Home Appliance Reviews

I have a puppy, which means that we have plenty of accidents that I need to clean up after… Oh the joy of owning a puppy. It is difficult to get those wet poop stains out of the carpet even with products specifically designed to lift an animal stain! I decided that I needed to get a product that could help with lifting stains. I didn’t want to pay a small fortune to get the top of the line product, but I wanted something. I went to my local market and found the Bissell Quicksteamer II.

I love my kittens. They’re sweet and playful and purr like little motors. They snuggle when they’re sleepy and spread out in a patch of sun looking like contentment personified. They also have the habit of strewing cat litter around their little room with reckless abandon, apparently relishing the feel of it beneath their feet even when they aren’t in their pans. Honestly, it’s as though they hold litter tossing contests to see who can track the most the furthest with each trip to the pan.

I recently purchased the Shark Steam Mop on a whim at my local Costco for three reasons:

1. I hate mopping because I have a very large, open tile space on the main floor, which usually takes 12 years to dry.

2. Costco would let me return it no questions asked if I am dissatisfied after giving it a whirl.

3. We are committed to cleaning our home as “greenly” as possible.

Given that the purchase was risk-free, the Shark was plopped into my cart and came home with us.

I was a bit apprehensive to buy a non-central vacuum after having one as my main vacuum for the last 16 years. We are moving to a new home having to sell our custom built home that contains my Electrolux Central Vacuum. I was very particular in my search to find a vacuum that would meet my needs of picking up dog and cat fur as well as the daily dirt with attachments that still would have the suction power when using them as stand-alone.

Having two yellow labs in our house gives us more than our fair share of dog hair. It’s in the couch, on the stairs, in the rug, under the tables….just everywhere. Prior to buying this vacuum, we had a basic Oreck that seemed to do the job fairly well, but it was getting old and it wasn’t as powerful as this model.

We purchased the Bissell Pet Hair Eraser at Lowe’s for $149.99, after being convinced by the salesperson that it would indeed do the trick for all the pet hair in the house.

This machine is everything it says. I researched epinions before deciding to purchase this particular model. I originally hesitated due to the amount of advertizing they do for this, I thought it was overpriced. However, after reviewing epionions, the biggest complaint I heard was the weight & that it was a bit too POWERFUL. Can that be a negative? Not in my books!

We’re going back to the basics. We’ve lugged around those heavy bagless vacuums long enough, constantly getting clogged. Took 3 men, two boys, and a big dog to move it around. And our little canister vac was fine when we had stairs, but the dang thing doesn’t work well for regular vacuuming. So, back to the bag. Of course, even bagged vacuums have changed. They hide the bag away now behind a solid plastic covering, but it’s still there. And sinfully easy to change. Not like that that darn canister, Shark, that takes an hour to change the bag or dumping that awful container on the bagless vac.