I have a dyson d7 and use it on hardwood floors and very happy with it. It gets the corners real well. This will probably start a debate over which vacuums are best though. The best thing about this vacuum is no filters or bags need be purchased.

I'm just looking for a vacuum replacement in general. I have tile and carpet and would like one that does both AND has clearance for under furniture. No stairs at the moment. Any suggestions? Thanks!

I love my sebo felix I have had the hoover wind tunnel and hated it I also did not like the dyson which I sold . The sebo is the best vacume I have had and I use it on hardwood and carpet and stairs.

I really liked the Hoover Windtunnel but they kept dying on me. I went through 2 of them in a very short period of time and got a dyson. The dyson does have sort of a learning curve. It really is unlike any vacuum you've ever used but they've thought of everything. I haven't heard of that sebo before but I probably would have bypassed it due to the bags and filters that are required to purchase on a regular basis. I have dogs that shed and track in a lot of dirt into the house so I would go through a lot of bags and filters.

Dyson does have a filter that needs to be changed. While buying bags for my vac recently, I saw a dyson owner complaining to the repair guy that the Hepa filter wasnt really a lifetime filter. I wasnt there long enough to see how much it cost.

After having hardwood floors for 3 years, I have come to the conclusion that you must have a canister vac for hardwood. I love my upright for carpet but most uprights do not work well on hard floors. Usually they just blow the stuff around.

I recently bought a cheap ($40) Kenmore canister vac at K-Mart. It was working well but then started making a bad vibrating noise. I took it back and they didn't have anymore so.... I think I am going to try the Eureka Mighty Mite next.

Oooh! I've been trying to find a good hard floor vacuum for years and I've finally found one!

I use the healthy home by bisell and you can turn off the rolling brush for hard floors so it doesn't scratch or kick around bigger pieces of dirt or small objects! It has nice big rubber wheels on it that won't scratch (especially pergo/laminate) floors.

I had a home in Cali with dark walnut colored pergo flooring and my old vacuum ganged up with a little rock one day and made a long scratch right by the doorway. Not even furniture pens or polish was absorbed to hide it. Really sad when that happened. So I was determined never to vacuum a hardwood floor again after that. Until now.

I love this vacuum and it has all the attachments with a hand held rotating brush handle (great for pet hair on furniture and the car-golden retrievers grow 10 new hairs for every 1 they shed). I'm also obsessed with having a clean vacuum so I can literally take apart the canister and wash it! After every use, I go out to the garage and vacuum my vacuum with the shopvac!

It's a bit on the pricey side and it comes with some chemicals for dust mites and germs but I would never use or recommend using chemicals in the home or out. I do however, clean my carpets about every other month with an organic cleaner that kills germs and has a light scent. Carpet cleaners are full of very harmful chemicals and I have two asthmatics at home and a lovely dog(remember the hairy beast I mentioned?) So this works great. I love having a clean house. It's one of my favorite pastimes!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

JoAnn

"The Dyson HEPA filter is washable. I've had a Dyson since they came on the US market in early 2003 and haven't worn out the HEPA filter yet."

Which model do you have? The ones I looked at in 2005 had 2 filters, one foam filter that is washable and a Paper elemented Hepa filter that is not washable. And if you still have the original filter in your machine, its definitely not performing as it should

This is funny - we are having two conversations on the same subject on different threads.

I have the basic yellow model, the DC-07, which is all Dyson offered back then. The paper filter is washable.

Here is a link to the Dyson website which provides the on-line users guide. Click on the users guide and go to page 15. It demonstrates how to wash the paper filer.

Here is a link that might be useful: DC07 Users Guide

Well, I just left the Consumer Reports website and plan to hit Sears today for the Kenmore that they recommend. I went to the yahoo site to check the price and found it onsale (for just about $250 through Saturday, and skim-read about 35 reviews. Sounds like a winner.
I rarely want to vac my hardwood anyway, usually dustmop, sweep up the dirt, then use a Bona cleaner for spills. But once in a while it would be nice to use a vacuum that would just go over the wood as well as my large area rugs.

I'll let you know how I like it!

Red

Here is a link that might be useful: Kenmore 35922

I have an older version of the sears progressive vacuum and love it. I don't use it that often for bare floors because I have a Miele , their cheapest cannister, that I use for my bare floors. But I choose to use the attachments from this one for upholstery rather than from the Miele because they do a much better job than the miele. You absolutely lose no suction when you use the attachments. I love the little beater bar attachment that I use for my stairs.
When I first got this vacuum, we had been in this house about 9 years and when I vacuumed my upstairs the first time, I filled two bags and got a lot of the fuuzz that you often get with new carpet. It was kind of gross to see how much dirt had been left in the carpets.

Uprights STINK on hardwood floors - I don't care how much they cost.

I recently bought a Durabrand canister vac from Walmart for $25.00. This thing rocks! It is quite small and can pulled or carried. It has brush type attachment that really works great -- does not just push the small stuff around.

BTW, I have also had stick vac, rechargeable sweepers and good ole brooms -- this vac does a great job.