BISSELL 37601 Lift-Off Revolution Turbo Upright Bagless Vacuum
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Product Details
Manufacturer: BissellBrand: Bissell
Edition: Kitchen
Release Date: 2005-09-15
Model: 37601
Color: Tango Red
Publisher: Bissell
Studio: Bissell
Music Label: Bissell
Product features:
- 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
Description of BISSELL 37601 Lift-Off Revolution Turbo Upright Bagless Vacuum
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 spotless carpets, Bissell offers their Lift-Off Revolution bagless vacuum for household cleaning needs. The upright 12-amp vacuum offers turbo power and seven height levels to accommodate a wide variety of floor and carpet types, while eradicating both deeply embedded debris and light layers of dust. With a long-lasting HEPA filter, the vacuum also improves an environment's air quality, stripping away dust mites, ragweed, and most grass pollen. The vacuum further endears itself to users with its detachable body, leaving the upright frame behind for the more portable canister format that better suits cleaning stairs and other elevated terrains.
To ensure a clean carpet, the 15-inch wide vacuum head features a helpful headlight to illuminate soiled patches. Using Bissell's new Revolution System, the vacuum sucks dirt and debris from even the plushest carpet for heavy-duty cleaning. Debris travels through a HEPA media filter into a sealed dust cup. The dust cup detaches from the vacuum body for easy emptying. The cleaner comes equipped with a special TurboBrush to conquer pet hair and vertical stair cleaning. Rotating brush power can be obtained by flipping a switch. Additional attachments include a telescopic extension wand, dusting/upholstery combo tool, crevice tool, and an extra-reach hose. The power cord spans 30 feet in distance. For the best results, the HEPA filter should be replaced every three years and should never be washed. Bissell offers a one-year warranty for this item. The vacuum measures 15 by 13-3/4 by 44 inches and weighs 27.9 pounds upon shipping. --Jessica Reuling
Tools and Hardware Reviews of BISSELL 37601 Lift-Off Revolution Turbo Upright Bagless Vacuum
Customer Review: Love, love, love this sweeper!
Summary: 5 Stars
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 occasionally, which is an easy enough operation. Two or three screws and pretty idiot-proof to put back together.
The machine is quite light and maneuverable and IMO fairly quiet.
The one bad thing I will say about it is, the clean filter indicator does not seem very reliable. After using this about 5 months, I noticed it did not have the oomph it had when I first got it. The clean filter indicator was still solidly green, and I trusted it. But the machine just did not seem to be picking much up off my carpets, the turbo tool stopped working all together, and when I tried to clean out my car one afternoon, I ended up mostly doing a lot of swearing.
I took all the filter areas apart and washed the filters and put it all back together and... like new.
So it's a great machine - but don't trust the indicators. I suspect the clean/dirty carpet sensor on the standard version is equally unreliable, but I can't say first-hand.
No regrets with this purchase, and a lot of money saved over a Dyson.
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