Tineco Floor ONE S5 Smart Cordless Wet Dry Vacuum Cleaner and Mop for Hard Floors, Digital Display, Long Run Time, Great for Sticky Messes and Pet Hair, Space-Saving Design, Blue

Why it's worth it

The Floor ONE S5 is Tineco's long-running best-seller: iLoop dirt sensing, a dual-tank system, and one-press self-cleaning of the brush roll. It costs far less than the newer models and handles pet hair and sticky spills well.

This is the model that made Tineco's reputation, and it's still the sensible entry point if you want smart cleaning without paying flagship money. CNET singles out the iLoop sensor here for adjusting suction and water flow in real time based on detected dirt. The clean water tank is 30% larger than the previous Floor ONE, so you're refilling less often on a big kitchen.

Pet households are the S5's natural home. It ships with a pet hair strainer that lets you scoop hair out of the dirty tank instead of fishing around in gray water. Owners with golden retrievers, long-haired cats, and aging dogs having accidents on hardwood describe it as the tool that cut their cleaning routine in half. That's the job it's built for.

From our review of 7 tineco floor cleaners

What we like

• +This is the model that made Tineco's reputation, and it's still the sensible entry point if you want smart cleaning without…
• +Pet households are the S5's natural home
• +What you give up is heat and reach
• +It's also the most widely owned machine in this guide by a wide margin, which means the failure patterns are well documented

What to know

• –Without heated drying, the roller stays damp after a self-clean cycle, and owners who leave it that way report the machine…
• –It's heavy and it doesn't lay flat