Vacuums and robot vacuums

Budget and prices

What the total comes to once everything is counted.

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Black-and-white photo of a smooth white dome-shaped cleaning robot prototype resting on carpet — An early design study for a domestic cleaning robot, years before mapping and docking became standard.Photo: TiHa · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Black round robot vacuum with a raised lidar turret sitting on its dock against a pale wall

Budget and prices

What a vacuum actually costs to run in a UK home

What a vacuum costs to run at 26.32p per kWh: the 43 kWh ecodesign ceiling, robot dock standby, and why filters and brushes cost more than the electricity does.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 9 min

Photo: ajay_suresh · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons