Following. I looked for a cord free stick vac for months before giving up. I just want to be able to vacuum up the crumbs under the kitchen table without dragging out AnnaConda, the central vacuum hose. or spreading the mess with a broom. Reviews of the stick vacs were terrible. (Such as: The batteries didn't hold a charge or were weird sizes that couldn't be replaced. They also had very narrow brush heads.)

I have a shark cordless vac, I love. Charges in a base on the floor, light weight and swivels nice. I do not have a pet at the moment, but I used too, and it worked nice.

Judy I had a cordless Shark and I agree it is wonderful. But I am hoping the stick will work for those clusters of hairs behind and under furniture

I had bought a little Bissell stick vac for my mothers senior apartment for those food accidents that would sometimes happen in between her housekeepers visits. Very lightweight and took up no room in the closet but did an acceptable job. My SIL always took her dog in with her when she'd visit there and the Bissell seemed efficient enough on those short white hairs. I liked it well enough I bought one for here and use it sometimes in my kitchen. Flour spills or crumbs under the breakfast table when I don't want to get out either of my heavier vacuums or a broom and dustpan. It has a cup that has to be emptied, DH is good about noticing when it needs to be emptied. Less than $30 at Walmart. Not cordless.

Little side on the pet hair: During snow and at the peak of Covid, her care facility had begun letting us in to an empty downstairs apartment instead of standing outside in the cold at an open window to visit with her. We'd be cold, and so was she.

They had partitioned the room off with heavy plastic on temporary frames and she was supposed to stay on one side, us on the other. (never mind that someone my size could slip through at the wall and give her a hug, make her promise not to tell ;)). But mother dropped something on her side of the partition one day and I got down on my knees and reached under to retrieve it for her. Little white short dog hairs on my black pants. That darned dog had been in before us, two floors away from mothers apartment it was clearly little Zena's short white hairs still plaguing me.

We have five cats, including one that has long hair that sticks to everything, including skin. It's like it's barbed or something. Anyway, our Shark Rocket Pro works great on all the pet hair on both carpet and hard surface flooring. It charges pretty quickly, and I'm able to do everything I need to a couple of times before it needs recharging. The only thing I don't enjoy is periodically taking apart the filters, rinsing them and reassembling. There is a little dry time before you can reassemble, so I usually let the parts dry overnight. But I do have that with our upright, plug-in Dyson, too.

I have a Bissell stick vacuum and I love it. Very lightweight and easy to plug in and start vacuuming. While they don't have the suction of a larger vacuum, they're wonderful for lighter stuff and cleaning up those messes that sometimes happen.

Dyson cyclone

Have a Dyson V11 that we love. So easy to use. I cannot recall how long we’ve had it. I took the older ine to the lake and bought this one. It started failing to keep a charge a few months ago and Dyson replaced the entire motor head for around $50. It was worth it.

I have a Eureka & love it. It was about $130. on Amazon.

How much do your cordless stick vacs cost? Maybe the reason I didn't find one was that I won't pay tons for something I'd only use to clean crumbs from under the kitchen table. It would be 'nice' to have, but I'm OK using a Swiffer.

Chisue, I think mine was at least $500 but I really can’t remember. I know that it is money definitely well spent for me.

Mine hangs on a charger between my mudroom and pantry. It is easy to grab when you come into the house and leave a bit of grit, dirt, leaves, sawdust etc. on the floor. Most days I quickly run it over my hardwood, tiled and carpeted floors. It’s amazing how much it picks up.

I also have a full size canister plug in Dyson that I run about once a month.

eta I also use the stick vacuum to clean out the vehicles.

Hi Lucille! I don’t know about stick vacs, but I once had a lab-pup-dawg and know what enormous amounts of hair they can shed.

One thing that was very handy was a runner bristled broom, like these:

My hair stylist bhad a german made one 20 years or so ago. I found one at one of those discount shops and bought a bunch of them for my family and our household. They are fantastic. Give Clementine a kiss and ear rub for me. And let her get onto the bed!

I have a Shark battery and use it almost daily. I paid $200.00 or around that. Have it 3 yrs and is so handy for crumbs, dog hair and all the other stuff that ends up on the floor. I have a large, heavy vacuum which I use every few weeks to get in places the Shark can't reach. I also have Roomba's which I use to get under beds and furniture I can't reach.

I love my Shark!

Jane

Here are some links to Bissell stick vacuums and how much they cost.

I always check reviews on Amazon, even if buying somewhere else.

https://www.amazon.com/Bissell-Featherweight-Lightweight-Bagless-2033/dp/B06ZY7BTWM/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3QNU05RCU70K6&keywords=bissell%2Bstick%2Bvacuum&qid=1670431693&sprefix=Bissell%2Bstick%2Bvacuum%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-3&th=1

Walmart. https://www.walmart.com/search?q=bissell%20stick%20vacuum&typeahead=bissell%20stick

Other Bissell vacs https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bissell+stick+vacuum&crid=3QNU05RCU70K6&sprefix=Bissell+stick+vacuum%2Caps%2C119&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_20

This is a timely subject for me as I have come to the conclusion that I could really use a small stick vac.

Old age catches up to me at times and smacks me right across the head.

Right now I am nursing totally compromised and painful knee on one side and an inflamed sciatic nerve on the other side and, for the first time in my long life, I am having difficulty doing things like stairs and any kind of pushing and pulling.

I have been using a shop vac and I use the blowing action as much as the suction, maybe even more. But, I cant handle it as well as I used to and the action of sweeping can be painful.

I used to sell vacs at Sears for a few years, and one thing to consider is what do you expect a straight suction vac to do on any manner of carpet, if you have it. Straight suction is not usually very effective for suctioning debris that has gotten tangled in the fiber of the carpet, with pet hair being the main offender. What is needed to do a good job is to have a rotating brush on the nozzle along with the suction. That is exactly what the better canister vacs that we sold at the time had. Those Sears canister vacs were pretty good machines and had a very effective and strong rotating brush.

We used to get this all the time where a customer came in wanting to buy a vac with a high horse power, thinking that it took powerful suction to take up pet hair. What you really need is a mechanical action that you get from a rotating brush to act with that suction power. Most vacs dont have as much power as they are percieved to have. I think that most at the time were claimed to have maybe 3-5 HP. Which is pretty good, but not usually enough to suck up embedded pet hair.

I have no pets but have runners on the two flights of stairs. The runners are low pile, so not really much of a carpet.

I wish there was one that had a dusting attachment that would clean the dust from the baseboards. Canister vacs used to have that littel round tube thing with some bristles on it, but I never found that to be very effective at cleaning baseboards.

If you have only hard floors, it really doesnt take much suction to take up most debris. In that case, you have to weight the other attributes of the machine.

Wall to wall carpet is rare anymore and I bid it good riddance.

I dont know where I can go anymore to actually see and try a vac. I read the reviews and I dont find much value in them. So I am going to see what some of you have to say about yours.

I just want one that has some durable quality , is simple in design, lighweight and can be either cordless or plug in . If I judge the quality of one with a plug to be better than a cordless, I will buy the better one.

I have not looked at vacs in a long time and am not familiar with this new breed. But, I do know that pet hair in carpet does not come out very easily unless it is brushed up with the rotating brush. Cat hair, in particular has little barbs on it that make it especially hard to pick up. You may get some of it up.

One thing that i saw before my vac selling days ended is that there were some vacs that came with rotatiing brush heads but they were not very good. I remember one that Sears decided to sell that was not a Kenmore brand name. I really do believe that it was Meile, but I could be wrong on that. I do remember that it was a European maker. It had a brush that was supposed to rotate to clean carpet but it had no motor in it and it depended on the suction to rotate the brush, which was impossible to do. The Kenmore brushes had a motor in the nozzle with a belt that turned the rotating brush with reliable strong force. The Kenmore canister vacs were darned good ones and they lasted for years.

I am looking at that little one that looks like a small canister, but it really is just a stick vac that has been stacked a bit differently.

I only need one that gets used for lightly for small areas at a time.

I just cant handle things like I used to.

I also need a lightweight mop. I have always used the old fashioned mop head but one that I could put in the wash and get it clean. Now I am going to be looking for maybe a sponge mop. I never liked those but it may be what I can handle now.

Love my Dyson V10. In fact when we did our kitchen reno in 2019, I had a plug installed in the broom closet for the Dyson.

Five years ago, I bought two refurbished units on Woot. One for DD and one for me. They were half the price of new. Both have been amazing. Last year I did have to replace the battery on mine. It gets heavy use. I think the OEM battery was about $55 from Dyson though I just looked now and the price for an actual Dyson battery is over $100 now. Yikes!

That was very helpful, woodrose. It appears that the big expense is the battery power. The corded sticks are reasonably priced for little pick-up jobs, but...having to plug one in makes it more of a hassle than my small task warrants. Too late I see the utility of the kickplate option offered when I had my central vac system installed.

Claudia I use one of those flat microfiber mops, the microfiber pad sticks on via velcro and tears right off after you are finished using it. I have a rectangular bucket made for them. the mop is light and easy to use and the pads are easy to wash.

I've got a Shark Rocket stick vacuum with a powerhead. I really like it, it maneuvers easy and the cord is 30' long. Very similar to this.

The Dirt Devil stick vac finally arrived. 2 minutes to put it together. It has a power brush roller but you can also use it without. It is very lightweight. I have poor vision so even with correction I don't always see the dog hair, and it vacuumed up a bunch on its first test run. I got it from the Amazon Warehouse for $37. It is corded but so lightweight that it isn't a big deal to plug it in, in each room.

I'm very happy with it now that Clementine the Shedder is here. For a dog that has such short hair she sheds a lot even though I brush her. She is totally worth the extra vacuuming, but I'm glad I have the Dirt Devil and don't have to do all the vacuuming with my big heavy vac.

we got the same shark rocket corded one ... and we like it a lot

I have the shark rocket corded one too and it works well recently i replaced the roller brushes with new ones i bought on Amazon You Tube shows you how