Miele or Sebo vacuum? No pets but wooden floors...

[Cristiane]

Does anyone have any knowledge of which of these is better

sebo komfort

Or

miele s5211

Thought I would get the miele, but JL lady said that Sebo came with 5 year guarantee and horsehair parquet brush... But I don't know sebo at all.

The Miele cylinders pack the top of the Which best buy list, with Bosch mixed in near the top.
Sebo are are lot lower down down.

The same holds for uprights, Miele at the top, Sebo lower down.

Incidentally the top of the Best Buy list was the Siemens Z6.0 Eco

Sebo have the advantage of being rather expensive, which makes them more fashionable in some circles.

I see on that Miele you were looking at, you can get a 10-year guarantee at extra cost, but I doubt you'll need it. They're not like Dysons.

Miele every single time. I have 2 one for upstairs and one for down and worth every penny. The one upstairs we have had for 10 years.

You won't need an extra guarantee with a Miele.

I love my miele - have the pet one which was useful as we have pets but it just happened to be on special offer in JL at the time. My one regret - should have sodding bought it years ago. I have a dyson and dyson baby which are both shite.

One thing to consider is the cost of the bags, I (on the advice of mn) buy some fake ones online which are considerably cheaper, but then I alternate them so I do 2 fakes to 1 real iyswim. Also I love that mine has different settings - so you can have it on full blown or different settings. This is also handy if you have rugs as apparently you shouldn't hoover them on full setting.

Can you tell me where you get the fake ones please? I need to do a bit of cost cutting atm!

I get bags for the Miele on Fleabay

I've got a bottom of the range Miele cylinder vacuum cleaner and it's great. We've had it 7.5 years and it's still going strong (despite being dropped down a full flight of stairs by me more than once). We have parquet throughout the downstairs of our house (some of it waxed, some varnished) and I use the Miele on it all the time with no issues.

Ooh thanks! I found the one I linked to earlier with £50 off at Argos, so just picked it up. Looking forward to trying it. Really I am.

we have got both- the Miele one was my son's at uni as he has a dust allergy but now we have it here.

The only thing I'd say is that it is bloody hard work using a cylinder cleaner- well I find it so. You have to bend over a lot and the suction on the Miele is so powerful that you have to work hard with it on carpets. I too pulled it down the stairs- it bounced and still works.

On the other hand it's great for hard floors- I use it in both bathrooms which have Amtico flooring.

Uprights are easier to handle IMO and if you have carpets I think I'd go for an upright .

I got mine from fleabay too, it is pretty easy just put in meile hoover bags and make sure that they fit your model. I was sceptical but I haven't been disappointed I think 20 were about £8 which is not bad but I could be wrong. I know I got 10 filters as well but haven't got a frigging clue about them they just came with the bags

I thought about an upright and one day I will probably get one to compliment my other one to live upstairs. At the moment though the shit old miele will do but it is very easy to take my cylinder up the stairs as it is relatively light.

I did think of one disadvantage, the stand where I put the extending arm is a bit rubbish and it sometimes falls over but the vacumming is just so much better than anything else I have recently used that I frankly just don't mind too much

Oh I have a small miele - fabulous on our mainly wooden floor but also on thick rugs. It's compact but I took it to my mum's huge rambling house and gave it a thorough clean (all carpet) and it did a great job.

I'd recommend.

We took Which's advice but the Miele best buy wasn't good. Hot air flooding out the top when I had to change the suction setting, bags are expensive and the tubes were just too heavy for me to do walls, curtain rails and just general cleaning. So we went for a Sebo K1 - I had never heard of the brand - but it was recommended to me by several owners. Our K1 "Komfort" came with 3 large floor heads - so handy if you have rugs that need a rolling brush and there's a Parquet hard floor brush as well. I visited John Lewis to see the K1 at the time - this is going back something like 5 years or so. They now have higher motors but mine is a light blue one with 1800 watts. Super suction and super value. Compared to the bigger Miele at the time which had a bigger dust bag, what put me off the Miele was the telescopic tubes. My sister has a brand new Miele S6 and the tubes are still the same - far too heavy for me - the Sebo ones are a lot lighter and just as durable. Sebo's K1 is perfect for small to medium homes and they have newer dust bags now, which means an extra month capacity= on average I change the bag 2 to 3 months and I get 7 bags for the same price as Miele's 4 in a box. So really even if Miele seem to be the best, Sebo's K1 for me is just perfect and the hospital grade filters don't have to be changed until 16 to 32 bags have been used.

Love our sebo. It's ugly though!