Shark Navigator Professional Lift-Away NV356E vs Shark APEX UpLight

The Shark Navigator Lift-Away is a bagless upright vacuum. Its 'Lift-Away' design allows you to pick up and carry its canister while vacuuming with its wand. It delivers superb performance on bare floors and does an excellent overall job cleaning various kinds of debris on low and high-pile carpet. It also cleans pet hair without any issue, regardless of surface type, and has an onboard allergen-trapping HEPA filter

Unfortunately, this vacuum has quite a few components that need regular cleaning. Also, while it feels decently well-built overall, its clear plastic dustbin does feel as if it could break if you were to drop it. Its hose is short, too, making it challenging to clean hard-to-reach areas, like high-up shelves, when using the vacuum in its semi-handheld configuration. Still, its onboard HEPA filter and versatile performance on a variety of surfaces make it one of the best vacuums for pet hair that we've tested

Despite that, this is still our top recommendation for those on a tighter budget. It stands up well against other models that cost substantially more and delivers an above-average performance overall.

Good value for the price. The cord wrap is practical. Does well reaching under furniture and the conversion to handheld is easy enough.

Then just to be even more fabulous it wipes the dust from the floors leaving behind a fresh, clean & cared for looking floor. If you've ever had wood floors, especially real wood floors but laminate as well, you know sometimes they can look just a little faded or just sort of lack the luster associated with the look wood floors. Rubbing across it with this cloth the floors a soft shine that just somehow adds think the overall good look of the floors. They look really nice afterwards and I know they are also really clean because I watched it suck up all of the dirt even right up net to the baseboards

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The fact that not all of the attachments physically attach to the vacuum is disappointing and lead to losing one piece during a move last year. I don't want to have to carry things while I clean, I also don't want to fetch things from a different room when I need them. EASE OF USE Buttons are conveniently located and it's simple to switch the brush on and off as I go from rugs, to wood, and then to carpet. HARD SURFACE vs CARPET There are two on settings, one without activating the roller that is intended for hard wood or tile, the second that initiates the roller and should be used for carpet or rugs

I use the Rocket with the wand section removed (floor head joined directly to the motor/dust cup unit) for the easiest handling. This is not an option with the Apex Uplight.

I would recommend buying extra filters because, as you can see in my third photo, it traps a lot of dust. That thing was pristine white when I started (testament to the suction power and filtering system of this vacuum). I do believe you can wash these things out, but I wouldn't recommend doing that. Just keep a couple of extras handy

*While it works great on our hardwood floors and low pile rugs, it does not run on my daughter's thicker shag rug. *Clogged when vacuuming up leaves. You might think that my experience with the front roller connection breaking would lead to an automatic negative review for this vacuum. However, I use it without that roller, and due to the powerful suction, it still is one of the best vacuums we've had

Once I hit my carpet, I knew I had a shark! I was amazed how much dust and dirt and hair came up! It was easy enough to dump the dirt bin. Attachments were simple to on-board and & convert and also worked just as well, suction-wise. The filters were easy to clean and put back together. Out of the box, it looks like it will be heavy and bulky but it wasn’t

It doesn’t have good suction., it will pick up a little larger items but clog, to empty you have to unhook bottom from top and then take the top part of vacuum to trash and such a hassle to make sure the large top is in the trash when u empty out or else it will make a mess. Cord is Manuel. Also has attachment that should fit on side of vacuum but the part is flimsy and doesn’t stay on

5. Hepa filter has a good seal and is washable. Dust does not recirculate into the air.

Since it has a HEPA filter, this theoretically should be okay as it’s “clean” air. But if you’re sensitive, it’s still a problem. Plus I just don’t like it. Putting the motor lower on the stick closer to the base and further away from me would also solve this problem

Shark does kinda blow it here on the inability to keep all the included tools stored on-board the vacuum, which for such a well executed device in almost every other way, it leaves one scratching wondering how they missed something so obvious? The Lift - Away model I purchased came with the powered brush roll, a nifty piece of simple engineering that uses all that suction the Shark has on tap to pull hard enough that it spins a sort of turbine inspired fan wheel inside the powered brush roller body that spins the 4" wide brush via a belt attached to the turbine fan. Along with the Shark exclusive Lift-Away cannister feature, this combo tackles stairs in a manner the Dyson simply cannot do. The only drawback to this otherwise excellent addition is the 4" wide brushroll, which much like its big brother main brushroll, they could both benefit greatly by the addition of an extra 2-3 inches. But who among us couldn't, right? Perhaps Shark thought of these minor insufficiencies in the design, which benefits again over the Dyson by being some 5+ pounds lighter than the 19

The attachments fit into a plastic clip that goes on the upright of the vacuum. It is a REALLY BAD DESIGN. The cord gets caught on the attachments when turning the vacuum and the attachments seem to always get knocked out of the clip if vacuuming near, or bumping, anything.