Thinking about getting an upright vacuum to use on the carpets.  Right now I have a canister vacuum (cheapest Miele) and it is a real pain to use (I hate pulling around the canister... it keeps getting stuck.  Also the vacuum has a very small head and it is really meant for hardwood floor/rugs).  I was thinking of getting the Miele Jazz but I then reading up on vacuums, Sebo vacuums seem to be better.  Anyone used a Sebo vacuum before?  Where would I buy one?  

Needs to have:  HEPA filter, uses bags (not bagless) and it would be nice if it were easy to find the bags locally, upright, lots of suction. 

We have a sebo.  It's a good vacuum. 

http://simplicityvac.com/freedom-standard

We have a Simplicity freedom vac...

Very light weight, practically drives itself and has a very long cord but the bags are rather expensive and hard to find locally.

21 minutes ago, grawk said:

We have a sebo.  It's a good vacuum. 

Do you get it locally or online?

we got it a decade ago, near philly.

Actually maybe I should get a Roomba. Any experience with these type of robot vacuums?

I'd get a cleaning service

Roomba is an expensive toy. And then it breaks. Then the battery dies. Rinse and repeat.

Very bad waste of $450.

My dogs also don't like it.

chihuahua's bark at just about anything I guess

I <3 bagless, not sure why you would want bags, so I thought I'd ask -- why not bagless?

Bags are better for allergies and easier than cleaning out the bagless vacuums (at least the Miele bags are very easy to change). 

2 hours ago, grawk said:

I'd get a cleaning service

I have a person that comes every once in a while but can't have her come every week (she used to come every week when we had a house).  I need to call her up again - it's been a few weeks. 

Can't argue with easier, I usually need to vacuum after I change out a bagless.  But I'm alright with that -- I like to see when I need to clean it, and slightly more green (slightly).

Didn't realize that about allergies though, maybe I need to reconsider going back to bagged.

We have a Miele Dynamic something upright and canister vacuum. We have been happy with both.

20 hours ago, grawk said:

I'd get a cleaning service

Having a regular housekeeper come once a week is a life-changing moment.

Ours is a SEBO upright.  Just keeps going - maybe ten years or more - and never missed a beat.  Two filters, one of which I rinse out with soapy water maybe twice a year, and the other I take outdoors and beat the dust out.  And the bag of course - everything that goes in stays in.

2 hours ago, TMoney said:

Having a regular housekeeper come once a week is a life-changing moment.

Yeah, all of a sudden, your Scotch starts dwindling, and you need to go home for lunch more often.

2 hours ago, TMoney said:

Having a regular housekeeper come once a week is a life-changing moment.

We have this, but having kids requires much more than the once a week cleaning... I think we vacuum about 6 times a day most days cleaning up after them.

My 2yr old will even go get the vacuum after dropping something and say "oh no! a mess! clean!"

44 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Yeah, all of a sudden, your Scotch starts dwindling, and you need to go home for lunch more often.

3 hours ago, Grand Enigma said:

We have this, but having kids requires much more than the once a week cleaning... I think we vacuum about 6 times a day most days cleaning up after them.

My 2yr old will even go get the vacuum after dropping something and say "oh no! a mess! clean!"

Ah yes, I remember it well 

4 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Yeah, all of a sudden, your Scotch starts dwindling, and you need to go home for lunch more often.

Like the grotesque Mrs Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit.  An alcoholic and abusive nurse/midwife/undertaker who kept gin in her teapot, and was permanently sozzled.

"Mrs Gamp stored all her household matters in a little cupboard by the fire-place; beginning below the surface (as in nature) with the coals, and mounting gradually upwards to the spirits, which, from motives of delicacy, she kept in a teapot"