Love it, easy to use great product
Would definately recommend.

Really impressed with the amount of dust this picks up. Its slightly heavy to manoeuvre so be aware if you struggle with mobility.

So pleased with my new Shark.I love the way it releases the dirt into the bin. No more having to bang the dust out from the cyclone bit in the middle.

This hoover does everything it says on the blog. Very pleased with it. The only downside is its quite heavy

It is heavy but cleans the carpets and smooth flooring really well.

First shark hoover and won’t be the last. Thought the two precious dysons were good but this is a totally different league. Great to see it on offer as well so saved a few s.

Rarely write reviews but had to …… about this ‘hoover’ …….. previously had a Miele Cat and Dog; quite happy with it until it began to fall apart (after much use and abuse for 10 years) was humming and hahing between another Miele and the Shark. My Daughter bought a Shark upright and was singing it’s praises. I have wood flooring, rugs and carpeted stairs also three dogs who seem to moult all year round. There are so many pluses for this Shark, no expensive filters to buy, no expensive bags to buy; so so easy to use I CAN’T BELIEVE IT. The filth that came out of the hall runner was revolting but very very satisfying (there was so much filth had to empty the tank thingy after a couple of passes over said hall runner) This hoover also comes with a 5 year warranty. This is the most perfect hoover in the Universe. Cannot recommend highly enough. Almost forgot; comes with a crevice tool and and a small oval brush attachment. x

Good suction and impressive cleaning but slightly heavy to push and a bit awkward to use on stairs

Having used a certain other hoover brand for many years I found myself needing a New hoover once mine broke. I looked around and saw shark were heavily recommended so I decided to take the plunge and give them a go.

The first day I used this I couldn’t believe how much suction it had, it has multiple options for different floor types and even has a light on the front so you can see where you are going. At first I thought this was a gimmick but it’s so useful for seeing under cupboards.

It has a modular design so comes apart and goes back together like Lego and emptying it is ridiculously easy. You simply take off the casing with the button and then hold another button and it drops out.

I’ll never go to any other hoover brand again and you get a good free warranty with this product too so you can be rest assured that you’ll be covered for some time.

It is light and very easy to use. The power is very good.

This vacuum has amazed me. Every other vacuum I’ve had has lost suction after the first few weeks. This vacuum is so powerful and transforms any room we use it in. It’s brilliant. Highly recommend.

Really good cleaner, quiet, powerful, easy to manover. The break down to wand and hand attachments also works very well. Highly recommended.

It’s great for suction and manoeuvre the only thing I’d say is when you take the tank off to do under the furniture it can be a bit heavy otherwise it is grea

Great easy to assemble, works well suction great, don’t have stairs so can’t comment.

Brilliant hoover, well worth the money, would recommend and definitely purchase agai

Honestly this is the best vacuum I’ve ever had/used! First time I brought it I had to empty it twice after doing the whole house (small 2 bed). I had a cordless dyson previously and clearly this whole time I’ve never really vacuumed properly, I am amazed (and slightly disgusted at my house!) couldn’t recommend it enough. Suction power is great, I have 2 cats and a dog whose hair gets absolutely everywhere and drives me mad and since having this vacuum I have no issue with the dog hair. It’s a bit heavy but worth it for the auction and I do have thick pile carpets, but the lift away feature is a lift saver for your back! Also amazing for sucking up the dust and cobwebs

After spending a lot on various hoovers, I’ve finally settled down on shark. Now I can feel clean home.

Had a cordless vac for past few years that died. This one was recommended by a friend who has a professional cleaning company – she said it was her favourite model. It does seem really heavy but not to push .. to carry up stairs, but might just be contrast. I thought my carpets were relatively clean my goodness they were FILTHY!! Clearly the cordless vac had not where near the power and brush of this! I also noticed in a high traffic area it has really revived my carpet and lifted the pile. It does come apart for stairs. I’m very very happy with this vacuum, I also had to keep removing my long hair from previous cordless that kept wrapping and jamming it – no such issues with this one.

An excellent replacement for our old Shark. Excellent suction and the light on the front is so useful for dark corners!

Having had Dysons for years , these a breath of fresh air ,very impressed

I use this everyday and it’s the best hoover I’ve ever had! Sanction is so strong and good! Strongly recommend this product!

Absolutely love this hoover, very powerful and light, on board tools are great, nice styling

Upright or carry. Your choice, this hoover can be used in upright mode or separated and used with the base/motor separated. The hoover comes in several bits in the box and requires some assembly but that takes less than a few minutes as everything just clicks together easily. The hoover has three settings, hard floor, long pile and short pile. All selectable as is the on off switch on the handle right at your thumb so no need to go reaching for it. When I first switched the hoover on, I ran the hoover over a room that had just been hoovered not an hour before and was surprised by just how much dirt the hoover lifted. Couldn’t believe it actually. Guess the old hoover needs new filters. Anyway the hoover isn’t the lightest hoover I’ve owned or still own but it’s not the heaviest either and is surprisingly easy to manoeuvre. You can feel both the rollers turning as you sweep back and forward and it does a fantastic job of picking up. There are two different rollers on the hoover, a soft solid roller that pulls debris in and directs it towards the main roller, picking up everything even on solid floors so it doesn’t go pinging off the front, cereal, dirt dust hairs all easily swept into the hoover and picked up. A strip of LEDs along the front of the hoover light up the way in front of you which is handy when getting under the sofas and beds. Speaking of getting the hoover under the beds, the motor, dust bin easily lifts off the main arm and the the hoover easily fits under lower furniture like the bed or chair. Can also be used this way when doing the stairs, the bin has a carry handle and can be carried easily while in use. The wand can be used in long or short mode, two tools are also included which can be stored on the hoover. A narrow pole for the crevices and the brush which converts to an upholstery brush. The can be fitted onto both long and short pole of the hoover. It really is very versatile.

When finished the hoover is simple to empty, the bin simply lifts off with the click of a button and can be emptied from both the top and bottom of the bin so nowhere for the dirt to get trapped. Emptying and putting back together takes seconds. There are also two removable and washable filters on the hoover, one needs regular cleaning and the second less frequently, wash in water then leave somewhere warm for 24 hours to dry properly. I’ve been using this hoover for around a week now and so has the other half, we both love the hoover and it’s replaced our other big branded name hoover.

Love it. Really good suction power and so easy to disconnect and use.

By far the best cleaner we have ever had. Would highly recommend!

Better than Dyson or Vax in my experience, small main head but fairly heavy for its size although manoeuvres easily and being smaller can get into tighter spots without moving things if you are doing a ‘quick’ clean, lights at front are very bright, once you lift away for portability it is fairly light and with hose extended has good reach, accessories standard fare but ok. Anti Hair wrap Tec is good although you still get a few on brush roller but it’s easy to remove any that do accumulate. Suction is better than the old Dyson I had (I am not a fan) by far and better than my last machine a Vax which was very good. I’ll be honest and say I bought this because of Anti hair wrap tech and although not 100% affective it is 100% better than others I’ve mentioned. I like it .. a lot ! .

I had a vacuum for 10 years before this one, it was a pretty stable relationship, then, I decided it was time to move on with my life. Let me tell you, it was not an easy decision to make. My old vacuum was reliable and really good… but something was missing, especially when it was about picking up hair from the floor.
This vacuum was pricey but I decided it was time to treat myself. Since this shark arrived I filled so many bags with a lot of dirt that I have never imagined it was accumulated under the carpet, it made me aware that what’s on top of the carpet is not everything.
It is a heavy machine, but it helps the suction power, so I don’t mind. It is really easy to manoeuvre, and also I like that I can keep the extra bits on the main body, so it is easy to interchange tools when I need to.
I have really long hair and 3 cats, a kid, and my house was never this clean, also my hair does not tangle on the cleaning brushes, which makes me think there’s some kind of sorcery going on there, because it was a problem with my old vacuum and I had to stop all the time to clean the brush.
I feel like I spent all this money on something that is helpful and always ready to use.

TL;DR: if you have fluffy animals/humans, get this Shark.
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For the long review:

I was already sold on this, by a good friend, but the Black Friday deal (got it for 200), and the fact that our Dyson has finally had it (it has bi-annual services, as we have five fluffy animals and several fluffy humans in the house) made me wap out the credit card and treat us to a new vaccum. I haven’t noticed any cons, but I do have some niggles- absolutely not deal-breakers, but slight annoyances.
Niggles:
1-I wish it had a retractable cord, but that’s something our last three Dysons (of 4) didn’t have, either, so just a minor thing that would make life easier.
2- The hose clip pops out by itself all the time. This doesn’t affect the machine, but is a bit annoying when the vacuum’s in upright mode and the hose is hanging away from the handle.
3-The attachments are clonky. This niggle is probably just from us being used to Dyson attachments that click on very satisfyingly and with no effort, but I was surprised to find that you have to just jam the attachments onto the nozzle. A bit last century!
4- As others have said, the dust capacity is quite limited, although I think this does the job of protecting the filter, so it’s forgiveable. For those of us with fluffy animals (3 samoyeds and 2 ragdolls) it means that the fluff tumbleweeds on hard floors and the mashed in fluff on stairs results in emptying the dust compartment every 5 minutes, because fluff doesn’t sit flat, so it reaches the top quicker than dust. It’s coat-blowing season, though, so this is the worst it’ll get.
5- when the stair tool is on, the relatively quiet machine suddenly sounds like a chainsaw! This doesn’t bother me, as it’s clearly because it’s a powerful vacuum and quite frankly, my stairs need the torque!

Apart from #1, all of these niggles have a trade-off, because the pros far outweigh them, in my opinion!
1- the attachments are clonky, BUT, the silicone “brush” (more like a floppy squeegee) on the stair attachment leaves the Dyson turbine tool in the dust (pun intended) as you can see in the clip- it literally leaves a rectangle of clean, which makes all the difference in a very dusty old house. Hardly any elbow grease required, the stairs (a favourite spot of the ragdolls) were done in half the time and looked cleaner than the Dyson ever managed. It’s brilliant that this tool is included, rather than having to pay another 40, as you do with Dyson.
2- The separate rollers for each floor make all the difference. We often have to sweep AND hoover our oak floors (again, blame the samoyeds- when the mud dries off them it leaves a film on the floor), and the floors usually look wrecked even after mopping. The silicone roller acts like a buffer, so it gets a LOT more dust up, and you can see where the floor has been waxed. This is evident by the fact that when we then mop the floor, the bucket water stays cleaner much longer, so fewer water changes, and therefore more water saved, which is a lot, as we have to mop our floors 4-8 times a week. On carpet, the Shark picks up all the cat fluff that’s been stomped in, that the Dyson would not get- we sometimes had to use a rubber brush to pull it up before vacuuming! Again, this means half the effort, half the time and twice the result!
3- The white headlights (something I didn’t expect) show up fine white dog hairs I wasn’t seeing with the room lights on (or daylight!) so this also meant I wasn’t missing any fluff that would turn into tumbleweeds. This has definitely meant the rooms have stayed fluff-free for longer than usual.
4- The lift-away feature is a game changer, and definitely makes it easier to get the stairs done quickly (and safely enough for my 10 and 11 year olds to do, once the novelty wears off for me), and to carry around whilst getting cobwebs off the ceiling with the long brush tool.
5- did I mention the stair tool? Ok, I did. Ok, what about all the nice little easy buttons? I’m not sure why the tools don’t click on, as per Niggle #3, but all the other functions/modes are controlled by very ergonomic buttons/switches that are labelled, which helps 38 year old brains, when you’re doing the vacuum cleaner equivalent of going from Windows to Apple.

Probably scraping the barrel on benefits now, but as you’ve probably guessed, James Dyson won’t be getting my money anymore, or that of anyone else who’s brave enough to risk asking me for vacuum recommendations.

This hover is great the cord could of been a little longer but having said that we do have big rooms as we live in France. The power suction is great you can turn this down if you wanted this is just a slide switch. The suction can be changed from hard floors to carpet with an accessible switch. I can’t really fault this Hoover. Yes I have knocked it over a couple of times when I have Unclipped the Bin part of the hover so I can clean under the beds. It is easy enough to remove the bin part from the hover as that is removed by a push button so you can carry around to Hoover under things and up in high corners. It’s basically a question of getting used to using a new hover. The dirt bin is a little small but I’m guessing the more you hover your home and empty the bin the less often you will have to empty it when you have got all the dust and dirt up from whatever hover you were using before that wasn’t getting it all. The only real problem I have is it is quite hard to carry the hover box and the wand at the same time to hover in high spaces. Our house does have high ceilings the wand is a little heavy and I feel it needs two hands to hold it but you are carrying the bin part of the hover as well so this can be quite tricky. The wand part could of been made not quite so heavy and a little more in length with the lead being a little longer. But for an average size British home I think I would be great. It has great suction is easy to use and the anti hair wrap is amazing it does work we have always had big problems with continuously trying to cut hair out of the brushes with past hovers even taking the hovers apart to cut masses of hair out. ( I don’t really know where all this long hair comes from I am sure the hair fairy deposits it on the carpet while we are sleeping) This we haven’t had to do at all with this hover so for this it is amazing. So all in all a great hover it certainly hovers deep down is simple to use and looks good too. Yes I would recommend this hover.

As a fan of Dysons for many years I decided to give a different brand a try as I was needing to do a deep clean on a house I was leaving. Having used the Dyson (12 year old DC07) on all the bedrooms, I decided to go over them again with the Shark. The additional dirt the Shark removed was amazing. I am truly impressed by the cleaning power this machine has.

On the negative side, it is a bit unwieldy and people with weak arms or wrists need to look elsewhere. The detachable wand is a great idea, but it too is a bit heavy for extended use, though very effective. I do however favour the Dyson design over the Shark for reaching up to the ceiling etc for cobweb removal. The lift off feature is good, however the dirt cannister (or Pod as they call it) tends to fall over, so has to be carried. A better idea would be to feature some sling hooks so the pod could be put on a strap and carried over the shoulder rather than set down, only to fall down, or carried around with your spare hand. One other small negative is that the dirt pod is not as big as the Dyson, so you have to empty more frequently.

Overall however, a superb cleaning machine, highly recommended.

Comparisons I have made in this review with the Dyson DC07 I own, are perhaps unfair. The DC07 is 12 years old and has given me sterling service. If comparisons are to be made, then they should be made against the most up to date Dyson, not my one that is coming to the end of its life.

I’ve been after a new vacuum to replace an old workhorse of a Dyson bought many years ago. I would have kept it, but a phone call to dyson said that they don’t stock the parts anymore and I’d have to source them myself. I weighed up the pros and cons and decided to just buy a new cleaner. I was in no doubt that it was going to be replaced with another Dyson, I wouldn’t entertain any other make much to my partners annoyance. Anyhow, this particular model popped up on a site for 350 and was recommended. I did some research over various review sites and this scored top marks on everything. I was still adamant to buy a new Dyson but found this on offer and thought I’d nothing to lose, if I didn’t like it I’d send it back. I was keen to test it before the better half arrived home so cleaned the house from top to bottom. I was astounded at the amount of dust and hair etc that was picked up. My partner used the Dyson at least once a day, so to find this much dirt was a shock. Two days later we did the same and the dirt it picked up was outstanding. We don’t have a big house and I would consider us a clean family, this seriously questioned that. Under no circumstances was this to be sent back. It comes apart to clean the stairs really easily and emptying the bin is a doddle. The attachments seem a little tight and can be difficult to get off, but are really good. I can’t do anything other than recommend this cleaner. I thought I would never move from Dyson, but clearly there is some absolutely fantastic competition in town.

I have been very impressed with this hoover. It has good suction, easy to manoeuvre, simple to use the tools and lift away mechanism and also very easy to empty as the dust bucket opens top and bottom. I was sceptical about the anti-hair wrap, but with two daughters with very long hair I have not had to clean the brushes.

This is the best cleaner I have ever bought – and there have been a few! Our dog and two cats can cause domestic havoc and nothing seemed to clear up before we found Sharkie!!!! Wonderful. Our rugs came up like new, the amount of hair and dust was visible and so much – we are ashamed to say that we are quite excited to run the cleaner around. Works just as well on hard floors and finds dirt I didnt know was there.
It is a little heavy so not really suitable for anyone with disabilities but if you want a clean home – this is it!

This is the third vacuum cleaner I have bought in the last year. My problem was always my long hair and my sewing and knitting threads. Even when I bought a vac with no rotating brush the insides got all wrapped with long hair. So far I love this one with no trouble with tangled brushes. The lift off section was easy to use on the stairs. The small head was a bit noisy echoing on the stairs but cleaned really well. I think I have found the one that is right for me and I’m very pleased.