Dirt Devil Ultra Vision
by Barry Miller
(Harrisonburg, VA)
First I have been a very loyal Dirt Devil user for 15 years or so. There was no finer upright vac made for the money. The bag in swivel glide simply the best.
That comment changed with the bagless Dirt Devil Ultra Vision vacuum that I just returned to Walmart after 2 uses without the box and raised enough stink that Walmart refunded my money. I also wrote a letter to Dirt Devil to which I got a no reply response that was not acceptable.
Now I vacuum at least weekly and largely what I get out of my carpet is dust which will immediately clog the screen and foam filter. How much dust? About 2 tablespoons out of 1300 sq foot of carpet. Not much and then its wash the foam filter time with a 24 hour drying period. This totally unacceptable and without warning.
Now it's the fault of paper bagless vacs which is not new. All vacs where paper bagless until around the late 60's. Up till then they used a cloth bag that you had to dump.
Anyway Dirt Devil was one of the last to change to bagless so I guess their management decided to follow & not lead. I have several houses and I have one relatively new swivel glide left and then it's off to the leading national bagged brand.
