Best Vacuum Cleaners

Bissell JunkI bought one of these a few years ago. It lasted only as long as the warranty and failed so I binned it. Compounding my error of choice, I bought another. It has lasted less than 2 years and now will not extract water from c... Read morearpets and rugs. Bissell refuses to honour the warranty as we cannot locate the original receipt from Godfreys and as they are now bankrupt and closing, there is no chance of assistance there. I do have the Logistics packing slip with date and place of purchase but that is unacceptable to Bissell. Two out of 2 failures and I shall not contemplate another Bissell product given the failures and lack of support. Bissell products in my experience have been an expensive learning experience and I would never recommend the brand to anyone. This particular appliance is destined for the Chinese landfill aka council dump. Bunnings, here I come to buy another brand.

Hard to believe how fantastic this model isIve been using a Dyson cordless vacuum which was fine compact etc, however my wife had a voucher and went and used as past payment of the Bissell powerforce helix 2110 plug in cord. I am absolutely gobsamacked at the suction ... Read morepower ! Its incredibly strong I found the carpet suction works even better when set between hard floor & carpet setting ! I actually enjoy using the the machine! Never seen an effect on dust drawn up ! Cord isn’t an issue as the machine is easy and relatively light to handle & when you see the results you just want to run it again r the hell pf it

Incredible suction!I bought it yesterday and gave it a try. Everything is great. It is light weight, easy to clean and pull apart, provided you read the instructions! Having to turn the machine on to remove the cleaning head is certainly unusua... Read morel. As a handheld, it’s brilliant. I have low pile carpet and rug, lino, and wooden flooring. I am especially pleased that there are no bristles for me to have to remove hair from! The dust collector is very small but because it is so easy to empty it’s not really that much of a problem.

Bissell Crosswave pet professional 2223HUsed once. Not suitable for hardwood floors. It has ruined my sydney red gum floors!!! and left permant scatches and marks/lines on it that are very noticeable. I just want to cry... Corded model awkward and heavy. The $450 ... Read morefor this product has now cast me thousands to fix my floors. COMPLETE RUBBISH DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY. These are my scratched floors after using this product.

Terrible not worth the moneyTerrible not worth the money. I have shiny large tiles in living, dining and kitchen area and low shine tiles in laundry, bathrooms and toilets area. The shiny tiles when washed with the crosswave...looks like it's done a goo... Read mored clean till it drys and the marks are still there. The slow shine tiles when wash with the cw are a bit better but you have to keep going over and over till the slightest food stains are removed. The docking station is very flimsy and the brush does not turn when it's on auto wash mode. Also having to take it apart to clean the filter, the tub behind the brush all have to be cleaned each time....so in the end it is time consuming. Not worth the money. I own a cleaning business and I bought the crosswave for my own.personal use. Reverting back to mop.

Poor suction - don’t waste your timeI have a large corded Bissell and it’s worth its weight in gold. I got this battery powered unit for quickly cleaning small stains as kids and carpeted dining rooms don’t mix. The suction on this thing is terrible. The carpet... Read more was left soaking wet and the stain remained. It struggles to pick up a fraction of the water you spray down. Perhaps it’s my cheap renters carpet and it may work better on a thicker pile but I returned it for a refund and will purchase a smaller corded unit instead.

Absolutely love itHubby and I bought this cleaner to do the carpets and rugs in our disgusting rental property in April 2024. We have previously owned a Bissell carpet cleaner about 9-10 yrs ago and it survived 10 yrs of use every 3-6m includi... Read moreng puppy training and living in a mining town (extreme dust and coal in the air). The good: - It reallllly cleans! First go every time. We tested it on our rentals carpets and its worked like a charm but the real star was our 3yr old extremely dirty long shagpile rug. It was brown and has come back to brand new grey tones! Super impressed. - The brushes really scrub the carpets/rugs as it goes, rather than just spraying water on then sucking it off like a vacuume would. This thing gets reallly deep into the fibres with all the bristles resulting in your carpets being "fluffed" and super clean. - Lifts even the most stubborn stains. - Completely gets rid of smells and lingering stenches in carpets even if they've supposedly been cleaned only 6m ago. Our new rentals carpets were releasing this off curry/dirty/sweat/cumin type of smell and they've completely stopped since we used this machine. - Easily sourced, we got ours on sale at Godfreys - I love the handle shape, it really makes it easy to hold and use. Its a nice big loop that is easy to grab at any angle and suitable for those with arthritis in their hands etc. - I like the cord wrapper on the back- makes it easy to store and contain the cord as you go you can just unfurl more as you need it- preventing you from tripping over it as you walk backwards. - Bissell hasn't let us down before and seems to be a trusted brand, the cleaner is well made and seems great almost industrial quality. - I like that it lights up on the bottom of the machine what mode you're on so you can easily see what setting you're set to and change quickly and easily. But that the button to do so is on the handle, which stops you needing to bend over to change the setting. Its a small thing, but its helpful. - I really love that it steams as well as cleans. We really needed the steam function in this house and its absolutely disgusting what it's lifted out of carpets we were told were clean. - Easy to use once you understand how to use it to its full potential. - Easy to set up for that first time. Pretty self explanatory really. - The chemicals it comes with really work! We accidently used less than half of the required amount and our carpets have still come out so so clean and smell fresh as a daisy! All marks and smells are gone! - I like that the chemicals are very easily sourced Australia wide. - I especially love the tray that goes under it. That it comes with the machine too. I love that this tray allows you to clean the machine after each use. It scrubs the brushes and then allows the machine to suck up the dirty water- preventing you from needing to carefully carry a tray full of dirty water through your house to the sink. - The tanks are a pretty decent size. We got a whole 3mX2.5m room/rug done with each tank. - When done properly, the carpets and rugs were dry in about 4-6hrs on a cool day. -The added attachments like the hose and handle parts are so helpful. I can't wait to clean my lazyboy recliner. If the carpets and rugs are anything to go by, it should come back looking brand new like they have. - I really appreciate the corner tool. Makes getting in the creases and corners so easy especially with things like stairs and car seats etc. Things that could be better - She's really loud... You're going to want hearing protection with this one. - She's really heavy. This is not self propelled so I imagine it would likely be too heavy for those who are elderly or cannot lift and maneuver heavy items. Though, it is upright too, so it's not like moving a couch, its more like just a super heavy upright vacume. - And for the level of clean this machine gives it's well worth the weight of it. But that's just something that people should be aware of going into it. - Making it self propelled like other machines on the market would make it much easier to handle. - It'd be really handy and helpful if there was a tag or picture on the machine that teaches people how to actually get the most out of it. There are a lot of reviews here saying its flooding people's carpets, however that is 100% the fault of the operator not the machine. You need to go regular vacuming speed forward (or perhaps a smidge faster) and really slowly backwards sucking the water out. If you go too slowly forward of course its going to flood the carpet! Putting a little tag with pictures or steps on the handle like it has showing the assembly and modes would be very beneficial I think. - In a perfect world, it'd have a retractable cord like a vacuume does but that's really nit picking I suppose. Overall though we are absolutely blown away by the performance of this cleaner and will absolutely be recommending it to all our friends for their homes. Its definitely money well spent.

DON'T BOTHERFor the price this is very average. If something is slightly stuck it won't clean. The customer service is shocking. After 4 calls and 2hrs on the phone, no joy. They tell you they will call back but they don't. Very dissapointed.

Was great then became garbage - twiceLast year, I had this vacuum cleaner replace another Bissell that they no longer stocked which needed to be replaced under warranty. I was very excited getting a completely new fancy machine. Wrong! In April this year it stop... Read moreped operating properly. Sucked up nothing and spat out anything I tried to vacuum. I finally realised the hose where the bend is at the base of the head had split and therefore there was no suction after that point. Bissell replaced the part and they were very good about doing it- I will give them that; their customer service was fantastic. But mind you it was still under warranty. Well come October it’s done it again. It’s split in the exact same spot on the hose. I am just a 1 person household. I have pets but I don’t vacuum up shards of glass or knives each day. I have no idea how the hose keeps splitting but it’s in the most stupid area to have a bend and it makes it a hunk of junk when it happens because now I’m expected to pay $70 for a head that will have a split hose again in any number of months. Avoid this one.

Ordinary. Won't buy againI have always used Shark uprights and loved them. When my last Shark died, I asked around and was told Bissell was the way to go. Wrong! It's bulky, heavy, difficult to manoeuvre and I actually find the design really flawed. ... Read moreYes the brush is powerful, but the piece of plastic in the middle means that you have to swipe several times in the same spot to collect everything. I also find the power brush needs cleaning out way too often as the dirt and hair collects in the sides and starts dumping everything back out on the floor. After about 18 months of persisting with this vacuum, im going back to Shark!

2 in one floor cleaner does the job!Vacuum cleaner and mop in one. Gotta love a machine that cuts your cleaning time in half
I use this with ease on my 3 bedroom one bathroom house with floorboards. the tank needs to be filled twice. The waste tank needs to be ... Read moreemptied twice. It takes a special cleaning liquid mixed with water. I buy the solution when on sale. Being cordless you don’t have to drag around a cord. Battery lasts for the whole house. It’s quick to recharge too. It’s fiddly to clean the parts. But I can see how much dirt it pulls out of the boards.

You get what you pay forI bought this Vacuum 2 years ago. It does have good suction as long as you replace the filter weekly. It's annoying to take apart. It's always a struggle to empty the vacuum into the bin. You can't just open the bottom you ne... Read moreed to pull the whole thing apart to get hair and other components out (fluff balls) anyway fast forward to yesterday. It blew up. Yes. It blew up in my face with a big puff of blue fire and it blew the safety switch on our house. Even turned the fridge off. I feel like I could have died if the saftey switch didn't do its thing. You get what you pay for. I wouldn't purchase this brand again.

Bissel don't want to honour their warrantyWe bought this vacuum and it was good on our carpet, until the belt broke, this within the warranty period. We ordered a new belt from Bissel and put the new belt on, however the vacuum still didn't work, the rotating brush... Read more on the bottom wasn't rotating. We took the vacuum back to where we bought it and they sent it to Bissell for repair. Nearly 6 weeks later we are still without a vacuum cleaner and Bissell are arguing saying it needs a new belt - which has already been replaced by us, which I can prove. Now they want video from the store showing it not working, which they're not happy about. Our next stop will be ACCC .

It’s the secret to my spotless houseI am obsessed with Bissell Crosswave. Its cleans the floors picking up all the bits and bobs of food or whatever and at the same time mopping the floors clean. The dirty water doesn’t mix with the clean water. The self cleaning part has to the cherry on top. Highly recommend it. Show details

Useless waste of moneyCould not possibly be more disappointed. This vacuum does not have mapping and vacuums in a random pattern missing huge sections. The app stopped working and was a waste of space and missing features like "find me" manual ste... Read moreering and pattern choices. The vacuum often gets stuck and the battery lasts about 20 minutes. It often has trouble finding its way back to the charging station. Does not pick up very well at all and floats straight over the top of crumbs without picking them up. Tried to return with Bissells 60 day return policy but customer service just stuffed around until the 60 days expired and then refused the return because the 60 days had elapsed. Not happy BISSELL

Not as good as the old oneA replacement for my old one that has given me 10 years of great service. This new one drags across my timber floors leaving black rubber marks, and squeals when pulled backwards across my bathroom tiles. Loved the old one, not so much love for the new one. Show details

Not that goodGreat suction when it's not blocked. I've spent a lot of time trying to unblock the hose. Now the hose on the head needs replacing which means a new head. I like the light on the motor head but the handle is very heavy with the motor head attachment. Good for very shaggy carpet. Tips over from time to time. Overall I would not recommend. Show details