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Review: Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Vacuum
I’m not sure how we did it, but Cindy and I have managed to survive years of furry, shedding pets with a small yellow vacuum the size of Casper. That little champ held its own against cat hair, dog hair, poofy hair, curly hair.
However, I knew it was time for an upgrade after I sat on the couch last week, lifted up my foot, and noticed a huge mound of fur sticking to the bottom of it.
Simply delicious.
After reading some online reviews, we decided on the Bissell Pet Hair Eraser. People who bought this thing raved about it–and with good reason. I could not BELIEVE how much fur it picked up from the carpet…and we’ve only been in our new apartment for two weeks!
Basically, the vacuum is specially designed to push hair up out of the carpet, and then it gets sucked up. It also comes with a bunch of cool little attachments that suck up hair on stairs and furniture.
We paid about $140 for it, so I’m guessing it’s roughly in the medium price-range as far as vacuums go. The downside: The thing is a freakin tank. Make sure you have some room in the closet to stash this thing, or else find a way to make it fit in with your furniture scheme.
Pros: Gets up just about every bit of pet hair from your carpet. Handy attachments.
Cons: Really, really big.
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I have this vacuum too & my house would be uninhabitable without it! I love my fluffy, mostly white dogs, even with the copious shedding, & with the addition of a seed-tossing canary & an *everything* tossing parrot, this bad boy usually gets pulled out twice a day. It’s heavy, yes indeed, but the flexible, stretchable hose + so well thought attachments make it worth the cardio sesh it takes to get it up the stairs!
I think the pet hair eraser is great but having it a few months the beater wouldn’t rotate unless you held the vacuum all the way down where the beater was barely touching the floor. I cleaned the string and hair off. So then I thought maybe someone twisted the adjustment wrong and broke it it looked like it was missing a piece so I ordered a new one well after waiting a month I went and bought another pet hair eraser right Thanksgiving well my new one is doing the same thing but the adjustment knob looks like the other which I thought was broke I might have been wrong anyone have any ideas?
Pamela,
Sounds like this may be a common defect in this model of vacuum. I’m hoping this doesn’t end up happening to mine too! Have you contacted Bissell about the problem? If you just bought that second vacuum, it should be covered under some sort of 90-day basic warranty. Most items like this are.