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<blockquote data-quote="sebo_fan" data-source="post: 324317" data-attributes="member: 851">Steph - sadly the EU ratings are not to be trusted. Even Which consumer magazine have doubts over the ratings, particularly on the vacuums they have pasted a &quot;Best Buy&quot; on only to find the EU ratings for carpets, or hard floors are left to question.I agree here with Chris to a degree. If you have cat litter in particular on hard floors, a cylinder vacuum with a much lighter floor tool will cope better. You can literally just lift the tubes and floor head off the floor if any excess cat litter gets scattered.However, that&#039;s not to suggest that all uprights can&#039;t pick up cat litter on hard floors, it is just that the brush roll keeps pinging the litter bits off the moving brush roll. If a machine has a brush roll on/off function, the sole plate still has to allow for enough space for the cat litter to get picked up without it getting stuck.Awhile back I made a few videos online with cat litter pick up on hard floors. The tests were interesting. Only a few uprights were successful, and not even Miele&#039;s Twister suction only floor tool (a floor tool that is equipped with some Miele cylinder vacs) was successful in picking cat litter up from hard floors.[MEDIA=youtube]JIR_EOwd6ZE[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sebo_fan, post: 324317, member: 851"] Steph - sadly the EU ratings are not to be trusted. Even Which consumer magazine have doubts over the ratings, particularly on the vacuums they have pasted a "Best Buy" on only to find the EU ratings for carpets, or hard floors are left to question. I agree here with Chris to a degree. If you have cat litter in particular on hard floors, a cylinder vacuum with a much lighter floor tool will cope better. You can literally just lift the tubes and floor head off the floor if any excess cat litter gets scattered. However, that's not to suggest that all uprights can't pick up cat litter on hard floors, it is just that the brush roll keeps pinging the litter bits off the moving brush roll. If a machine has a brush roll on/off function, the sole plate still has to allow for enough space for the cat litter to get picked up without it getting stuck. Awhile back I made a few videos online with cat litter pick up on hard floors. The tests were interesting. Only a few uprights were successful, and not even Miele's Twister suction only floor tool (a floor tool that is equipped with some Miele cylinder vacs) was successful in picking cat litter up from hard floors. [MEDIA=youtube]JIR_EOwd6ZE[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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