If you like the idea of a stick vacuum cleaner but don’t want to worry about battery life and charging, then the Shark Anti Hair Wrap with Flexology and TruePet is a solid corded alternative. As we do with all our vacuum cleaner reviews, I threw measured portions of Cheerios and flour into its path, on both short-pile carpet and hard floor, to establish how good a job it could do of picking it up again. The Shark HZ500UK is a powerful, versatile, and efficient vacuum cleaner, duo clean brush roll system to effectively clean a wide range of surfaces, including carpeted floors.

For our hair and fibre tests we comb real cat and dog hair into wilton carpet and then time how long it takes for each vacuum cleaner to suck it all up, the best can do it in less than 30 seconds, the worst take more than three minutes. The missing Cheerios appeared as I reassembled the device, having got caught up on something internally, though again it was nothing that a subsequent pass couldn’t gobble up.A soft brush roller at the front of the head that move all the fine and larger debris to the intake, which makes the vacuum ideal for cleaning hardwood floors. so is at the heavier end of the stick spectrum, with the weight of the 10m cable weighing more than the battery does on most cordless sticks. When the motorised head is on the unit, it’s reasonably slick on hard floor but gets a bit bogged down on carpet. We tested the TruePet model, which is essentially the same device but adds an additional pet hair removal tool. Note, this Shark HZ500UK is undoubtedly well performer for hard floors but not ideal for mostly carpeted houses.

It’s easy to remove and empty, though, with a one-handed operation to remove the bin from the stick, and a lid on the top that can be opened to tip the contents into a dustbin.It features a powerful suction motor, various attachments, and an upholstery tool, making it easy to clean tight spaces, upholstery, and other hard-to-reach areas. However, despite its stick form and Shark doing many things right, it doesn’t quite carry off the magic you get from a cordless. You must be sure you’re choosing the pet version; on stair steps, it was hard to manoeuvre the whole vacuum with its primary cleaning head. The rest fell into crevices between floor tiles that most vacuums struggle with, without resorting to handheld tools. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below.