Best Bissell Vacuums of 2023, Tested and Reviewed by Experts

We consistently find that bissell vacuum cleaners rank as some of our favorites across the board for their versatility, durability and ease of use. The tanks need to be switched when going from vacuuming to wet mopping, but they are easy to remove and empty when your robot is done cleaning. The SpinWave’s microfiber mopping pads are machine-washable and we found the brush roll easy to remove and clean. Plus, the mop pads spin as the robot travels across your floors, making sure that it is scrubbing and not just wiping them. The same SpinWave technology can also be found in the Bissell SpinWave Hard Floor Spin Mop, a top pick in our round-up of the best mops tested by our cleaning experts.

Aside from switching out the tanks, you can just sit back and relax while it hustles around your room doing all the work for you. It’s a great maintenance cleaner, first vacuuming hard floors and area rugs to remove surface dust, then bissell vacuum cleaner scrubbing hard floors to get them clean and shiny. In our tests, it cleaned hardwood and tile floors thoroughly getting all the way up to the tight corners and picking up pet hair and dry debris we didn’t even know was there.

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The experts in the Good Housekeeping Institute Cleaning Lab have tested hundreds of vacuum cleaners in our Lab and use the same process on all of them to ensure that every product is evaluated correctly. Using a custom-built vacuum testing machine, dirt is embedded into a test carpet, then each vacuum is passed over the carpet an equal number of times. By comparing the weight of the empty dust cup before testing and the dust cup’s weight after testing, our experts calculate just how much dirt is picked up by each vacuum. This robot vacuum and mop combo puts automated cleaning at your fingertips.

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Not only will it stretch to the farthest corners of each room, but it can cover any surface you need with its automatic floor type recognition. Jodhaira (she/her) is a product reviews analyst at the Good Housekeeping Institute’s Home Care & Cleaning Lab, where she tests and writes about home appliances, cleaning products and cleaning tips. Prior to joining GH in 2021, she graduated from Hofstra University with a bachelor’s degree in forensic science and spent two years as an analyst in an environmental lab in Queens.

This bagless canister vacuum has three cleaning modes and can be used across all types of flooring from carpet and hardwood to tile and linoleum. While we haven’t tested this model in the Lab just yet, our experts appreciate that it has edge-cleaning bristles to get the dust out of hard-to-reach places like baseboards and along the edges of cupboards. Bissell makes post-cleaning tasks easier with automatic cord rewind and a dust cup that is emptied with the touch of a button. Large wheels on the canister make the vacuum easy to pull along as you clean, too. This corded upright has a tangle-free brush roll and a hair spooling system in the dust cup that makes pet (and human) hair pickup — and the inevitable cleaning of the vacuum after — a breeze. It comes with three attachments, and two are specifically for tackling more pet hair messes.