Shark has introduced the AquaReach, a wet-dry vacuum fitted with an extendable wand for cleaning tight spots.
Wet-dry vacuums typically struggle to reach under furniture or into corners because their bulky bodies cannot manoeuvre into tight spaces, a limitation Dyson attempted to solve with the slim PencilWash by shrinking the water tank and suction power.
Shark takes a different route with the AquaReach, keeping a full-size wet-dry vacuum body intact while adding an extendable wand that reaches baseboards and under furniture without moving the entire unit.
That wand carries a stain scrubber for targeted spray-and-suction cleaning alongside a detailer mop suited to edges and corners, with both tools connected to the main water tank and effective on floors, baseboards, windowsills and behind toilets and bathtub edges.
The main unit relies on a self-refreshing brush roll that cycles clean water through the bristles during use, with a dedicated tank supplying clean water and a separate tank collecting dirty water and debris.
Alongside brush roll refreshment, the AquaReach sprays a cleaning solution onto hard floors to loosen stuck-on debris while applying suction at the same time, combining two cleaning actions Shark typically separates across different tools.
SharkNinja vice president of marketing Petra Oman said the AquaReach was built around the way people already clean and combines vacuuming, mopping and extended reach “so they can tackle more of the mess in one routine.”
The higher-end AquaReach Pro adds a self-cleaning, drying and sanitising dock that rinses the brush roll and dries it with heated air reaching 160 degrees Fahrenheit, a process that Shark states eliminates 99.9 percent of bacteria from the roll.
The standard AquaReach instead relies on an on-dock rinse cycle that flushes the brush roll without the sanitising stage, marking the main functional gap between the two models in Shark’s new range.
Shark prices the AquaReach at $400 and the AquaReach Pro at $530, with both models set to launch through SharkNinja.com and TikTok Shop before wider retail availability follows in the coming weeks.
Additional colour options are planned alongside that wider retail rollout, though Shark has not yet confirmed UK pricing or availability for either the AquaReach or the AquaReach Pro at this stage.
