Shark - PowerDetect Cordless Stick Vacuum with Powerful Suction & HEPA Filtration, Up to 70 min Runtime - Dark Gray

I’ve always bought the high end brand vacuums and I never thought there was any any better until I bought my Shark Power Detect Cordless Stick Vacuum! I was tired of pushing my heavy upright vacuum and emptying the dusty bags. Plus I definitely couldn’t vacuum under anything with it. I also was tired of dragging my water fields vacuum through the house. It would get stuck in the cord and I had to empty the nasty water! Yuck! My Shark is light and easy to maneuver. It glides across my tile, wood, and carpet floors! I can vacuum under my end tables and behind my couches where my dogs tend to hide without moving my furniture! I cleaned my great room, dining room, hallway, and 3 bedrooms and still had some battery life available! It’s suction power is off the chart! The evidence is in the canister! When I’m through I just detach the handheld vacuum end and hold it over the trash and pull the trigger and empty it!! I LOVE it!!

I originally wanted the Shark Stratos, but then I went down the rabbit hole of comparing other Shark vacuums. I ended up getting this vacuum, and after a few months I wish I purchased the Stratos. This vacuum is "easy to maneuver" depending on the type of carpet and direction that you're pushing. The cleaning quality is the worst of the Shark products that I've had. I pass the vacuum multiple times and still need to pick up after the vacuum. Setting it up was easy, that was the only nice part. The brush did have small amounts of hair rolled around it, and there's a section behind the larger roller that has dirt build up and is not easy to pick out. It didn't look like that large roller could be removed to clean behind it or the inside of the glass part. Honestly, I'm disappointed in all the great reviews that I saw with the PowerDetect because I feel like the honest reviews were filtered out. The price wasn't cheap, but the product is.

Great product! The light detector was really scary as it showed dirt and hair on my floors that triggered my OCD badly. It also showed that it was able to pick up all of that dirt. Only downside of this product is how you empty it, as this was really inconvenient compared to other models. Overall it was a great purchase.

We purchased this for our carpeted stairs and it does a great job. It is lightweight and powerful.

Over the years we have owned two other brands of cordless vacuums. I do like the reverse cleaning feature and self-cleaning brush roll. We have wood flooring, carpet, rugs and tile in our home along with epoxy floor coating in the basement. The POWERDETECT has three modes: ECO (maximizes runtime), DETECT (senses dirt, edges and floor type) and BOOST (maximizes suction). You do not have to hold a trigger while vacuuming, which is a big plus. The vacuum weighs about 8lbs. and is top heavy. It also has a HEPA filter. DETECT mode does sense different floor types well. It vacuums harder on rugs and carpets than other types of flooring and did lift a lot of dirt. I wasn’t impressed with the edge detect as it left too many pieces along edges and corners even after several vacuum passes and also left debris along rug edges. This was tested during Christmas prep and a lot of items were spilled on the floor: flour, sugar, cereal, rice, etc… Wood floors were the worst, as DETECT mode had less suction and missed items. BOOST mode was an improvement on the wood flooring. ECO mode wasn’t used as it wasn’t very effective and the battery life on this vacuum is excellent. BOOST mode did help on the wood floors and was great at digging out dirt from the rugs after the grandkids made their messes. Emptying the dust bin is easy but you need to be right over your garbage can or the dust will end up on the floor. The Pet Multi-Tool was very handy to vacuum upholstery and removed hair, pet hair and the finest lint. This was impressive. The Duster Crevice Tool was okay, I found myself using it on corners and edges the vacuum had missed. I always wish vacuums had a finer crevice tool that was even more narrow and extended farther out. Bending the wand to clean under furniture isn’t useful in our household. We only bent the wand to fold over for storage. Battery life is excellent at 55-65 minutes on DETECT mode. Using BOOST mode a fair amount of the time lowered runtime to about 40-50 minutes. Much better than the 20-25 minutes on our other cordless vacuums. Charging is easy with the included cord. The vacuum doesn’t stand up on its own so you have to fold it over by bending the wand and then plug in the cord. I really wish it didn’t have to fold over and could just stand upright securely. The design is more like an upright vacuum than a stick so this should be fairly easy. It is a nice vacuum; I found myself using BOOST mode more often than DETECT mode.