Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Those are:
Germguard
This unique antibacterial additive exclusive to Gtech is built into the handle and bin. It's action traps and kills over 99.9 of bacteria including MRSA, Salmomella, Listeria and E-Coli.
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Eco fast charge station.
This allows the machine to fully charge from empty in 5 hours – 3 times faster than the SW02. It’s auto cut off device allows you also to safely leave it on the stand to maintain full charge.
As per manufacturers information provided with the unit the charging of the battery does take four hours, plus/minus some minutes and one should ensure that the charging cycle is, definitely, complete. The green light indicates that and then, and only then, should the unit be removed from the ecocharge charger.
Too many people interrupt the charging cycle of rechargeable battery powered equipment, from cell phones, over two-way radios to power tools, and then wonder why the battery does not retain a charge and such. So, always allow the charging cycle to finish before removing the unit from the charger.
The sweeper is a little noisier than I had expected but then again, what had I expected, in comparison to a mechanical (carpet) sweeper but less work than one of those, especially on rather dusty areas, and also with better results, probably.
Compared to a vacuum cleaner, the ones referred to in Britain often as a Hoover, the SW20 is quiet and, obviously, much better as regards to energy consumption.
This is a very powerful sweeper for its size which, in test, even tackled dust on a carpet with relative ease where a vacuum cleaner was struggling.
One thing I would pray the use to consider is that the dust tray needs frequent emptying in comparison to a vacuum cleaner and also remember not to pull the tray out over a carpet. Hold the entire unit over the dustbin while doing is.
You could say that it all started with cordless drills (if you don't consider flashlights) but since then cordless tools of the various types have advances, and that in more than just one sense of the word.
Don't get me wrong! I still love my push mower and my push sweeper of the Bissel-kind (the sweeper is a Bissel not the mower, obviously) but the Gtech SW20 is one of them – sweeper not mower – on steroids.
Cheaper to run than any vacuum cleaner and in many ways and cases a sweeper, especially with this kind of power, is much more convenient (and versatile) to use than a Hoover.
The SW20 will earn its keep in daily floor cleaning tasks, as said, such a sweeper is so much more convenient than a vacuum.
The SW20 is not the only one in the range of Gtech's powered sweepers but is one of the latest which are “greener” than the others, especially due to the new ecocharge charger.
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