Kenmore - 31140 Pet Friendly Lightweight Bagged Upright Beltless Vacuum

The Hoover Complete Performance is one of the few uprights with hepa bags under $200. It's very good at cleaning carpets because it has a stiff brushroll and carpet height adjustment. Reasons not to buy this Hoover are it has no brushroll shutoff, so it isn't the best for hard floors and the brushroll stays on even when you are using the hose. Long hair will get wrapped on the Hoover's brushroll as well and it requires 6 screws to get to the brushroll. It's loud. Other options are the Bissell Big Green Commerical PowerForce Bagged/Sanitaire Professional SL4110A, the Kenmore 31140/Elite upright, Prolux 7000 upright. If you keep the Miele for hard floors and tools use you could get a carpet only upright vacuum like the Karcher Ranger $212. The Ranger is lightweight like an Oreck but has no hose or tools. The Karcher Ranger is made by Sebo and has the same easy to remove brushroll that doesn't need any tools to remove. Thoughts?

Since you have mostly carpets it doesn't make sense to keep the Miele C1 Turbo which is for mostly hard floors and minimal rugs. If you want to be able to clean both carpets and hard floors the vacuum needs a powerhead for carpets and brushroll shutoff or a hard floor brush for hard floors. Low price option is the Kenmore 31140/Elite Upright $250. Strong suction, carpet height adjustment, and brushroll shutoff. Downsides are that it's heavy and you need a screwdriver to get to the brushroll to remove hair. Mid price option: Sebo Dart/Sebo Felix $549/$699. These are very durable upright vacuums with carpet height adjustment and brushroll shutoff. The Felix adds swivel steering on the carpet powerhead and a dedicated hard floor brush that also swivels. Downsides are a short hose and they're kinda top heavy. High price options: Sebo K3 $849 and Sebo E3 $1049. These are very durable canister vacuums with carpet powerheads and dedicated hard floor brushes. Canister vacuums have long flexible hoses that you don't have to stretch out like on an upright. Downsides are the higher price and some people don't like how they move. The Sebos are very durable, easy to repair, and their brushroll pops out without any tools for faster cleaning.

Agreeing with u/vacuum_everyday. The parquet brush won't work very well on carpets, the powerhead will work better. Just clean off the hair regularly so it doesn't grow into a monster. The Miele C3 Marin is a very good vacuum for carpets and hard floors, but the Sebo is more durable and the removable brushroll is a huge difference. Miele's brushrolls are not user removable, you can cut the hair off but they don't make it easy for the user to remove the whole brushroll. The Kenmore Elite Upright actually has very good suction and carpet cleaning, but it's heavy and Kenmore's canisters have some bag leak flaws. Choosing a Miele or Sebo you get a quieter vacuum that will last longer. In Sebo's case a vacuum that is very easy to maintain and repair. The upright and commercial vacuums I recommended are good for carpets if you were to keep your Miele canister. If you want just one vacuum for hard floors and carpets I would choose a Sebo because of their high durability and they can clean all flooring types. Agree with u/vacuum_everyday rent a good carpet cleaner like the Bissell Big Green or hire a professional carpet cleaning company. Of if you have the space buy a Bissell Big Green Commerical Carpet Cleaner. Carpets do fade over time so it won't make them shiny but shampooing them will remove dirt and soil that accumulates over time.

I think you got it spot on. The Crossover DU3017 is a slightly better built vacuum and the Intuition BU4050 is better for allergies because it has a hepa bag and a hepa filter. The Crossover DU3017 has a fabric filter and a hepa filter and you'll need to empty the bin after each use. Slightly over budget you can get a few uprights that are both better built, have stronger suction, and equally good filtration. Kenmore 31140 Pet Friendly $249 is a powerful upright vacuum. It has carpet height adjustment, brushroll shutoff, hepa bags, and a hepa filter. Downside is it's heavy to lift up and it has a short hose. It's not too heavy to use. Prolux 7000 Upright Vacuum $264 is another powerful upright vacuum. It has a metal brushroll and metal brushroll and metal baseplate. It is average weight and lighter than the Kenmore 31140. It has hepa bags and a hepa filter. Downside is the brushroll is always on so it's not good for hard floors. I think you should choose one of the hepa bagged vacuums. What do you think?

You may find the Kenmore Floor Care Elite upright to be more attractive depending on your other industrial design sensibilities. If you want something that has more of the design language of Shark or Dyson, Kenmore also has the 600 Series Pop N Go. Personally I prefer Miele and Sebo’s ID. I’ve never seen a Dyson or Shark that doesn’t look absolutely filthy in practice after a few short uses. I say that as a longtime Dyson V10 owner.

A bagged vacuum > bagless. For @$159.99 you can get a Kenmore upright bagged vacuum on Amazon. For @$270 you can get a Kenmore canister. Both will last you much longer than a Shark.

I have an older Miele (2001 iirc) and a new Kenmore, they honestly trade blows. The Miele is much quieter, the attachments, hose, bags, and filters seem nicer, and I'm betting it does actually filter better too (or did when it was newer). But the Kenmore has the badass mini electric brush head, the handle controls for on/off as well as suction is pretty dang nifty, the bags are much larger (but for some asinine reason don't fit well inside the vaccuum), the bags and filters are all *significantly* cheaper to buy, it feels like it has similar suction, and it costs a fraction as much as a new Miele. Essentially, the Kenmore feels like a *good* knockoff Miele, and for the price they ask I think that's pretty dang good for most people.

The Kenmore upright will likely be the best choice in that price range. Bagged is well worth the cost of the bags, keeps the entire vacuum clean inside, very few filters to mess with like a bagless. All of our old Shark units still work reasonably well, but the filters require a fair amount of time to keep clean and the bin fills up extremely fast compared to a bag. Good luck...

We got $175 on a Kenmore upright as a trade-in towards an E3 at an authorized dealer. If yours is in good shape, maybe you can try that route?

I wouldn't put anywhere near that much money into a stick, then you can get your Sebo that much sooner. Just an FYI, also, we had a Kenmore upright that was in great shape when we bought our Sebo, and we were able to get a $175 discount on a trade-in at an authorized dealer.

The simplicity or kenmore uprights are pretty good and seem to hold up. Section remains strong even as the bag fills up. Both have attachments that are pretty good

I don’t think so. I’ve had Dyson and Shark and the vacuum I have now is my ride or die: HEPA filter disposable bagged Kenmore.

The cordless ones are for a quick pick up and they will never last if you use them like regular a vacuum. You can honestly find some corded vacuums for almost the same price as a cordless if you shop around . I got a kenmore online for less than 100 dollars and there are vacuum cleaner repair places that often sell cheap vacuums.

It depends on what you mean by “repairing”. Repairing usually refers to replacing a worn belt, the brush roller gets hair tangled around it on the sides where you can’t cut it and needs to be taken out and cleaned, and the vacuum can get clogged and needs to be cleared out. If you want to do any of that, don’t get a shark, because you can’t open them up to do any of those basic things that you could do on most vacuums 10 years ago. Look at a simplicity, or kenmore for plug in. Or Henry quick for cordless 👍🏼