We purchased this sweeper in hopes that it would provide an easy way to sweep our laminate floors free of dog hair and kid debris. Well, it does get the dog hair, but requires many passes. It ends up taking longer to sweep the floor with this sweeper than it would have to haul out the regular vacuum. It probably misses about 25% of the hair in the first pass, and when you pull the sweeper back toward yourself, it brings a nice pile of hair with it. It does not work in reverse! Sometimes it spits out big clumps of dog hair, which will entertaining, adds to the length of cleaning time. Also, the rotating brush is getting full of long hair, which is a pain to clean out. It picks up dry pasta, sand and other similar bits easy, but who cares? If that's all I had to clean up I'd stick with a broom.
The feel of the unit is cheap. I always feel like it's going to break when I snap the dust tray back into place. Speaking of the dust tray, users will enjoy the fact that they will have to sweep the floor in the area where the pulled the tray out. You always end up with dirt and hair on the floor. You will need to pick up the base unit and empty it too, since it always has dirt in it too. A wonderful undocumented feature!
Now that I've vented about everything I dislike, here's a few of it's better features:
* Lightweight - Cheap stuff usually is!
* Long run-time on a charge - You will need it!
* Articulating handle - It works good and actually is handy.
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