Which Miele vacuum should one buy?

Hylax would appreciate any useful suggestions for a vacuum cleaner and as ever, the good people of moneysavingexpert.com are quick to leap in to provide the answers.

Devotee thinks the Cat & Dog is a good choice, and is “very happy with Miele”, while a friend of lucy120 is happy to recommend “the Miele S5981 Capricorn Vacuum W/SEB-236 Electric Power Head”. Lindens meanwhile has “just bought a Miele and it’s great as I have 2 cats and we both have allergies.”

Join in over here and have your say!

Miele once again in favour at mumsnet – and how do you spell vacuum?

“I am going to buy a new vacuum cleaner today (the glamour!) Please tell me what to get?” begins the latest discussion at mumsnet.com, and it seems that response has been swift in coming.

Squilly kicks off by suggesting that “Miele’s are great”, after extremelychocolateymilk proudly boasts that she managed to pick up her “Miele for just under £100”. Fishie continues with the rather bemusing message “Miele. Vacuum. Only word with uu in English”, no doubt joining in the debate about how exactly ‘vacuum’ is spelt.

No resolution has been yet forthcoming – but do feel free to join in the conversation and make your suggestion here.

Brief encounters - Miele Cat & Dog TT5000 vacuum cleaner review

The Miele Cat & Dog is something of a perennial favourite among vacuum cleaner buyers and although not everyone who buys one has the inclination to post their thoughts online, many do. AWB1 being a case in point.

Having just received a new TT5000 to replace her old Bosch Formula, a quick once-round-the-house was enough to convince her that she’d made the right choice and prompted her to write a quick review over at the Review Centre straight away.

Agreeing with the concensus of other Miele reviewers that the “suction power is amazing”, she adds that with four cats and a dog her “carpets look really clean”. She finds the Cat & Dog “slightly heavier than the Bosch” and with only one carrying handle on the Miele is something she feels she’s got to get use to, but all in all she’s very impressed, concluding her write-up with the recommendation: “it’s a good vacuum and if you have the money spare, then invest in one”.

Jump across to the Review Centre and see for yourself.

Brief encounters - Miele Cat & Dog vacuum cleaner review

As a Cat & Dog owner for four years, Ruth01.02 has had plenty of use from her vacuum and knows her stuff. As with many other happy Miele owners, she’s decided to share her thoughts on ownership with the wider world through a brief review over on Ciao!.

She states from the off that it’s “consistently outperformed all other vacuum cleaners I’ve ever had” - which is no surprise - it’s a relationship however, that very nearly never happened. Told by the sales advisor that the Cat & Dog was “only suitable for pets with short hair”, she was concerned about how the vacuum would cope with longer, finer human hair. She needn’t have worried though as the Cat & Dog has been “wonderful” and better than her friends back-breaking solution of using “sellotape to pick them off the floor”.

She admits the four years have taken their toll though, having had to buy a replacement vacuum head, but she insists that “on balance I’d prefer to get a new vacuum head every 4 years than to waste hours struggling to vacuum up long hair” and awards the Cat & Dog a five-star recommendation.

Hop over to Ciao! and read her review in full.

Brief encounters - Miele Cat & Dog TT5000 vacuum cleaner review

After trying a number of different vacuums over the years, Dando83 described the experience as “never anything to write home about”, so using a Miele Cat & Dog for the last eighteen months has obviously created such an impression that they’ve done the next best thing and posted a review of it over at Amazon.co.uk.

Entitling it “Miele is the only vacuum make I’d buy ever again” is a bold statement and while Dando83 admits the initial purchase price didn’t scream “buy me”, the reviews they’d read told a different story. Impressed by the solid build quality it was using the Cat & Dog for the first time on full power that blew them away, the suction of the thing making “things cleaner than they’d ever been before”.

With “6 months of a two year warranty left” Dando83 isn’t anticipating any problems, but “if this machine ever dies it’ll have earned its keep and I’ll promptly get another Miele”. Finally Dando83 wraps up their review reminding us of the value of online testimonials: “If you’ve ever trusted an electrical appliance, review, trust the 100% positive ratings for the Miele vacuum”.

Jump across to Amazon.co.uk to see Dando83’s full-write-up or read previous Cat & Dog reviews we’ve covered on Forever Better.