18V Cordless Vacuum Cleaner, 500ml Dust Cup, 3.8kPa, 1.2kg

This is the vacuum for the small mess that is not worth dragging a machine out for. Sawdust off a bench, drill dust off a windowsill, crumbs and grit in a vehicle, the corner of a store room, the floor of a duka at closing time. It runs on the same 18V battery as the rest of the cordless range, so there is no lead and nothing to plug in.

Suction is 3.8 kilopascals into a 500 millilitre dust cup, which places it as a handheld cleaner rather than a workshop vacuum. The cup empties in one movement with no bag to buy, and the fabric filter is taken out and shaken clean. The value is in how quickly it comes to hand. A job that would mean fetching a big vacuum, finding a socket and running out a lead usually does not get done at all, while a light cordless unit on a shelf gets used every day. It comes with an extension tube for floors and under furniture, a floor nozzle and a crevice nozzle for seat rails, corners and window tracks. At 1.2kg it is held in one hand for as long as the job takes.