Oh dear, we've been vacuum shopping...

[alexhoovers94]

Indeed but compromises have to be made.


I think you are right about the pads getting a bit chewed which could or can damage the carpet, I personally haven't found that an issue but I am not saying it wouldn't happen.


 


Now I disagree that the x series should clean hard floors. It scrapes and scrawps across our slate tile kitchen floor, for hard floor purposes I think a cylinder is always required, you will just get a MUCH better result and that goes for any upright.

 

[sebo_fan]

Well, in the early 90s when SEBO started selling the X, they did provide the solution of attaching the extension hose with an additional extension tube on with their standard "wall brush" floor head for hard floor cleaning. Its what I did in the early days when living in flats with laminate flooring in the kitchen and bathroom where hard floor existed. It isn't a compact solution but it does make an extra versatile use of the attachments and the X series model.

For those with the opposite - more hard floors and less carpet - the SEBO Felix should suffice if sticking to that brand.

Or if you must stick with HOOVER, consider the new upright vac from the company, "another" exclusive from Argos known as the Totality. Mains corded stick vac with a steam function.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1622676.htm#pdpFullProductInformation

 

[madaboutsebo]

SEBO Felix Full Bag

Although not really related to this thread although it is SEBO related I thought I would just show a picture of the Felix synthetic bag full in addition to the X Series bag picture Turbo500 posted in this thread.

This is a picture of my first synthetic bag I've used in my Felix which is like a brick, solid and compact with dust, dirt and pet hair. It's been in the machine for 5 months which is longer than the paper version (on average for me would be 3 months) I've always used and these synthetic bags seem to compress the dust and dirt more too, so they last longer too. I'm impressed with them and there is no dust that is collecting inside of the bag chamber either, they seem to me to filter better too.

One more thing I noticed there is no significant drop in performance either as the bag fills with the synthetic I did notice slightly with the paper ones. With this bag it just seemed to carry on picking up which is why it is so full (I did check the bag every few weeks towards the end to check all was ok). Be interesting to see how the new synthetic bags for the X Series perform too.

I so don't miss my bagless vacuums!