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Vacuum Cleaners for Mixed Flooring
Tips for purchasing mixed flooring vacuum cleaners
Do your research or contact us for help. You want a vacuum that can clean your home to a quality that meets your standards. What we want is for you to purchase a vacuum that best protects and showcases the investment you made in your homes flooring.
What exactly does mixed flooring mean?
Mixed flooring is for customers with a combination of hard flooring and carpeting. This can be hard wood surfaces with area rugs layered on top. This can also mean households that have hard flooring downstairs and carpeting upstairs. Now days very few houses only have one style of flooring throughout. We want to educate you to make the correct vacuum cleaner purchase to clean all your flooring surface needs.
Are there vacuums that clean both hard flooring and carpets?
Yes, there is. Which vacuum best suits your needs will depend on what your carpet to hard flooring ratio is. A customer with 75% hard flooring and 25% carpet will need a certain set-up leaning more towards tools designed for their flooring needs. A customer with mostly carpeting might need a completely altered set-up to provide the best cleaning solution for their specific carpet to hard flooring ratio.
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Miele Marin Complete C3 Vacuum Cleaner
- SEB 236 ElectroPlus Powerhead
- SBB-300-3 Parquet floor tool
- Durable lightweight hose and handle that’s ergonomically satisfying
Regular Price: $1,299.00
Special Price: $1,049.00
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Miele Kona Complete C3 Vacuum Cleaner
- SEB 228 Power brush (variable height adjustment)
- SBB 300-3 Parquet floor brush
- Durable lightweight electrical hose and improved handle design leading the class for ergonomic comfort.
Regular Price: $1,029.00
Special Price: $899.00
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Miele Cat and Dog Complete C3 Canister Vacuum
- SEB 228 ElectroPlus Powerhead
- SBB-300-3 Parquet floor tool
- STB 101 Mini turbo hand brush
Regular Price: $1,099.00
Special Price: $999.00
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Miele Brilliant Complete C3 Vacuum Cleaner
- SEB 236 Power brush (Best power head Miele offers)
- SBB 400-3 Parquet floor brush
- Durable lightweight electrical hose and improved handle design leading the class for ergonomic comfort.
Regular Price: $1,599.00
Special Price: $1,499.00
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Miele Soft Carpet C3 Complete Vacuum Cleaner
- Special soft carpet suction control
- Special soft carpet height setting
- HEPA filtration
Regular Price: $999.00
Special Price: $899.00
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Miele Maverick Dynamic U1 Upright Vacuum
- Patented Swivel Neck design for superior cornering and maneuverability
- 39ft. cord that creates a total cleaning radius of 54ft
Regular Price: $549.00
Special Price: $449.00
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Miele Compact C1 Turbo Team Canister Vacuum Cleaner
- 205 Turbo head
- SBB-Parquet floor brush
- 29.5 ft cleaning radius
Regular Price: $499.00
Special Price: $299.00
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Miele Compact C2 Electro+ Plus Canister Vacuum Cleaner
- Great For Mixed Flooring
- 228 Power head
- SBB-Parquet floor brush
- HEPA filter
Regular Price: $699.00
Special Price: $599.00
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Miele Classic C1 Cat & Dog Canister Vacuum Cleaner
- 5 Height power head
- SBB-Parquet floor brush
- STB20 Flex Turbo Tool
Regular Price: $749.00
Special Price: $649.00
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SEBO Airbelt D4 Premium Vacuum Cleaner
- Power head and Floor attachments
- S-Class filtration
- 52 ft cleaning radius
Regular Price: $1,399.00
Special Price: $1,299.00
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SEBO Felix 1 and 2 Premium Vacuum Cleaner
- ET-1 Power Head for carpeting
- Parquet Floor tool
- Lightweight and powerful
- Hospital grade filtration
Regular Price: $769.00
Special Price: $699.00
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Miele Calima Complete C3 Vacuum Cleaner
- STB 205-3 air turbo head
- SBB-300-3 Parquet floor tool
- Durable lightweight hose and handle that’s ergonomically satisfying
Regular Price: $749.00
Special Price: $649.00
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Miele Cat and Dog Dynamic U1 Upright Vacuum
- STB 101 Mini turbo hand brush
- Patented Swivel Neck design
- Electro Brush with independent motor
Regular Price: $699.00
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Miele Jazz Dynamic U1 Upright Vacuum Cleaner
- Patented Swivel Neck design for superior cornering and maneuverability
- HEPA Filtration
- 3 Cleaning Attachments Stored on the Back of the Machine
Regular Price: $599.00
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Sebo Automatic X4 and X5 Vacuum Cleaner
- Automatic suction controls
- Hospital grade filtration
- Long reach hose and wand
Regular Price: $919.00
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SEBO Airbelt K3 Pet Model Vacuum Cleaner
- Hand held turbo tool
- ET-1 Powerhead
- S-Class filtration
Regular Price: $929.00
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Featured Vacuums
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Miele Brilliant C3 Complete Canister Vacuum Cleaner Price $1,499.00 | The Miele UniQ is truly a luxury vacuum. The 236 powerhead is top of the line, available with automatic height adjustment and front headlight. The SBB-400 floor tool gently slides across hard flooring, removing everything in its path. A completely sealed HEPA system means you can breathe easy in your home knowing purified air is being released. Other luxury features include automatic suction controls, easy storage LED lights, and a velvet lined tool storage. Miele Brilliant is superior to all other vacuum cleaners on the market. |
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Miele Marin C3 Complete Canister Vacuum Cleaner Price $1,099.00 | The Miele Marin comes with the powerful 236 electric powerhead and 5 height adjustments, as well as the SBB300-3 floor brush. Both options clean respected flooring surfaces with ease and precision. Automatic suction controls allow the user to go from hard flooring, to furniture, and to carpeting while maintaining the proper amount of suction. A completely sealed air filtration system rounds out the features that make the Miele Marin such a dynamic cleaning machine. |
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SEBO Airbelt D4 Vacuum Cleaner Price $989.00 | This Premium SEBO canister is suitable for all styles of flooring. The ET-1 Power nozzle has 4 heights for any carpet and the parquet floor brush cleans up all other surfaces. All rubber castor wheels and a 52ft cleaning radius add to the versatility. Premium filtration and durable German construction make this unit a great vacuum in any home. |
What’s the best vacuum set–up for hardwood flooring with some scattered area rugs?
For this we recommend a canister vacuum with a floor tool and another attachment to properly clean your area rugs. You do not need to get an electric power brush canister because your amount of carpet surface does not warrant you spending that type of money. Instead purchase a vacuum that can really deep clean your hardwoods, with a tool or function to adequately clean your area rugs.
What vacuum is needed for my house that has 50/50 carpet to hardwood flooring?
Please take a look at canister vacuums with an electrical power head and a floor tool attachment. You will find a couple of different options when searching electric power heads. The one you need is dependent on what type of carpeting your home has. High, plush and thick carpets need the more expensive height adjusting models, where low pile and thinner carpets can be cleaned with lower price single height power heads. For your flooring tool needs, this is mostly going to rely on personal preference. Wheels, cleaning width and bristle type are all options to consider when floor tool shopping. After you have decided on the correct canister model to fit your needs you can then go from your mixed flooring styles with the simple change the flooring attachment.
What if I love upright vacuums but have mixed flooring in my home?
Yes, you can use an upright vacuum on mixed flooring. We do not recommend it because it cannot do as thorough of a job on the hard surface flooring type. If you are set on an upright vacuum model than make sure it has a brush roll on / off switch. This function allows users to vacuum their hard surface flooring using straight suction only. With a spinning brush roll on hard surfaces, dust and debris tend to get moved around by the wind generated by the fast spinning part. Also there is always the concern that the brush roll can damage some sensitive hard wood surfaces.
Floor combination heads: their pros and cons on mixed flooring
Many brands offer floor tools that have duel hard flooring and carpet functions. Often times these functions are controlled by a switch that activates the different cleaning style the tool possesses. Commonly on the hard flooring setting, bristles are pushed out of the bottom of the tool, providing ideal hard floor cleaning solutions. On the carpet and rug function the bristles contract inward sending a smooth velvet or felt edge outward. This allows the tool to easily slide across rugs and carpets. These tools are great for some users that have certain style carpeting or area rugs. User’s with larger surface areas or higher pile carpeting will want to avoid these tools and opt for a electric power head featuring a spinning brush roll.
Canister vacuums provide customers with cleaning versatility
In our expert opinion canister vacuums usually provide users with the ability to clean mixed surface flooring with a higher level than their upright vacuum counterparts. Made for hard flooring, canister vacuums can also be outfitted with electric power heads that make them equally as efficient on carpeting. Upright vacuums, while superior on carpeting can never achieve the level of precision a canister vacuum can on hard flooring. For this reason alone we recommend customers with mixed flooring take a serious look some canister vacuum options offered below.