Vacuum Cleaner

Miele Household Vacuum Cleaners: Quality. Quality. Quality.Miele's maxim, for everything!S5 vacuum cleaners are manufactured at Miele's Bielefeld factory in Germany where every effort is made to embrace the company's 107-year motto of Immer Besser or Forever Better. Endurance testing in custom-built laboratories forms an intrinsic part of quality assurance on all Miele vacuum cleaners. Before any production process begins, all components are put through rigorous tests and subjected to enormous strainstress that exceeds typical residential household use. In fact, every unit is put through a final quality test, not just one in every hundred or two per production run, ensuring that your home is not a testing ground. Only when all components, electronics and floor tools have successfully passed each critical exam will the Miele brand name be bestowed on them.

User Reviews about Miele Aquarius Canister Vacuum Cleaner - Miele S5 Model S5580 Aquarius - Blue

I absolutely love my Miele Aquarius. I love everything about it. I actually like cleaning my floors. It used to be that I would rather do anything than vacuum. The powerbrush was a must for me. I have a dog that sheds a lot and I also have dense pile rugs. You really have to research your Miele to get the right one that fits your needs. Some of the other less expensive models are more for low pile carpets. The Aquarius and the new Capricorn are comparable models that are great for dense and medium to high pile carpets and rugs...but still do great on low pile carpets since they have multiple height adjustments. This vacuum is a perfect vacuum to last you years for all types of carpets. I also love that it's a canister and my powerbrush can go under my bed, sofa, and pivot around furniture and tight corners. I also use the floor brush instead of sweeping my hardwood floors. I feel so much better knowing that the HEPA filter is truly getting rid of the dust and dog hair, not just blowing it around. My allergies are so much better since I got my Miele. I also love to do dusting with the attachments. The telescopic handle is great for getting any cobwebs also, as well as cleaning baseboards. This is a really good quality vacuum cleaner. I would definitely recommend it! -- LOVE IT!

I live across a small street from a city park, in an apartment that acts like a syphon for every eddy, whirl, and blast of dust and pollen that passes over its playing fields and grass. My rooms are filled with books, luggage, computer equipment, tools, and colorful kitchen gadgets tucked into every imaginable corner and space between pieces of furniture.

Until I used my new Miele Aquarius with the SEB 236 Electric Floor Brush, I didn't think that the colorless, thin, wall to wall carpeting in my apartment HAD nap. I was wrong! I can now tell where it's worn and where it still has a perky bit of nap... BLUE nap!

Every purse and pair of shoes I owned had to be stored in gallon, plastic Zip-loc bags, and/or stored in Rubbermaid boxes. Everything else that I owned or wore had to be kept in closets, pieces of luggage, foot lockers, packing boxes, legal-sized file storage boxes, Space bags, or the colorful packages that various gadgets came in. Blankets stored in Space bags, and table leaves battled for space with the dust bunnies under my bed, as my old vacuum wasn't powerful enough to keep them apart.

Those storage efforts didn't protect me from the book mites, dust mites and ragweed pollen that plagued me, but it kept my things ready for use when I needed them. I was so embarrassed by this ungovernably dusty warehouse "look" that I was too ashamed to invite anyone into my home. At my age, that's mentally unhealthy.

Therefore, I bought a Miele Aquarius With the SEB 236 Power Brush, Plus a year's worth of Supplies (GN bags and Filters). This Miele vacuum is a giant motor in a small, pretty canister that holds thick, efficient bags and simple and Hepa filters, with Miele's most powerful electric floor brush. I received it the day after I ordered it. Free shipping here meant super-fast shipping.

Why did I choose the Miele Aquarius, instead of the Callisto or Capricorn? As my apartment is small and cluttered, I chose a canister vacuum. As I believed that I would be using the cleaning tools more often than I would be using the electric floor brush, I decided that this model would give me more control of the power from the canister when using the many tools that I use, which each seem to need need different power levels. I believe that I made the right choice. I do prefer to use my toes to control the suction rather that having to bend down to move a power nob, as is true on the lower-priced model.

What would I like to be different in this unit? This vacuum cleaner is best stored with the canister sitting alone in an upright position, facing away from the wall, with the wand, electric hose and electric floor brush standing all together as a unit with the hose looped in the handle. This balances best when the front of the floor brush faces the wall, causing the wand and hose to lean towards the wall. This safest and neatest way of storing this vacuum cleaner leaves a gaping hole in the face of the canister, where dust, dust mites, book mites and pollen in the vacuum bag could drift out of the canister.

Therefore, as part of its standard tools and equipment, Miele canister vacuums at this price level should come with a solid, removable port lid, flat or gently rounded, with a "cuff" that can screw into the hose attachment hole in exactly the same manner as the hose cuff fits into the canister. An open cuff which fits the Miele Aquarius, Callisto, and Capricorn canister vacuum cleaners already exists as standard equipment in the Miele CarClean Kit. (The CC Kit also contains a second open cuff that fits into other models of Miele canister vacuums.) One of these already-existing cuffs, with a separate "hat" that could be attached to it to create a closed port lid, could be produced in little time and for little cost relative the the current price of this vacuum.

If you use the Miele GN bags and filters designed for use with this Miele Aquarius vacuum cleaner, the hot air coming out of its exhaust vents is clean, clean, clean. The vacuum's motor and electronic equipment depend on these bags and filters to keep the motor running smoothly for years, which was one of the reasons why I made this relatively large vacuum cleaner investment. I also bought Envirocare bags, as a test, as they cost a fraction of Miele GN bags. But they are thinner than Miele bags, and will not work as well with its electronic pressure-measuring programs as do the Miele bags.

I was advised by the person that sold the Envirocare bags to me that if you use this Miele Vector motor at full power, there is "little chance for a bag blowout, (allowing harmful dust into the motor -CJG), if you use them only until they're almost full". Hmm. That means that the "savings" are risky, and not as money-saving as they seem.

In the same [...] purchase through Amazon.com, I bought a Miele CarClean Kit which increased the usefulness of this vacuum tremendously. The Miele CarClean Kit comes with a hand power brush that can be used for hand-vacuuming cat or dog hair from upholstery or rugs, (not one of my vacuuming problems), or can be used with the heavy extension wand for vacuuming rugs in tight places, (one of my worst vacuuming chores).

The CC Kit also comes with a non-electric handleless hose that's useful when you don't need and/or can't use the handled electric power hose with the SET 210 Wand, which together have the combined weight and length of a Revolutionary War Kentucky Rifle. When you're splayed out on the bedroom floor trying to catch dust bunnies, by sliding that heavy wand around the floor at full extension flush with the floor, this is a big plus.

The CC Kit also contains a useful 12" crevice tool, and also a cunning hose/brush/crevice tool for use with electronic equipment, so this kit is well worth the [...] that it costs.

[...] included a $5[...]online coupon with this purchase, sowent online and bought a Miele Universal Vacuum Brush, (a long, soft, thick, natural-bristle brush for dusting books, my computer printer, TV, Boombox, hard disk, etc. and nick nacks), a Miele Matress Nozzle, and a Miele Radiator Brush (fits on the end of Miele Crevice Tools to brush instead of scraping walls and base boards).

As coats, suits, sweaters and dresses that were stored on hangers in my closets had to be vigorously dusted before I could wear them, I went online to buy a generic Vacuum Drape Roller attachment, so that I could vacuum my clothing safely. I also bought a generic extra-long Extension Vacuum tool to get under my low-slung sofa bed and my refrigerator. (I might get a flexible extension tool later for dusting the inside of my air conditioner and other really weird places).

I bought a Chevy Malibu with bucket seats, a racy shift lever, and stereo radio in 1967 for only twice what I paid for this Miele Vacuum and all of the tools that I bought to accompany it. However, I know that I'll live a longer, healthier life because I chose it, and a more social, less messy one too. My apartment clutter is getting thinner every time that I vacuum, as my packing boxes now land more frequently in the dumpster for recycling.

Note#1: I learned, when I accidently knocked the accessory cover off of its pins, that if you use enough force to dislodge it, you won't reach the force needed to damage it. With some thought about what you're doing, and slow steady pressure, you can side the accessory cover over the simple wire spring inserting one of the cover's plastic hooks over the base cover's hinge. Then you must lightly stretch the cover against it's own curve so as to slip the other hook over the other side of the same hinges so as to put the cover back in place. This is wonderful engineering design!

Note#2: Also at Amazon.com, I bought a North American Healthcare BACK STRETCHER, to aid me in my full apartment cleaning routine, because after years of using the wrong vacuum cleaners and letting the problems pile up, it's my answer to backaches that I've given myself reaching and bending while dust-chasing. This Back Stretcher has helped me to vacuum in a work, stretch, rest, work again rhythm. -- Buy the Miele CarClean Kit Too!

I am thrilled with the Miele system. The bags caught most, if not all (hey I don't have a microscope) of my dust, dust mites and their and my blech. I live in Oregon, land of 24/7 365 moisture. So dust mites love it here. And I happen to live in a valley... grass grass pollen pollen. I also have a cat that loves to quite literally roll around in the dirt. After testing a Miele Aquarius on my entire carpeted apartment, it was a no brainer to get a Miele. The first night I had my loaner from a friend I thoroughly cleaned my bedroom and that night I slept better. In the morning instead of going through a dozen or more tissues I just needed one. I also did not have to blow my nose in the middle of the night. I already have an amazing non-toxic mattress that the mites can't live in so I knew the problem was carpet, dust and moisture related. I ended up with the Gemini Miele as I don't need the Automatic (extra function) of the Aquarius. I did want the backlit knob indicator which is why I went with the Gemini over the Callisto. I purchased through Witbecks and they have been amazing in service and I would definitely buy from them again. And if the price makes you balk... read The Miele company's environmental statement. They make some appliances too. Think about it, 15-20 years for a vacuum... how many pieces of junk vacuums can you go through in that time? I don't know of anyone yet that does not love their Miele!

ps People, if you have allergies... look at your laundry detergent too.... I am simply flabbergasted how many people say they have allergies and use scented detergent, fabric softener, and dryer sheets!!!!!! That synthetic fragrance is definitely exacerbating any allergies you may have. That includes any 'plug-ins' or the like. Those products are actually quite toxic over time, they damage your olfactory senses (nose) and pollute the air, not freshen it. -- Love my Miele!!!!!!!