Product Description

Bissell Featherweight Lightweight Vacuum

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #322 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Bissell
• Model: 3106A
• Dimensions: 5.10" h x 5.80" w x 28.90" l, 4.31 pounds

Features

• Lightweight, easy to use, and bagless
• Converts from a floor vacuum to a hand vacuum
• Cleans bare floors, carpet, upholstery, draperies, and stairs
• Ergonomically designed comfort grip handle
• 9-1/4 by 4-1/4 by 44-1/2 inches; weighs 3-1/2 pounds

Amazon.com 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 for small areas or anyone who needs a lightweight cleaning tool, the Featherweight stands 44-1/2 inches high and has a 9-1/4-inch nozzle. It comes with an ergonomically designed grip, and Bissell includes a limited one-year warranty. --Emily Bedard

From the Manufacturer

• 1.2 amp motor
• 16-foot power cord
• Midnight blue color
• Excellent for cleaning bare floors, carpet, upholstery, draperies, and more
• Crevice tool included
• Lightweight
• Easily converts from a floor vacuum to a hand vacuum
• Limited one-year warranty
• Bissell has been providing quality products for over 125 years. Their deep cleaning products are well known for their quality and superior performance, and those same high standards have carried over to the line of vacuums. The Bissell FeatherWeight offers you three vacuums all in one, easily transforming to meet your cleaning needs throughout the house.
• The three-way design not only gives you the benefits of a lightweight floor vacuum, but it also transforms into a hand vacuum and a multi-purpose vacuum. The easy-change attachments make converting it a clinch, so cleaning in both large and tight places has never been easier. Best of all, the FeatherWeight features an Easy Empty dirt cup, so there are no bags to buy.

Customer Reviews

A cheap quick fix
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.

A "must have"
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.

It's Great
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!