Keeping your floors clean is a lot more than just sweeping or vacuuming up the dust and dirt that you see, it is really easy to just get the dust and dirt and ignore things until something is spilled. Then of course it isn’t just a simple once-over with the mop. I’m bad with this, even though I want to keep our floors clean I would also prefer to spend my time doing something else. Because of that, I’ve been considering getting something to simplify things like a steam mop to sanitize and clean but a lot of the options out there just use microfiber pads and I don’t have any interest in having to replace them constantly. Eufy recently announced their Mach V1 and the Mach V1 Ultra which both combine a vacuum design that has a brush to pick up dirt and also scrubs. The Mach V1 Ultra then also adds in steam as well, covering everything I was looking for, but how well does it work? Well, today I’m going to check out what the Mach V1 Ultra has to offer and then see how it performs.

Product Name: eufy Mach V1 Ultra

Review Sample Provided by: eufy

Written by: Wes Compton

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Specifications

Basic Function

Suck/ Mop/ Wash/ Disinfect/ Steam/ Dry

Suction Power

16,800 Pa

Noise Level

<65 dB

Run Time

•Maximum 82 minutes (in smart and suction modes)

•Maximum 15 minutes (in steam mode)

Battery energy

159.84 Wh

Battery capacity

7400 mAh

Charging time

≤4 hours

Display

Smart LCD Display

Clean Water Tank Volume

820 ml

Dirty Water Tank Volume

720 ml

Steam Temperature

230f

Rated voltage (charging base)

Rated voltage (charging base)

Size

1178 x 278 x 254(mm)

Weight

5.7kg

Warranty

24 Months

 


Packaging and Accessories

The box for the eufy Mach V1 Ultra was large and just barely fit on our table so getting good photos of it or the Mach V1 Ultra itself was a challenge. The box has a black background and some of the side panels have the artwork designed for the box to be sitting sideways and others are for it to be sitting vertically. The box does have a handle on the side for easier carrying and while not in the pictures it did come with a thick layer of plastic over everything, it shipped directly from eufy and came in a matching cardboard box as well but I don’t know that will be the case if you buy it from them on Amazon. The first side of the box was simple and just says MACH by eufy Clean across the side in white on a black background. The side with the handle on it has the full Mach V1 Ultra name on it and has the description that lets you know this is an all-in-one cordless stick vac with a steam mop and it has a picture of the V1 Ultra to the side with steam coming out of the front. Then for the two vertical panels, one has the name and description up at the top and then it has a picture of the V1 Ultra that covers almost the entire box. The last side is vertical as well, but this one has more information. They break down each of the key features with a picture and a description in three different languages. That side also has a sticker at the bottom which has the UPC and serial number.

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Once you get the box open the Mach V1 Ultra box is filled with standard Styrofoam covering everything. On top of that, they do have a clear packet that has the documentation inside so you can read that before diving in. The foam sections are split in half and they have the shape of the Mach V1 Ultra on top of the foam which is an interesting touch. Under the foam you have the Mach V1 Ultra itself sitting in two more large foam panels. There is a box with the accessories, and then under a fifth Styrofoam section, you can then pull out the charging dock as well. The Mach V1 Ultra and the dock both come wrapped in plastic to keep them protected. Also in the foam the included bottle of floor cleaner has its own cutout as well.

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The Mach V1 Ultra comes with a box of accessories, a bottle of floor cleaner, and a charging dock. The dock is the largest accessory and it has a few things going on. There are two parts to the dock, the dock itself and a plastic cover that sits on top. When you have it off, the top of the dock has a warning printed on it that warns you to put the cover on before use. The dock also comes with plastic over the one glossy section which sits under the Mach V1 Ultra’s brush bar on the cover. The top design has dents in it near the rear for the rear wheels of the Mach V1 Ultra and the dents just behind the brush bar section are for the smaller front wheels, this helps the Mach V1 Ultra drop right into place when you put it on the dock. Then at the rear, the dock has a section that sticks up in the middle and has rubber on it, this is the charging part of the dock, one side has two contact bars that stick out and the left side has one, all three pop out when you sit the Mach V1 Ultra down because of the button right at the front that gets pushed down when you put the Mach V1 Ultra on it. On the bottom, the dock has a long power cord, but it comes wrapped up on the cord management, like with eufy’s robo vacuums they want to give you enough length to plug the dock in but allow you to keep the wiring clean. The cord uses just a two-prong plug that is right-angled, with no ground plug. The bottom of the dock does have an information sticker in the center and rubber feet at the front and back to keep it from moving around, but the most interesting part are the vents at the back.

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The documentation packet that comes in clear plastic has the quick start guide in both English and Spanish. Then there is also a safety instructions paper in Spanish and English as well.

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The included hard flood cleaner is Mach by eufy Clean branded and is 300 ml in size. They say it is a child and pet-friendly cleaner that lifts dirt, grease, and tough stains off of hard surfaces. The back is a little cryptic in its ingredients listing. It says it is greater than 30% water and then has less than 5% nonionic surfactants detergent builder, fragrance, and benzothiazoline. To me, that is just saying that it is 95% water and 5% for everything else and I have no idea why they would hide that. This is the only cleaner that they list support for and each bottle is $14.99 which is expensive for the size. I hope users experiment a little and find some options that you can find at a local store because I know that I’m not a big fan of having to use an expensive cleaner that is only available online.

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The rest of the accessories all come in the brown box that we found. This has four pouches of the Mach citric acid solution used to clean out the Mach V1 Ultra. You get a replacement filter and a second beater bar brush as well as a cleaning brush that is designed to help you clean the tube from the bottom of the Mach V1 Ultra up into the debris and dirty water container. They do still more of the filters which are $19.99 on Amazon and the multi-surface rolling brush is also available but is even more expensive at $39.99.

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Photos and Features

The eufy Mach V1 Ultra is a cordless all0in-one stick vac with steam with steam. While it is a lot more compact than our traditional vacuum, it is still tall, and getting pictures of the entire thing all in one picture is a bit of a challenge in our photo area which isn’t designed to handle things this tall. It is 1178mm tall or 46.3 inches tall and then has a compact footprint of 278mm or 10.9 inches wide and 254mm or 10 inches deep. The design has a skinny handle up top and it gets wider at the halfway point where it has its water storage up top, the mechanicals in the middle, and the dirt and dirt/water storage down at the bottom. The base then has a roller brush with steam sprayers in the front, water sprayers inside to get the brush wet, a squeegee on the bottom combined with the suction to suck up dirt and water, then at the back a jet dryer to dry what you have done. All together without water inside it weighs 5.7 kilograms or 12.5 pounds. The Mach V1 is available in two designs, the Ultra that we have here and a standard model with the Ultra adding the steam but otherwise they are the same. The design is surprisingly clean looking with silver used on the entire handle, glossy black and tinted plastic for everything up the middle and the base is black with a translucent cover that lets you see the spinning brush.

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This is the removable water container which is up at the top of the Mach V1. It is made of a glossy tinted plastic so that you can see how much water you have inside. The front also has the Mach by: eufy branding on it in a reflective finish. It has a handle up on top and behind that, on top, it has a removable plug where you fill it up. It holds up to 820 ml and the max fill line is a little below the top of the container. The water comes out of the top through a hole in the top plug. The bottom does have four contact pins, these power and control the ozone generator inside at the bottom which helps create ozone to keep smells down. This container does come with some moisture inside and I was a little concerned that our unit was used until I saw a warning in the instructions that the Mach V1 is tested at the factory and to expect moisture in this container to be left over.

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The second removable container for the Mach V1 is the dirty water storage tank and its capacity is a little less at 720 ml. Even with the smaller capacity it is significantly larger in size, only the bottom of the container is used to store liquid. This has a few other things going on including the filter and a floating separator that helps separate debris from the dirty water. This container has a latch at the top that you have to press down to remove it where the clean water tilts and just latches in place. This one also has two handle holes, the top one has the latch built in. You need to hold both to remove it, grabbing the top one only will have it fall apart. Eufy has printed cleaning instructions on the back that point out that you pull the filter out of the top and clean it off and then you pull the lid to remove the debris separator. From there you can dump the dirty water and throw away any trash. This container has a large hole in the bottom which is where everything comes in and a pipe up the middle on the inside.

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With both containers removed you can see that the vacuum sucks from the top of the bottom container and there are another four status LEDs up top there. Down in the bottom the suction connection from the base up into the waste water collection has a thick rubber seal to keep that leak free. The top of the Mach V1 Ultra where the clean water is stored has an extra opening at the back making the water level visible from both sides., You can see where the container latches up at the top as well as the hole that pulls the clean water up into the tesla valve. The water container also hides six different screws holding the Mach V1’s housing together here. Then down at the bottom are the four contact pads as well as the LED status ring around that. The LED ring is the status indicator for the ozone generation and is also used as a warning light when switching to red.

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As the saying goes, this is where the action happens. While everything in the handle helps make everything work. All of the actual cleaning goes on down in the base of the Mach V1 Ultra. The base is made of dark grey plastic and has a tinted clear plastic cover that snaps into place on top with magnets. The clear cover sits over top of the multi-surface spinning brush. The brush has soft microfiber line bristles combined with firmer bristles behind those to give extra strength when needed. With the cover off the brush can also be removed quickly with just the one tab on the left side.  The housing has an LED bar across the front edge up under the clear cover as well, this is the steam pressure status bar. There is a small rubber bumper across the front edge then at the back you have two wheels with rubber grips that keep the Mach V1 rolling. Between those there is a gap with large contact pads on both sides, this is where the Mach V1 sits on the dock to recharge. On the underside, two much smaller rollers sit behind the spinning brush. Also in that area directly behind the brush is a squeegee blade. Then up on the front, for the Mach V1 Ultra model you have four steam spray nozzles that spray hot steam to disinfect before the brush scrubs things up behind it.

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In between the top of the clean water and the handle at the top of the Mach V1, the rest of the handle does serve a second function beyond just adding to the height to make the handle usable. This is where they have hidden away the floor cleaning solution storage in a small container on the back. You pull from the top and it pulls out and it then has a flap on the back that you can open to fill it up with the included cleaning solution. It has a max fill line printed on it and the front advertises the tesla valve mixing that eufy is using to mix the cleaning solution with the clean water in line. This means you don’t have to premix any solution and the because of the blend you can continue to fill the water up until you use up the cleaning solution. Farther down on the back of the Mach V1, it does have a smile-like shaped opening which blows air out the back to dry up the floor as you are cleaning it. While the main vacuum housing and the dirty water storage aren’t visible on the back like the clean water storage is, eufy did give the back a similar glossy black finish. But I was really surprised that on our Mach V1 at least that this came in scuffed up. This is the main reason I’m not a big fan of glossy plastic in general even though it does help give the Mach V1 a futuristic styling, over time it is going to wear and look bad. In this case, however, ours came in already worn, if I had bought the Mach V1 myself this would have been extremely frustrating.

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The handle for the Mach V1 Ultra has a rectangle shape to it with the grip itself being round. It has a trigger on the underside as the main easy-access button. Depending on the mode this steps up into high power mode and for the steam mode is what activates the steam. It is also used in the menus when using the screen built into the top. The LCB display on top has the Mach branding on it and two buttons at the bottom. One is your power button and the other is a menu button. There is also a small switch on the left side of the screen. The switch turns on floor cleaner mode which mixes the floor cleaner with water. Up at the top of the handle under where you would hold it is a large button that runs the post-cleaning brush cleaning mode.

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Performance

The Mach V1 and Mach V1 ultra both are supported with the eufy cleaning app, so before getting into testing I did connect our Mach V1 Ultra to the app to check out the features it offers. I already had the app installed for the RoboVac so I just had to go to the add device page and the Mach V1 was picked up right away, clicking on the device started the setup. It asks you to name the device, put in your wifi information, then you are all set.

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The eufy clean app has an ad for their latest devices up at the top. Then it will list all devices you have connected below that. Clicking on the Mach V1 opens up the page and it is similar to what we saw with the Robovac, there is a picture of the vacuum in the middle. Up top, you can see the volume level, battery level, and current status. The button in the top right is the menu. Then down at the bottom, you can see if Ozone and Jet Dry are turned on.

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The menu has a list of different pages starting with the cleaning history which will show each time and how long you have used it. You can change the voice settings which just changes the volume of the voice notifications between silent, medium, and high and you can change the language as well. Accessory Services shows the status of the rolling brush, filter, and descaling schedules. That is also where you can reset those. You can also update the firmware which ours did have an update when I set things up. There is also the device info page which has the Mac address and serial number for your specific Mach V1. None of the app features are really needed however, where the RoboVac does need the app everything you can do here could just be done using the built-in screen. The app also doesn’t stay connected to the Mach V1 after it finishes charging as well so it isn’t like you can use it to get things ready to go ahead of time by turning the steam mode on a few minutes before you go to use it.

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The most useful function really, which still isn’t a big deal is that you can check the status during the post-use cleaning mode. You can do the same with the built-in display but because the cleaning mode takes a long time you can check it remotely and it does show the time remaining as well as give you the option to turn if off if needed.

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With things set up, I then started by filling up the cleaning product into the skinny container under the handle and filling up the clean water container. While I wouldn’t consider us to be dirty, I did let things get extra dirty knowing that I would be testing the Mach V1 Ultra soon, and with 5 cats in the house as well that also means a lot of extra hair, dirt, and other bits like cat food and in some rooms litter so it would be a good test for the cleaner. When you power it up the light under the clean water tank lights up so you can see its level and your initial setup will also include a quick walkthrough on the display on the handle as well to show you what each of the buttons does. You also set your language during this.

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Getting good action shots of the Mach V1 Ultra proved to be extremely difficult and even though we have just about every type of flooring in our house including newer VLP, Linoleum, original hardwoods, and also some laminate flooring as well none of them really showed up as dirty in pictures as they are in real life or as clean as they were after running the Mach V1. That variety along with having a few rugs as well did make for great testing. I was especially curious about the laminate flooring because it as well as the original hardwood flooring are both sensitive to moisture if left on the floor. So it is important that the Mach V1 Ultra does a good job of sucking up as much as possible and with the jet dry blade on the back also drying as you go and it did that well. It is a big improvement over mopping in that aspect where I would have to get it as dry as possible for those areas. This also meant that the Mach V1 could do a better job cleaning rather than being a glorified dust mop. The biggest thing I noticed was even in rooms that I mop often there was an overall layer of dirt that wasn’t getting cleaned. I had to run the Mach V1 Ultra a few times before I got past that.

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The Mach V1 Ultra has 16,800 Pa of suction when running in full power modes. For comparison, our eufy RoboVac X8 has two 2000 pa motors. Our main manual vacuum is a Dyson DC65 Animal and that has a suction rating of 245 AW which translates to 12740 pa which was a surprise, I expected that vacuum to have a higher rating than the Mach V1. The Mach V1 doesn’t directly compare to our Dyson, it is designed to clean up floors and just can also handle carpets here and there when on its suction mode. I did try it out on the rug in my office. I’ve been putting off replacing this rug for years now as I’m not a fan at all. Partially because with the cats it just gets a complete film over it with hair making it always look dingy. Secretly I was kind of hoping that the Mach V1 would ruin it and push me to finally replace it. But it didn’t do that. I just did one spot in the middle of the picture, trying to also show just how dirty it was before cleaning. In the area that I hit the Mach V1 did clean it up, I had to run over it a few times but even with our Dyson it takes 2-3 swipes on this rug so the 3-4 that the Mach V1 took wasn’t too bad, especially with just how dirty it was.

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The Mach V1 Ultra has steam as an added option and this was one I was excited about being able to put to use in rooms like our kitchen and especially the bathroom. Once you switch over to steam mode you will have to wait for it to build up pressure. To show that the front of the Mach V1 has LEDs across the front edge. They start to slowly turn on as the pressure rises and the bar is full when it is ready to go. The red bar stays on the entire time you use steam mode letting you know of the danger. It does mist out steam front the front edge and if you look closely in one or two of the pictures you can see it coming out the front when the Mach V1 Ultra isn’t being pushed.

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In my testing, I haven’t had any situation where I have had to use the Mach V1 to clean up a big liquid spill but that is one of the potential uses for it. I was, however, able to try it on a few sticky spots from soda leaked from a trash bag and I also cleaned up spilled ranch to see if it would get it all in one swipe and it did. One thing I did learn though is you have to retrain your brain slightly. My first thought is to use it like I would a carpet vacuum, standing in one spot and going back and forth to the area around me. But the Mach V1 and the V1 Ultra are designed really to always go forward. It lays down water or with the Ultra steam at the front and behind that is the squeegee and suction. Then at the back you also have the jet dry blade blowing out if you turn that on. None of that works ideally if you go back and forth. It cleans when it goes forward then will lay down more water or steam when in smart or steam modes when you pull it back. Then your floor is a lot wetter. With that in mind, walking with it back and forth across the room works better and if there is a directional texture to the floor like real or fake wood grain going in that direction will help get a better clean as well because the brush will get down into the groves better. Going fast will get a quicker clean and leave things wetter, going slower will clean better, and especially with the jet dry blade will dry the floor behind you.

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The cleaning modes were surprisingly confusing for me. When I read the instructions they all make sense, but later when I would go to use the Mach V1 Ultra there were two times that I was confused why it wasn’t putting down water. Here is the breakdown, you have Smart, Suction, and Steam modes. The Steam mode is easy to understand. But for some reason, I kept getting hung up on the smart and suction modes. If you think of them as mop and vacuum modes though it makes more sense and fits what they do better.

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Another area where they could make things easier, at least for how I use the Mach V1 is with how it displays the dirt level. When I am cleaning I am mostly focused on the floor and where I am going with the Mach V1. I’m not looking at the screen at all so it wasn’t until after a few uses that I noticed there is a meter that shows up on the screen that lets you know how dirty the spot you were cleaning was, this works with the smart mode to lower or increase the power as you clean to conserve battery power. The Mach V1 does have the perfect way to display this in a location that I would see when cleaning, however. Use the same lighting on the front edge that the steam mode uses to display the steam pressure as it builds up. This way you can see and know to slow down or go over a slot again if necessary.

Being cordless means that you don’t have to be tied to one plug as you clean so you can run around anywhere in the house quickly. For me, I have been doing a deep clean from time to time and hitting everything but in between those you can just hit the high-traffic areas or if you have to clean up a spill you can hit a few other dirty areas before you clean the Mach V1 out. You do have to keep battery life in mind depending on how long you run the Mach V1, it has a total of 82 minutes of battery life when running in smart mode as long as you aren’t overriding things with the high traffic button but in my use, I was able to clean up our a majority of the house without using half of the battery even while almost exclusively running the high power mode button the entire time and with jet dry and ozone both running. Frankly, the bigger concern for me was the overall water capacity. Every time I have used the Mach V1 I would need to refill the clean water at least once. It helps if you make sure it is topped off before you start, I often fill it up when doing the cleanup mode at the end and forget that uses some of the water.

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Going in I was a little concerned about the consumables. The Mach V1 will need its brush replaced from time to time as well as the filter. You also have cleaning solution and every once in a while there is also the descaling mix that they provide four of. You do get an extra filter and brush thankfully but you will still eventually have to buy those and they do all add up. The price of the cleaning solution was especially expensive to me, I am still hoping to find something I can get locally to keep that cost down. But in my testing so far I have been surprised at how little you use the cleaning solution even though when it is on you can smell it. They provide you with 300 ml of solution and the Mach V1 holds 120 ml in total. According to eufy what is in the Mach V1 will last you 30 days if you are using the Mach V1 for 15 minutes every day, meaning at that rate you will get about 2 and a half months out of it. Another way to look at it is you can expect to use 4ml or grams of cleaning solution for each full tank of clean water.

While the Mach V1 Ultra does make cleaning up easier, you don’t completely avoid having to deal with nasty mop water. You do have to clean out the dirty water container when you are all finished up or if it gets full during use. The filter, cap, and dirty water container all come out together and all three will need to be cleaned up. The filter sits on top and in my experience, this can be almost completely clean, or with our cats, it will sometimes get a layer of cat hair on it. I clean any big stuff off of it then run it under the water and it cleans up easily. The lid for the dirty water container which has a trap to catch any bigger items is going to be similar. If you have swept and don’t suck up hair or big items it should be mostly clean. In my case, I have been running the Mach V1 Ultra over anything and everything, vacuuming a rug, and also have the cats and that shows on the amount of nasty crud that is sitting on the trap. Unless you are dumping this all in the toilet, your best bet is to take this by the trash can and tap it on the inside to get most of this in the trash just like you would with your normal vacuum. It looks a lot worse but this is the same stuff your vacuum would pick up only it has also gotten wet so you don’t have any dust to deal with. Once you get the big stuff off this rinses off and is good to go back in. Before you do that you will need to dump the actual water and rinse that out as well. Once cleaned up, it all goes back together without any trouble. Even with how dirty this looks which is a worst-case scenario, as long as you don’t just dump all of the hair and trash into your sink and clog things up cleaning the Mach V1 up isn’t too hard. But you do have to do it every time you use it

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The other part of cleaning is running the brush cleaning mode which one of the steps is emptying and cleaning the filter and dirty water as shown above so don’t clean that out before you start the cleanup mode. You could just use the Mach V1 Ultra and put it up to charge and not worry about it. But it won't be long before things start to smell and once the brush starts to smell it will put that smell down when it cleans as well so it is best to avoid that. The cheaper cleaners just have a removable pad that you have to wash. The Mach V1 on the other hand will run ozone into the water then it spins the brush while cleaning it up. Next, it sucks as much water as it can out of the brush while spinning it. Then you clean out the dirty water. Then after that, it dries the brush over time by blowing hot air onto it while rotating it. The entire process takes 40-50 minutes. It isn’t instant and you will hear it run for a while but it is better than the brush getting funky and in the 3 weeks I have been using the Mach V1 Ultra it hasn’t developed any smells so far. When you get to the dirty water removal step all of the lighting on the Mach V1 Ultra lights up red to let you know in addition to the voice itself telling you and the screen so you aren’t going to miss that. The Mach V1 Ultra charges at the same time so once you empty the container you can let the rest of the cleaning process run and it will be clean and charged for the next time you use it.

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The ozone process is cool as well. The clean water container lights up and while it is running you can see it pumping in from the bottom almost like a cloud of smoke in the water.

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As with anything that goes in our house, noise is always a concern, especially with something like the Mach V1 Ultra which disrupts things when you run it. Like with a full-sized vacuum, our cats know right when they see it to run away. But unlike the full-sized vacuum, some of them do come back out and get curious and sniff at it. They do the same thing with the RoboVac X8 as well when it is running. This is because the Mach V1 Ultra when running is quieter than our Dyson. That isn’t to say it is quiet, however. I brought out the decibel meter for reference. Our base noise level is 34.8 db with this meter in our house. When running in suction or smart mode the Mach V1 was 71 db, pressing the button would increase that up to 74 db. The noise level when it is in cleaning mode after cleaning was similar. Cleaning the brush was 74.3 db and when it was sucking the water out of the brush it was 71.4 db. Later once the initial cleaning is done, with the fan running to dry the brush it was 49.4 db. This was loud enough to be noticeable but not enough to be an issue.

 


Overall and Final Verdict

One of the downsides to being an adult is that while you can completely ignore things around the house and never clean anything. You are also extremely aware of what will happen when you put things off too long. Mopping and keeping floors clean is one of those things where it is easy to put off in the moment, but the next time someone is coming over you are panicking trying to get things clean. So getting something to simplify that is a nice treat and the Mach V1 Ultra is exactly that. You can mop and scrub and as long as you stay on top of things you will get the job done. The Mach V1 Ultra just simplifies things and saves you some of the hard work. With that, it does do a great job at what it is designed to do. Similar to a basic cordless vacuum it is designed to be easy to pick up and clean up any mess on the floor. It can handle spilled liquids, vacuum carpets or rugs, clean up dust and dirt on the floor, and its main function is scrubbing and cleaning your floor. The Ultra model also adds steam to that as well which you can use to disinfect as you clean, saving cleaning solutions and sometimes helping get harder to clean spots up.

There are cheaper floor cleaner options out there and some even do steam. The Mach V1 though utilizes its charging dock and built-in ozone generation to clean the Mach V1 up after you use it to keep the spinning brush and machine clean and smelling good. Similar devices often will start to smell and a lot of them just use microfiber pads that you have to put in the laundry and swap out in between uses. Those designs don’t have the same level of scrubbing, leaving the scrubbing to you just like with mopping. The Mach V1 Ultra is cordless and has up to 88 minutes of cleaning time depending on how you use it. In my testing I didn’t run into any battery concerns, of course, if you have a giant house and you are taking your time you could still run into that. The main limitation I ran into was the clean water capacity which would save a stop or two each time you clean if it were larger.

I did get a little confused with the naming of the cleaning modes but I know that is an issue that will go away once my goldfish memory lets me remember how things work. The inclusion of an app wasn’t needed at all and just felt like it was added just to make sure you can call it a smart cleaner. Beyond that, my only other concern was with the long-term cost of ownership. The replacement brushes and filters are a little expensive, thankfully with the post-clean cleaning of the brush that shouldn’t need to be replaced too often. The cleaning solution on the other hand was more expensive than I would have hoped, especially with it being potentially 95% water if the specifications are correct. A more concentrated solution would be nice or allow the use of something that can be picked up locally at stores which would keep the costs down rather than having to use a proprietary cleaning solution.

None of those issues are enough to prevent me from using the Mach V1 Ultra but the pricing could be the biggest sticking point. The Mach V1 Ultra has an MSRP of $699.99. The non-ultra model is cheaper at $579.99 and right now it has a coupon for $80 off on Amazon. But both models aren’t a cheap pickup. There are a few options on the market with a similar spinning brush that are around $300 including the Bissell Crosswave HF3. The premium for the Mach V1 and the Mach V1 Ultra is covering the cool styling, the integrated screen and controls, and the ozone generation that helps keep things from smelling. Thankfully Anker and eufy products are known to have huge discounts during sales and even now not long after its launch the Mach V1 has that coupon. If the price isn’t a concern this is a great product, but for most, you may want to make sure you pick it up on a sale.

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