Advice Needed - Best Upright for Health Reasons?

[tommymilan]

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Hello! I own a few Sebo machines in my collection, starting from the very first twin motor upright they produced in 1979.I really love my automatic X3 because it has great suction, single motor design, self adjusting nozzle and on board tools. All you have to do is turn the swithch on and start vacuuming, it does all by itself: It adjust the nozzle at the proper height for any type of carpeting and lowers it for bare floors (there's a rubber seal behind the brushroll thet prevents small objects from being proyected backward by the brushroll) and the on board tools are good enough for cleaning in crevices and upholsteries, or in narrow places in general. Adding the extension hose and another wand you can use it for cleaning almost everything and everywhere. There's also a good mini turbo tool for stairs and upholsteries that works fine, and the dusting tools are excellent in shape and quality.
I own the model x3 because I use it for daily cleaning of a large white-carpeted area, but for average areas the X2 would be the best choice, als because the L shaped nozzle (wider than that on model x1)makes the cleaning job much faster.
I love the way the bags are sealed and replaced. The combined hepa/charcoal filter ensures that only clean air is released.
Grat deal, in my opinion.
Tommy

 

[talktotravis]

Sebo

Tommy in Milan--I would love to see a picture of the 1979 Sebo you have if you get a chance to post it. Probably the earliest one I have seen here in the States was a Windsor back in the early 90's.

 

[tommymilan]

sebo

Hi, Sebo is the name of the earliest twin motor machine designed by mr Stein, a German engineer who had been working for the Vorwerk company and decided to open a firm on its own.
Windsor is the name of the importer of this vacuum cleaner into the USA, not of the factory who produce it.
Sorma and Karcher are two other brands of cleaning equipment whom Stein&co sold machines to in special brand colours but with the same features as the original sebo machines.
tO TALKTOTRAVIS:
i'LL TAKE A PICTURE OF IT AS SOON AS i VISIT MY MTHERS HOUSE WHERE MY COLLECTION IS.
GREETINGS, TOMMY

 

[sudsmaster]

I'm wondering if getting rid of all carpet and going with hard flooring (wood or tile) would be the healthiest all around.

You could still use a vacuum, but this would help eliminate the dust/mites that all carpets harbor, no matter how good the vacuum cleaner.

 

[charmedimsure]

UPDATE!!!!!!!

After all of your wonderful advice, I have great news! Shocking news!

Before contacting this forum, I had already been shopping around: I either looked at or considered the Hoover WindTunnel, Riccar, the Sanitaire (but worried about the cloth bag eventually not being conducive to my health), eliminated the Dyson and Oreck as they were outside of my budget and had never heard of or seen the Sebo in any of the shops I visited.

After so many Sebo Felix recommendations from your responses, I felt inclined to go to Craig's List. I entered the words: UPRIGHT VACUUM in search and only ONE single entry appeared in the entire Puget Sound area of Washington State: A brand new Sebo Felix for $250!

I called the seller, went to his house, VACUUMED around his house with the Sebo and purchased it with warranty, attachments and two boxes of bags. The seller has been selling the Rainbow Vacuums for 20-some years and took the new Sebo in trade - it's a long story.

This Sebo is the best vacuum for carpets I have had thus far, and I have had many. There is one negative: it is heavier than I would prefer, but I purchased it because of its ability to clean, its sturdiness, its lack of detectable exhaust, its ability to manuever so easily, vacuum close to the edges and fit easily under furniture. It "feels" and behaves like a very high-quality machine. For the price, I feel that I could not have done better.

Someday, when I have recovered my health, I will have my own house again and I will have wood floors so that I do not have to have my carpet cleaned every six months.

Thanks again to all who shared!

 

[compactc9]

You stole it!!!!

That is a EXCELLENT price, a very very good deal. And I am glad you are happy with it.

Just out of curiousity, which model/olor did you get?

 

[tommymilan]

Sebo 1979 for Travis

This must be the first sebo upright in the wide track version.
The following versions had an electronic brushroll control with red and green lights while this had a sort of mechanic device that in case of brushroll blockage switched the powernozzle motor off. Absolutely no brush wear control;-)
I love the red/white color scheme!
tommy

 

[tommymilan]

other shot

 

[tommymilan]

side

 

[tommymilan]

bottom

 

[tommymilan]

now later models

 

[tommymilan]

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[talktotravis]

Thanks!

Tommy,

Thanks for the pictures. Those machines are so cool! Interesting how the earlier Sebo and Karcher versions (the red one and the yellow one) have a "Lindhaus-style" neck where the nozzle attaches to the body--in later models they added that little arm and made it wider--maybe they were having problems with stability or breakage? Some things haven't changed much at all, though, including the power switch, the metal handle on front, the hose and the way it hooks in, and the metal loop on the base that keeps the machine upright. Those are very well-made vacuums.

I bet you've probably seen some interesting Lindhaus machines, too, being in Italy--I don't remember when they were first brought to market in the United States, but they do use them to clean the White House and Pentagon now. I seem to like them even more now, they seem to me a bit quieter than Sebo.

Thanks again for the photos, you have quite the collection.

PS-Love the OPEL in the garage!

 

[tommymilan]

Hi Travis, yes they were very cool and I have to say that SEBO was the real innovator in commercial-professional upright cleaning for large surfaces...these vacs have all he features that in fact set a new standard. large powernozzles with easy to replace brush strip, low noise, good suction, good filtration(better than any other upright cleaner at that time)and the first models could be also used as barefloor cleaners: there was a surface nozzle which could be connected in place of the power nozzle. The later version had a stiffer connection, but for long time both version were produced; early models didn't feature carpet height adjustment in the narrower version also, introduced as a standard on the later models.
I know Lindhaus very well because my mother is from padua, where the factory is, and I know many people who work there and I had the opportunity to know Mr Massaro, the owner and director of Lindhaus.
But they came later.I don't like them as much as Sebos, though they are VERY good in terms of material quality and overall quality.
their range is really wide and through the years they had their uprights sold olso by private labels like TASKI, NILFISK-ADVANCE and HAKO, and others. I own one of the earlies lindhaus for household use, and it was incredible because they had used a BY-PASS motor on the earliest series,so the air vacuumed in, was expelled separate from the air cooling the motor, which had a different passge. Butthey were a little bit noisy.Lindhaus introduced the a new motor, flow through, which is in use also today, allowing the modification of the motor hood for Hepa filtration feature.
Another interesting thing of lindhaus in that they feature a xtra wide powernozzle, model RX 50, that I tried and felt a little bit inconvenient because of the position of the upright unit on the very wide pn.
I really prefer T shaped pns;-)
tommy

 

[sudsmaster]

I just got a commercial Eureka bagged vacuum with "True HEPA" sealed final filtration. It's basically the same as the Sanitaire bagged/HEPA vacuums. This general design always gets ery good reviews in Consumer Reports. The final HEPA filter keeps the air in the room clean. The vacuum itself is relatively light (lighter than most cyclone vacs), and does a very good job on both carpets and hard floors.

Price is around $200, sometimes less.

There's another thread about this vac - Eureka C5712.

 

[vegassucks]

Miele has the best filter

I am not a fan of my Miele S7 but it is clearly the best filter of all. I put the Vorwerk fragrance gadget in my Sebo Felix and Miele. The Miele s7 filter is so good you cannot even smell it. The Sebo Felix you can which is nice. Miele S7 filter is amazing

 

[parwaz786]

Dyson has excellent filtration, and I never used a Miele, but I believe they also have impressive filtration

 

[vegassucks]

Dyson has great what?

Sorry but no Dyson compare to Miele in any way accept for on cost. Just go to YouTube and search Miele vs Dyson. In fact Dyson has such a poor brush they do not clean well either. No vacuum shop owner will tell you Dyson is a food vacuum, what they will tell you is, Dyson helps pay the rent because they are always needing repairs because they are cheaply made.

Anyone with Asthma or any other lung condition should not go bag-less. Emptying those containers is messy and unhealthy to breath.

 

[thekirbylover]

for an upright a miele s7 or a sebo felix

 

[floor-a-matic]

Aerus/Electrolux upright (post-1986) They have two motors (one for suction & the other for brush) use a 4-ply bag & come with SideKick power brush. Some have onboard tools and/or HEPA filtration; & all Lux uprights U can turn the brush on/off for vacing various floor coverings.[this post was last edited: 7/13/2013-18:01]