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I just had a quick cleaning session with our Avalir 2. I use it with three different nozzles. One nozzle is the usual carpet nozzle they are sold with. I use that on our area rugs and bedroom wall to wall. The second is another new carpet nozzle with a new, clean brush roll and belt that is...

The brush rolls in the SEB236 get hot and warp and sometimes melt at the end caps. And to add insult to injury a replacement brush roll from Miele costs $95. I have three EBK360s/ SEB228s and all are parked. The Vortech XR3000 has the same hose handle used by Lindhaus for their electric...

Most bearings are used in dozens of applications. It is unusually rare outside of aviation or nuclear power to find a bearing that was designed for a specific application. In just about every other industry an engineer looks for an existing, in production bearing that can do the job that is...

Or just buy a better vacuum. Just saying ...............

Interesting. Maybe Miele can offer a little holster you can clip to your trouser waistband or belt to carry the dusting brush : / $1400 and no attachment storage.

I literally just looked at the official Miele website for the US for the Guard L1 and the website shows this feature. Are Miele selling two hoses with the Guard L1?

Litter sticks in the little nooks and crannies on the bottoms of their sweet wittle paws and then their clumsy hairless bipedal servants ( us hoomins ) spread it around further on the soles of our shoesies. Guilty as charged ! We put one of these heavily textured pads next to the litter box...

In our home on our rugs with our pet hair the two Miele power nozzles are the worst we have. The SEB228 is simply useless. Nothing I do with it removes the pet hair. It scrapes the hair back into a nice ruler straight pile at the back of the stroke and leaves it there. If I try vacuuming the...

The dusting brush is integrated into the hose handle end. It's hiding under this foreskin thing you slide back to reveal a dusting brush.. Miele sort of copied the Japanese vacuum makers which have had dusting brushes integrated into their hose handles for decades.

The bag that fits Sebo G/X/370/Mechanical models is a very large dust bag. I can fill an Electrolux Style C bag in 3-4 vacuuming sessions in my home where the Sebo bag lasts weeks.

I think the high point for Miele were the S558 and S658, and even still the hose they shared went through three iterations before Miele was able to make it reliable. Never understood why Miele keeps making the same miserable stiff and easy to kink hose material with poorly sealed swivel...

Samsung used to make a great canister vacuum so it didn't surprise me to see their stick vacs and robots get high ratings.

Right now I think the best canister vacuum is the Kenmore 600 Series, particularly the purple 81614 or the blue BC4026. Huge power, great attachments including the motorized Pet Powermate upholstery brush and a fantastic soft horse hair dusting brush, a great basic power nozzle, seven foot hose...

Not so different than the "back saver" wands used with the power nozzles on Patriots.

I tried holding the canister vertically with the hose connection up and exhaust filter down and shaking it to get the dust to fall back into the bag but there was still a mess when I opened the lid. I have solved the problem by using the good closed top synthetic bags for a Vortech XR3000. I...

I never see Samsung stick vacs mentioned here but they seem to be rated highly by Consumer Reports.

I tried the VAC USA synthetic bags but they don't solve the problem. The dirt piles up at the very front and goes over the top of the bag when you open the lid. Some spills out on the floor and unless you go to a garbage pail and turn the whole canister upside down or use another vacuum to...

Just me but what offends you as "the cheap floor brush" is the one I greatly prefer. I really cannot use floor brushes with wheels in back. A parquet floor brush like that which comes with Sebo canister vacs is what I buy for all my vacuums. If you want a powerful vacuum in the US buy a...

If it absolutely has to be a cordless stick vac consider this...

No, it's just marketing. Take BMW Motorrad for example. From the late 1970s and into the early 1990s they sold a 1000 cc air cooled twin called the R100 and an identical bike with an 800 cc engine called the R80. The bikes were part for part identical except for cylinder bore, which...