Best vacuum cleaners for home floors

Top pick: Shark Stratos Cordless with Clean Sense IQ — it's the most versatile all-rounder here: it handles hard floors and carpet, adjusts suction on its own, and is HEPA-filtered, so it suits most homes without a second machine.

Who the others suit:

• Tineco FLOOR ONE S5 — best if your floors are mostly hard: it vacuums and washes in one pass, and owners rate it very highly.
• Kenmore POP-N-GO canister — for whole-home carpet plus pet hair, with bags that keep dust contained.
• Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Turbo Plus — a corded upright for heavy shedding and thick carpet.
• Dyson V8 Cyclone — a lighter cordless for quick daily tidy-ups.
• Bissell CleanView — a simple, cheap upright for carpeted rooms.

Skip robot vacs if you want one machine to do everything.