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Bagless Vacuum Cleaners

Better Than Conventional Vacuums?

The newest market differentiation is bagless vacuum cleaners versus conventional vacuums.
Conventional vacuum cleaners are ones in which all the material pulled up from the floor is stored in a bag that is then removed and disposed of.

Its drawback is that you have to remember that the bag is full and buy a new one to replace it.

While the bags aren’t particularly expensive, sometimes they stop making the size you need, which effectively means it’s time to get a new vacuum.

Bagless vacuum cleaners are an outgrowth of the small personal hand vacuums first made in the ‘80s.

They use carefully ducted air to deposit all the dust and grime in a catch-container that gets emptied after each use.

With no disposable bags to buy, these are more convenient and have a lower total cost of ownership.

Plus, if you vacuum up the car keys, it is easier to fish them out of the grime.

One drawback with bagless vacuums is that they have separate filters for dust and allergens, which can be fragile and require regular cleaning and if one of them is destroyed, a replacement can sometimes be pricey, though an internet market for the parts has grown up to meet this need.

This compares to conventional vacuum cleaners in which the filtration system is part of the disposable bag.

When looking for a bagless vacuum cleaner, look at features you’re going to want, such as a headlight, integrated cleaning kit and built in dusting wands and cleaning nozzles.

As the industry is moving towards bagless vacuum cleaners for their convenience features (and the lower overhead of making replacement bags), most of the higher end vacuums are of the bagless variety.

Bagless Vacuum Cleaners Popular Models

Models that we’ve looked at and can recommend are the Eureka Bagless 4885 Whirlwind Smartvac vacuum cleaner, which is affordably priced and has a powerful 12-amp motor for suction.

It also has several attachments for extending your reach, such as a cleaning wand and it’s geared towards ease of maintenance with tubes that are geared towards not getting clogged. The dirt cup is easy to remove and empty.

For people who live in an apartment, Hoover’s U5269-900 EmPower Bagless Upright Vacuum has the quietest 12-amp motor of any of the models tested by Consumer Reports, with innovative sound baffling.

In side-by-side tests, it’s noticeably quieter – though it’s far from being silent.

Like other vacuums in its price range, the Hoover model has the usual array of cleaning wands and attachments. One particularly nice innovation is the rack that holds all the attachments close at hand.

One of the more innovative vacuum cleaners in this product range is the Hoover Z bagless vacuum cleaner series. It has the ability to fold up in a “Z” configuration, allowing you to maneuver it as if it were a canister vacuum for tight quarters, while maintaining the benefits of the suction power that an upright vacuum cleaner has.

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It also has supposedly self-cleaning HEPA filters. Since our floor model wasn’t in use long enough to test this, all we can report is that the filters didn’t grunge up as rapidly as on the other models.

The Z-series is solidly made. We had concerns that the joints would compromise air flow or stick as it got reconfigured, but were pleasantly surprised when this did not happen.

The other major drawback on the Z series is that it’s roughly $500 for about the same level of cleaning performance as the other two models listed above.

In conclusion, bagless vacuum cleaners appear to have transformed the floor care appliance segment. None of the models we looked into had the anemic 9-amp or 6-amp motors used a decade ago. Every one of them had a professional grade 12-amp motor. You can’t go too far wrong with this category of product.




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