Roborock H5 Review: Insert “It Doesn’t Suck” Pun Here

The Roborock H5 is a fine stick vacuum cleaner, and I’m trying my hardest to avoid the most obvious pun possible – though I may have already failed in this endeavour.

Score: 4/5

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In this review

Roborock H5 Design
Roborock H5 Performance
Roborock H5 Conclusion

Roborock’s pedigree in the Australian marketplace rests largely in the robot vacuum cleaner space; I’ve previously reviewed its Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra model, for example.

The Roborock H5 isn’t a robot vacuum at all; it’s a much simpler stick vacuum cleaner, and there are a lot of those to choose from if you prefer your home floor suction needs to be handled by you rather than sometimes-erratic AI.

Ethical disclaimer: Roborock sent me the Roborock H5 for review; this gets them a review, but it has zero impact on my conclusions about its quality – but I do prefer to be upfront about this particular detail as part of my ongoing work to promote more ethical tech journalism.

Design

There’s not too much I can say about a stick vacuum cleaner that isn’t rather inherent in the name; Roborock’s take on the concept is much the same any anyone other stick vacuum you’ve ever seen, save for the fact that the vacuum body is finished in a beige tone that makes me think of really old school desktop PCs. I’m totally willing to accept that this is maybe just me.

The one surprising aspect of the Roborock H5’s design is its weight. It weighs in a 1.55kg, and the first time I picked it up out of the box, I was honestly left wondering if there was a battery or other part that still needed fitting.

The advantage of a light stick vacuum is of course that it’s considerably easier to manoeuvre around whether you’re using it to scooch under a sofa or reach up to remove some pesky spider webs.

The Roborock H5 comes with a standard wide suction head, as well as a smaller and more powerful motorised mini brush and a 2-in-1 head that covers a brush unit as well as a pretty standard crevice tool.

The model sent to me by Roborock was an overseas unit with a US plug, but it worked fine with a simple plug adaptor; I’m told that official Australian sold units should have a more regular Australian plug in place.

Performance

The Roborock H5 supports three different suction modes, though as I find is very common with this kind of device, the very lowest base level mode isn’t all that powerful at all. We’re not talking AcerPure V1 Lite levels of power here, but it’s not going to do the trick for your heavier carpets for sure.

At its mid and highest level settings, however, the suction ramps up nicely, especially with the smaller mini motorised head.

My one note of caution here is that at maximum setting, I found the mini head was strong enough to lift my heavier carpets. That could be a concern if you have older and more valuable carpets to clean, at which point pushing the suction down would be wise.

Where a stick vacuum like the Roborock H5 can be really useful is for those smaller cleanup jobs, or where you want to go in a little more heavy duty than a robot vacuum cleaner is likely to manage, and for these tasks – both artificial tests with flour on my floor or for actual real world testing like (sigh) vacuuming up cat hair en masse, the Roborock H5 performed well.

The Roborock H5’s storage bin isn’t immense, though I hit few issues with it becoming notably clogged or problematic until it was quite full.

If you’re particularly allergy afflicted, there is an option to use dustbags with the Roborock H5 to completely capture your carpet contents, though obviously that’s going to raise the ongoing costs of using it.

You’re certainly not obliged to do so, with an easy release mechanism to get rid of your debris straight to the bin if you’re so inclined.

Roborock advises that the Roborock H5 is capable of up to 60 minutes of running time, and that may be true if you’re using it at the very lowest suction level.

With my very much thicker carpets in mind, I tended to have it running at a higher suction level, where you can halve that running time or more; at maximum levels I found it would conk out around 15 minutes or so.

That can be an issue if you’ve got a larger area that needs intensive cleaning, because recharging is quite slow, taking around 3.5 hours to fully top up.

Roborock H5: Alex’s Verdict

There’s no shortage of stick vacuum choices, and Roborock’s effectively a newcomer here within the Australian marketplace.

The Roborock H5 is a solid contender that handles most essential vacuuming tasks quite well. Unless your dust needs are moderate, you’re not really going to see that full 60 minute runtime, however.

Roborock H5: Pricing and availability

The Roborock H5 retails in Australia at $499.

At the time of writing this review, I did notice it was on sale through Amazon (link below) for half that price, which makes it considerably more compelling.

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