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Your welcome oliveoiltinfoil, thank you for answering my question. Thats great it comes with the Kombi tool, I've never used one but it looks like a good floor tool especially for hard floors. I have the Deluxe Parquet Floor tool with my Classic, which I love using on my tiled floor.
 
I only use mine for the tiled floor as I find it picks up better than using the ET-1 power head. I would like to see a sealing strip but at the back of the nozzle head of the ET-1 like the X series has for when using on hard floors.
 
I don't - the reason being is that all of a sudden the weight of the Felix body becomes quite heavy to push with just a very lightweight brush floor tool jammed onto it at the end.

The Deluxe Kombi is slightly better - but the ET-1 is great at hard floor cleaning in my home - I don't need to use the hard floor brushes at all, which is the reason to why they never get used.
 
I agree with you there you do get the full weight of the Felix body using the Deluxe Parquet head. I would love to try the Deluxe Kombi head at some point.

I have used the ET-1 power head on level 1 with the brush bar off but I find it doesn't pickup all the pet hair off the tiled flooring mainly from the edges as the pet hair sticks to the sealant around the edges. The brushes on the Deluxe Parquet head helps remove the pet hair.

I'm loving the mini turbo head I've got now, makes stair cleaning a breeze. Wish I got one sooner.
 
Thanks for the tip Sebo_fan never thought about that didn't know if the brush bar might mark the tiles I have as they are glossy ones. Do you use the standard brush bar on your tiles or the delicate one? Suppose I could buy the delicate brush bar. I will give it a try thanks again. Least I wouldn't have to clean off the pet hairs that stick to the brush strips on the Deluxe Parquet head.
 
I have not found the Kombi attached to the felix to be any problem, as most of the weight is on the two back wheels. However I know that a few customers of the felix have commented on the vacuum being unstable, which I have never found to be a problem to be honest.

I am going to make a thread later about the new Sebo Felix bags, as it looks like they have redesigned them. They feel and look much more like Miele bags with really wide, durable stitching. I only noticed when I got my bags delivered, courtesy of the £10 argos voucher when I got the felix.
 
The vacuum is unstable because the floor head will not allow the whole of the Felix to stand up properly. So many owners forget that there is a rubberised ball at the end of the handle to allow the Felix to rest on a wall if that Deluxe Kombi floor head is used.

I seldom use the DK floor head on carpet = even with low suction, it isn't the lightest to move. It is fine on hard floors because you have both the fixed bristle brushes and the wheels to aid movement but on carpet, there is more resistance involved.

The other thing, or rather compromise that HAS to be made with either the DK or Parquet floor tool is the simple fact that you can't pivot the Felix over rugs. The whole machine has to be lifted over rugs or mats because of the double joint neck. That's fine when all you have are the some 500 to 540g metal tubes of either the K series or D series choice to tubing - not when you have 3.7kg of the Felix upright.
 
Haahha! "A thread on the bag," well yeah must seem pointless but they are quite different from the normal ones and feels as thick as the mieles, yet they are no more expensive than they used to be. They may be even more efficient, or at least if they have the same efficiency, they look more durable.
 
Sebo bags have improved but the new 3D Miele bags are the best I've seen. And they now hold 20% more dirt so the GN bags are approaching 5.5 litres. :-)
 
I must admit the deluxe parquet head is very flexible and manoverable in tight spaces on hard floors but so is the ET-1 head too. I would like to see the Deluxe Parquet and Kombi heads designed so you can stand the machine upright on it own bit like Vorwerk VK150 hard floor tool.

Oliveoiltinfoil have SEBO changed the synthetic bags then? I do prefer the synthetic bags over the paper they are the same price but you get 8 in a box where the paper ones you got 10 I believe.
 
I'm not aware that the synthetic bags for the Felix have changed recently but I'll take olive oils word for it.
 
That's why I was wondering and asking. I'm only on my first box of synthetic bags half way through them so they will last into next year before I buy anymore.

If the new E series is going to be using its own style bags probably SEBO has been doing some more research and development on their synthetic bags and improved them!
 
Yes that could be true. I'm really looking forward to the E series it could well become my favourite cylinder which is currently the Miele S8.
 
To be honest, I don't know what Miele could do to improve the capacity on their dust bags.

As a fan of the brand for more than ten years, their older IntensiveClean dust bags were just as good with a pull slip at the front. They were much thinner than the higher grid bonded HyClean bags and a lot of buyers did feel crushed to having to spend a lot of money on the newer designed bags.

Although Miele may well claim extra room, it is really down to the bag chamber design. My old S571 in its day was the starter of the S500 range, a mid-size cylinder vac - the bag would take 3 months to fill and it was an old FJM dust bag which bordered out to 4.5 litres, not the 3.5 litre capacity that the newer and more compact S4 and S6 models have.

It comes down to personal experience with bag usage.

For me, SEBO wins at the end of the day for the fact that you get nearly twice as many bags with most of their vacuums. A box of SEBO dust bags can last me 1.5 years to 2 years dependent on the model and of course usage. Since SEBO brought out their synthetic disposable bags for the Felix for example, I've yet to finish the original pack I bought.

As for the Deluxe and Kombi floor tools - I don't think it would be a good idea to have them take the weight of the Felix body completely. I don't think they could handle having all that on top and they would have to be made substantially thicker to carry the weight, not just forgetting that the vacuum would fall over from the front if the floor heads were not made bigger width wise to compensate.

This is a current problem I'm finding with my new Hoover Idol stick vac.
 

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