Review of the Cecotec Conga RockStar 700 Ultimate ErgoFlex vacuum cleaner: a flexible approach to cleaning

Cord­less vac­u­um clean­ers are becom­ing more and more pop­u­lar — they elim­i­nate the need to car­ry a wire around the apart­ment and use sev­er­al out­lets if the apart­ment is large. But they have one draw­back. As a rule, a sin­gle pipe leads from the main unit with a dust col­lec­tor to the brush. Unlike a con­ven­tion­al vac­u­um clean­er with a flex­i­ble hose, the long pipe design will not allow you to reach some places. For exam­ple, it is not so easy for her to get under fur­ni­ture or col­lect dust from the top sur­face of the cab­i­net. In the mod­el with the long name Cecotec Con­ga Rock­Star 700 Ulti­mate ErgoFlex, they tried to solve this prob­lem by divid­ing the pipe into 2 parts and adding a flex­i­ble con­nec­tion between them. Now it can be bent — so get out much eas­i­er. For exam­ple, to vac­u­um the floor under the sofa, you don’t even have to bend down.

Design and equipment

Exter­nal­ly, the vac­u­um clean­er is sim­i­lar to oth­er bat­tery mod­els. A small block with an engine and a fil­ter sys­tem, a com­fort­able han­dle, a 25.9 V bat­tery con­nec­tor. To turn it on, you need to press the but­ton under your index fin­ger, and you do not need to hold it. To turn off, just press again. Pow­er is reg­u­lat­ed by anoth­er but­ton on the back of the unit. The vac­u­um clean­er can oper­ate at high pow­er, in econ­o­my mode or in auto­mat­ic mode, in which the elec­tron­ics itself selects the opti­mal pow­er.

But this is not the most inter­est­ing. Much more impor­tant are the ele­ments that allow you to use the vac­u­um clean­er at any angle. First of all, of course, this is the main pipe with a hinge. It can be used like a reg­u­lar straight, but if you need to bend it at an angle, just press the latch and bend. There is a sim­i­lar hinge for small brush­es: see how easy it is to use them to col­lect dust on the top sur­face of the cab­i­net.

But that’s not all. In addi­tion to pipes, the kit includes a flex­i­ble hose that resem­bles the “trunk” of a tra­di­tion­al vac­u­um clean­er. You can con­nect any of the brush­es to it and move them in any direc­tion.

Anoth­er use­ful detail is the wall mount brack­et. It allows you to hang on the wall not only the vac­u­um clean­er itself, but also a cou­ple of acces­sories — for exam­ple, the same brush­es.

Engine and filter system

The Cecotec Con­ga Rock­Star 700 Ulti­mate ErgoFlex uses a Dig­i­tal­Brush­less brush­less motor that deliv­ers 130W of suc­tion pow­er. Quite a decent indi­ca­tor for a cord­less vac­u­um clean­er. The fil­tra­tion sys­tem con­sists of two stages: a met­al mesh that allows you to sep­a­rate large debris, and a fine fil­ter. It should also be not­ed the cyclone sys­tem and the rather large con­tain­er vol­ume of 0.8 liters. Due to this, the grid remains clean (not clogged with debris) for a long time, and the suc­tion pow­er does not drop.

The dust con­tain­er is com­plete­ly dis­as­sem­bled. To sim­ply pour the con­tents into the buck­et, just tilt the bot­tom.

If the mesh is still clogged or there is a desire to rinse the con­tain­er, you can press the latch and remove it entire­ly.

Final­ly, to check the con­di­tion of the fine fil­ter, sim­ply pull it out from above.

The brush­es are also easy to clean. If hair or wool is wrapped around them, you can pull out the roller and quick­ly remove all unnec­es­sary.

The bat­tery of the mod­el is remov­able, the man­u­fac­tur­er promis­es to work up to 65 min­utes. with­out recharg­ing. The sock­et for con­nect­ing to the net­work is on the han­dle of the device — the whole process with a ful­ly dis­charged bat­tery takes 4 hours.

Our impressions

Clean­ing with the Cecotec Con­ga Rock­Star 700 Ulti­mate ErgoFlex takes some get­ting used to. If you do not bend the hinge between the tubes at an angle, you get a rather long tube, and it is not very con­ve­nient to use it. There­fore, it is opti­mal to bend the “joint” at least slight­ly. Here again, a dis­so­nance aris­es in the brain that some­thing is wrong with the vac­u­um clean­er: you need to adapt to such a design. Dri­ving across the floor with a short, straight pipe is still eas­i­er, but as soon as it comes to clean­ing under fur­ni­ture, you remem­ber the advan­tages of this Cecotec.

Let’s say right away that even when the pipe is bent at 90 °, the brush does not pass under every sofa. Rather, only under those that stand on long legs. But it’s not so easy to get there with an ordi­nary cord­less vac­u­um clean­er — if you just bend over.

The main brush is good for hard floors. Its design is such that the rotat­ing roller cap­tures debris even at the base­board itself. But with pet hair on car­pets, the brush does not cope per­fect­ly. In this dis­ci­pline, her “younger sis­ter” with sil­i­cone ribs on the roller proved to be bet­ter. True, its width is much more mod­est, so it will take a lot of time to clean the large car­pet beloved by the cat.

By the way, about time. Clean­ing the floor of a two-room apart­ment with an area of ​​50 m² took us 18 min­utes. (hard sur­face plus a few small mats, medi­um engine pow­er). So charg­ing the bat­tery under such con­di­tions is guar­an­teed to be enough for a cou­ple of clean­ings. Even if you vac­u­um uphol­stered fur­ni­ture and cab­i­net shelves, the bat­ter­ies should be enough.

Def­i­nite­ly, the “flex­i­ble” capa­bil­i­ties of the vac­u­um clean­er will be very use­ful for those who love clean­li­ness and are not lim­it­ed to clean­ing the floor. With a minia­ture “trunk” Cecotec Con­ga Rock­Star 700 Ulti­mate ErgoFlex can be an excel­lent replace­ment for a dust­ing cloth — unless you first remove small objects from sur­faces.

Installing acces­sories and clean­ing the con­tain­er does not require much phys­i­cal effort and is not dif­fi­cult at all. So there are no com­plaints about the qual­i­ty of the device. At the time of pub­li­ca­tion of the arti­cle, the cost of a vac­u­um clean­er is about 22,000 rubles. Not the low­est, but quite ade­quate, tak­ing into account the capa­bil­i­ties and con­fig­u­ra­tion, the price.

By the way, we recent­ly test­ed anoth­er mod­el of an upright vac­u­um clean­er — Atv­el G9. It has a more tra­di­tion­al design, but has a dual back­lit brush that can han­dle any sur­face. And for clean­ing exclu­sive­ly fur­ni­ture, car inte­ri­ors and even key­boards, there is Xiao­mi Mi Vac­u­um Clean­er Mini — it also went through the hands of our test edi­tors.

But that’s not all. In addi­tion to pipes, the kit includes a flex­i­ble hose that resem­bles the “trunk” of a tra­di­tion­al vac­u­um clean­er. You can con­nect any of the brush­es to it and move them in any direc­tion.

Anoth­er use­ful detail is the wall mount brack­et. It allows you to hang on the wall not only the vac­u­um clean­er itself, but also a cou­ple of acces­sories — for exam­ple, the same brush­es.

Engine and filter system

The Cecotec Con­ga Rock­Star 700 Ulti­mate ErgoFlex uses a Dig­i­tal­Brush­less brush­less motor that deliv­ers 130W of suc­tion pow­er. Quite a decent indi­ca­tor for a cord­less vac­u­um clean­er. The fil­tra­tion sys­tem con­sists of two stages: a met­al mesh that allows you to sep­a­rate large debris, and a fine fil­ter. It should also be not­ed the cyclone sys­tem and the rather large con­tain­er vol­ume of 0.8 liters. Due to this, the grid remains clean (not clogged with debris) for a long time, and the suc­tion pow­er does not drop.

The dust con­tain­er is com­plete­ly dis­as­sem­bled. To sim­ply pour the con­tents into the buck­et, just tilt the bot­tom.

If the mesh is still clogged or there is a desire to rinse the con­tain­er, you can press the latch and remove it entire­ly.

Final­ly, to check the con­di­tion of the fine fil­ter, sim­ply pull it out from above.

The brush­es are also easy to clean. If hair or wool is wrapped around them, you can pull out the roller and quick­ly remove all unnec­es­sary.

The bat­tery of the mod­el is remov­able, the man­u­fac­tur­er promis­es to work up to 65 min­utes. with­out recharg­ing. The sock­et for con­nect­ing to the net­work is on the han­dle of the device — the whole process with a ful­ly dis­charged bat­tery takes 4 hours.

Our impressions

Clean­ing with the Cecotec Con­ga Rock­Star 700 Ulti­mate ErgoFlex takes some get­ting used to. If you do not bend the hinge between the tubes at an angle, you get a rather long tube, and it is not very con­ve­nient to use it. There­fore, it is opti­mal to bend the “joint” at least slight­ly. Here again, a dis­so­nance aris­es in the brain that some­thing is wrong with the vac­u­um clean­er: you need to adapt to such a design. Dri­ving across the floor with a short, straight pipe is still eas­i­er, but as soon as it comes to clean­ing under fur­ni­ture, you remem­ber the advan­tages of this Cecotec.

Let’s say right away that even when the pipe is bent at 90 °, the brush does not pass under every sofa. Rather, only under those that stand on long legs. But it’s not so easy to get there with an ordi­nary cord­less vac­u­um clean­er — if you just bend over.

The main brush is good for hard floors. Its design is such that the rotat­ing roller cap­tures debris even at the base­board itself. But with pet hair on car­pets, the brush does not cope per­fect­ly. In this dis­ci­pline, her “younger sis­ter” with sil­i­cone ribs on the roller proved to be bet­ter. True, its width is much more mod­est, so it will take a lot of time to clean the large car­pet beloved by the cat.

By the way, about time. Clean­ing the floor of a two-room apart­ment with an area of ​​50 m² took us 18 min­utes. (hard sur­face plus a few small mats, medi­um engine pow­er). So charg­ing the bat­tery under such con­di­tions is guar­an­teed to be enough for a cou­ple of clean­ings. Even if you vac­u­um uphol­stered fur­ni­ture and cab­i­net shelves, the bat­ter­ies should be enough.

Def­i­nite­ly, the “flex­i­ble” capa­bil­i­ties of the vac­u­um clean­er will be very use­ful for those who love clean­li­ness and are not lim­it­ed to clean­ing the floor. With a minia­ture “trunk” Cecotec Con­ga Rock­Star 700 Ulti­mate ErgoFlex can be an excel­lent replace­ment for a dust­ing cloth — unless you first remove small objects from sur­faces.

Installing acces­sories and clean­ing the con­tain­er does not require much phys­i­cal effort and is not dif­fi­cult at all. So there are no com­plaints about the qual­i­ty of the device. At the time of pub­li­ca­tion of the arti­cle, the cost of a vac­u­um clean­er is about 22,000 rubles. Not the low­est, but quite ade­quate, tak­ing into account the capa­bil­i­ties and con­fig­u­ra­tion, the price.

By the way, we recent­ly test­ed anoth­er mod­el of an upright vac­u­um clean­er — Atv­el G9. It has a more tra­di­tion­al design, but has a dual back­lit brush that can han­dle any sur­face. And for clean­ing exclu­sive­ly fur­ni­ture, car inte­ri­ors and even key­boards, there is Xiao­mi Mi Vac­u­um Clean­er Mini — it also went through the hands of our test edi­tors.