Shark Navigator Freestyle Upright Cordless Vacuum SV1106 Review

Shark Freestyle on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Navigator-Freestyle-Cordless-Brushroll-SV1106/dp/B00C351GBC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1542242330&sr=8-3&keywords=shark+freestyle+cordless+vacuum&linkCode=ll1&tag=cewhitebooks-20&linkId=a894d45ef472d3d822dc5907a0c8ef99&language=en_US
Our Review of the Hoover Linx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWe5IlsMnmQ
Hoover Linx on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hoover-BH50020PC-Signature-Cordless-Lithium/dp/B01KWZECOM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=vacuums&ie=UTF8&qid=1542242497&sr=1-4&keywords=hoover+linx+cordless+vacuum&linkCode=ll1&tag=cewhitebooks-20&linkId=6e9e30b1f4586714c5450488b6dfd471&language=en_US

The 3rd vacuum in our series on upright style cordless stick vacuums is the Shark Navigator Freestyle SV1106. And like the others, we put it though a ton of tests and this video will be the results and our review. Links in the description for current prices and let get started.

So lets jump right in to the pros.

Besides being incredibly inexpensive the Shark Freestyle is really lightweight, with most of its weight distributed towed the bottom of the unit there is only about 1lb on the vacuuming arm which is just a little lighter than the last 2 we tested and a lot lighter than any traditional cordless vacuum with the weight mostly in the handle unit.

It handles very well with its swivel steering, and it stands up on its own which is nice.

its also really good with pickup, On carpet and hard floors it picked up all the debris fields including fine debris and pet hair with no problems at all, and because of its large funnel gate on the floor nozzle it excelled with large and extra larger debris on both hard floors and carpet which is really important for vacuums of this type to do, since they don’t convert to a handheld or have any kind of hose to pick up large debris, so they need to be able to pick up large debris with just the cleaner head and the Shark Freestyle cordless does that very well.

It has foot switch that slows the brush and lowers the power for hard floors, which makes transitions easy, but Ill talk more about that in the cons section.

Its dust bin is fairly large with a open layout that isn’t prone to clogs and is easy to empty and to deep clean if necessary.

It has a really nifty charging dock which is by far the easiest to use I have seen so far. I also like that the battery pack is easy to access and that it is easy to find replacements online.

Its battery life was pretty good as long as you compare it to traditional cordless vacuums in this price range, as we found that it got 21:40 on low power and 15:36 on high power, which again is great in one sense, but when you compare it to other upright style cordless vacuums it doesn’t look as good, but its all about context and your particular needs.

Its power was decent, we measured it at 29 cfm on high and 24 cfm on low but those numbers are a little lower than the others we have tested so far, and that brings us to the first con.

Cordless vacuums cant be expected to deep clean carpets like corded vacuums and so the Shark Freestyle only scoring 76% on our embedded sand in the carpet test is about average as the Hoover Linx only scored 2% more which is well within the margin of error with this test anyway.

Its edge cleaning was not as good as the others we have tested so far either, good but not great.

The Shark Freestyle also doesn’t have a HEPA filter and therefore cant pass our smoke test but its not really fair to expect vacuums at this price to have HEPA filters anyway.

So although I think the Shark Freestyle is okay, I personally would rather have the Hoover Linx, Ill link to our review of the Hoover Linx in the description but…

The Linx has the same funnel type cleaner head which was the main thing I liked on the Shark but the Linx has more power, better battery life and better overall performance including a brush that actually stops on hard floor mode.

That I probably wont review as its basically a worse version of being said, in addition to the Deik, which the Eufy, I have just purchased the final competitor in this series and from what I can tell its going to be tough to beat.

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