Shark PowerDetect Speed Pet Cordless Vacuum - Ultramarine

Most cordless vacuums make you work — slow passes, repeated strokes, constant manual adjustments between carpet and hard floor. The PowerDetect Speed Pet removes that friction by reading the surface beneath it in real time, automatically shifting suction power up or down without you touching a button. The reverse cleaning stroke is the genuinely clever bit: rather than losing debris on the backstroke like conventional heads, it actively picks up on both directions, which meaningfully cuts the time spent on a room. For anyone living with pet hair that embeds itself into low-pile carpet, that bidirectional pickup is where this earns its keep.

Who Is This For?

This suits someone who cleans frequently across mixed floor types — a combination of hard floors, rugs, and carpet — and who has at least one pet shedding consistently. The sub-3.5kg weight matters most to people doing multiple floors in one session, where a heavier machine becomes genuinely tiring. If you have only hard floors, or your cleaning needs are light, there are capable cordless options at half the price that will serve you just as well — see our best cordless vacuum deals for the broader range, or best Shark deals if you want to compare across the Shark lineup specifically.

What Buyers Say

Owners consistently praise the auto-detection as genuinely functional rather than a marketing feature — particularly the transition between hard floor and carpet without mode-switching. The Reveal beam lighting draws strong approval for exposing dust that would otherwise go unnoticed. The most common complaint centres on battery runtime under high-power mode, which can drop noticeably below the headline figure in homes with significant carpet coverage, so manage expectations there.

The Deal

Currently £249.99, reduced from £429.99 — a saving of £180, or 42% off. This product is newly tracked on our system, so there is no price history to draw on yet; we cannot confirm how long this price has been live or whether it represents a genuine retail low. That honest caveat aside, £250 for a sensor-driven, lightweight pet cordless from Shark is a compelling entry point — if the price holds, it's worth acting on.