Blizzard CX1 Pure Suction Bagless Canister Vacuum Cleaner, Graphite Grey

Great bagless vacuum, another great miele product. Recommend buying when on sale discounted. Price very high but quality good.

I did a lot of research by watching several independent comparison reviews so that I knew which vacuum worked for our house. We have wood floors over 90% of our house (5,000sq ft), so I needed a reliable vacuum that was made for hard surface floors and low pile rugs. This is perfect!! Excellent warranty, lightweight, two vacuum heads included along with tool attachments for crevices and one for draperies too! I love that it suctions 360* around the head so you have suction all the way around. I’m very pleased!!

Très bonne succion.

What a total disappointment in just about everything concerning this Blizzard, bagless Miele canister vacuum. From the way I picked it up after delivery to the Mail Room of my condominium and saw the hole torn in the Miele box, I knew right then and there that I could expect more disappointments once the box was opened and my new bagless canister vacuum presented itself to me! You can judge a proud and concerned merchant always by the way they pack their wares and send it to a customer; this vacuum came to me in its original Miele box, without the sender finding it necessary to go the extra mile and put the vacuum, box and all, into another nice, sturdy carton, just in case UPS felt compelled to use the package as practice for a basketball tournament. These packages are rough-handled and thrown around and easily can damage what is inside. So I received the Miele box with a gaping hole on the side. Once opened I put the vacuum together for its initial use and noticed immediately how short the hose was compared to my older Miele S8. Somehow everything looked less sturdy and very "plasticky" but once plugged in I found the suction excellent, which in retrospect is just about the only positive aspect of this vacuum cleaner. Initially I was thrilled to have a dusting brush on the handle for easy access, but my joy soon disappated when I found out that this brush stubbornly refused to either move down or back up and hurt my hands badly in the process of trying to get it to comply. After vacuuming a bit of my hall and my home office where my all-while cat loves to sleep, I noticed hair bobbing around in the dustbin and after unplugging decided to empty the dust container. It was then that I discovered the truly flimsy production which gives this vacuum its credentials as the BAGLESS Blizzard CX1! Truly horrifying and for me a very solid reason to put the dustbin back inside the vacuum and pack up this whole sorry excuse for a vacuum cleaner back into its carton and off to the place where it came from. Bottom line: this vacuum is highly overrated and nothing like the old, sturdy and long-lasting Miele vacuums I know from the past. And as far as German Engineering is concerned, please do take that idea with a generous amount of misconception as this vacuum cleaner clearly showed to me that this is a product not at all worthy of that lofty notion. And I say that because I am a native of a country neighboring Germany and grew up well aware of the high regard my family always has had for German products. If you like a lot of flimsy plastic components, holding together crucial parts and dust brushes which are attached to the handle of your vacuum and refuse to budge, rendering the wand impossible to attach once the brush is in its "down" position, then this "Bagless Wonder" will be absolutely perfect for you! I will keep searching for something much better.

So far I am very happy with the bagless option!