Miele Complete C3 Electro Plus EcoLine

[kirbyvertibles]

Alex,
very nice machine there. They make a great cleaner.

Totally off subject but in the first pic is a small upright photo bombing. Is that similar to the Regina upright?

 

[alexhoovers94]

 


 


Thanks guys.


 


The upright in the first photo is an Electrolux TwinTurbo Electronic Deluxe Mod Z561


 


I did a video on that too if you are interested.


 

 

[kirbyvertibles]

Thanks

 

[n0oxy]

hard floor nozzles

I'm actually not a fan of the nozzles that switch from floors to rugs, best tool to use for hard floors is a dedicated hard floor brush. The Centec CT10 is a great power nozzle for hard floors as well. Regarding Miele vacuums, I have the Miele C1 Olympus which is no longer made. It's a great straight suction machine, also takes the larger GN bags. Miele has discontinued many of their previous models in the United States, I think the lower end models are all made in China now.
Mike

 

[eurekaprince]

I agree with Mike that a dedicated bare floor brush is more effective than the convertible carpet/floor attachments. But these often cause snowplowing as well because they have too many brush strips "touching down" to the floor in the front of the tool, no matter how many "castellated" breaks there are in the wall of bristles. I would bet that even the excellent Miele Parquet Twister brush snowplows large debris.

Snowplowing was never a problem even with the old Eureka bare floor brushes because there was a large cut out in the front stretch of the perimeter bristle strip. Panasonic and Hoover went one step better with their excellent bare floor brushes that did not have a perimeter bristle strip - the strip was in the centre as shown in the picture. I really think the ubiquitous convertible carpet/floor tools could be improved if they eliminated the brush strip on the front edge of the tool.

 

[alexhoovers94]

I have never seen a Hoover with a hard floor nozzle like that.

 

[eurekaprince]

Alex - I am not certain that Hoover included these unique floor brushes with their pre-Candy European vacuums. This great brush made its debut in North America in the early 1980’s with the arrival of the Hoover Dimension canister. Thereafter, most Hoover canisters (Futura, Spirit, Powermax, Windtunnel, etc) included this kind of bare floor tool.

 

[alexhoovers94]

I don't think Hoover UK really offered dedicated hardfloor tools with their cylinder cleaners back in the day, just combi floor tools and power heads. Most people had carpet and still do really.

 

[eurekaprince]

It’s important to remember that most Hoover cylinder cleaners sold in North America from 1980 on were more often than not packaged with a powered carpet nozzle. The low end suction only versions of these Hoovers were equipped with a convertible carpet/floor tool as in Europe. The deluxe power nozzle versions were packaged with an additional dedicated bare floor brush.

 

[countryguy]

Brian,

That brush looks like a Kenmore not a Hoover. The wand would have to go inside the brush neck rather than on the outside of the neck.

Gary

 

[countryguy]

Here the floor brush from my Eureka Empress II that has the shortened bristles running the full width of the brush.

Gary

http://www.vacuumland.org/COLLECTIONS/COUNTRYGUY/42@Eureka Empress [email protected]

 

[eurekaprince]

Hi Gary,

How are you? Yes, I know that the pic is of a Kenmore / Panasonic floor brush, but Hoover used a similar design in the 1980’s with the two brush strips down the middle. I actually bought a similar optional bare floor tool for my parents’ Hoover Ultra Self- Propelled WindTunnel upright. Because of the way the wands were designed on that cleaner, the attachment is designed to accept the wand sliding into the neck, not over the neck. Hoover had both versions of the brush.

The Hoover brush design and the Kenmore brush design were very similar, though the neck on the Hoover made it easier to use.

 

[n0oxy]

another interesting floor nozzle

Another really good one is the Wessel Werk turn and clean, the model is d330, it's a really good nozzle, also the one that Tacony includes with their canisters is really good.
Mike