Over the last year my hoover has gradually been losing its suction, and I was rather annoyed to discover a few weeks ago that it had almost completely stopped sucking. That would explain why I had to go over and over my carpet time and time again before it would look anywhere near clean. I am one of these people that never like to throw things away so I just struggled on with it. But now it has stopped sucking completely I guess I was left with little choice but to throw it away and buy a new one (it was about 5 years old anyway).
So with a tear in my eye I took my old hoover down to the dump and set out to buy a new one.. After spending an hour or so hunting around the shops I came across the Miele Cat-Dog TT5000. I guess half of the reason I fell in love with it is the design. It has a very modern design and I just liked the look of it. The other half of me couldn't help chuckling at the odd name. Cat-Dog. God knows why they called it that but it is quite funny nevertheless.
It was a lot of money onsidering you can pick uphoovers relatively cheaply these days but I wanted something that was going to last and that would suck better than my old hoover. So I paid the £179 price tag and took it home. It is about the same size as my old hoover but has a much nicer design. I was particularly drawn to the weird red colour that Miele have used on the casing. Not that red is a particular favourite colour of mine but my old hoover was a nasty shade of pea green. So red immediately looked much nicer.
And so for the test…. The Miele Cat-DogTT5000 has a very generous length of cord so depending on where the sockets are in your house it should reach anywhere. I only have a small room to hoover so it is really easy to do and I don't need hardly any of the flex. Doing the stairs is a little different though but there is plenty of flex to plug it in at the top of the stairs and then hoover all the way down to the bottom.
The Miele TT5000 has a 2200 watt motor and this gives fantastic suction. Much better than my old hoover anyway but I only had to go over the carpet once before it was clean. I could literally feel the difference in the suction and I am very pleased with the way it picks up all the bits of fluff that come off my socks. These bits of fluff seem to adhere to my carpet and are really hard to get off but this hoover manages them with ease. Obviously I have only had it a few weeks but so far there has been no loss of suction. The dust bag holds 4.5 litres of rubbish so it will take a while before it will need emptying. (Obviously this depends on how much hovering you do though).
Cleaning the edges of a room, and going around things like drawers, wardrobes and beds is a doddle with the cat-dog. It cleans edges very well even with just the standard head, although if you do have any particularly difficult to reach areas you can remove the head and hoover just with the pipe or add the little nozzle thing onto it for hovering the corners of rooms etc. Putting the hoover away is great fun because the cord automatically rewinds itself. I could sit there all day just pulling all the cord out and then pressing the rewind button and watching it all go back inside the machine. I don't know why but I think its quite fascinating (sad aren't I).
Overall I would give the cat-dog 10 out of 10. So far I have not come across any problems and neither have I had any issues with regards to the performance of it. Definitely recommended, little on the expensive side though.
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PACK INCLUDES 8 FILTERSOriginal Code GNSUPERIOR QUALITY Latest Style MICRO FIBRE DUST BAGS With A SOLID RETAINING COLLAR To Ensure All Dust Stays IN The BagPack Of 20 Bags COMPLETE With 8 FILTERS - HIGH FILTRATIONAdvanced Technology - SUITABLE FOR ALLERGY SUFFERERSGREATER HYGIENE FOR YOUR HOME - LONGER LASTING PERFORMANCE FROM YOUR MIELEFITS MODELS: S241 Including All Models Up To S256i - S290&S291S300i Including All Models Up To S399 - S500 Including Models Up To S578S700 Including All Models Up To S758 - S4000 Including All Models Up To S4999S5211 - CAT&DOG - TT1800, TT2000 - S1400, S2000 - SB800S380, S4212P, S4212T, S4512, S4782, S5211ALL ORDERS PLACED BEFORE 4PM ARE DISPATCHED THE SAME DAYIN PURPOSE MADE PACKAGING TO ENSURE PRODUCT ARRIVES UNDAMAGEDManufacturers names and numbers are used for reference purposes only - these parts are in no way associated with the initial manufacturers parts
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