I’m a Bissell person, or I was. I have had 8 or 9 Bissell products. Their wet/dry vacs are what made me realize I can’t live without that method of cleaning my floors, hands down the quickest & cleanest way. I had no real problem with any of their other products, but the Crosswave Series, which was fabulous….until it stopped working, over & over. First one died after a year, bought another, it died within weeks, well, let’s just say that they sent me three brand new ones for free and every single one died a similar death. That’s 6 Crosswaves! Obviously a design issue. So I was forced to shop around, my momma raised a dummy, but not that dumb. Tineco had really good reviews. So far, about a week, I’m blown away. It’s eerie that I just push a button & walk around, barley pushing, it’s self propelled, it does everything & talks to me! So I have that friend I’ve always wanted & she does my floors telepathically! I’ll update, let you know how this relationship pans out.

I have purchased two Dyson units over the past 5 years. While we liked their performance I didn’t appreciate the fact that both quit performing shortly after the two year warranty. Too much money for such a short life span. I spent hours researching cordless vacs. When Costco offered the tineco pure one s12 at a lower price I decided to take a chance. I’ve had the pure one s12 unit for over a week and Ilove it. This unit has so much more power than our Dyson units..(I must state that our Dyson units were not their current top of the line models). Our tineco unit is better built in our opinion with top notch materials. The pure one s12 has lots of attachments. I find the unit easy to operate while my wife finds it a bit too heavy at times although she finds the ability to operate the unit without having to constantly push the motor switch a big plus. A big plus would be some type of storage rack for all of the attachments. Time will tell on the product’s reliability but, as of now I am very happy with this purchase.

I was visiting a friend when she told me about her wet vacuum/mop. I knew it had to be a good one since she has a daycare business in her home. She had the S3 series. I went home and immediately purchased the newer S5 series and love it. I love it so much when I was visiting my daughter I told her about it and she got a S5 extreme. But that’s not all, while we were in the store looking at the differences between the S3 and the S5 there was another customer watching us and began asking me questions about it. I answered all her questions and she too bought the Tineco S5 extreme! Way to go me! And way to go Tineco!

It took about half an hour of troubleshooting to get the vacuum connected to the app and now I’m not sure what I spent all that time for. The app is basically just telling you exactly what you’re experiencing at any given time with the vacuum. For instance, if the vacuum stops sucking so well, then the app will say the dust can is full or the filter is dirty. I’m just not sure how this is useful. The app does show battery level (somewhat useful when waiting for a charge) and offers manual suction power control. I find this to be too much for what the vacuum is. It’s auto auction is usually too weak and doesn’t actually detect the mess because it isn’t sucking hard enough to pick up the mess so it goes “no dirt there!” When there is in fact dirt there that it simply won’t pick up. All in all, this app just seems like a gimmick and the vacuum could be much better. It’s great for small quick jobs and that’s about it.