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Miele SF-SAC 20/30 Super Air Clean Filter
by Nar2 When it comes to air filtration on vacuum cleaners, there's nothing worse than the dank smell that comes out of the dust bag, three quarters into its lifetime before it is replaced. You wonder where the smell comes from since the bag or bin is on view, looks reasonably sealed up and then realise the exhaust cover out the back or on top ... is where the smell comes from. Sometimes if you have a bagged vacuum and the filter has been ignored for a while, air fresheners only "quieten" down bag dust odour for a while before it comes back again when vacuuming later. Bagless vacuums similarly suffer even if a lot of models these days have a HEPA filter cartridge that really has to be replaced yearly or washed every so often as the vacuum cleaner powers up and fills the air with fresher air that goes in, but often accompanied by a stale smell as the filter on board has to cope with the dirt. During my short stint of household appliance repair, I can't begin to tell you the amount of Dyson and Vax bagless cyclones that reeked of Shake 'n' Vac when the owners should really have either washed the filters and left them to dry (most owners seem to think the heat and suction principle will dry the filters out, but this never happens) or replaced them with new ones. If you keep a vacuum going with a blocked filter, you're asking for trouble! Miele vacuum cleaners have always been known to offer great engineering and quality, and most of their cylinder vacuums (and uprights) start off with the basic microfilter pleated style filter called "Super Air Clean." Miele have always been an expensive brand, and their higher priced vacuums feature higher grade filters that you can actually fit yourself without having to pay extra for the bonus of the higher priced vacuum - not that Miele will ever tell you this - especially in the U.S where our counterparts pay dearly for Miele vacuums, equivalent to £500 compared to U.K prices for the models alone. As a filter, the "Super Air Clean," fabric pad works out to be the basic filter that is standard on most Miele vacuum cleaners and like their higher grade filters, is not washable, but it has a statistical longevity time of lasting for four bags - conveniently the amount of genuine branded dust bags you can buy from Miele that arrive in a box - until it needs to be replaced. Along with the box of four dust bags you'll find one free Super Air Clean filter to replace your old one plus another filter that goes in behind a lockable grate behind the dust bag. Unlike the Super Air Clean filter, the motor filter is washable but must be fully dried before it is put back in. In terms of performance, the Super Air Clean filter is the most versatile filter out of all the three types that Miele sell but depending on how you maintain it, it can wear out its formula early on. The other two, Active Air Clean (Charcoal based) and HEPA (also Charcoal based) are suitable for smokers, pet owners and people with allergies to dust, and they both ensure that the odours from the bag don't come into contact with the outside air. Although the Super Air Clean is a much thinner filter by thickness and weight, it is the only filter type that can be used with air fresheners or scented sachet powders or DIY work since the other kinds of dust like saw dust can jam up the Charcoal fitted higher grade filter cartridges. I currently have a Yankee Candle Clean Cotton scented sachet powder in my Miele dust bag to filter the air of washing powder each time the vacuum is used. Otherwise, if a scented sachet is not used (or any air freshener), the air that my Miele pumps out is clean to my nose but not fresh due to whatever has been collected in the bag over a period of time. This is the compromise - if you want to custom build you air quality to the best or highest filtration possible - then you buy the Active Air Clean or HEPA filters (£9-95 and £12 to £14-95 respectively,) but then you can't use air fresheners to get a fragrance in, as it destroys the natural additive of charcoal in both higher priced and higher grade filters. To keep the air sweet, the Super Air Clean is the more versatile filter despite not putting out continuous, reliant fresher air and there are ways to combat this aspect simply by adding baking powder/bicarbonate of soda. I find a tablespoon of bicarbonate powder keeps the smell of pet hair down, especially if you have two or more dogs to contend with. Don't put any more than a tablespoon's measure in, as baking powder is a fine consistency and can block the pores of the dust bag, therefore taking up too much of the bag's capacity and you'll find that you'll have to empty the bag well before it is clearly needing to be emptied. You can usually judge the bag either by the mechanical bag indicator on board or by the lightweight feel to it and the lack of suction coming from the hose or mouth of the cleaner, if the hose is removed and you switch on your Miele. Measuring 19cm length by 8.5cm approximately, the Super Air Clean filter is quite easy to replace and out of the two filters in the box of bags you'll receive, the Super Air Clean should never be cut, even if part of it sticks out in the filter grid of the Miele vacuum. The only rule that this doesn't apply is to the cylinder vacuums S240/S250 and S260 where cut lines are shown so that the filter fits the smaller grate. Both the S7210 upright vacuum and S2 or S4 cylinder vacuums can use the Super Air Clean (the filter actually fits the entire Miele range of cylinder and uprights from models S200 to S899, S2000 to S5999 and S7000 to S7999 excluding their Alternative S140 stick vacuums) filter and slides in using the plastic grate/grille that comes equipped with the vacuum. If you have a higher priced vacuum, the basic grille would have been equipped at the time of purchase. Lift the grate up, slide the filter in and close the grate until it click locks. Simples! If your Miele has the higher-grade filters, these fit at the top of Miele as normal but no additional grate is needed since they have their own built into the design already. Unbelievably however, the price of the actual box replacement for Super Air Clean (SF-SAC 20/30) is around £9-95 to £11-95 and you only get three filters. It is quite an expense given that you could buy the Active Air Clean filter cartridge at the same price. Miele should rethink the cost here and make these filters cheaper to buy; particularly on the basis that most owners buy the Genuine dust bags anyway and get a free filter to last the duration of the bags you get. Lastly, this brings me onto using cheaper wear non-branded parts. I have tried cheaper filters in the past but realise through performance that the inferior filters that look and feel like Super Air Clean are no better than wasting money. They may well be cheaper at cost, but they do more damage to the machine since they don't lock in the motor carbon dust and emissions that come out of the exhaust are more apparent than Super Air Clean types that suppress them. When the filter needs to be replaced, you can usually tell because both sides including the top front where the branding name is will be totally black in colour on both sides. Plus if you go by your nose, you can usually tell! If you don't have a household that has pets or smokers and you don't have an allergy, then cost effectively, the Super Air Clean filter is worth the money. The replacement box however needs to drop in price to make it a true, worthy bargain and include four filters instead of a paltry three to keep owners going. A handy component to have that is essential to maintain the workings of a Miele vacuum cleaner, the Super Air Clean filter is worth seeking out, even if you do get one in a free box of Miele genuine dust bags, it is also worth keeping more on hand when dealing with different applications of general dust pick up per need. Thanks for reading! İNar2 2011 www.miele.co.uk Read the complete review |
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Miele SFD20 Flexible Crevice Nozzle
by Nar2 If there is one brand that caters for owners well, it's the German company Miele. For many years owners of their vacuum cleaners have been able to buy optional tools for a myriad of extra cleaning tasks that allow more versatile use of their cylinder vacuums and more recently their new in-house designed large upright vacuum, the S7 ... range. Although smaller company SEBO offer a compact range of kits and tools, it is Miele who were one of the first brands to offer extra tools well before Dyson and as a result the German company have a few tricks to offer to extend the cleaning versatilities of their vacuums when extra cleaning is required. Quite why it has taken Miele so long to produce a long flexible crevice tool is unclear. Dyson, despite being the newer brand over the Germans were one of the few companies to offer a long bendy crevice pipe that you can get into corners with, go around household appliances and such like. I was intrigued to buy it since getting my mum's kitchen measured up for a couple of new units and realized the existing units would have to be moved out of the way and cleaned enough for the designer and architect to measure up the kitchen. I also liked the idea of a flexible crevice tool that can more or less go around corners rather than trying to fight with a hose and handle which takes up too much time and can prove stressful when a bending plastic tube would be more ideal compared to conventional plastic tools that aren't as flexible. Help comes to hand in the form of the Flexible Crevice Nozzle (SFD 20) that simply fits onto the existing handle of any Miele vacuum cleaner or even the long telescopic height adjustable suction tube at the end where the floor head is usually locked onto. Made of thick PVC black plastic, there are three parts to this rather rectangular prism design. The top part, which is the crevice part, is stubby and short, sliding onto the straight plastic length before the tube connection part which has "Miele" embossed in small letters, all of which slide in to fit flush. It's important to know all this if there's a clog in the system or if dust gets stuck! Put all three together and you have a rather long crevice pipe at 56cm. The only downside to this tool is that due to its length it would be completely impossible to store it on any existing tool storer that your Miele vacuum may have and the top two sections that slide onto the handle connector will not slide down or fit any other tools such as the existing short crevice tool that Miele equip with all their vacuums. This would make the tool a bit more practical using the existing crevice tool supplied with the vacuum rather than having another crevice tool which is only purposefully made for the extra flexible bendy part. The Miele Flexible Crevice tool is priced at £13-99 including VAT direct from Miele UK, which is a good price to consider what this tool can actually do. In terms of weight, the Flexible Crevice weighs approximately 160 grams on its own which isn't too bad for lightweightness. That's an important aspect to know because rather than doing behind the kitchen units as the first test, I was curious to see what would happen if I went to go and clear behind my large Armoire which is on four large feet and impossible to move on carpet without tearing the surface and would need two people to move the wardrobe out of the way. The bag in my Miele S4 at the time was brand new but I didn't take any notice of the orange bag indicator steadily growing bigger in the view window when the Flexible Crevice got to work. I could certainly hear things being picked up through the Flexible Crevice and found it incredibly easy to just stand there with the handle in my hand and the extension pipe locked on with the tool at the end, ever so slightly moving the handle up and down to the side of the wall as the crevice tool bent around corners picking up dust between the wall and the back of the Armoire. Next the biggest bugbears in my home are ankle high metal grid heaters with permanent flaps built in at the top. These are positioned wall to wall in every room, including the hall way and are often a hideaway for spiders, dust and in recent years flying ants that managed to come through several gaps in the plaster work. Not a problem for the 'Flexi and no need to bend much when you have the handle of the vacuum at waist level and the telescopic pipe underneath with 'Flexi on the end. Moving slowly at heel, the plastic bends so very easily and can almost bend over itself, making a very pliable contortion by itself instead of the owner if this kind of tool was not available! Put simply, the 'Flexi is very able to do the work that your back will thank you for. After all if you weigh up 30 minutes compared to 2 hours of having to bend down to the floor, get on my knees, shift the short crevice tool along square by square, probably hurting my back in the process and probably collapse in a heap afterwards - which would you choose? The dust bag on board when the Flexible Crevice was fitted filled up to about three quarters packed with dust that the tool had done all on its own! That alone is pretty impressive that the tool does actually pick up. Put simply if you need to get into corners of things to clean behind, where a conventional short crevice tool proves to be too short, the 'Flexi is worth the extra cost. Getting under the glass TV cabinet for example is a breath of fresh air since the tool can bend around the round castor mounts, slide under low furniture fittings and cleaning behind the cables without much of the owner's effort. When made to clean behind the kitchen units that had to be moved out of the way by a couple of inches from the wall, 'Flexi was used to clean the dust and scum built up from an 8 year period. The crevice part at the top is intentionally narrow and here, it seems to pick up coins well without being passed down the rectangular bendy plastic tube. I made £2-84 cleaning behind the kitchen units and wondered how much I'd stand to win cleaning underneath the sofa..! In other cleaning areas the Miele tool is also extremely rewarding in use when cleaning out the car. When getting under the car seats for example, whilst only "angling" the handle now and then to shift the large crevice pipe along, the tool saves time picking up dust that can be really awkward to get at. Car seats are sometimes notorious for not going backwards or forwards enough to clean under. Yet the 'Flexi is able to go the extra distance without having to bend down or reaching upwards due to the extended length. There are however a few downsides to this tool, not just alienating any owner who doesn't have a Miele vacuum cleaner and it is slightly disappointing from a company who pride themselves in making and producing quality tools and appliances. When using to get behind painted radiators, the flat part of the crevice tool where it is at its most pliable gets scratches by the second the rubber pipe brushes past metal or awkward sharp corners. The scratches are a mix of paint and obviously where the plastic is rubbing when it is trying to get into the desired spot. Whilst paint and stains are easy to remove from 'Flexi, scratches are painfully obvious and Miele haven't been as protective as they could be with this kind of tool. I got a surprise cleaning out our Hotpoint tumble dryer too. Once the filter is taken out of the tumble dryer there's a width of around 3cm whereupon sliding 'Flexi down should have been no problem at all since it only has a 1cm width. However, 'Flexi got stuck to the point that when I abruptly pulled the tool out, the top came off and lodged itself inside the part where the lint filter is supposed to sit in! Simply sucking it back out was no problem but then I realized that whilst the tool is genuinely well made, its width can sometimes backfire on itself. This is where SEBO's long crevice tool supplied with their vacuums has no problem since it has a thinner than a centimetre width and with the SEBO pipe, I won an extra £1 wedged at the bottom of the filter holder underneath the lint part. This is where the three parts of the Flexible Crevice has a bit of a downside. Although for the most part the tool is well designed and extremely pliable, the top part can get stuck in those awkward crannies and as a result gentle care is needed whenever this tool is used - otherwise the top part can come off if abused and get stuck. That aside, the Miele Flexible Crevice tool (SFD20) is well designed, fit for most purposes and very easy to use bending very easily without having to manually fight with a shorter crevice pipe or have to continually turn it around whilst cleaning with a conventional hard crevice tool. It's a must for people who own a Miele vacuum and need to get into restricted areas - without putting their back out or wasting their time! Well recommended! And if you don't have a Miele vacuum cleaner, isn't it about time you did? Thanks for reading. İNar2 2010 www.miele.co.uk Read the complete review |
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Miele SUB 10 Multi-Purpose Brush
by Nar2 When Dyson brought out their long bristled dusting brush a few years ago it reminded me of a brushed tool that Miele have had on the market for about twenty years, and even now today the tool is still on sale for Miele owners who may need a longer dusting brush than the one supplied with their vacuums. When I got a Miele cylinder vacuum ... I wasn't entirely sure if I needed the long dusting brush since the pivotal brush that came with my old S571 and later S4 ranges comes with the models is fairly efficient, lightweight and very handy to use in almost all kinds of dust removal applications. Then, by chance through some conversations I was sent the long dusting brush by a certain Dooyoo member when they had purchased a SEBO upright I had recommended and had a spare dusting brush that we could swap over and she could at the end of the day use the correct brush on her SEBO. This is how the "long dusting brush," or "multi-purpose," brush as Miele now call it has come to be. From Miele it costs £9-69 plus VAT and online it is quite difficult to get hold of. For Miele vacuum cleaner owners, this tool can fit all of the models since it has a friction fit end and has a general length of around 20cm with around 3cm bristle lengths to portray its "dusting" credentials. Because of its length it can't be stored on any Miele vacuum unless you have a clip on tool storer with a vacant space for the brush to go onto - and if you do - the brush needs to be stored upwards, otherwise it can slip off the end due to its heavier weight towards the top of the brush. Quality wise this is a very well made brush. It is very unlike the rest of the standard tools I've found with Miele vacuums, as the plastic here is very shiny looking and much thicker than the just as quality made smaller cleaning tools that have thinner more flexible plastics. This doesn't mean that it is durable to the point that it will hide scratches though! My brush has tons of scratches from use over the years and its original white colouring (Miele now produce these in black and I got one again recently that came with their vacuums I had bought) lost its sheen quite rapidly. In the centre of the brush mouth there is a twin smaller wall that acts as the suction channel and Miele have also embossed their name at the end of the tool incase you forget who makes it! From its point of view of being a dusting brush, dust is soon realised early on when the tool is placed on the handle of any Miele vacuum cleaner, but try it on the telescopic suction pipe and apart from cleaning horizontally, there is no other direction that this tool can go in since it lacks the excellent 360° pivotal axis of the round upholstery brush you'd find as standard on Miele's vacuums. This means dropping the handle, then the pipes and then adjusting the brush at an angle that will be more convenient for you, but unless the brush is put upwards with the pipe raised upwards, the brush tool can't clean successfully if trying to remove dust from ceilings. This doesn't present a problem when the brush is stuck onto the end of the handle though and it makes a lot more sense to use it like this if cleaning dust off shelves for example, whilst its horizontal shape pointing upwards means it is suitable for cleaning skirting boards at the top of your ceilings, Venetian blinds can be cleaned to the side with the vacuum's handle also pointed to the side. It can also clean in between the open gaps of an old-fashioned "large window" radiator - but only up to a point since its narrow traditional brush like design can sometimes be too wide for it to successfully fit into the open gaps of a radiator from the front. However there are a few downsides. The diameter of this brush is around 3cm that makes it difficult to wedge in between walls and rear radiators to get all that important gunged up dust. The bristles also clog badly with cobwebs that often have to be picked off and the whole weight of the tool is also too heavy to rely on for longer cleaning above the floor line sessions. Much more worryingly though is the fact that although the bristles stick out a bit, in general use I've found if the brush is pushed flat and downwards, the smaller permanently bonded plastic dust channel (permanent) can actually scratch surfaces whilst its slot in the centre holds back dust that can wrap around it. Safe on all surfaces? Not exactly! Treat it lightly and although dust gets picked up, it won't always be sucked up thanks to the bristles that are too tightly packed up and dust gets clogged. It is by no surprise to find that this brush tool isn't the most versatile of cost optional vacuum cleaner tools made by Miele but I was expecting much more particularly in view of the fact that the smaller and round dusting brush you get as standard with Miele vacuums has so much more practicality and cleaning versatility. It is true that whilst it is apt at cleaning Venetian blinds and to an extent radiators, the better solution at the end of the day is to consider an actual radiator brush that fits onto the end of the crevice pipe, and for the price this brush tool costs from Miele, it's a bit of a rip off if it is only successful for one lifestyle cleaning requirement. Ultimately, if you really need to clean blinds, use the existing brush tool that comes with your Miele. It is a lot less bother, can be stored away on the cleaner when not in use and doesn't endanger surfaces to be scratched. Simples! Thanks for reading! İNar2 2010 www.miele.co.uk Read the complete review |
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1 review Brand: Miele / Vacuum Cleaner Accessory / Type: Brushes - Multi-purpose or universal brush suitable for cleaning radiators or blinds |
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Brand: Miele / Vacuum Cleaner Accessory / Type: Brushes - Suitable for all Miele cylinder cleaners. |
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1 review Brand: Miele / Vacuum Cleaner Accessory / Type: Bags - Suitable For: S 246-256, S 290, S 300, S 500, S 700, S 4000 |
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1 review Brand: Miele / Vacuum Cleaner Accessory / Type: Extension Tubes / Wands |
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1 review Brand: Miele / Vacuum Cleaner Accessory / Type: Power Head - Classic combination floor tool. |
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1 review Brand: Miele / Vacuum Cleaner Accessory / Type: Extras - Set includes a long crevice nozzle, a mini turbobrush and a micro hose. Fits all Miele cylinder cleaners and some other makes of vacuum cleaner. |
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1 review Brand: Miele / Vacuum Cleaner Accessory / Type: Power Head |
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Manufacturer: Miele / Type: Nozzle - The Miele SMD10 Mattress Nozzle can be attached to your Miele cleaner to give your mattresses a thorough clean. This compact vacuum cleaner accessory has been specially designed to clean mattresses, and removes dirt and dust in a jiffy! It is compatible... |
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Manufacturer: Miele / Vacuum Cleaner Accessory / Type: Brush - "The Miele SBB 400-3 Parquet Twister XL Brush is perfect for tight angles, nooks and crannies and is designed with a highly flexible joint that fits all Miele S 4000 and S 5000 series vacuum cleaners. The Miele SBB 400-3 Parquet Twister XL Brush has an e... |
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Manufacturer: Miele / Vacuum Cleaner Accessory / Type: Brush - "Designed with a highly flexible joint that fits all Miele S 4000 and S 5000 series vacuum cleaners, the Miele SBB 300-3 Parquet Twister Brush is also perfect for tight angles, nooks and crannies! The Miele SBB 300-3 Parquet Twister Brush offers natural ... |
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