BrushpathSuction, filters and running costs explained

Vacuums and robot vacuums

Budget and prices

What the total comes to once everything is counted.

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Black-and-white photo of a smooth white dome-shaped cleaning robot prototype resting on carpet — An early design study for a domestic cleaning robot, years before mapping and docking became standard.Photo: TiHa · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Black round robot vacuum with a raised lidar turret sitting on its dock against a pale wall

Budget and prices

What a vacuum costs per year in Canada, filters and batteries included

Five lines turn a $650 sticker into a yearly figure: the tax the till adds, the machine over five years, filters, a brush roll, a battery and electricity.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 9 min

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