Its ultra-lightweight design and removable handheld vacuum add to its cordless convenience for floor-to-ceiling cleaning. With 40 minutes of runtime, you can take on your whole home, and an XL dust cup makes sure you can tackle the biggest messes. Remove the dust cup in seconds, and never touch the mess with a CleanTouch Dirt Ejector. The ultra-light design and swivel steering makes this cordless perfect for cleaning those hard-to-reach dyson robot vacuum areas, and LED headlights on the nozzle illuminate hidden debris around your home. Whether you’re cleaning your floors and carpets, hard-to-reach spots above the floor, or even your car, this cordless powerhouse is ready for anything in its path. Conveniently store the vacuum by detaching the hand vac and clipping it at the base of the wand for free standing storage anywhere in your home, even small spaces like closets.
I was able to stay upright while the vacuum did all of the bending, saving my back in the process. While we recognize that an over $500 price tag definitely places this robot vacuum in a splurge category, we think it’s well worth the investment. For busy families and homes with lots of hard flooring, it can be a time saver and offer peace of mind by removing one chore from your weekly routine.
For all these vacuums, decreased battery life can occur when using the boost mode. The Shark has a hinge half way up the neck to allow it to be folded up for storage. This may not seem like much but there are very few cordless vacuums that can be stored in this way. Take Dysons as an example, they all come with a bracket as they’re designed to be hung on a wall. That’s all well and good, but most people don’t have somewhere to hang their vacuum, nor do they particularly want to fasten them to a wall. She’s an experienced product researcher with years of experience in covering large and small appliances.
If you’re not playing around and need to clean your car with power, look no further. Black+Decker performed well in our tests, as shown by its occupation of the top two spots. Again, the wide-mouthed crevice opening did very well against our five contaminants, but the most attractive feature is the pivot function, hence the name. For those of us who like our vehicles clean, a good car vacuum is essential.
If you don’t plan to clean rugs (or at least not very deeply), you can get a vacuum that’s purpose-built for cleaning bare floors. Most of these are “suction-only” models, without a brush roll (and some of these are dirt cheap). But a few of them use a specialty soft-fabric brush roll to help “hug” the debris toward the intake. All that said, cordless vacuums make it so easy to clean that you may just be fine with those tradeoffs.
Depending on the issue, having your vacuum serviced after the warranty has expired might not be worth the cash. To suss out any potential lemons, we dig through buyer reviews on multiple retailers to see if any vacuum shark cordless brands or models have consistent breakage issues, either with the motor or external parts. The table below tells you the average percentage of sand each vacuum was able to remove from each of our three test surfaces.
We then started through the same rotation a second time and noted when each vacuum died. For both Sharks and the Dyson v10, we ran them on the low setting on the hardwoods and low pile carpet and the next highest setting on the medium pile carpet. The Dyson v11 has an auto sense feature that detects the type of surface it cleans and increases or decreases the suction accordingly so no toggling to different settings was needed. In our tests, which consisted of carpets, hard wooden floors and some high piled rugs you were able to clean the whole house on a single charge, but there wasn’t much battery left after a single pass.
So we’re not really comparing apples to apples here between the two brands and neither is telling us how long to expect the vacuum to run when being used as most of us would. Better suction and pick up than other vacuums at this price point. After a few uses carpets in particular are noticeably cleaner than other brands.