I am impressed with this cordless vacuum. It does a great job of capturing dust and particles on carpets and floors. Having hair (pet and human) all over the house, this vacuum makes the cleaning process a lot easier because the brushless bar doesn’t get clogged. The technological design uses a spinning bar with firm fiber-like flaps, so hair does not end up stuck on the bar. The battery power is enough to last a decent area. It comes with three modes of cleaning: bare floor, carpet, and max power. I am excited to try this vacuum on the couch and the cars as they tend to be the areas with the most debris. This vacuum is not super loud. Admittedly, it does appear very large. However, it is relatively lightweight and easy to maneuver. For this reason, I can use it to clean high to reach places like ceiling vents. Emptying the bin canisters is a fast and straightforward process, and most of the time, I don’t even need to touch the filter. Furthermore, I am pleased with the look of this product. I highly recommend this vacuum for any home, especially when there is a lot of loose hair.

I’m a huge fan of Shark’s no hair wrap self-cleaning Zero-M feature on this brushroll. Our corded Shark Apex vac we’ve had for 5 months has this feature and I haven’t had to remove a single strand of hair from those brushrolls. I’ve cleaned our entire house with this Rocket cordless stick vac (required several recharges) and all of the hair made it to the dust cup, nothing wrapped around the brushroll. Prior to these Shark vacs I used my pocketknife to cut my wife’s hair out of various vacuum brushrolls every month for the last 25 years. Now I know better and won’t ever buy another vac without this feature. The charging port is on the battery and it can be charged while attached or detached from the vac. The battery is replaceable, and it doesn’t require a special battery charger, just an easily replaceable AC adapter with a barrel plug. Win, Win. I’m not a fan of planned obsolescence. The Rocket has circuitry that will shut down the vac or delay charging if the battery gets too warm. After a full charge I used the Rocket around my house until the LEDs indicated the charge was low. I kept cleaning on Boost Mode until the vac shut itself off. When I attempted to charge the battery, it indicated the battery was not at optimal temperature to charge (outer LEDs flashing). The manual states charging is only paused, leave the battery plugged in, charging will resume once the battery cools. The battery was barely warm, so charging resumed soon. That is a great feature that should help extend the life of the battery. The three LED lights on the front of the floor nozzle help you see debris and the pivot point where it connects to the wand helps you steer in tight places. There are no lights on the vac itself, only lights on the floor nozzle. The two pre-motor filters and one post-motor HEPA filter are all easy to remove and clean with just water. I like the use of quarter-turn fasteners to access the brushroll instead of regular screws. They made the Rocket easy to maintain. The Rocket is great on hard floors. We have several furry children that eat off the floor and the Rocket makes quick work of cleaning up their crumbs. It also does a great job cleaning up litter that gets tracked outside their box in the bathroom. I’m used to bending over with a hand vac for quick cleanups and the Rocket has been much nicer to use. The Rocket works well on carpet, but I’d rather plug in one of our corded vacs to clean our carpeted upstairs. Our corded Shark Apex does a better job on our carpeted stairs, but the cordless Rocket is more convenient. Cons: There is no on-board tool storage, just like our other Shark vac. Why not design spots along the wand that can hold the crevice and multi-tool? It sure would make the vac easier to use. A $300-dollar vacuum should include a way to hold the tools. I’m using a toilet paper tube taped to the wand to hold the crevice tool. It worked so well I decided to make one for the brush. I made that one using a paper towel tube I cut and taped back together. There’s no bracket or easy way to hang or store the vac unless you have the MultiFLEX wand instead of the standard wand. The Rocket with standard wand can’t stand on its own for storage but it can be leaned against a wall and the floor nozzle sticks out 12 to 13 inches. This works best on carpet. If the vacuum is propped this way on a hard floor, the floor nozzle can roll away from the wall and fall if you aren’t careful. Hair can catch on the dustbin lid while emptying. A gentle shake and tap on the bin usually make it fall free but there have been several times it was easier to grab the hair and pull it out. There are some tight spaces inside the dust bin along the back side that tend to hold fuzzies. Eventually other debris knocks them loose. The tools snap securely onto the wand or vac but there is no way to rotate the crevice tool or the pet multi-tool. Also, the neck of the multi-tool doesn’t swivel like ones included with most vacuums we have owned like our other Shark vac. This makes it a challenge if not impossible to use in tight places like our cat furniture. I rotate the tools on our corded shark vac 45 degrees. This lets me tilt the vacuum slightly sideways making it easier to maneuver the vac in tight spaces. It also helps to “steer” the brush around corners in these tight spaces. Sometimes I rotate the multi-tool 90 or even 180 degrees to vacuum vertical surfaces like the back of our couch, carpeted stairs and cat furniture. You can’t do this with the Rocket vac. If you use the multi-tool attached directly to the Rocket vac and you are reaching 12 inches back under/into something, you need 13 inches of height for handle clearance. If you want to reach in/under with the entire vac, about 18 inches deep, ideally you will need 15 inches of height to clear. Either way, if you lower the vac handle beyond 12 inches, the dust-bin bottoms out forcing the muli-tool to pivot off the surface and break contact/suction. If they allowed the tool or its neck to rotate, like most brush/multi-tools, you could use the vac in more places. I used the Rocket in my truck interior and several times it would have been useful to rotate the crevice and brush tools 90 degrees, but I managed to get the job done.

Being a Dog Owner, having a quality vacuum that can suck up all the hair they shed plus the rest of your typically home messes is a necessity. Shark did a great job on this Vacuum all while being completely cordless! PROS: - The design is very modern. It looks high end without being too pricey and all the components all match along nicely. The Vacuum itself is lightweight but the large attachment head makes it heavier which is fine given how advanced the large attachment head is. - I really love this but the long stick attachment that goes from the vacuum to the large head attachment has a power supply adapter so it will run power from the vacuum to the large attachment head so that it can have additional spin power and lighting. - Shark was really smart in this, but the vacuum has a detachable battery pack which you can leave on or take off to charge. It’s nice because hypothetically you could buy another battery to extend the life of the vacuum which is great. - Finally, the use of the Vacuum is excellent! I received plenty of power and sucked up a lot of dust/dog hair/dirt/crumbs around the house. The house has a power mode for the flat hardwood/tile/vinyl and one for carpet plus an extra trigger for more power on either setting. Overall I was very impressed with its performance! CONS: - When you want to take the Vacuum off of the stick attachment, it isn’t as smooth as you want. It might be because of the power connector but its just an okay transition to detach. - The Vacuum does not come with any mounting device for storage purposes. It’s not terrible because the detachable battery is easily chargeable but it would have been nice to have. BOTTOM LINE: - Whether you own a pet that shed or not, this cordless vacuum is going to be a wonder for your house. It can be used in so many places around the house and has plenty of power. Great work Shark!

This Shark Rocket Pet Pro Bagless vacuum is a great unit. It offers a lot of flexibility and power in a small package. It's a stick vacuum that easily and quickly converts into a hand vacuum. It offers a Bare Floor Setting for bare floors and area rugs and a Carpet setting where the brushroll spins faster to pick up debris below the surface of carpets. I also really like the Boost Mode trigger to give you that extra bit of power when you need it! The main vacuum has a solid feel but it's not too heavy. It can be used on floors, area rugs and carpet with the provided wand and floor nozzle. To test out how well it worked I dropped flour, banking soda and dirt on both my carpeted and wood floors and the vacuum picked it all up easily. I don't have a pet right now, but the vacuum comes with a Pet Multi-Tool which I used to quickly pick up dog hair off of my couch from a recent dog friend that visited. Removing the floor nozzle, I added the 8" crevice tool to the wand so I could vacuum some hard to reach cobwebs that had accumulated in the corner behind my TV. The vacuum comes with a wall charger and a pre-installed Li-Ion Battery. This is a solid high performing stick vacuum which performs well. The ONE thing I would have liked to have seen in the box was some sort of mounting bracket. Nothing too fancy. Just something I could use to hang this up in a wall closet or kitchen that could be used to keep the vacuum and its accessories organized and stored. Other than that it's a great vac

Shark Rocket Pet Pro Cordless Vacuum Full disclosure: I was given a Shark Rocket Pet Pro Cordless Vacuum in exchange for a timely and honest review. List price $299.99 The vacuum arrived in excellent shape, the retail box was actually packed inside two overwrap cartons which seemed like overkill, but it was certainly good protection. Unpacking and setup was very simple. The Quick Start Guide states the battery is not shipped with a full charge and instructs us to charge it fully before the first use. I’d say the battery was about 40-50% charged. I believe it completed the charge to 100% in 30-40 minutes from this original level. The battery can be charged when it is attached to the vacuum or when it is detached. There are six parts in the box. The power head, the lithium ion battery charger (120 Volts ONLY), the extension wand, a crevice tool, a “pet multi-tool” which is a small brush like and an upholstery tool. Once charged, my wife and I tested it out on carpet, hardwood floors and a rugged entryway floor mat. Suction is pretty good for a battery vacuum like this and the combination of the rotary head and the suction were very effective at picking up dirt and hair. We were both impressed with how well it picked up dirt off the entry rug. This rug presents and fair challenge for our built-in vacuum, so it is a worthy adversary for any vacuum. The vacuum is very easy to handle and very maneuverable. The power head attaches either to the extension wand or directly to the attachments. With the power head installed, a twist of the wrist steers the power head in either direction. It is quick to clean around chair legs and under tables. We picked up quite a bit of dust, dirt and hair even without owning a pet. The dust cup empties easily with the press of a button. It is nice that their is an allergy filter to trap fine particles as well. It will be very helpful to have this vacuum available for those times when we have a specific area we want to clean, but don’t wish to pull out the 35’ central vacuum hose. I suspect this will be used a lot! I can’t find any accessories for this yet, but it is certainly constructed such that you could have one battery on charge, while using the vacuum with a second battery. This could be handy for someone who would like to keep one battery topped off, while using another. The power head has some nice rubber feet on the bottom for setting it on a shelf. One welcome addition would be a hook hole upon which to hang the power head. Currently the only options are to lean it against something (like a wall) or to remove the wand and set the power head on a flat service. We have not had the vacuum long enough to comment on how it holds up over time, but it has a quality feel which leads me to expect it to work well for years.