Hello everyone,
I’ve been lurking here for a few years now, and I’m grateful for you all sharing such a wealth of knowledge. I’ve poured over the archived posts and watched so many of your videos on performance testing and repairs. I’ve been fortunate enough to find great deals on so many of the quality uprights and canisters - bagged, bagless, and water filtration - that you all recommend, but I haven’t found that ideal machine yet that can contain the hair of my two Dobermanns.
Dobermanns have very sleek, short, coarse hair, and they shed all year round. This sort of fur doesn’t tumbleweed like fluffy dog hair. Instead, the hair pokes and embeds into everything. It pokes through couches like they are pin cushions. It can intertwine into the densely woven fabric of car headliners. Sometimes I suddenly find myself hopping around because it feels like I’ve stepped on a huge splinter, but instead I always find a single strand of Dobermann hair somehow piercing through the thick skin on the bottom of my foot.
I’ve given up on trying to remove the dog hair embedded at the base of my carpet strands, but I’d at least like to find a machine that can trap the hair that is vacuumed up. With bagless machines like the Dyson Ball, the hair escapes the rubber gasket around the bottom of the dust bin and also bypasses the cyclones and winds up in the motor.
With direct air machines like the Kirby Avalir or Simplicity Symmetry, I find the machines leave tons of hair behind on the closet floor where they are stored after they are turned off, as if all those high CFM numbers can’t sweep this sort of hair fully into the bag.
With modern canisters like the Miele, the individual hairs poke through the sophisticated Miele bags and litter up the bag compartment and get caught in the pre-motor filter. In fact, the genuine Miele bags seem to let more hair poke through than even the Envirocare HEPA bags I use in a Panasonic canister. I’m using a Miele C3 and previously had a Miele S5 that also showed the same issue with these dog hairs.
The only machine I’ve used that can trap the hair once it’s been vacuumed up is the Rainbow. I’ve had a D4, E2 Gold, and currently have two E2 blacks. These are also the only machines that I have that smell pleasant to use every time, but sometimes I just want a quicker, easier “dry” vacuum experience, and I’m still searching for it.
What advice can you offer?







I’ve been lurking here for a few years now, and I’m grateful for you all sharing such a wealth of knowledge. I’ve poured over the archived posts and watched so many of your videos on performance testing and repairs. I’ve been fortunate enough to find great deals on so many of the quality uprights and canisters - bagged, bagless, and water filtration - that you all recommend, but I haven’t found that ideal machine yet that can contain the hair of my two Dobermanns.
Dobermanns have very sleek, short, coarse hair, and they shed all year round. This sort of fur doesn’t tumbleweed like fluffy dog hair. Instead, the hair pokes and embeds into everything. It pokes through couches like they are pin cushions. It can intertwine into the densely woven fabric of car headliners. Sometimes I suddenly find myself hopping around because it feels like I’ve stepped on a huge splinter, but instead I always find a single strand of Dobermann hair somehow piercing through the thick skin on the bottom of my foot.
I’ve given up on trying to remove the dog hair embedded at the base of my carpet strands, but I’d at least like to find a machine that can trap the hair that is vacuumed up. With bagless machines like the Dyson Ball, the hair escapes the rubber gasket around the bottom of the dust bin and also bypasses the cyclones and winds up in the motor.
With direct air machines like the Kirby Avalir or Simplicity Symmetry, I find the machines leave tons of hair behind on the closet floor where they are stored after they are turned off, as if all those high CFM numbers can’t sweep this sort of hair fully into the bag.
With modern canisters like the Miele, the individual hairs poke through the sophisticated Miele bags and litter up the bag compartment and get caught in the pre-motor filter. In fact, the genuine Miele bags seem to let more hair poke through than even the Envirocare HEPA bags I use in a Panasonic canister. I’m using a Miele C3 and previously had a Miele S5 that also showed the same issue with these dog hairs.
The only machine I’ve used that can trap the hair once it’s been vacuumed up is the Rainbow. I’ve had a D4, E2 Gold, and currently have two E2 blacks. These are also the only machines that I have that smell pleasant to use every time, but sometimes I just want a quicker, easier “dry” vacuum experience, and I’m still searching for it.
What advice can you offer?






