Talk to me about my new Miele Vacuum Cleaner...

[frankie3]

...I have just bought a Miele S2110 Compact Cleaner as I thought it would be good for wooden floors. It does not come with a parquet head, and the setting on the head it comes with seems a bit stiff to use on my wooden floors, I would worry that it would scratch them. Also, when you use it on the carpet setting, there is a plastic strip that has sharp edges - I am worried that it could catch on my looped pile carpet.

Has anyone else got this vacuum and can tell me if it is good? I have not yet properly used it in case I want to return it to the shop.

I don't have that specific model, but I do have a Miele cylinder cleaner with retractable brushes on the head which seems to be similar to yours (having looked yours up on John Lewis!)
We have parquet (one room is freshly sanded and then waxed, the rest is quite heavily varnished and awaiting DH's attention...) and I use my Miele with the brushes out and it doesn't scratch my floors. Parquet is usually made from a very hard wood - ours is like concrete and very very hard work to sand according to DH - so I would think the wood would be fine, but I suppose scratching risk depends on the finish you've got. It doesn't scratch my varnished OR my waxed parquet with the brushes out. It might do with them retracted I suppose, as it tends to make a scrapey noise, but I have accidentally hoovered with them retracted a few times and haven't noticed any ill effect so far...

I don't have looped pile carpet so can't comment on that one, but it does a fine job on my bog standard carpets and also the kitchen and bathroom tiles (doesn't scratch them either).

I've got this one and I love it. It's not caught on anything so far and although I've only got cheapy laminate I wouldn't have thought any of the attachments would scratch - there's no noise when I'm using it on the hard floors that suggests it anyway.

You can buy other attachments from Miele if you're really worried. Otherwise, the suction's great, it's really quiet and I'm very pleased with it (although I'm comparing it to my 10 year old Panasonic upright which used to sound like Concorde taking off and thought picking up dust was beneath it).

Oh, in case you have floorboards, I can say that we had polished floorboards in our two previous houses and it didn't scratch them either.

Thanks so much for your comments. We have Oak engineered floorboards which do scratch quite easily, but hopefully the bristles will not be too stiff for it. Or else I could buy a parquet brush but that is another £30, which seems a lot of money when you consider how expensive the vacuum is already. So, I think I will keep it now.