I wanted something that cleaned better than a Dyson…

And, how I found my favorite Vacuum Cleaner.

I’ve have spent the last 10 days culling vacuum cleaner reviews on the Internet; and it has not been an easy task to separate the fluff from the hard-core vacuum cleaner reviews. Here, I’ll share the results of my days of research in hopes it may help you when you begin your quest for the ultimate vacuum cleaner. With four boys in the house, my dream of a clean house is always a work in progress. I work hard cleaning; I expect my tools to work just as hard as I do. My 10-year-old Miele Canister is ready to retire to the lake, it’s still working fine and I’m in the market for a new vacuum cleaner — this time, an upright.

I have hardwood floors, and my house is three stories tall, with a finished basement. I have steered clear of the Dyson and Miele uprights, precisely because they are too heavy to lug around the flights of stairs, and the Dyson isn’t low enough to slide under our five beds to suck out all the dust bunnies. I have friends that have Dysons and love them. But, my new vacuum had to have a lot of sucking power, but was also be light enough to lug up and down the stairs.

For guidance, I shut down the computer to “test drive” a few vacuum cleaners. I went to several of the traditional specialty vacuum cleaner stores, the kind that sells commercial vacuums, right along the high priced consumer ones. There, I found the Dysons all lined up in the window, and a bowl of white baking soda to use for demonstrations, sat right on the counter.

I watched the salesman pour the baking soda onto the floor, and then run the Dyson over the dust. I watched the dust swirl into the Dyson canister with gleeful satisfaction. The powder was gone… or so I thought. Next, he pulled out the SEBO Felix Premium Classic Upright Vacuum Cleaner w/ Electic Power Head, made by a German company called Sebo. He ran the Felix right over the same spot where the Dyson had just been, and white dust jumped right off the floor and into the Sebo. How could I sleep at night knowing I had left all this dirt on the floor? Plus, the Sebo Felix was the same price as the Dyson. “Wrap up one Sebo to go,” I said.

• The Sebo weighs only 12 pounds, making it easy to move up and down the stairs, and easy for the boys to use.
• The cord is 35 feet long, so I can plug in the vacuum on one floor, go all the way up the next floor without having to stop and pull the plug and put it in again to go to the next floor.
• For the blinds and the cobwebs, the Fleix has a telescopic handle, (the boys call it their light saber) and the power pack can be removed to clean the stairs, and the inside of the car.
• The neck turns and swivels, does a flat-to-the-floor profile – does the limbo under the beds!
• Hardwood floors are tough to get clean with an upright; the Sebo Felix is really a canister, with all the suction power hardwood floors need, that is attached to a convient upright handle.
• The filtration is hospital-grade.
• This is the vacuum of choice at The White House, and Buckingham Palace.

Just to be sure I wasn’t dreaming, I had to run home and look up the Sebo Reviews on Amazon.com, and happily found satisfied users.

This vacuum is beyond my wildest dreams…

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