- Weight: 4.3kg
- Water tank capability: 0.53l
- Cordless (25 minutes run-time, 4 hours charging time)
- Assure: 2 years
Reviewed by Kulwinder Rai
Moist and dry vacuums are a comparatively new factor, but when anybody is aware of how you can do it proper it’s carpet-cleaning specialists Bissell. The very first thing you discover is that the enterprise finish of the light-weight HF3 seems like a paint curler. Its foam brush-head is fed a relentless stream of diluted cleansing fluid whereas it spins round, gathering grime and dirt out of your flooring earlier than depositing it within the (small-ish) soiled water tank.
Energy comes from an in-built, non-replaceable battery which supplies 25 minutes operating time however requires a prolonged 4 hours to recharge. Being self-propelled, like a vacuum, the HF3 is pretty power-hungry.
Additionally, you will need to spend a good period of time cleansing it. There’s a sanitation mode that spins and cleans the comb roll at high-speed whereas in its dock however, to be able to keep away from clogging and streaking whereas cleansing, you’ll nonetheless often must take away particles from the curler and filter. On the finish of a session, you’ll completely have to scrub and dry the roll, in addition to the soiled water tank and filters, to keep away from residual pong.
In motion, the HF3 is a whizz at choosing up pet hair, unfastened crumbs and cleansing up gentle espresso and tea stains, however dislodging critically dried-in foodstuffs and dirt is past it, even when the upper of the 2 auto-cleaning settings is engaged.
What it does do – extraordinarily effectively – is to provide your onerous flooring a swift freshen-up, efficiently lifting mud and lighter soiling whereas abandoning little or no water on the floor. Because of this, drying occasions are amazingly fast. Sure, it has some limitations – I’d definitely need to put money into a spare curler – however I believe anybody with onerous flooring will admire the HF3’s specific skill-set.