I absolutely love this hoover, I have laminate and carpet flooring and the settings for both are great, so easy to use and glides across the floors, easy to empty and I love all the extra tools with it, definitely recommend.

Lightweight and very easy to use especially on stairs. Being cordless makes so easy to get out just for small areas without the hassle of plugging it in.

Heavier than I expected but efficient and easy to use

This is a brilliant hoover. Living in a static during a self build and had an cumbersome Henry. The carpet the Henry didn’t do the job on this carpet so bought this one and it does a brilliant job hoovering the dog hairs, mud they bring in and everyday fluff. It is small and compact. Love it! Easy to use and small enough to put away in our static cupboard. Battery last for the whole clean of my static.
There is a booster button for super suction which unfortunately you have to hold down. Bad design. Would have been better if the button was a one touch.

Ive been holding off this review for over 6 months and ill tell you why. I over the yeasr have had a plethora of hoovers and after apying astrinomical amounts of rsome of them and killing them with ease, i was eeing if i could break this hoover. I can’t.

The famous brand beginning with D, i have owned every model and they all die. V8 as an example , three replacement batterys, one dead hand set, etc, you become accustomed to them being disposable and then you get the latest model, as the back up Henry, you keep dragging around because the D””’n is dead, is getting too heavy.
I decided i would take a break from the ceratin brand, as id decidced I just wanted a hoover. Thats it, not because its this model or that, one that lasted.

I have abused this hoover as i do the rest, but it just keeps acting like a normal hoover. Bricks ( whilst not recommended im sure ) that the dogs broguht in, gone, money, gone, yeah as expecting it lets out a little whine when sucking up a 20 p, but the other bradn would need major surgery and if too severe glue. The shark, just keeps going.

Lights on the front are a great idea and holds a great charge, whole 5 bedroom house done in no trouble.

This sounds bizarre, but it does it job that well and with so much ease, it goes unnoticable, it just does it job. Not like some other brands where your risking it dying a death over a screw.

Fantastic job Shark, never thought id be reviewing a vaccum cleaner, but this is worthy, buy one.

The suction is very good and the detachable section for stairs is also very good but the hoover is heavy compared to other cordless hoovers

Love it. It’s so much better than what we had in the past. Very manoeuvrable and great with long hair.

Great vacuum, well worth the money and very good for seeing the dirt that comes off the floors. The only negative is the battery life, running for only 16 minutes on boost mode it can be an annoyance.

I write this as a a technically competent bloke who needed a lighter more detachable vacuum post surgery. I cannot compare much as the last vacuum I bought was a Dyson DC02 in 1993.. ( the stair-hugging one).
Firstly, bear in mind that this is a DOMESTIC vacuum cleaner and therefore not suitable for industrial purposes.
Cons:
Short battery life, about 35 minutes,which is why I’m glad I invested in two batteries, both needed for a good clean.
Suction power is adequate for domestic purposes on normal carpets rather than deep-pile. Bin is a little small but I’m happy to empty regularly.
Pros:
After extensive research I went for this one as it did what I wanted it to .
I love the heavy head and the low centre of gravity of the lift-away unit. Taking the unit apart makes it easier to use on the communal staircase to my flat and the other one inside. The head unit can be lifted downstairs and assembled for front door entrance. I detach the lift-away unit and use with the fabric nozzle on the treads and risers of the stairs for an excellent clean with very little huffing and puffing.
Using fully assembled in my flat, cleaning carpets is a joy. At first when I I bent the stick backwards it made an alarming crack,but that was just because it was new.
Detaching the unit and going under the bed was as easy as I reasonably expected it to be, aided by the weight of the brush unit.
I haven’t vacuumed for a year under there so it was pretty grim.It was at that point I had to take out the sponge filter and spool, wash in lukewarm water (only) via the instructions and waited for them to dry .Also performed a little maintenance on the head unit making sure there were no blockages throughout (again, through a handy YouTube video I found online). I also washed the front roller on the unit and let it dry.
Using the detachable unit and wand / attachments for cleaning furniture, bookshelves and cupboard tops etc. was also quite easy.
Summary:
I can’t compare, but I’m reasonably confident that as a technically competent person who looks after his gadgets, this piece of kit should last the distance.
Reasonably content as it does exactly what I wanted it to do.
P.S.
I don’t have pets or long hair so I’d rather not comment on that..

Does a great job and battery life is plenty for my bungalow. Bit heavier than expected but a lovely vacuum cleane

Bit pricey, but a great cleaner, if you have stairs l suggest you buy the powered brush as an accessory.

It picks up grit from a hard floor which my other cordless didn’t. I find it a little bit on the tall side and a bit heavy. Otherwise yes, it’s ok. Haven’t got any stairs to Sloan.

I have only just taken delivery of the vacuum but my early impressions are of a favourable nature. I wanted a cordless device that was reasonably light and did the job efficiently with ease of operation. All that criteria has been met and I am extremely happy with its appearance and function. As long as it continues to maintain those qualities I will be one satisfied customer. Thanks Amazon for a very expedient and trouble free transaction.

Really disappointed. The vacuum gets clogged up really easily and hair does get caught around the brush roll. Suction isn’t that strong either.

I like was slightly heavier than expected although it is quieter and is easy to empty.

Great product… easy to use… great suction… easy to empty .. highly recommend

Cordless is so much more convenient. I find myself just using it to clean when I spot a mess as it so light and quick to use. Battery life is good too.

Power is as good as a plug in. Doesn’t feel like it until you test the hose itself. So easy to use. Wife is over the moon with the no cord situation.

good suction but awkward to empty and to add additional tools onto battery lasts quite well

I love my shark cordless vacuum, l love hoovering every day even if it doesn’t need i

I’ve been a fan of Shark since I has a mains vacuum given to me a few years ago, so a rechargeable is just what I needed compliment the mains.

On first glance it looks like a standard upright with bagless collection but as you explore more, the other features show.

The collection is removable along with the hose for doing curtains, little dark corners and upholstery. You can also choose to take the rigid wand too so you don’t have to reach up. this makes it very flexible.
In the upright mode, you have 3 setting
Normal, turbo and flooring. You can switch between them at a touch of a button. On normal, the power head spins to help with pickup. On turbo, the head spins faster and there is more suction. Flooring turns off the head so as not to damage.

The battery last for about 30 minutes on normal, 20 on turbo. recharge takes a couple of hours from flat. There is light to indicate sate of charge/discharge. Removal of battery is easy with just a lift of a loop and pull up. No fidily buttons of catches. Once change just drop into base and it locks in.
A good selection of tools round this great set off.
Emptying the container is easy and done by pressing a catch and lifting away. A simple release opens the end and all the waste just drop into the bin.
Unlike a lot of rechargeables, the weight is all down low so less tiring to use.

Highly recommended.

Cordless uprights like this are very convenient. You can quickly take it from the cupboard and sweep up mess as it happens. This particular model is good quality. It is perhaps not as light as you might like, but it is sturdy.

Assembly is very simple, as is the battery recharging procedure. Just follow the instructions.

The suction is not as powerful as I had hoped. It does not compare to my cylinder cleaner. I don’t recommend having this is your sole vacuum cleaner, but as a convenient alternative for quick, light cleaning lobs, it’s fine.

It can be quite amazing when you get two devices that meet the same design brief but achieve it in different ways. We got two Shark vacuums, this ICZ160UK cordless upright, and a IZ201UKT cordless stick. The big difference is that the motor and dust collector on this ICZ160UK is quite low down the unit – not at the bottom, but lower than half way down. By contrast the dust collector and motor on the IZ201UKT is right at the top along with the battery and the handle forms part of the top unit. The problem I have with the main unit being right at the top is that a 40 minute hoovering session is just more than my right arm can take because you’re basically carrying the main weight of the machine all the time. I’ve found this ICZ160UK much less tiring on my arm and much prefer this design.

Of course, what I’ve described is the main mode of operation with the unit clicked together along with the roller unit at the bottom, but it has other modes, that involve unclicking the vacuum tube which allows you to do spot cleaning with or without the main roller unit. When you hoover in these other modes you are sharing the weight of the Shark between your two arms which makes life even easier.

I’ve had a lot of cordless vacuums and often thought that the designers build in these rotating roller units to make up for inadequate suction – but that’s not the case with this Shark, it’s a really good sucker! The main roller head on this Shark really is a beauty – the roller feels lovely in your hand when you unclip it – the quality is unlike any other unit I’ve used.

40 minutes on normal mode is more than enough to do every room in our house. I never once felt the urge to go into turbo mode – we don’t have any pets but do have long-haired women around the house and our kitchen can get quite grimy. I don’t know if I absolutely have to but I tend to empty the dust collector several times in one session in order to keep the suction up.

The headlamps on the cleaning head mean that we’re getting to see under furniture in a way that I’ve never seen before – areas that for the first time in our family’s history are now actually clean. If you want to avoid stooping to hoover under armchairs and difficult to access places you can unclip the main tube but I don’t bother to do this, I’m happy with the access I can gain when the whole unit remains assembled.

Plugging together this vacuum, emptying the dust collector, charging the battery, and swapping out the various supplied head attachments is entirely intuitive – it’s very cleverly designed.

This vacuum doesn’t come supplied a wall-mounted docking station for charging, you have a little dock for the battery to charge in. We keep our hoover in one place in the house so a permanent charging dock would be a helpful addition, but I guess this arrangement has a kind of flexibility to it. You need to figure out somewhere to store the vacuum and the bag of goodies it comes supplied with.

While this battery lasts a good long time at 40 minutes – which as I say is easily enough for one house clean – it also takes several hours to fully recharge from flat (it has a three LED display to tell you the batter status). Practically speaking this means you need to recharge it at the end of every main cleaning session because you definitely want to avoid running out of charge mid clean.

In summary, this is a great cleaner that manages carpets and hard floors equally well, it especially makes a good job of cleaning the carpets. The design and quality of manufacture are really good, and I like the way that I can do a good long session cleaning the house without tiring my arms too much because the main unit is positioned low down near to the floor so I’m not carrying it everywhere.

For starters this hoover works really well as a hoover, we have two dogs, one of whom attracts mud wherever he goes and tracks it back into the house, and another, who sheds copious amounts of white hair (usually most of what gets swept or hoovered up is her hair), and this copes quickly and efficiently with both, even when being used on rugs (although I turn on boost for rugs).

I find it intuitive to use and the ability to use it in different configurations, and that it can be ready to go quickly saves a lot of time doing quick clean-ups as well as deeper cleans. I haven’t had it long enough to judge its longevity, but so far, the suction is powerful. The waste container is small, but it is simple to empty, so I don’t find it much of an issue. The main head gets pretty close to walls and corners, but the smaller head is still needed to get right into corners and awkward spots. It’s lighter than my corded hoover, but I wouldn’t necessarily describe it as lightweight, although I don’t think most people would struggle with it.

The couple of things I’m not so keen on are that the battery does last 50 minutes, but that is a maximum and it takes (by picky modern standards) a fair while to charge at 3.5 hours from empty, and realistically you’re going to be using it on boost at least some of the time, so it probably won’t last a full 50 minutes. The other thing is that once when I was carrying it up some stairs by its handle, the handle came off of the shaft without me touching the release button, so the interlocking mechanism might not be quite strong enough to take the weight reliably, I’ve carried it by the shaft since then, and haven’t had any problems.

Oh wait, that was the last cordless I remember using – a carpet sweeper!

To be honest vacuuming is a chore in our house as we have always had corded vacuums. So find an outlet that doesn’t have something that’s being used plugged in to it – harder and harder to do in this connected world – and then do the dance with the cord getting wrapped round you or your furniture, then have the ignominy of the cord not being quite long enough because you went the wrong way round the room. Frustrating and annoying and did mean that once a week was probably your lot (unless guests were expected).

So we were interested to try a cordless vacuum just to see how it stacked up. A big plus point for this unit was it’s anti hair wrap boast. My husband, adult son and I all have long hair and we also have a cat; perfect conditions for lots of hair getting embedded into the rugs and carpets. Now, whether the old vacuum just simply pushed the hair in to the carpet fibres or whether we should all be bald as coots I’m not sure but this pulled a LOT of hair up. The problem is there was so much it failed the anti hair wrap test and got wrapped around the roller. However, it was super easy to remove, a few snips with the scissors to break the wrap and then just tug at it and it all came away cleanly ready for disposal. No need to get tools out to remove the roller then you could pick it laboriously free so it was a half win for me.

I did expect it to pull far more dirt than it did out of the carpet. The last time we replaced the vacuum cleaner it was amazing how much it pulled up but with this one not so much. It did leave everything looking clean so maybe my old vacuum hasn’t got a suction problem just refuses to collect hair. At one point it developed a strange rattle so I turned it off and when I pulled it towards me to take a look a 20p fell out, no idea where that came from as I genuinely didn’t see it on the floor but at least it proves it will pick up larger and heavier items. It also manages to collect cat litter but you have to use a long, slow pull and push to pick it up and if you turn it off straight after the litter will simply fall back out as it takes a bit of run time to suck it into the dust chamber.

Operation is incredibly simple. Press with your foot to tilt the wand back and then press the IO button and off you go. It has two different settings one for carpets and one for hard floors and it is as simple as clicking on a picture to choose. Then we come to the Boost function, it amps the suction up which is useful for the aforementioned cat litter. However, you have to press and hold to get the boost and that can be fiddly to do when in operation; a tap on/off function would have been better as that wouldn’t require two hands. Emptying the dust chamber is really easy, press the two release clips and it slides out of the pod, hold it over the bin and press the black release and it all just falls out; it clicks back into place easily as well.

Battery life is actually pretty good. Takes around 3 Hours for a full charge and it comes with a charging dock so you don’t have to find somewhere to charge the whole unit, just a small round unit that the battery slots in to (about the circumference of a baby bottle warmer). I managed to do the living room, hallway, stairs, two bedrooms and a bathroom and still have a little bit of charge left. That said I rarely used the Boost and apparently that eats battery life (this is according to the manual). The battery itself has a moulded handle in the top that you just lift and then gently tug to release and out it pops. To reinsert it just simply pushes in to place. It also has a light display on the top that shows how much charge you have left and flashes if there is a blockage in the pipes and when charging (if it goes out when charging it is fully charged as after 5 minutes it will turn off to prevent the charge/discharge cycle which can damage batteries).

Other than the charging unit you get 3 attachments – a crevice tool (great for on the stairs; I know they show it for using on soft furnishings in all the ads for all manufacturers and have done since the darn thing was invented but I have never used it on those items), a flat wide head that is great for curtains and an upholstery brush (not tried). You also get a dinky little Shark tote to store everything in – being a picky sort I would have preferred it if the bag had a closure rather than just being open but it is a nice little addition and makes storage easy.

It is easy to use and light to push, which surprised me. Surprisingly nimble and flexible so it was easy to navigate round furniture. I loved the two headlights on the front with their bright white LEDs, made under table cleaning so easy because you could see where you needed to clean rather than doing one bit twice and missing the other half. Also surprisingly quiet, obviously it isn’t silent operation but this is a vacuum cleaner and usually we can’t hold a conversation when vacuuming without shouting but we didn’t even need to raise our voices. The cat still didn’t like the noise and fled from the room though.

You have three options for Lift Away cleaning:
Release the wand from the base unit (simple press down button) and leave the pod attached to the base; great for reaching high areas and all the tools fit on to the wand end.
Leave the wand attached and just pull the handle out of the top of it, unclip the hose and you can do the stairs really easily without wielding an unwieldy, too long, rigid piece of plastic. All the tools fit on the end of the handle too.
Finally you can also remove the pod from the base unit completely, to be honest it is a comparatively light unit so I’m not sure that I would bother – even though it is just one button push to release the whole unit and then it slides back in to place when finished. The best thing about using it in this mode is this – You can re-enact the proton pack scenes from Ghostbusters, leave the wand and handle attached and catch your own Slimer (just a pity it doesn’t come with a strap arrangements to put it on your back then you could really Venkman, Stantz and Spengler it up!) – sad to admit the husband and I both did this because we may be middle-aged but mentally we are still 9 it seems!

Overall I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this unit was to use and the cleaning it provided did exceed what I expected from a cordless. For me, the freedom of not having the cord is it’s biggest selling point although I do feel the price point is a little steep, especially as the anti hair wrap sort of didn’t work (admittedly I do suspect that it had a couple of years of embedded hair to deal with). I am definitely converted to cordless technology and whilst I’ll never be a vacuum every day kind of girl I am pretty sure I could get the house done twice a week on one battery charge which is pretty great.

Respected Brand that has delivered an almost spot on product, just lost half a star for the price point as it feels just slightly too much and half a star because of the hair issues (would have been way more but it was so easy to fix the problem – snip, snip, tug and bin).