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Hey tanks Joe

I also wanted so bad a TOL AEG-Electrolux Ultraone like the one that Jack has shown in the first post or a Nilfisk GM80 but they're very expensive, maybe the next year.
Anyway I'll be happy as a child with a candy with one of those 8)
 
the AEG maximus is cool ive never seen something like it with the combo tool on the handle and a turbo nozzle and crevice in a tool compartment
 
Happy New Year, everyone!

Glad to see people have continued to contribute to this thread, and aside from the usual attention-seeker, everyone has managed to keep to the spirit with with it was intended!

Happy to say I've now acquired two of the cleaners from my wishlist (which I'll share in the next few days)... did anyone else get any of theirs over the Christmas period? If so, let's see some photos!
 
A cautionary tale...

Prompted by the discussion of the Hoover Freemotion above, I bought a brand new replacement for the one I used to own from Amazon just before Christmas. It was on offer for considerably less than it's RRP, and I wondered if maybe I'd just been unlucky with my previous one.

It arrived, I took it out of the box, snapped a few photos, then took it into the dining room to try it out. And encountered a problem... as you can hear from the video below, the 4 gaskets around the dustbox fail to make an airtight seal, so the cleaner shrieks when you try and use it on the higher power settings. I considered contacting Hoover's customer service dept. to get a replacement, but after hearing from two friends, both of whom had encountered exactly the same problem with exactly the same cleaner, I returned it to Amazon for a full refund!

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Sebo Felix

Found a picture of the Sebo Felix Premium Navy I used to own - from a set of pics I took for the eBay listing when I sold it.

I wasn't keen on the hose set-up, but no complaints about use or performance in upright mode. I *personally* find this manual-with-guidance height adjustment system vastly superior to the automatic adjustment on the X-Series machines, but that's just my preference. Brushroll's a bit aggressive for some looped-pile carpeting, but aside from that, a great cleaner!

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Wish list

My wish list would include
New
-1 Kirby Sentria
-2 Rainbow E2
-3 Filter Queen 360
Vintage
-1 Several Kirby D50s and D80s
-2 A Bison or two
-3 Hoover 28
My Undying love to anybody who fills even part of this wish list... any takers? No? Oh, well...
 
Where are all your X-mas presents guys?

...We want pictures!:P
What an awesome couple of vacuums Jack, Santa left me an Electrolux Ultrasiencer and finally after three years following it, the Miele Medicair, YAY!

I've post a video of the Ultrasilencer on youtube, check it out:

 
Hey there Kevin! Love this Electrolux! The 110 Volt Ultrasilencer Green is highly rated by Consumer Reports here as a great non-carpet cleaner.

Just curious - where does one store the crevice tool? You never see anyone on YouTube showing you this.

EP Brian in Canada
 
Hey Brian! Nice to hear you like it, the butterfly tool clips on the handgrip like most of the Luxes, but there's no place to store the crevice tool, so I store it on the box.
 
Gracias Kevin!!!!! :-)

Well that's a bummer! You'd think for the money you pay, they could at least have made a tiny slot somewhere on the vac to slide in a crevice tool! I mean it does not require design ingenuity to find a place to dig a slot for that slim little uncomplicated tool.

Love the machine, but that must be a little annoying, don't you think? :-)

EPB
 
$$$ no object?

Then I would like a Miele USA S 5481 Earth, please.
Because, it's a TOL model, it has the electronic controls, electric hose and telescopic wand, comes with the SEB217-3 Powerbrush, it's a sexy shape and it's Blue...and we all know how important colour is to a vacuum's performance.

I have also wanted the S 5281 Pisces from last year because it's also blue and it says PISCES, which I am one of, so that's a no-brainer. But I never got serious about it because of the price being asked for a BOL entry level Miele, it has no power hose or PN and uses the rotary dial. If and when I find a used PISCES I will not hesitate to snap it up.

I'd also like a Miele S-7 upright but again, the same criteria would apply...TOL in a pleasing colour.

Why not get one in Canada, you ask?
The Canadian S-5 models have been reduced to only three versions, they have silly pretentious names (Contour/Momentum/Continuum) and they are all much less pretty, never mind no blue.

Dave

http://www.miele.ca/miele/canada/vacuums/vac_s5_tech.asp
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Kevin, thanks for those great pics and the video! I got a couple of cleaners from my wishlist, but they don't owe much to Santa! I ordered this in the New Year sale...

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hummm...so much better than the whistling hoover I think!

I also looked for this one, but when I saw the price I forgot it! hehe. Very neat machine thought, love the blue head light.
 
Jack, That machine looks all kinds of awesome!

I got the Digital Slim for myself for Chrissy... Have to take some pics soon...
 
My sister got a new Vax "Magnum" upright today, to replace the falling apart Hoover Triple Vortex (motor screaming, handle release/chassis knackered, dust filtration failing, etc).

I am very impressed by the Vax suction at the floor nozzle: it lifts the carpet properly clear of the floor, unlike the Vortex.

Also, the Vax has nine secondary cyclones, in addition to the primary cyclone. Cleans carpets brilliantly and more efficiently than the Vortex.

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Kevin - yes, was a little on the pricey side, but I couldn't resist... I totally recommend it if you do decide to get one, it's worth every penny!

Shanon - Currently awaiting delivery of a Digital Slim ;)

Al - The powerhead is certainly similar to the TwinClean's, but feels a lot sturdier, as one would hope for a cleaner of this price! It has a 'proper' brushbar, too.

It's a brilliant cleaner, more power than anything I've ever used. I'd say in terms of performance, design, and the feel of the build-quality, it at least matches, if not beats, a Miele Revolution. And as a huge Miele fan, I wouldn't say that if I didn't mean it! Miele's great advantage is their well-established reputation for long-term reliability - AEG-Electrolux is rather an unknown quantity in the UK that respect. Although as you know, the Revolution 500 series were notorious for powerhose failure.

I'll bring it along to our next meet-up so everyone can give it a try. It really has to be experienced before it can be fairly judged!

I've attached a link to a release from the Electrolux Press Dept., about the UltraOne series having topped consumer organisation testing in five countries. Which? gave one of the more basic UltraOne models a glowing review, but recently stripped all of the AEG-Lux models of their 'Best Buy' status, because they 'didn't receive enough data on reliability in their latest user feedback survey'... kinda stupid when they were happy to make ALL Miele S7 models Best Buys without ANY reliability data! They've refused to make Sebo's new cylinders Best Buys for the same reason, despite their good test results.[this post was last edited: 1/7/2011-23:52]

http://group.electrolux.com/en/the-...-already-best-in-test-in-four-countries-2029/
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