Shark PowerDetect 2-in-1 Robot Vacuum and Mop Review (2024)

I respect Shark’s ambition. With its latest vacuum (most precocious presented astatine IFA), Shark attempts to lick 2 large problems. The archetypal is that successful galore cases, simply lifting the mop pads implicit the level often isn’t capable to support the yucky bedewed mop pad from dragging connected your bully cleanable carpet. That’s wherefore the newest Shark robot vacuum has a mop sheet that automatically detaches erstwhile you’re vacuuming.

The second, and much absorbing problem, is that robot vacuums thin to get stuck connected small ledges oregon rugs successful your house. That’s wherefore the Shark present has what I person been referring to arsenic a “booty hitch,” to hump itself implicit obstacles successful its path. On its face, some of these improvements are very, precise cool—and they work. “Is that robot vacuum humping the floor?” my hubby asked, arsenic it propelled itself into the surviving country from the kitchen. However, arsenic if successful recompense, the Shark is failing astatine immoderate basal robot vacuum tasks. If you’re funny successful this vacuum, I would suggest waiting for the terms to travel down and for the institution to robust retired immoderate basal bugs.

Smell You Later

Setup is precise simple. It’s a good-looking robot vacuum, with a docking presumption that includes a cleanable h2o tank, a soiled h2o tank, a dustbin with a singular 0.33-liter capacity, and a refillable odor-neutralizer capsule that prevents the full happening from stinking to precocious heaven. It’s compact astatine little than 18 inches precocious and little than 15 inches wide, and precise casual to acceptable up. I downloaded the app and added the vacuum to it; Shark adjacent provides a database of cute, punny names. (I picked “Steve McClean.”)

The preclean mapping was accelerated and easy, and the vacuum did not get tripped up astatine all. The representation is benignant of bonkers and successful nary mode accurate, but it gets the wide predisposition of the rooms correct, and the map’s inaccuracy is not reflected successful however the robot cleans.

When you commencement cleaning, you tin prime either vacuum oregon mop (not both), and if you vacuum, you tin prime either to cleanable oregon heavy clean. I recovered this confusing, arsenic you pat the Clean Button before you tin prime the mode—just a small residual PTSD from starting excessively galore robot vacuums successful the incorrect cleaning mode and not being capable to halt them, thing to interest about. You tin besides opt to cleanable by country oregon to spot cleanable (more connected that later).

It takes astir 90 minutes for the vacuum to bash a afloat vacuum tally for 750 quadrate feet, and astir 60 percent of the battery, which means I could mop aft I vacuumed, if I wanted to. Having a detachable mop pad meant that I didn’t request to program retired my cleaning beforehand—with ones that don’t detach, I person to marque definite I vacuum earlier I mop. You besides can’t hint the vacuum’s unrecorded advancement successful the map. It's an casual mode to guarantee you got afloat coverage, oregon would beryllium with an close map.

Three Times, You’re Out

Ostensibly, the Shark vacuum has DirtDetect, which is simply a diagnostic that archetypal showed up successful iRobot’s Roomba line. Sensors connected the bottommost of the vacuum tin find areas of antithetic dirtiness and absorption connected them. It’s remarkably effectual with an iRobot, but not truthful overmuch with the Shark.