Miele Classic C1 Turbo Team Bagged Canister Vacuum, Tech Blue – Portable, Household

Great overall vacuum.
Great, light weight vacuum. Had one for20 years ago when the motor died. It was very heavy but was a work horse.This model has a less solid feel, however, it does a great job. Adjustable suction works well. It is not loud when in use. It is easy to pull along and picks up tiny seeds and long dog hairs with ease. One not so good feature is that the rolling heavy duty attachment is too small and not powerful enough and the small upolstery and small brush attachments fall off frequently.It is much quieter than my 20 year old one.

Great suction on a well-engineered vacuum that could use slight usability improvements
First off, I’m a tough reviewer. In general, I don’t believe in 5 star reviews unless the product is really excellent at its function or an incredible value. If the product does what it says and costs a normal amount of money, that’s a 4 star review in my book.Background: I live in a 2 bedroom apartment, which is 50% hardwood, 25% tile and 25% medium pile carpet. I also have area carpets in the living spaces that are medium-low pile. I don’t have any pets, but my fiancee has long hair. I am getting a cat soon – I will update this review when I have tried out the vacuum on cat hair.EDIT: I’ve had the cat for 2 months now. Vacuum picks up cat hair on my couch and carpet pretty well. I don’t have to re-vacuum any areas as far as I can tell. When doing furniture, I have to clean the attachments fairly often, but that’s to be expected. No change to this review.Functions:Hardwood – FantasticThis thing has great suction. It cleans super easily and the parquet floorhead is effective.Carpet – GoodThe Turboteq carpet brush head cleans the carpets pretty well. There are multiple suction settings and the device recommends a lower suction setting for carpets. I have found I get better results going slower on a lower suction mode than turning up the suction. The suction is very powerful – it will pull up on area rugs. You have to maintain an acute angle with the handle and push forward and slightly down to move the brush head over carpet. Even then it takes a little bit of force. Moving it backwards doesn’t work nearly as well. In heavily soiled areas, you may need multiple passes – the runner carpet in the hallway needed 2 or 3 passes.Furniture – The attachments for furniture and upholstery work pretty well. Depending on your furniture you may have to turn the suction down past the furniture setting to the curtain setting. I have not tried to clean my curtains with this vacuum.Usability – Pretty goodThe main issues with usability are simply with canister vacuums. You have to move the canister, clean that area, and then move the canister again. If you’re using the floorheads at specific angles or direction, you may have to set up the canister so the hose is pointing in a useful direction because the hose is a little too short. It is surprising how often you need to consider how to optimize the orientation. The floor and brush heads have lots of rotation but it does not mitigate this problem much. The cord is very long so you can generally always maneuver the vac where you need it to be, but the hose could probably be longer. I will probably be checking in a few months for a longer compatible hose if this continues to annoy me.There are other small usability issues that I would say could be engineered away. The carpet brush head has two notches across it so you can cut hair off. However, over the middle of the brush head, there is a section that the notches are inaccessible because of the brush head bristles. Both notches are inaccessible in the same area from the bristles. It would have been easy to modify the bristle pattern so over the entirety of the brushhead there was at least one notch that work. However, I will say that the notch does work very well when you can use it. The holder for the attachments is also in a slightly inconvenient location as it slightly messes with the tubes.Otherwise the usability is great. Everything assembles easily and it’s easy to change the bags. It’s small and easy to storeQuality – GreatI haven’t had this vacuum long, but I’m a mechanical engineer who has designed consumer products. I can tell this uses quality materials. The brush head has plastic moving parts, but when inspecting them while cutting hair out, I can tell it is a glass-impregnated plastic for wear resistance. I was able to cut hairs away from it with a normal pocket knife (not a razor blade/hobby knife) without scratching it. I was being careful, but a cheap ABS part would have been scratched up easily. I am impressed by this product’s engineering and quality.Overall – 4 starsI have written mostly positive things, and the negative things are minor. However, I am only giving this 4 stars, because this ain’t cheap. $400 is a lot of money for a vacuum, and while it does the job, it doesn’t perform its functions unbelievably well. However, it definitely seems built to last. If it is truly as durable as it should be for this price, maybe it is deserving of 5 stars. But if I’m paying $400 for an appliance, I don’t want slight usability issues or need to make multiple passes on carpet. However, I’m not unhappy with my purchase at all. I recommend this for apartment dwellers who are willing to spend a little more time cleaning with a canister vac to get good cleaning results.

Happy with my purchase. Works better than any other vacuums I’ve purchased over the years. Would recommend.

I bought this Miele vacuum to replace a Dyson which had broken. I had heard good things about these lower end Miele C1 vacuums, but was skeptical. However, this little vaccum is far superior to the Dyson I had. The suction is far better and is adjustable via a dial on the back of the vaccuum – which is perfect when you want to switch between vacuuming something delicate like fabric blinds to something that needs some super suction, like and entry rug. The bag takes a reasonable amount of time to fill, despite its small size. A plus for the bags is no more dust flying around trying to empty the bagless Dyson cannister, but it is an additional cost having to re-buy bags.I mainly marked the Miele down a star because of the poor tool storage – the attachments are stored in a cheap little clip on at the base of the hose. Its easy to knock them off.