; limited 1-year warranty
Bissell 37601 Lift-Off Revolution Turbo Upright Vacuum with Detachable Canister is one vacuum that meets all your cleaning needs. It has 12 powerful amps to thoroughly clean your carpets, bare floors, stairs and more. The portable canister detaches to easily clean your stairs and hard to reach areas. The Revolution System extends suction power for better cleaning performance and the wide cleaning path allows more dirt to be reached. The Easy Empty Dirt Container means no more bags to buy-EVER. The telescoping wand and deluxe stretch hose extend to reach all the way to the top, allowing you to reach more dirt. It also comes with a HEPA Media Filter which captures over 99.9% of dust mites, pollens and ragweeds. Other features include: TurboBrush which works great for pet hair, soft grip handle, combination upholstry tool/dusting brush, crevice tool, and rotating power brush switch that allows you to turn off the brush roll for hard surface cleaning.With extended suction power for spotles
List Price: $ 219.99
Price: $ 219.99
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An upgrade to my last Bissell (Cleanview Deluxe),this one is even better….was ONSALE for $160, and well worth it.
Removeable canister capability is easy and makes this vac so much more versitile…such as taking out to your car or for carpeted steps. I really love the user friendly design of these Bissell vacs….never complex, and I don’t feel I need a manual to understand or operate.
Super suction…and the brushes are so powerful, it almost feels self propelled as you push forward.
The ‘telescoping’ function of the extension wand was a nice upgrade, although it does takes a little time getting used to it…also the new dual-headed brush tool is an inovative idea i like.
Another really nice upgrade is the on/off brush power button…and the vac is now smart, even when brushes are powered ON, they wont rotate till you step on the release pedal AND pull the handle down towards you.
I also noticed you can now pull the handle down literally to the FLOOR without the front of the vac lifting up…this means being able to roll further under couches/tight spots.
If I had to give CONS :
1) There are 3 filters…1 HEPA and 2 foam…the foam filters in particular should be cleaned once a month,as directed..but I check even more often (due to high traffic/pets)… They can get pretty dirty relatively fast, and although u may not notice any loss of suction,I assume cleaning these filters often will always improve performance…… Its not hard to do, they are basically foam sponges u can rinse clean, and they dry pretty quick.
2) The vac when all together as 1 unit, is pretty heavy. Doesnt bother me, but may be an issue to some. My wife immediately noticed the weight… The canaster vac, when separated, is easy to carry with its handle, but some may still find even this a little heavy as well.
In my opinion, the weight is due to good construction and a strong motor. I think its worth it.
3) Seems like a lot of new vacs come with some form or version of a ‘turbo brush’ attachment. I’m not a fan of these…the brushes are SUCTION driven, NOT motor driven. Its a gimmick tool.. I prefer the simple NON turbo brush tool that come with this vac, and I let the suction power (and a little up/down motion of my own) do the work. I keep the turbo brush permanantly removed from the handle altogether. To me its just added dead weight.
4) only 1 improvenment I could think of now is a retracteable cord….
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|Excellent, excellent machine!,
I’ve had this machine for about a month now, and it just keeps getting better and better! I was told by our local vacuum repair man to stay away from bagless, but I took the plunge anyway and couldn’t be happier. This machine does it all. The first day of use, it picked up dirt and dust that my Hoover Windtunnel left behind. It’s convenient to vaccuum our stairs now, as the unit lifts off and can be hand carried. The turbo brush is an excellent tool to use. Suction on this vaccuum is outstanding, as well as ease of emptying the container when full. No more messy or difficult to install bags either! I highly recommend this vaccuum.
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|Love, love, love this sweeper!,
I needed a new sweeper last December (’05) and was trying to decide between a Dyson and the non-Lift-Off version of this Bissell. I originally ruled the Lift-Off out because 1. We don’t have steps in out house so the Lift-Off feature didn’t seem like it would get much use and 2. the Lift-Off model didn’t have a “clean carpet sensor” which I thought just seemed neat. I ended up getting the Lift-Off anyway because I figured the Lift-Off feature would make it nice for cleaning out the car (and it does!) and this model has the ability to function with the brushes turned off – you can’t turn the brushes off on the standard Revolution.
Now, to be honest, until I started looking, I had no idea you’d ever even *want* to turn the brushes off. It’s supposed to make the machine work better on bare floors. Personally, with or without the brushes turned on, I find using an electric sweeper on bare floor to be clattery and annoying and I prefer to use a broom. But this brushes on/off thing seemed to be the final feature that the Dyson had that the Bissell didn’t, and I was seriously coveting a Dyson.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am sure the Dyson is a great machine… but did I really want to spend that much money on one? Did I really *have* to spend that money to get a good machine? Well… no. I didn’t. I decided to give the Bissell a whirl. I bought mine at Target where, depending on what sort of sale you catch here at Amazon, it may cost more or it may cost less – I paid more – but I liked the idea of being able to return it without selling my first born to pay for shipping, if I hated it.
Fortunately, I haven’t hated it. :-D
Prior to this, I had a Dirt Devil turbo vision or something like that, that I had bought in 2002. It seemed to work OK, but whenever I cleaned my carpets later, the water came up so unbelievably filthy, I had to wonder how much dirt the sweeper was really getting. It had a plastic dirt canister with an accordian-pleated sort of paper filter inside, and you were supposed to pull the filter out, empty the dirt container, whack the filter off, and put it all back together. The filter never seemed to come clean, no matter how many times you whacked it, and any amount of dirt on the filter equates to a drop in suction. The more dirt, the bigger the drop. The only way to restore this machine to full power would be to buy a new filter, and as soon as you use it, you’re back to where you started anyway. And those filters weren’t cheap!
With the Bissell, you have the ability to restore the machine to full power without buying anything, at least for a long, long, time. Here is how it works.
There are two foam filters, which you can wash and reuse. It seems that the air meets one on the way to the dirt cup and one on the way out of the dirt cup. The dirt cup itself has these two wings on the side, seperated from the main dirt cup with little screens. The dirt spins around inside the dirt cup, and the tiniest bits get blown out into the little wings.
The little wing arrangement keeps the tiniest stuff from clogging the foam filters. The foam filters keeps most of the stuff from clogging the paper HEPA filter that is the final exit point of the vaccuumed air. (Yes, there are 3 filters)
This machine, right out of the box, had AMAZING suction. I was simultaneously horrified and delighted at the sheer volume of filth that came out of my carpets. I did my living and dining room 3 times in a row and stuff just kept keep coming up – and I don’t see this as a flaw with the machine because I don’t think any machine can possibly get everything with one pass. Even as you are running it, you are tearing down carpet fibers, breaking down carpet pad, freeing more *stuff* to be sucked up. And given our carpets had apparently not been given a good sweeping in who knows how long, it wasn’t really all that mind-boggling that stuff kept coming up.
There was dirt, dust, sand, hair, glitter, thread, and a massive glob of carpet fibers in the dirt cup, after running this thing. The Bissell means business!
The dirt cup is *easy* to empty. So easy, my preschooler can do it. In fact, he *insists* on doing it.
The tools that come with this machine are pretty standard, with the exception of the Turbo Tool which is the best thing ever invented, as far as I am concerned. It is like a tiny little hand-held vaccuum, all the power, but small! Great for those little strips of carpet in between two pieces of furniture. Extra great for when you take the couch cushions off and there is all that STUFF but if you try to use the brush attachment to get it, you know if just sucks up the fabric and you get annoyed? Not the turbo tool. It brushes it up. Great for the car.
Only problem is it does tend to get gunked up with hair so you have to take it apart…
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