Dreametech H12 Pro review: a more convenient floor cleaner

You probably have onerous flooring, protecting them clear is a double drag, requiring you to haul out a vacuum and a mop. The Dreametech H12 Professional won’t solely cut back the variety of instruments wanted, it’ll shrink the quantity of effort wanted to get the job completed.

It is a cordless moist/dry stick vac that sweeps and mops concurrently, dealing with every part from each day mud build-up to liquid spills. It then self-cleans its curler brush to make sure it’s prepared for the subsequent job.

Your conventional vacuum and mop are supposed to be saved out of sight when not in use. The H12 Professional have to be repeatedly related to {an electrical} outlet to recharge its battery and self-clean its curler brush. Understanding this equipment can be out within the open, its designers have given it a discreet footprint.

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Regardless of carrying two water tanks—one for clear water (900ml, 30.4 ounces), one for soiled (700ml, 23.7 ounces)—the H12 Professional has a really slim profile, making it straightforward to put in a nook or different small area. The physique’s black matte end and grey accents mix into the background of just about any room décor.

The vacuum physique and deal with ship as separate items that should be assembled. Merely slide the deal with right into a port on high of the vacuum physique till it clicks into place. The charging base is a single unit, however there are two “storage packing containers” that you could connect to both aspect. One is to carry the spare curler brush and the opposite is for the substitute filter and cleansing software. Each snap into place with little effort.

It takes three hours to cost the H12 Professional’s 4,000mAh battery pack, after which you’ll get about 35 minutes of cleansing time.

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While you’re prepared to wash your flooring, take away the clean-water tank from the again of the vacuum and fill it with faucet water. Optionally, you’ll be able to enrich the water with cleansing fluid that’s supplied with the vacuum.

After you reinsert the clean-water tank, gently step on the bottom of the vacuum to recline its deal with and press the facility button. The H12 Professional defaults to Auto mode, which routinely adjusts the suction energy and water degree in response to how a lot grime it detects. A second button on the deal with allows you to toggle to Extremely mode for deep cleansing, or Suction mode to suck up liquid with out mopping, as when your little one spills juice on the ground.

In my testing, Auto mode was adequate for normal ground upkeep. The H12 Professional made straightforward work of sucking up family particles, liquid spills, and sticky stains. For mopping, it makes use of a high-speed brushless motor that permits it to wipe the ground 520 instances per minute. This had the impact of not simply lifting cussed grime, but additionally leaving the ground solely barely damp. Whereas good vacuums usually carry out nicely in open area, they sometimes wrestle to wash alongside wall edges and corners. The H12 Professional, nevertheless, simply hugged my baseboards as a result of the curler brush extends the total size of the vacuum’s base.

The H12 Professional’s LED show offers visible and audio suggestions throughout cleansing. You possibly can view the present battery degree, cleansing mode, water ranges in each tanks, and the quantity of grime being cleaned as indicated by a coloured ring across the show. It glows inexperienced when grime is gentle, amber when common ranges of grime are detected, and pink when grime is heavy. The H12 Professional will even provide you with a warning to malfunctions, resembling when the curler brush is caught or its tubes change into blocked.

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When you’re completed cleansing, you take away the dirty-water tank from the entrance of the vacuum, pour out its contents, and reinstall it. Then you definately dock the vacuum on its charging base and press the self-cleaning button on high of the deal with for 3 seconds. The H12 Professional will rinse its curler whereas rotating it ahead and backward till it’s clear, then hot-air dry it to stop bacterial development and dangerous odors. Throughout self-cleaning, the vacuum makes use of water from the clean-water tank, so it’s necessary to refill it whether it is empty after you’ve mopped your flooring. As soon as the self-cleaning is full, you’ll must empty the dirty-water tank once more.

Whereas self-cleaning will hold the H12 Professional functioning between cleanings, you will have to carry out some handbook upkeep periodically. As with a traditional vacuum, you will have to make use of the provided cleansing software to take away hair tangles and particles from the curler brush from time to time, and also you’ll wish to test the suction inlet repeatedly to make sure it’s clear. However you’ll additionally must repeatedly clear each water tanks, the filter, and the grime sensor. None of that is arduous, and all you want is clear water and a fabric. Higher but, none of this comes with the ick issue of wringing out a grimy string or sponge mop.

The $500 Dreametech H12 Professional is a worthwhile funding you probably have quite a lot of onerous flooring in your house, notably you probably have babies, careless teenagers, or pets who make frequent messes. The comfort of getting a single light-weight software to deal with most of these each day family disasters can’t be overstated. Even in the event you simply need a better option to hold your flooring gleaming, the H12 Professional is value contemplating.