Each guide answers one buying question and shows the figures behind the answer.
3 guides
How to choose
Floor type and floor plan decide the vacuum, not suction numbers. Work out the minutes your home needs, then check that against the run time on the box.
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Budget and prices
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.
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Setting up
Where the dock goes, what has to leave the floor, a maintenance calendar that costs about 4 hours a year, and the battery rules Health Canada publishes.
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