Dyson vs Miele vacuum cleaner

[combo52]

Central Vacuum

Vented outdoors, installed one 35 years ago and have never had the desire or use for a smelly plastic portable Vacuum since.

 

[hydralique]

Cyclonic Action . . .

Dyson has bragged incessantly about their cyclonic action as if they invented it. They did not, both Compact (became TriStar in the '80s) and Filter Queen have been using cyclonic action for well over 50 years in high quality, metal vacuums that put Dyson's crappy plastics to shame.

 

[volsboy1]

My vote goes for the Miele by far.I had a Dyson and hated it and I have hated every bag less vacuum sense, every time I go to my Vacuum shop there is about 40 Dyson's waiting to be fixed.I have a Riccar Radiance and a Cirrus Pet Edition which is a great vacuum.I am having a Drain Vac installed at the farm next month.

 

[whirlcool]

BTW, our Miele is 11 years old and still going strong! The only repair we have ever made to it was a hose coupler which broke when the machine fell down the stairs a few years ago. I fixed it myself for $10.00 with a part I got from our local Miele dealer.

When we first got the Miele I was also amazed at how quiet it is. You can hear the grit from the floor going up the hose, it's that quiet.

As for Miele's being expensive, we probably would have bought 3 or 4 other vacs in the 11 years we owned the Miele. So we think we are already money ahead.

 

[hoovermatic]

Miele Cylinder/Canister all the way - once tried you will never go back. the Rolls Royce of vacuum cleaners.

 

[combo52]

Central Vacuum

My Kenmore central vacuum has centrifugal particle separation and does not use a bag, in fact I have not bought bags in over 30 years, and I think WP may have invented bag-less central vacuums.

 

[rapunzel]

I'ev got a Miele S4582 H.E.P.A. - with all the attachments. It's reasonable on built quality and has good variable suction, but overall performance is nothing to rave about. The turbo brush is as anemic as with most other types of modern vacs. I don't recall what I spent on it anymore, but it was probably too much. The Dyson, in my view, is priced totally over the top for what it is and it's aesthetically offensive.

I get the best results on carpets from my Vacs AVC1 upright. They don't make those anymore either.

Tried a Kirby whilst I was up in Queensland a couple of months ago. Friend of mine was helping me renovate a rental property. It worked very well, fluffed up the carpet good and I liked the auto drive. It's still a handsome machine to boot. May consider buying one second hand.

I miss the horse hair brushes, nylon hoses, polished stainless steel tubing and beater bars of yore. That's when quality was king and manufacturers took pride in their products. Now the only real difference between tol and bol is price and that's about it.

 

[rapunzel]

On ducted vacuums, I would if I could, but in my house that is not a viable solution. Should have put it in when I was building. Now a retro fit is too much trouble. A good central vac system for an average size home costs not much less than a tol vacuum cleaner anyway and with regular timber frame walls retro fitting should be no issue.

 

[hydralique]

Kirbys are hard to beat if you like uprights, and goodness knows they will literally last a lifetime if maintained. Not exactly good for those who like lightweight vacs, though!

 

[twinniefan]

You wouldn't believe it but

We ended up with neither a Dyson nor a Miele, we ended up with a Vax Fusion bagless for $199.00.
The salesman at the Good guys demonstrated a Miele, a Dyson and this Vax model for usand the Vax outperformed both the Dyson and the Miele, the Dyson took the longest to pick up all the grit and sand from the carpet, the Miele was next best but the Vax sucked it up the fastest.
The Dyson was the noisiest machine, the Miele was lovely and quiet but so was the Vax it uses very similar technology to the Dyson but at a fraction of the cost.
I had a fair idea of what I wanted, but I was so heartened when the young salesman asked me all the right questions, how big is your house, what type of carpet do you have?, hard floors or tiles, and incredibly enough he told us that given what we told him, we would actually be foolish to spend so much money on a Dyson in particular and with the Miele there is the ongoing cost of bags, and of course the other factor was my sister, who was drooling over the Vax, so we went with it.
Got it home and tried it out and I couldn't believe how much extra dirt it picked up given that I had vacuumed only yesterday with the very old L.G. (which had some time ago been retired to garage duty.
Very happy with our purchase but thank you all so very much again for all you tips and advice.

 

[tolivac]

Industrial cyclones-the ones most vacuum cleaners are based upon-have been with us for 100 years.They were used in factories in dust shaving collection systems for woodworking shops-and some metal working places had them-for the sanding-sandblasting operations-both to recover the metal dust for recycling-and for air blast operations-the abrasives.We have a cyclone on our sandblaster in our shop-does good in cleaning some transmitter parts!And I am sure you have seen the giant cyclone unit behind or on the roof of some plants.
In general I HATE bagless central units-they can be a pain to empty-the bags ones are cleaner and easier to empty-the cost of bags doesn't bother me.A bag in one of those last for a few to several months.and I have found the performance of a portable vacuum to be still better than a central one-if you can use just the hose to the central unit-no question-but if the unit has to pull thru all of the plumbing and long hose-then the efficiency goes way down.