#SWS-MC4 Cordless Swivel Sweeper
by ONTEL PRODUCTS CORP
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of #SWS-MC4 Cordless Swivel Sweeper
Customer Review: Great! But it's not a vacuum cleaner...
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great product. I've had it for 6 months and I've had no problems with it. I'm not sure why some people have problems with the pole. I use it all the time to pick up messes. Please do not expect it to replace your vacuum cleaner or your broom and dust pan. This product is not intended to sweep your whole house. The battery doesn't last that long and the little dust pan is small. What this is great for is to pick up in between cleanings. Do you ever have company over and little pieces of chips spill on the carpet? And have you ever had to drag out the vacuum cleaner to vacuum the area where your guests were, like the living room or dining area? Or do you have small kids and they spill around the kitchen table? Then you'll love this. It's light and doesn't require plugging in. Pull it out, sweep the mess, clean out the tray, and put it away. For that, I love it. It's like a broom for your carpet. I don't expect it to clean my whole house.Customer Review: Great choice for Hardwood Floor owners with furry pets
Summary: 5 Stars
Right to the details...
^+++ The Pros +++^
+ Lightweight, easy to carry around
+ While the brushes are spinning, the sweeper feels like it's gliding and nearly weightless on the floor.
+ Well balanced (battery is at a little past 1/2 way down the handle to counter-balance the weight of the sweeper
+ Low profile, swivel design makes it a champ for getting easily under furniture and into tough areas
+ Excellent at getting into the corners
+ Comes with a hair/tangle cutting tool
+ The rotating brush design does double duty; rotation of the brushes pulls the debris into the sweeper for collection and at the same does some light duty brush-up on the floor to loosen some items up for collectionx
^--- The Cons ---^
- The battery is made up of 6 X AA rechargeable batteries inside and the charger charges at 200mA. If the charge time is rated at 6-8hours that makes the capacity at something around 1500mAH. Not exactly the highest capacity batteries available.
- Also, the 200mA charger isn't a "smart" charger, it doesn't automatically turn off when the batteries are charged (hence the warning in the manuals that the batteries shouldn't be left on the charger for 24hrs or more)
- While it does an excellent job on hardwood, the Swivel Sweeper is nearly worthless on carpeted areas.
*** Conclusion ***
If you're a pet owner and have hardwood floors then you're likely familiar with the "tumbleweeds" of fur that no matter how often you vacuum or use the brush for, they just keep showing back up (ahhh, what a joy being a pet owner can be sometimes huh?).
Especially frustrating is trying to keep up with cleaning the areas under the furniture, on the stairs and in the corners. Our Dyson vacuum has great suction, but it's a hassle for doing light work or getting at stuff under the furniture. The broom is good for getting into corners but then you're always bending down to scoop up the dirt, which the dustbin never fully is able to pick up all the fine dirt. Not to mention it's no good at getting under the furniture.
We've also tried the hybrid broom/vacuum, but it was essentially the worst of both worlds. It was inept at getting under furniture and the suction power was weak.
The Swivel Sweeper turned out to be fantastic (on hardwood). There's no suction to it, instead, the rotation of the brushes pulls all the dust/dirt/hair into the collection chamber. Kind of like why you'd want mud flaps on your car because while the wheels are turning all the mud, snow, rocks and such are kicked up against the car body.
Along with the "kick-up" collection method, the swivel head allows for the sweeper to literally be used at a 180degree angle. Which makes getting under furniture an absolutely menial task and you can get the sweeper as far under furniture as you can reach your arm!
I should stress again that this is all on hardwood, the couple of times I tried using the sweeper on carpet the brushes could never spin up to full speed so the "kick-up" power was diminished and since the brushes had to work that much harder, the battery doesn't last nearly as long.
If you have hardwood floors and especially if you have pets that produce fur tumbleweeds like we do, then I wholeheartedly suggest this Swivel Sweeper!
Customer Review: DO NOT BUY THIS GARBAGE !
Summary: 1 Stars
What a waste of money ! I fell for the TV ad, which promised me 2 of them for the price of one. Well, I got them. One, of course, was broken. It was too hard to find a real person to complain to and I had lost my reciept. Anyway, Im glad that I had the Extra battery . This thing runs out of charge before a large room is done, and i need to switch batteries. Not only that, it is made so cheaply that sometimes it just comes apart, and all the debris comes out of the holding compartment unexpectedly. It does okay with crumbs and that type of thing, but it wont even pick up paper shreds ! My house is full of kids and alot of my problem is little bits of wrappers and various paper trash left around. My old dirt devil worked way better. Of course, that didnt last a year either. I guess theres no quick way to do this. Get out the real vaccuum.Customer Review: Swivel Sweeper for quick pick ups
Summary: 3 Stars
This sweeper is good for my kitchen/dining area floor, which is wood. With kids and frequent meals, it is nice to swing out the sweeper and pick up those crumbs before they get dragged through the whole house.
It is not a vacuum and expectations should reflect reality.
I haven't owned it very long but I let the battery run out completely before charging it overnight. So far so good.
Overall a good little in between picker upper.
Customer Review: Swivel Sweeper served me well
Summary: 5 Stars
My first swivel sweeper just died after two years of hard use picking up animal hair and dust from the desert here in AZ. I never had a problem with it and even though some of the reviews are negative, my prior experience with the product to order my second one today.