Cordless Swivel Sweeper – Original As Seen on TV by Swivel Sweeper
- The Swivel Sweeper is the new floor and carpet sweeper that lets you clean dirt and messes faster and easier than ordinary cordless sweepers. It combines the cleaning power of Quad Brush Technology – powerful rotating cleaning brushes that pick up dirt and messes from all four sides of the sweepers’ head.
- Powered by a rechargeable battery- battery & charger included!
- Weighs only 2 pounds. Has reusable dirt tray.
- Made of durable plastic and aluminum
- Powerful, rotating brushes that pick up dirt and messes from all 4 sides
Quick and agile Swivel Sweeper is cordless! Fast and easy to use! The secret is Quad Brush Technology. Powerful rotating brushes pick up dirt from all four sides of the sweeper head. Even has 360 degree swivel to easily maneuver around furniture, objects. Low profile gets under ’em, too. Bagless dirt tray easily removes for quick disposal of dirt / debris. Runs up to 45 minutes on a single charge. Has 7.2V rechargeable battery and charger. Head is 11 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/2″h., 47″ handle. UL-listed. For all floors; Weighs only 2 lbs.; Rechargeable; Cordless; Reusable dirt tray; Clean-up on this dynamo ONLINE today! Swivel SweeperWhen a full-size vacuum is just too much bother, and a handheld unit won’t quite clean up that mess, there’s the Swivel Sweeper from Get Organized. Faster and easier to use than inferior cordless floor and carpet sweepers, the Swivel Sweeper features four rotating brushes for unsurpassed cleaning power, and a 360-degree swivel base for optimal maneuverability. Thi
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I’ve read some pretty bad reviews on its battery charge holding power, but was intrigued anyway enough to buy one. I LOVE it!! Enough so, that I want to give you these cautions, which I’m observing. Then I’ll tell you why it’s worth it.
1. It says to fully charge it (8 hours) when you first get it. Do that. Don’t cheat halfway through because you want to try it out. Just leave it plugged in, uninterrupted, for the 8 hours.
2. All rechargeable batteries have some weaknesses. This one may have more. While the directions say you can re-charge it before it runs out, I am not doing that. The safest way to treat a rechargeable battery is to let it run out of juice entirely. Then give it a full charge. That prevents any possibility of the battery’s “memory” programming itself to only hold a charge a shorter time.
3. Do NOT leave the battery in the charger for longer than 24 hours, and I wouldn’t leave it anywhere near that. (They tell you that in the instructions but they don’t say why, so people can ignore this.) What happens is… the item gets fully charged (in this case, in 8 hours or less). Then as is the case with ALL batteries, they lose a little charge just by existing. If a rechargeable battery is left in its charger, the charger may charge it that teensy bit to bring it up to snuff. So what you are doing is conditioning its memory for a short charge. (I’ve heard this from everyone, from Verizon with cell phones on down the line.)
4. Last but not least, because of that last factor, I keep the battery out of the machine. It could still be losing a little charge, but at least it’s not plugged into anything.
As for other complaints I’ve read, just understand how this thing works. It is NOT a vacuum. There is no suction whatsoever. It is nothing more than a sweeper. It has round brush rows on all sides that sweep matter into a tray (and it’s a little tray). And that’s all that it does. HOWEVER, it does that so well that… well, let’s just say my floors are cleaner than they’ve ever been. I run this thing around maybe once a day, and it’s just great. I empty the little tray (which is extremely easy to detach and re-attach as the head of the unit is on the floor — you don’t have to pick the unit up and hold it over the trash). Then it just snaps back on with a good, confirming click. And I would plan on emptying the tray every time you use it, because this thing picks up dust and everything.
One other thing. From time to time clean the brushes. Threads can get wound around and while they are just not a problem to pull off, you don’t want them getting too wound up. It’s just not a biggie at all.
So in short, yes there are a few things to remember, but this little unit is SO incredibly handy, that none of the above things are worth hassling yourself over. As for it working on carpets, it does okay on short pile carpet (you will hear the motor slow down a little). But it’s meant mainly for floors.
I also love the fact that it has a magnet on one side of the head and on the handle (which matches up and holds) because it stores in the teensiest width places.
So this is a big review FOR it, but with the cautions that you can’t expect it to be a vacuum because it’s not; and you do need to do whatever you can to maximize its battery life between charges. As for customer service, I don’t think there is any. I called them to get the lowdown on how to maximize its battery life between charges, and it’s nothing more than a call center. It’s not the actual company.
I just absolutly love this thing. I track dirt in from the barn and from the outside, and it is soooo handy for daily maintenance of floors (kitchen, bathroom, etc.) I haven’t vacuumed my kitchen floor for over a month (ouch! but it’s true). I just run this thing around and it gets into all sorts of crevices and corners.
Oh, one other caution. I am VERY careful not to run it over water or other spills (particularly anything sticky!). The reason is because those brushes are obviously going to have dirt encounters, that’s what they’re for. Any liquid, I’m quite sure, would just make for gunking them up.
I hope this is helpful, because the reviews I’ve read would have dissuaded me from having ever tried it. But they were ALL complaints about the above things which are quite easy to avoid.
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Updated: January 7, 2006
I have now owned the product for six months. I have nothing to change in my review. I am surprised that people are having so many problems with this product. My unit still works fine; the battery holds a charge; the pole has not broken; the handle has not broken. Maybe my unit is not typical. However, you do need to have realistic expectations for this product. The Swivel Sweeper is not a new revolutionary cleaning apparatus worthy of a patent (as the info commercial implies). It is just an electric sweeper for quick clean ups. If you want the thorough results that a vacuum provides–use a vacuum.
Original Review
I have owned my Swivel Sweeper for two weeks. If you are looking for something better than your dust pan, this is the product for you. If you are looking for something to replace your vacuum cleaner, you are going to be disappointed. The pros: light weight, high quality, cordless, rechargeable, easy to use, maneuverable. The cons: overpriced, can’t ever replace a vacuum, time-consuming periodic cleaning. The product is just what I was looking for: a cordless, rechargeable, electric dust pan that I could keep in the kitchen next to the refrigerator and pull out twice a week and sweep the kitchen floor. I have a light colored tile floor and it shows every little particle of dirt. In addition, my cat spreads Friskies on the floor and the sweeper picks up those nicely. The Swivel Sweep is a fairly high quality product. All the parts look well designed, fairly durable (they are just plastic), and fit together well.
The Swivel Sweep is oversold on the info commercial (as to be expected). It will never take the place of a vacuum cleaner. It is not a vacuum cleaner. It creates no suction. It is simply a sweeper. I would summarize it as an electric dust pan. The product has four rotating brushes that sweep items into a small centralized dust pan with openings on all four sides. The Swivel Sweeper is much quieter than a traditional vacuum cleaner; however, one would not use it in a room with a sleeping baby as advertised–it is not that quiet. It makes a tone with medium-high pitched whine. The picture on the box shows the product being used to sweep dirt from a carpet after a house plant has been toppled–forget it! That is not a good use of this product. Use a real vacuum cleaner for that job. This product is really only effective on hard surfaces. A dust pan is not what I would use on a carpet. Yes, you could pick up small items sitting on the surface of a carpet like paper clips, but realistically, to clean a carpet adequately, one should use a vacuum cleaner with strong suction and a powerful beater brush to separate the carpet strands. The Swivel Sweeper has neither of these. The Swivel Sweep is not comparable to a real vacuum cleaner. The Swivel Sweeper has problems picking up some very small items even on hard surfaces. Sometimes an item will shoot across the floor instead of going into the dust pan. I find myself going over the same area multiple times to pick up some items (but no big deal).
Because the product is fairly new, it is a bit overpriced. I think $29 would be more appropriate. I would expect to see it at Target in a year or two for $19.95. Emptying the dust pan is easy. Cleaning the sweeper is not. The Swivel Sweeper comes with a “cleaning tool” which is nothing more than a thread cutter/seam ripper (if you know what that is). Hair (human hair) gets wound around all four brushes and needs to be periodically cut and vacuumed out. The manual says “on occasion” this cleaning need to be done. The manual indicates the battery will last 45 minutes on one charge. That seems reasonable since I am still on the original charge and have used the sweeper about 10 times.
Overall, I am pleased with the product.
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