If you’re dragging your feet during spring cleaning, Amazon’s Big Spring Sale might be the motivation you need. Judging by the deals I’ve seen, now is a great time to buy a new cordless vacuum cleaner. Almost all of Shark’s cordless models are available at a substantial price, including CNET’s best, the Shark Stratos, and our pick for the best self-emptying cordless vacuum, the Shark Clean & Empty.
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The Shark Stratos is one of the best cordless vacuums we’ve tested
Using the Shark Stratos in the test lab on hardwood floors gave us impressive sand pickup results. You will be able to see our test mat soon.
Schylar Breitenstein/CNETNormally $500 full price you can get the Stratos Shark for a total discount of $200, bringing it down to just $300. The Shark Stratos earned top marks in CNET’s lab tests. It provides powerful suction on all flooring types, with 97.2% sand collection on hardwood flooring. It also has equally impressive carpet pickup, with 94% debris pickup on low-pile carpets and 94.4% on medium-pile carpets.
“The Stratos definitely stands out,” said Schylar Breitenstein, associate lab technician who put the Stratos through its paces. “I use it to clean the floors between pickup tests because it picks up the most debris by far.”
The Shark Stratos has useful LED headlights to help it find the dirt.
Schylar Breitenstein/CNETI also used the Stratos extensively during my lab visit. As a pet owner with three cats who shed like it’s a hobby, I especially like the brush, which Shark calls DuoClean PowerFines HairPro. It’s a dual-brush system that allows it to dig deeper into the carpet to remove dust and pet hair, and the self-cleaning brush resists tangles, too.
Other great features include automatic dirt detection and suction adjustment, optional odor-fighting pods that release a pleasant scent while cleaning, and an impressive 80-minute battery life for long sessions.
The Shark Clean & Empty saves you from having to empty a trash can
The Shark Clean and Empty is one of the few to come with a self-emptying dock.
Shark/CNETOne of the downsides of the Shark Stratos is that, despite its excellent cleaning performance, you have to manually empty the dustbin. The Shark Clean & Empty solves this problem by integrating a self-emptying dock. It empties the trash and charges the vacuum after each use, and offers similar cleaning performance to the Stratos (although its battery doesn’t last as long). It normally costs $350, but during Amazon’s spring sale you can get Clean and empty for just $250.
Many others Shark Cordless Vacuums And robot vacuum cleaners are also on sale. We’ve also tested models like the Shark Pet Plus, Shark Vertex IZ492H and others through our intensive lab testing. Although they don’t make our main list of the best cordless vacuums, many of them offer unique features that might be better suited to your needs.
