How To Use Apex M

Skilful god, I love vacuuming. I really like the feeling of getting every bit of hair and speck of dirt off of my belongings. At that place's only something extremely gratifying virtually methodically sucking up all the grime from your home. My fiance thinks it'southward weird, and she's probably right, only I always have a huge smile while vacuuming.

I also have an 11-pound chihuahua named Edgar. Edgar'southward life mission, aside from a zealous pursuit of craven, is to shed as much hair equally possible. He relishes in getting it into unimaginable places, but our living room, and specifically our couch, are constantly under a thin coating of his pilus. And I demand a vacuum that can inhale every last strand.

Run across the Shark Apex DuoClean with Naught-M Powered Lift-Away. (Say that 3 times fast.) Let's just call it Shark'south Apex Zero-M. The company sent me one to examination and I was elated. Information technology's a total-sized upright cleaning motorcar that, per the press release, has the most suction power, some technology that doubles up the brush rolls and even more than engineering science to remove all pilus from the brush roll, and it maybe does your taxes, too. I'k mayhap lying almost the last part, but all the bits about the suction and rolls are truthful.

More From Men's Health

And so how'due south it actually work? Well, this thing sucks. Information technology really sucks. With my onetime vacuum, I'd accept to make three or iv passes over the aforementioned bit of floor before I felt it was sufficiently clean enough to movement on. With Shark'southward Apex, one gliding pass, and that hardwood is spotless. Two passes on carpeting gives you a carpeting that looks like it'southward exhibit gear up, with those deeply satisfying streaks of clean boldly displayed. And the extension tools for the couch? Sublime. It got the burrow looking as spiffy equally the twenty-four hour period I brought information technology dwelling.

The $399 Apex moves easily and freely, with little rolling resistance. The rollers are cranking out so much torque, it one-half pulls yous across the floor or carpeting. Information technology handles calorie-free or deep pile with aplomb, never getting bogged downwards or moving too fast. And the crevice tool was finally able to get a drift pile of Edgar hair from the deep recesses of that narrow cleft between my refrigerator and the kitchen wall that no human can ever manage to accomplish. Props, Shark.

There's an anti-allergen seal, so it keeps all the gunk from getting back out into the air. My one-time vacuum used to randomly discharge clouds of clay from the front filter, so a nice upgrade there, too. Lastly, because "your vacuum is supposed to clean and you shouldn't have to clean your vacuum," says the company, hair indeed does slough off the rollers. You'll never have to stare and the underside of the Apex, wondering if you should awkwardly hack that gob of pilus out with a knife or a pair of pair of scissors.

Technology!

Michael Piazza

All that roller tech ways a sizable footprint to the vacuum's caput, though. Information technology'due south got some acme which can meet it unable to become into smaller spots. In fact, it's large overall. Information technology takes upward a chunk more than space in the closet than its predecessor. Only if those are the only downsides to a vastly superior vacuum, whatever. Totally worth it.

And then do your worst, Edgar. This Shark will eat it all upwards.

Purchase It Now

Sean Evans' bylines accept appeared in New York Magazine, Fast Company, Conde Nast Traveler, The Drive, Entertainment Weekly, New York Daily News, and more than.