There are 4 additional buttons on the handle too, where you can select hardwood or carpets floors and normal suction or faster suction – which I should note drains the battery faster. You just switch the Shark Duo Clean on with a button on the handle. The controls are on the top handle too, so you do not have to hold a trigger all the time to get the vacuum to start like you do with the Dyson which can make your hand ache after a while. With the Shark Duo Clean you can change it at the touch of a button. My house is about half and half hardfloor to carpet, so I am always having to swap it. Which is a bit of a faff, and you are bound to need the hard floor one when you’re upstairs and have to run down and get it. For the Dyson V8 is comes with a hardwood head and a carpet head. One of the big bonuses of this vacuum cleaner is that for everyday cleaning you do not have to change the heads for the floor. I did like that one, better than a feather duster any day. The accessory that was new to me was the duster one, which allows you to use it to dust those pesky cobwebs from the ceiling. It comes with four different accessories, which can all be stored in a handy bag provided. The two batteries are really great as cordless vacuums can run through them quite quickly. So both batteries will give you a maximum of 44 minutes. The maximum run time for each battery is 22 mins each. It comes with not one, but two batteries, which means you can charge one while you use the other. The Shark Duo Clean is a cordless vacuum cleaner. I would go as far to say it takes a lot of my frustrations with Dyson V8 and solves them. I’ve had Dyson in some form or other for years and particularly with pets, they have always cleaned to a high standard. When I agreed to review the Shark Duo Clean I did not expect it to be as good as a Dyson. Got children who spill things on the floor all the time, cats that like to kick litter out of their tray? A mix of both hard floors and carpets? Again cordless all the way. Hate cleaning the stairs? Fed up of hefting the vacuum up and down them, so you would sometimes leave it weeks before cleaning them? Then you need a cordless in your life. If you have yet to venture into the cordless world of vacuuming, seriously why not? It has completely changed my way of cleaning and is quite frankly pretty much making the dreaded dustpan and brush redundant. Why You Need a Cordless Vacuum Cleanerįirst off, though let me start at the beginning. I was curious to see how it compared, but sceptical that it would live up to the standard of my beloved V8. So when Shark asked me to review their latest edition to the cordless market the Duo Clean IF250UK, I was looking forward to trying it out.

After lots of raving reviews and people telling me how much they loved it I was not disappointed in the least and quickly became a very big fan myself. I was converted to cordless vacuum cleaners when I purchased the Dyson V8. God DAMN, it is ugly though.AD – Gifted and this post contains affiliate links Shark Duo Clean IF250UK Review If you don't mind that, it's a very good upright vacuum cleaner and a highly distinctive handheld one, with all the usual benefits of being cordless and bagless. Whereas literally all other 'handheld' vacs in the history of the genre have been liftable in one hand. The problem with the 'Liftaway' element of the Shark DuoClean Liftaway is that you have a handheld device that by definition requires you to have something in each hand, joined together by a hose. And if we're talking fairly hardcore ugliness and design quirkiness, well, it delivers on that too. Shark DuoClean Liftaway: VerdictĪs usual with Shark, if we're talking cleaning prowess this vacuum cleaner delivers. The build quality feels robust enough to take quite a beating, and there are a host of genuinely well-designed elements (such as a sharp kink in the bottom of the vacuum hose, which traps larger items conveniently near the end of the hose) that mean this ugly duckling is a swan-in-waiting, at least where home cleaning is concerned. The Shark DuoClean will inevitably be compared with Dyson offerings, and as a ‘do everything’ vacuum the Shark holds up well. The Shark DuoClean clearly makes vacuuming a joyful experience

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