Bissell 2156A Zing Canister Bagless Vacuum

I’ve been very happy with this vacuum. It’s lightweight, easy to carry, and has strong suction for its size. It does a great job picking up dust, pet hair, and small debris on both hard floors and low-pile rugs. I also like that it’s simple to empty the dust container and doesn’t take up much storage space. The cord is long enough for cleaning several areas without constantly changing outlets. If you’re looking for an affordable vacuum for everyday cleaning, this is a great choice. It offers excellent performance and has made keeping my home clean much easier.

This Bissell Devil's own vacuum sucking machine can take any about of abuse. Literary, as within the literary circles, it likes it like a true masochist in furs. Had it for 7 years, knock on wood, no seven years itch yet. It likes to think it is a catfish, when being pulled suddenly and rapidly. It takes it well, as if nothing happened. It takes the flipping on its back when it is flipped, and then slid and dragged, no airways blocked, no exhaust is stagnated,, dragging it this way, then another flip on its belly, and it continuous, as if nothing happened. It keeps sucking all the dirt that it find its way. A machine it is. And it is in Purple. Prices went up, way up since I bought it. But hey, the rich gets richer, and the poor supposedly get more children. This devil's own is loud like any devilish musical vacuum cleaner that was banned. Why complain? It really sucks big time, sucks anything and everything that would fit through its attached hose. Easy to move around, it takes it, any position, and no performance reduction, nor complains, nor crisis issues. It keeps rolling. Very motivating. Clogging? Just have a stick to stick into the hose when clogged, and voila! no clogging! It is durable like any creature that seeks its life. It has a good instinct for that rather. The strange thing about this vacuum cleaner, in its aesthetics, it tries to look like a Lamborghini Countach. Check out the rear, keep staring at the rear, and you will see all Louvres style and stuff.. I love that! Sporty!

I just ordered this vacuum ( Bissell Zing 2156A) and got to use it for the first time today. The sucking action is excellent, very strong. It is also very maneuverable. The Zing can be held in one hand while holding the wand with your other hand. I purchased this little canister vacuum for cleaning underneath my beds, a large sectional sofa and along the trim (where the walls meet the hardwood floor in my house). It has performed these jobs well. My only complaint, the actual hose, wand (tube) and other attachments are definitely on the cheaper side (feel flimsy). Also the wand does have a tendency to come apart while vacuuming, so I have to use it carefully. I did order a set of extra attachments so I can get into those hard to reach places underneath furniture. Overall, not bad and decently priced. Time will tell if it lasts. I only needed it for specific tasks (as mentioned above), so did not want to spend a lot of money. Update: (1-05-2025). After reading other reviews about the Bissell 2156A burning out/not lasting long, I felt something needs to be said. IMHO, this little canister vacuum is probably not meant to be used as a standard upright or large canister vacuum. What I mean is that it is more suited for smaller jobs, not vacuuming your whole house or large apartment ( again, my personal opinion). I have a 20 year old Kenmore canister vacuum with a large capacity canister that uses bags. It is a beast, extremely well made and still works to this day. However I have relegated it to only cleaning out my garage once a year. It may die any day, hence I only use it sparingly. So keep this in mind if you decide to purchase the Zing. Also make sure to register it, just like any other appliance, etc.

We have a black lab who sheds constantly, and this vacuum has genuinely helped me keep up with it on our hardwood floors. Two months in, still using it multiple times a week, and it hasn’t lost suction or clogged once, even with how much hair our dog puts out. It’s lightweight and easy to get into tight spots and hard to reach corners, which was actually my main reason for buying it, and it delivers there. Two small gripes worth mentioning: the cord is shorter than I expected, so I’m switching outlets more than I’d like in bigger rooms. And the attachments pop off pretty easily, so I find myself holding them in place while I’m using them rather than trusting them to stay put. Neither of those stopped me from loving how well this thing handles daily pet hair. Solid, reliable workhorse for hard floors, and I’d buy it again.

OMG this is one of the best vacuum cleaner I ever had. Picks up pet hair better than my other heavy vacuum does. The price is great for a vacuum cleaner that works so well. Thumbs up!!!!

I bought this vacuum in July 2022 and it just died on me. There is no noticeable damage to the cord and I tested each outlet I plugged it into just to make sure I wasn't missing anything. Not sure what happened but this thing was a beast and did the job for almost four years. I do wish it had a stronger suction on carpet but I got what I paid for. I will not be repurchasing (upgrading to a robot vacuum so I can spend less time vacuuming) but I'm grateful for what it did in the time I had it. Other things worth noting: - I have a dog that sheds a little bit. This helped. - The vacuum is quite loud and scared the dog off each time I used it. - I'm short (5'1") and still found myself hunching over to vacuum even using it at it's full height.

I got this primarily to vacuum my dogs. That's right - I have two very large, very shedding dogs. A first gen Labradoodle - 1st gen don't always get the poodle coat. Mine didn't. He sheds. A LOT. I know people say their dogs shed, but seriously, this guy takes it to a whole new level. The other dog is a Rottweiler, who also sheds, but it's a "normal" amount. I have a robot vacuum, but it cannot cope with the volume of dog hair even running daily. The bin is always full. If I'm home when it runs I empty it twice while it's running. This is currently 4 days a week. The other three it gets emptied daily. Neither of our dogs are really afraid of the vacuum (before I had the robot one) so I figured it wouldn't be a stretch to get them acclimated to being vacuumed. So I ordered this and an attachment specifically designed to brush/vac a dog. The attachment was a waste. In the end I use the hose of this vacuum, without an attachment. Both dogs love it. However, the Rottie, she's obsessed. She begins barking excitedly as soon as I turn the vacuum on. I do use this to vacuum surfaces and corners where the robot can't quite manage - shelves, entertainment center, couches, corners, etc. My Rottie can't wait till it's her turn. And even when I'm done with her and move on the the non-Doodle Doodle, she is still trying to get in on the action. Bot dogs mad the "oh that feels SO good" face - seems to me it scratches the itch that they can never reach! Now - how does this little guy perform as an actual vacuum as opposed to a dog grooming implement? Surprisingly well! It has really powerful suction. Works great on all the items I mentioned. I haven't used it with the floor attachment but I can imagine that the folks who complain about it on carpet didn't read the description very well - there is no powered brush attachment and the suction is so powerful that I wouldn't even try to use it on carpet except with the crevice tool around baseboards, corners etc - I have all hard surface floors so this won't ever be something I do. I also can't speak to the length of the extension for the floor tool because I haven't used it - our robot vac does that job. The extensions do look short though so I can't imagine trying to vacuum my whole house with this - but I can see using them to take out cobwebs! As a lightweight, powerful hard floor vacuum, being used for everything BUT the bulk of the floor, I give this high marks. As a dog-grooming device I'm thrilled - the amount of fur and (shudder) dander that I dumped from the bin was a real eye-opener - and that's before I got to tapping out the filter (OMG that was disgusting!). I would not use this on small dogs.... the suction is powerful enough that you could probably lift a dog of 10lbs or less off the floor. But for my large dogs (+/-100lbs each), it's amazing. They love it, it gets the shed and hopefully it'll help cut down on the wear on our robot vac. It's also small enough that it tucks into our already packed hall closet easily. It rolls smoothly on the floor and even when I took it all over it didn't get tangled in it's cord. I also love that the cord retracts into the body of the machine. Between this and the robot vac, I will likely never use our expensive water basin vacuum again! If you're looking for something to get corners, cobwebs; to vacuum furniture and even large dogs, I don't think you can go wrong with this... just be prepared for your dog to become an addict.

Like the title says: this vacuum sucks. Which: you want your vacuum to do, right? Yes, BUT: there are other features, and NONE of them are good - except maybe the retractable cord. However, given the general poor build quality of this machine, I don't trust that feature to last. I read the other reviews. Based on those reviews, I had almost decided to look for a different vacuum instead, when I saw that there was a "used-like new" (meaning: unused, but no longer in the original box) option for $35 less than the "new" price, and I thought, wow, what an incredible deal! I know the reviews aren't great, but there's no way it could be THAT bad. And if it really is that bad, I can still return it, right? I have learned my lesson. Every single complaint I saw in the bad reviews has proved true, AND I can't return it, because they want to charge me half of what I paid for the thing for return shipping. So I guess I'm going to keep it and figure out how to make it work for me, like several of the other reviewers did. Suction: the suction is so strong that it was pulling apart my area rugs. Yes, there is an "adjustment" valve, but it was still doing this even with the valve all the way open. Adjustment valve switch: this feature is of such poor quality that it's constantly falling shut on its own, AND it's located in an awkward place, so if you're holding it naturally, your hand either completely covers the vent, or pushes the switch shut. Extension rods: these are extremely cheap/flimsy feeling and kept detaching from each other and from the handle. I vacuumed ONE room and it fell apart 10+ times! Floor head: as another review mentioned, the "carpet/hard floor" switch does not really move the components of the floor head very much. So, when you use it on hard floors, it doesn't retract enough, and the plastic scrapes/scratches the floor, and when you use it on carpet, the combination of the overly strong suction & the brush makes it nearly impossible to move, and when I did move it, it either made the extension rods fall apart, or it started ripping fibers out of the carpet. It was particularly bad on my area rugs. I will probably end up taping over the brush like the other reviewer did. Dusting brush: for some reason the bristles of the dusting brush are offset, so that when the overly strong suction pulls the dusting brush hard against whatever you're dusting, it scrapes against hard plastic. This is fine for soft surfaces like upholstery, but not so great for things like blinds or air filter dust covers. Emptying the canister: awful. I put the canister all the way inside my trash can before opening it, and it somehow still got dirt all over the place, AND the filter fell out into the trash, AND I still had to stick my hand into the canister to fish out clumps of cat hair that wouldn't come out on their own. Combined, these issues meant I was basically bent double the entire time I was vacuuming, between trying to keep the attachments attached, trying to keep the suction vent open, and trying to keep my area rugs from being pulled off the floor. This is NOT what I wanted, especially given that the reason I wanted a small, lightweight canister vacuum in the first place was because I have hand pain/grip strength issues! Well, it is small and lightweight, and it's strong enough to pick up "tofu" cat litter pellets, which many vacuums are not. But it hurts me more to use than any other vacuum I've used in my life. I guess I'll just have to hope that what the one review said about the extension rods "settling" eventually and staying together better after a while is true, and that taping over the brush on the floor head will make enough of a difference that I won't have to keep reaching down to yank it up off the carpet. And maybe I'll put a rubber band or something on the valve switch to keep it from closing itself. But I have a feeling that I'm going to continue to regret having bought this machine no matter what.

Me encantó!!!! Cumplió con mis expectativas al 100% . Buscaba una aspiradora que fuera practica, ligera y de gran potencia, para dejar la abrumadora escoba para barrer los pisos de mi casa. Es el segundo día que la uso y no tengo ningún comentario negativo. Es tan potente que no creo que sirva para aspirar alfombras, ya que su potencia es impresionante y no creo que se pudiera desplazar tan fácil en la alfombra. Pero para mis pisos es sencillamente sensacional!!! La volvería a comprar

Came very quickly. Great power and suction. No beater bar and the floor bar is mediocre, doesn’t always pick things up. The cord is WAY too short, that’s the main downfall. Great for cleaning dust and ceiling fans, very lightweight, easy to carry and vacuum at the same time if you have to get up high etc. If you buy the horse hair brush with it, it makes a fantastic vacuum for dusting high places, shelves, all the corners and baseboards, etc. Not the best for full floor vacuuming.

works great,nice and light.

Muy practica y facil de usar, puede limpiar bien los pisos, tengo 2 gatos y un perro

It is a good vacuum that sucks ok however not that great for a tall person due to Extension Wand cannot be extended extra