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

I started out 16 years ago with a Dyson . Then another Dyson -which neither had the longevity like a Miele. I wasnt prepared to pay hundreds of dollars for a Miele so I have been through 2 crappy Hoovers recently until now. I started at the lower end of the Miele canisters and I am not disappointed. I love my Vaccuum! I got a great deal on Amazon!! I researched the heck out of the models. this Turbo classic c1 does the job well. I was also told by a reputable Vaccuum store to make sure my Miele was made in Germany not China. that was important info to pass along. I hope my review helps. I also have a very furry house so I would say the turbo c1 or the animal canister that has electro floorhead.

We have been wanting to invest in a good vacuum, and it was finally time for us. We looked at so many reviews of vacuums! Reddit was the most helpful with a thread from a lifelong vacuum repair and sales guy. His two cents was that a bag vacuum will always outperform and outlast a canister vacuum. We had gone through a Hoover, Shark, a cordless Dyson and the Dyson made for animals (we have two dogs)...cant believe how much money weve spent on Dyson - absolute garbage, basically disposable. This Miele is instantly and obviously SO MUCH BETTER. The suction is amazing; we were thinking about purchasing the much more expensive dog and cat version of the Miele, but I honestly think this model is perfect. Our house is pretty small and mostly hardwood - if you have lots of carpet and animals you might be better off with the more expensive model. We did make sure to get the model made in Germany, not in China. The materials, parts, and construction are clearly higher quality than what weve been using. Weve only had it a few weeks, so time will tell, but I presume this will be the last vacuum we buy for a decade or two, and that is how I love my appliances! I highly recommend this vacuum and the distributor/company selling through Amazon was excellent.

First off, Im a tough reviewer. In general, I dont 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, thats 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 dont 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: Ive had the cat for 2 months now. Vacuum picks up cat hair on my couch and carpet pretty well. I dont have to re-vacuum any areas as far as I can tell. When doing furniture, I have to clean the attachments fairly often, but thats to be expected. No change to this review. Functions: Hardwood - Fantastic This thing has great suction. It cleans super easily and the parquet floorhead is effective. Carpet - Good The 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 doesnt 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 good The 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 youre 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 its easy to change the bags. Its small and easy to store Quality - Great I havent had this vacuum long, but Im 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 products engineering and quality. Overall - 4 stars I have written mostly positive things, and the negative things are minor. However, I am only giving this 4 stars, because this aint cheap. $400 is a lot of money for a vacuum, and while it does the job, it doesnt 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 Im paying $400 for an appliance, I dont want slight usability issues or need to make multiple passes on carpet. However, Im 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.

I was always used Kenmore, but found they broke down a lot and the MFG does back up their product. First time with a Miele and this Vacuum is Awesome I am cant believe how the suction works and how quite and light it is. I would give it ********* just for the suction ! overall definitely a great investment.

The vacuum is powerful on rugs and wood floors. Because it is light it is easy to move around and it is comfortable in service. I like the filtration which keeps the dirt in the bag and not in the air. Great color and for the money I found it to be a really good purchase. Made in Germany so it has a cool design element as well.

This thing is very nice. But for the price, I expect more. I used this for a small residential cleaning business I run, so Ive put it through its paces for sure. I understand its not truly meant for that purpose, with certain design decisions making that quite obvious, but I had several people recommend Miele to me--thought Id try the company out with one of their lower-mid-range entries (didnt want to dive head first into a full grand for one quite yet, you understand) and see if it was going to knock my socks off. Overall, I am underwhelmed. Its like buying designer. Its well made, its durable, people like how it looks and feels, and the experience of using it is what Id describe as higher-end, but the functionality could be improved. Ill start with the positives, because there are actually more positives than negatives. Like I stated in the title, get this if you want a vacuum that will last you. Something that looks nice in your house, that gets the job done without much stress, etc. 1. The thing is quality for sure. I legitimately dont care about where a product is built at all, as long as its quality. Europe, China, Mexico, USA--I just dont. What I care about is that its built well, and runs well. Ive used it on over 100 residential properties (many of which large ones) with no sweat. In some cases, I abused this vacuum. Zero issues with it running, breaking, failing, or even seemingly to come remotely close. And given how sturdy it still feels and sounds, I bet it could last another 10 years even in my hands. 2. The retractable cord feature is amazing, and I dont know how Ive lived without it. On the other hand, my biggest concern with the vacuum overall is how long this retracting feature will last before it breaks and either trashes the vacuum, or causes me to have to order parts to repair it. Hasnt hiccupped once yet, though, and Ive been very tough on it. I will say, I wish the cord was about 6 foot longer--in operation, it just feels slightly too short every time I use it. 3. This is a strange one... but it looks really nice. Ive had clients ask me about it. It exudes this is a really nice vacuum energy, and I actually think that has helped my business in minor ways. Lol. That alone COULD justify the cost, considering my clientele, but not entirely. Im focused on a few other factors, which is why it gets some hard negative marks. 4. The sound gets high praise from me. When Im in a clients house with them present, it doesnt feel like Im disturbing them to any significant degree. From a business standpount, who truly cares, as they paid for service and know that vacuums are loud and will be involved in the process--but again, it contributes to the experience, which through a trickle effect, contributes to my pocket. That said, its still a vacuum. 5. I like the power dial. Half the settings I dont use, but I do like it. 6. For how low-power the motor is overall, it produces some good results. Not astounding, but solid overall. I dont frequently have to go over anything a second time, which allows me to spend less time on the job and produce a better outcome. Not saying there arent cases where Im like how did that not picked up? but those cases are fewer and further between. Some notes on that in one of my major negatives, because this positive only applies to MOST of the attachments--theres one glaring exception. 7. Most of the attachments are well-made and do their job. From my experience with vacuums, its not hard to get right most of the time, but I give it props. I do however have two MASSIVE problems with them, one of which is more of a problem with the vacuum itself, and thats where Ill start... (Here are my gripes. There are two big ones) 1. There was not much effort in providing an attachment attachment system onto the vacuum. Its not great. It exists, at best. Its inconvenient and inefficient at worst. It proves space for 4/6 of the attachments while in operation (three of which are attached to the vacuum, and one on the wand, so 5/6 if youre using the extension, which I defintely dont need all the time), and I cannot begin to express how annoying that is for me. Theres just always an extra attachment that is loose. The three that do stick onto the vacuum are incoveniently located right at the base of the hose. And if Im not using the rotating brush head or extension, they have nowhere to live. I either have to caddy them around, or leave it somewhere. This is overall my biggest gripe with the vacuum. Now, do most vacuums even feature a place to put them? Not too many--but for what the vacuum prices at, it absolutely should have a spot for every single attachment WHILE ROLLING AROUND, in operation. Its actually the biggest reason I ended up buying a different one after putting this one through a run of about 4-5ish months. Theres a secondary reason, though. 2. The turbo heads size is ALMOST unacceptably small. It frequently ejects even small debris. It should not do this. If it were dog food, or otherwise, Id understand. No. This will not only spit out debris the size of broken mechanical pencil lead, it will fling it with great velocity across the room. Small, tiny pieces of leaves. Tiny fly corpses. Im serious. And yes, this is with the brush head cleaned of hair and other debris. Either the vacuum doesnt have enough suction to pull these things in before they hit the spinning brush and get rail-gunned across the house, or the opening for debris in front of the brush is too small. I dont know. And frankly, I dont really care. These are things households run into frequently, and should be considered in the design. Some other minor negatives and implementation ideas--things I wouldnt drop the rating for, but that Ill include; 1. Bags are expensive, but I knew that through my research. Still. Theyre vacuum bags. Small ones at that. The bags are nice, but theres no reason for them to be as nice when theyre disposable. Not to mention, the air filters dont justify the cost either for what they actually are. Reloading them is an absolute breeze though, Ill give them that. 2. I have a love-hate relationship with the angled handle where the attachments clip on. I like it 75% of the time when in casual operation, rolling it back and forth across the floor. But its a pain in the ass when Im working around obstacles. I wish it could either straighten out or be removed while retaining the ability to actually use the attachments. 3. It looks like it should have the ability to be a backpack vacuum. I knew it wasnt when going into the purchase, but I think that would really be an excellent addition as an attachment to the rolling side. Ive genuinely thought about trying to lut an sttachment like that together. I dont recall if their higher end options feature this, but if they dont, its a missed opportunity. All in all, I would have really liked to give this vacuum a higher score. I still like the vacuum, and I use it in my own house, and Ill be glad to have it as a backup for my business, as its something I might use on really large households when I have others helping me. But in my day-to-day, it had to take a permanent side-line, and anything that gets that treatment from me cant get more than a 3 star. I have a Ridgid shop-vac that handles attachments better, has more power, has lasted years and years, and was legitimately like a fourth (maybe a fifth) the price. Would I use it in the same situations? No, but what the Miele gives me for spending that much more on it just ISNT enough. And for me, that just caused it to fall below my expectations. Thanks for reading. -a dedicated vacuum user.

Great suction. Light weight and easy to use. I really like this vacuum cleaner !!

This brand is great. The quality of the product is very good, solid motor which performs and does the job as expected. It’s working for over a year and no issues whatsoever. All adapters have been designed so the use of this vacuum machine is very flexible.

I love the weight, maneurverability and suction of this vacuum. However, everytime I clean house, I have to cut the pet hair out of the beater of the floor head to pull the hair out. I did not buy the cat/dog model because it was over $200 more and my Kenmore cannister did not have this problem 70% of our flooring is hardwood and the remainder area rugs. I contacted Miele and there solution was to buy a special attachment. I dont want to use a hand attachment to clean my area rugs.

The Miele Classic C1 Turbo is simply the best vacuum Ive ever owned... and I have used a LOT of different vacuums over the years. It is extremely powerful with great suction; it is easy to operate; it is compact in design; it uses bags (a good thing!) to avoid airborne dust expulsion; it is simple to use, with excellent attachments, and it is easy to clean and maintain. I LOVE this vacuum cleaner and sincerely thank Miele for designing and making it! 5 Stars in every category.