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IEC/ASTM 62885‑6 has been prepared by a Joint Working Group of subcommittee 59F: Surface cleaning appliances, of IEC technical committee 59: Performance of household and similar electrical appliances and ASTM Committee F11: Vacuum cleaners. It is an International Standard.

It is published as a dual logo standard.

This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2018. This edition constitutes a technical revision.

This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:

a) Expanded the Scope to include cordless cleaners.
b) Changed definition for "cleaning width" to "track cleaning width" in 3.7 and provided instructions for determining "track cleaning width" in 4.7.4.
c) Changed "runtime" definition to "battery runtime" in 3.22.
d) Added IKW soil instructions, and also a penalty factor calculation with correction examples for products designed with cleaning gaps to section 5.1 "Stain cleaning efficiency of hard flat floors".
e) Retitled 5.2 "Dirt pickup test" to "Soil cleaning efficacy of hard flat floors" and added comprehensive instructions for executing the method.
f) Added section 5.3 "Battery runtime" procedure patterned after IEC 62885‑4 cordless standard.
g) Modified Test soils in 7.2.2. to add IKW and Akzo-Nobel soils.

The text of this International Standard is based on the following documents:

Draft	Report on voting
59F/480/FDIS	59F/482/RVD

Full information on the voting for its approval can be found in the report on voting indicated in the above table.

The language used for the development of this International Standard is English.

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A list of all the parts in the IEC 62885 series, under the general title Surface cleaning appliances, can be found on the IEC website.

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Terms defined in Clause 3: bold type.

The committee has decided that the contents of this document will remain unchanged until the stability date indicated on the IEC website under webstore.iec.ch in the data related to the specific document. At this date, the document will be

• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn, or
• revised.

BS EN IEC/ASTM 62885-6:2025

Surface cleaning appliances - Wet hard floor cleaning appliances for household or similar use. Methods for measuring the performance

Current

Published:

31 May 2025