Vekto Vacuum V18
Hoover the whole house and the car on one charge. Dog and cat hair goes in the bin, not round the roller.
Your 5-year guarantee becomes lifetime: motor, battery, floor head and every tool, for as long as you own your V18. If the battery drops below 80%, we replace it. Covers faults, not accidental damage. One-off payment, no subscription. Your statutory rights are not affected.
Three-bed semi, stairs, laminate down and carpet up. Did the whole house and the car on one charge with plenty left, then stood it in the corner and walked off. The green light showed up dust in a hallway I thought was clean. And the little brush tool had the dog hair off the sofa in two minutes.Claire B. · York
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Grab it off the wall, whizz round the whole place, hang it back up. Here is what changes in the first week.
If you have a dog or a cat, what you really want is to stop fighting the hair.
The V-shaped roller pulls hair to the middle and comb teeth strip it off, so it goes in the bin, not round the roller. No scissors, and no taking the head apart every week.
The motorised head lifts the pile and pulls out the hair trodden into it, the hair you only spot when someone's coming round. Five green LEDs show what is left on laminate and wooden floors.
Take the tube off and it is a handheld. The 2-in-1 brush tool does the sofa and the dog bed, the crevice tool does the stairs and the skirting boards where the hair gathers.
Drag the slider. Left is a normal roller after a week in a house with a dog. Right is this one, same week.
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“Hair just wraps round the roller so you need to take it apart once a week.”What owners say about the hoover they had before
A 550-watt motor gives 55 kPa of suction on Max. In plain English, it picks the bits up instead of pushing them round the floor. The crumbs under the high chair, the grit in the hall carpet and the mud off the car mats come up on the first pass. Not the third. Mid handles the carpets. Eco does the laminate and most of the house.
Three modes, chosen with a button on the body, and the round screen on top tells you which one you are in. It also shows the charge left as a percentage.
On most cordless hoovers the battery is sealed inside the body. When the pack gives up, the machine goes in the bin with it. On this one you press the catch and the 25.9 V pack slides off the handle. A worn battery is a part you change, not a hoover you buy again.
It runs up to 60 minutes on one charge. That is enough for a three-bed semi with a hall, stairs and landing, then the car. It charges in 4 to 5 hours from empty, on the wall dock or by the cable into the body.
Stop halfway to answer the door and it stands where you leave it, balanced on its floor head. No leaning it against the wall, and no drilling unless you want to. The wall dock is in the box if you do.
The roller is V-shaped with comb teeth built into the head. As it spins, the V pushes hair to the centre, the teeth strip it off, and it is sucked straight into the bin. Long hair, dog hair, cat hair, the thread off a rug. It ends up in the bin.
No scissors, no unpicking, no flipping it over on the kitchen floor on a Sunday.
Five green LEDs across the front of the head light the floor at a low angle. That is the angle that makes fine dust and pale pet hair show up against laminate or a skirting board. Use it once in a hallway you thought was clean and you will get a shock.
Under the bed, under the sofa, the dust balls along the skirting boards. It shows you what you missed, then picks it up.
Hold it over the kitchen bin, press the button, the bottom drops open and the dust falls out. Your hands never go near it. The bin holds 1.2 litres, more than twice the size of a Dyson V8's. In a house with two pets, that is one empty for the whole house, not three. A washable HEPA filter keeps the fine dust inside the hoover. None of it blows back into the room.
The filter rinses under the tap and goes back in when it is dry. There are no filters to keep buying.
Pull the tube off and the body is a handheld with the same suction, so the stairs are a doddle, one step at a time. The long crevice tool reaches down the side of the car seat. The 2-in-1 brush tool does the dashboard and the shelves, then the cushions, the mattress and the dog bed. Both tools hang on the dock so they are always to hand.
Both tools, the wall dock and a spare HEPA filter are in the box. The round screen shows the battery percentage, the mode and any alert.
A cordless hoover comes down to three things: suction, hair on the roller, and how much fuss it is. Here is how the Vekto Vacuum V18 handles each one.
A 550 W motor gives 55 kPa of suction at the head, enough to lift grit out of the carpet. The motorised roller brings the pile up on carpet and sweeps laminate, with the green LED showing you where the dust is.
The V-shaped roller pushes hair to the centre, where comb teeth strip it off. It goes into the bin as loose hair, not wound round the brush.
A washable HEPA filter holds the fine dust in the hoover. The 1.2-litre bin means one empty for the whole house. The battery runs up to 60 minutes on one charge, and it clicks out of the handle if it ever wears out. And it stands up on its own wherever you stop.
Covered for five years, with 60 days to try it in your own home.
Every cordless hoover review ends the same way: the battery went, and the machine went in the bin with it. Here is the straight answer.
On most cordless hoovers the battery is sealed inside. When it fades, the machine is finished and you buy another one. On this one the 25.9 V pack slides off the handle. A worn battery is a part you change, not a write-off.
A three-bed semi with stairs and a landing is 25 to 40 minutes of hoovering. The point is finishing the house, not the number on the box.
The pack clicks out of the handle, so a worn battery does not mean a dead hoover. It stands up on its own when you stop, the bin holds a whole house, and the dock charges it with the tools hanging beside it. The reasons people go back to the plug-in one are gone.
Twenty-two years fixing cordless hoovers that packed up just out of warranty. This is the one he tells his customers to buy, so they do not have to come back.
Two things come through my door every week. A roller clogged with hair, and a cordless with a dead battery sealed inside it. That second customer has to choose between a repair that costs half the price of the hoover and a new hoover. The Vekto Vacuum V18 fixes both. The V-roller actually strips hair. I have tested it with a bag of my own dog's hair. And the battery clicks out of the handle, so a worn pack is a part you change instead of a machine you bin. A 1.2-litre bin with a big washable HEPA filter means the motor is never fighting a blocked filter. No pulsing, no cutting out halfway round. That is why I tell people to buy it.
Here is what the big-name V8 leaves out.
| Vekto Vacuum V18 | Dyson V8 and similar | |
|---|---|---|
| Run time on one charge | Up to 60 minutes | About 40 minutes |
| When the battery wears out | Clicks out, swap the pack | Sealed in, not made to be changed |
| Bin size | 1.2 litres, one empty for the whole house | 0.54 litres, empty it twice |
| Long hair and dog hair | Comb teeth pull it off the roller | Standard brush bar, out come the scissors |
| Light on the floor head | Five green LEDs, low angle | None on the V8 |
| Stands on its own | Yes, anywhere you stop | No, needs the wall dock |
| The guarantee | 5 years, battery included, no registration | 2 years, or 5 only if you register within 28 days |
| Home trial | 60 days, full refund | 30 days |
Three ways to a clean house, and what each one costs.
Great on day one. Then the hair wraps the roller and the little bin needs emptying twice a clean. When it conks out just out of warranty, it is £65 a pop for a battery or the same again for a new one.
Twenty minutes on a charge on a good day and a roller that wraps on the first pass. No spares, and nobody to call when it packs up.
Proper suction, the whole house on one charge, a roller that does not wrap and a bin you empty once. It stands on its own and every tool is in the box. The battery clicks out, so a worn pack does not end the machine. Covered for five years, with 60 days to try it at home. Delivered free and fast from our UK warehouse.
stairs and car included.
Long hair, threads, rug fluff, pet hair, the lot.
Most say the corded one hasn't been out since.
From 1,318 verified Vekto Vacuum V18 reviews.
Light enough to carry up one-handed and do each step as a handheld. The green light on the front shows crumbs along the edge of the carpet I'd been walking past for years. My husband noticed the stairs before I said anything.
Laminate downstairs, carpet up, one dog who moults like it's her job. Did the whole house on one charge with plenty left and I have flipped the head over ten times looking for hair. Nothing on it. My old one got the scissors every Sunday. Still a bit suspicious, to be honest.
Pulls harder than the big name I paid double for and one bin does the whole house. Three long-haired daughters and not one thread on the roller. It is a bit heavy held up high for the cobwebs, so the corded one keeps that job. Dock took ten minutes. Four stars for the weight.
Lives on the wall by the kitchen. I grab it three times a day. Under the high chair is thirty seconds. Emptying it over the bin without touching anything is the best part of my week right now.
Didn't need a big hoover, needed one I'd use. Sofa with the little brush, floors on the low setting, charges on the shelf by the door. Quieter than my flatmate's.
Wanted something for the car and thought I'd get a proper hoover for the same money. Skinny tool gets down the side of the seats. Then I did the house on the same charge. The corded one's been under the stairs since May.
Two screws for the dock, click the tube in, charge it, and it's ready.
Hang it on the dock or plug the cable into the body. Four to five hours from empty. The round screen shows the level as a percentage.
Telescopic tube into the body, floor head onto the tube. The crevice tool and the 2-in-1 brush tool hang on the dock so they are always to hand.
Two screws, and the dock charges the stick and holds the tools. Or skip the drill: it stands on its own in the corner. If you can see it, you will use it.
For people who want the whole house done in one go, and are fed up with hoovers that pack up just out of warranty.
If the first list sounds like your home, this is the hoover. And you have 60 days to try it at home.
Get the Vekto Vacuum V18
Both tools, the spare filter and the wall dock are in the box, not sold separately. Keep the box for 60 days in case you want to send it back.
Use the Vekto Vacuum V18 as your only hoover for two months: the stairs, the landing, the sofa, the car. If it does not do your whole house on one charge, send it back for a full refund. Same if the roller ever tangles. And it stays covered for five years, battery included. The pack clicks out of the handle, so the battery is a part and not the end of the machine. If it fades below 80% in those five years, we send you a new one free, before you send the old one back. No registration and no 28-day deadline: cover starts the day it arrives.
Stop cutting hair off the roller, stop waiting for the battery halfway round, stop lugging the big one up the stairs. The Vekto Vacuum V18 does the house, hangs back on the wall, and is covered for five years, battery included. It is delivered free and fast from our UK warehouse.
