Review
A remarkably lightweight cleaning unit, the Featherweight stick vacuum from Bissell offers dual functionality in one slim little machine. Suitable for bare floors, draperies, upholstery, and low-pile carpets, the Featherweight converts easily from a floor vacuum to a hand vacuum and includes a crevice tool for tight corners. Completely bagless, the unit collects debris in a dust cup with a washable cloth filter. When the cup fills up, you just pop it off and empty it. Handy …
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Lightweight yes – worth it – maybe not
I’ve had this item for a year. I’ve actually pulled it out maybe a dozen times.
Yes it is lightweight which is one of the reasons I purchased it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not a magic broom, but almost!
This is a great product! Handy for getting crumbs up in a hurry with little effort! Also picks up very well when used on small area rugs. I highly recommend it!
I wanted a lightweight, compact vacuum to use every evening after dinner on the kitchen floor. Our regular vac was too bulky to pull out for quick jobs, and we didn’t have a spot to charge a cordless. I settled on the Featherweight because it was small enough to hang from my mop rack and only cost $20. This vac is ideal for picking up dust and pet hair on wood or tile floors. However, I’ve found that with larger, heavier items (such as spilled dog food), the vac often has to be lifted up over the item and placed right down on top of it in order to pick it up; if I just push the vacuum over dog food, it often just pushes the dog food in front of the vacuum head instead of sucking it up. Removing the vac head and using this as a hand vac works much better for picking up dog food and the like. I’ve also found that items about the size of a marble (again, spilled dog food) get jammed right behind the plastic shield covering the intake opening of the vac. To remove them I need to jam a stick back there, loosen the item and then pry it out. This is a pain in the neck that I really don’t need. Finally, there’s no way to clean the dust off the filter without using your bare hands; this vac really needed just a tiny brush that attached to the unit to make dusting off the filter easier and neater. As it is, after every use I need to pull clumps of dog fur off the filter with my bare fingers – yuck! I think that once this breaks (as I’m sure it will – it’s made of quite junky plastic and doesn’t seem all that durable) I’ll go out and spend a bit more money on a higher quality stick vac. However, for $20 this little cheapie picks up the messes and doesn’t take up too much space.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Works As Advertised
After years of trying to get a decent cordless vacuum, I gave up and decided to get one that was “corded”.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bissell 3106A
Very good item. I really like that it is light and works as good as a full sized vacuum.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for my studio apt
It’s very lightweight and easy to clean around my apt…it definitely gets the job done right
Just what I needed! I’ve been struggling with a handheld vaccuum that cost twice as much that jammed everytime it reached a pile of dirt. This little vac got up years worth of dust from the corners, cleaned up all my bare floors, scooped up old leaves around the plants, got into tough corners behind stuff I snapped it together in 30 seconds and away I went!
4.0 out of 5 stars
A hand vac on a stick
I think I was expecting this to be more vacuum-like and less dustbuster-like. It is, in fact, a dustbuster with a longer handle and two attachments that can be slid into its…
This is easy to use and very light weight. It was just what I needed between weekly visits from the wonderful person who actually vacuums for me (I HATE vacuuming with a passion). I have a cat and a dog and I garden (sloppily) so I needed something like this that I’d actually use. I took it out of the box, assembled it in about a minute (without even having to read the directions) and I cleaned up my kitchen. It pulled up an amazing amout of fur, etc. Now I’m looking for things to clean. It took me a few trys to get the emptying part down, but it’s easy. Just remove the main unit from the “stick” and empty it over a trash can or empty it over a piece of newspaper on the floor. Since the body is plastic a bit of the fine dust may cling to the outer case, so have a damp paper towel handy to give it a quick exterior wipe. No big deal. The price is so incredibly reasonable that I bought another one to keep next to the kitty litter box.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exactly what I wanted
I needed something lightweight to pick up the debris my dogs track in and leave on the hardwood and vinyl flooring downstairs. This is perfect for the purpose.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very good for tile floors
This works great on tile floors. The suction has a lot of power and it glides easily, also very lightweight which makes it all faster.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best vaccum ever!!
I usually don’t write reviews, but I had to for this one!! Because it’s so not fair not to write anything about such a wonderful product.
4.0 out of 5 stars
easy vac
Does very well. Have a question. Is it alright to connect this to an extension cord? Cord that is with vac. toooooo short.