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hi i'm angie Gebhardt frissina I'm here today to review the Dirt Devil lift and go convertible vacuum Dirt Devil is known for its budget vacuums but this one for a hundred and thirty dollars packs in enough features that it almost makes me think this is a high-end vacuum unfortunately nope no this is this is not a high-end vacuum so those features I was talking about it has a removable canister vacuum it comes with a couple of attachments that secure right to the vacuum itself it even has a wand and hose that snap right off for easily reaching the corners and the ceiling but the most interesting feature is this vac plus dust tool to clean hardwood floors this is a Swiffer like pad to dust which attaches to this which vacuums so you can dust and vacuum your hardwood floor at the same time and all of this attaches right to the wand of your vacuum so the lift and go tries to do a lot with all of its stuff but all of that is undermined by a few glaring design issues for starters the cord and the hose try to occupy the same space you can easily get to one or the other but not both secondly if you want to clean the brush roll you can't detach it meaning you have to flip the vacuum over if anything gets tangled and pull the air out yourself well it's still attached to the vacuum head you also can't adjust the height of the brush roll or turn it off meaning this fun optional attachment isn't optional anymore and becomes much less fun because in order to clean hardwood floors without flinging everything everywhere you need to bring this with you and this is the one attachment that won't store on your vacuum all of this including the minor gripes I have about it might be forgivable if it performed well as a vacuum well unfortunately it does not we test our vacuums on sand for small particles Cheerios for large particles and pet hair on sand it did worse than just about every other full-sized upright vacuum Cheerios it either pushed them aside occasionally it would fling them and pet hair it would leave matted clumps all over the place this works very very well as a coat rack as a paperweight even perhaps as a baseball bat as a vacuum you're going to want to look elsewhere if you're looking for a budget vacuum try the Bissell power glide the shark rotator pro or the Hoover Wintel if you do end up going with this one just know that you might need to use other tools to supplement your cleaning for example a different vacuum foreseen it I'm a jerk