how is bagless an improvement over the old fashioned vacuum cleaners with bags? I hate having to deal with the filth that comes out of the bagless machines. What was wrong with the bags? Am I missing something here?
Bagless vacuum cleaners give individuals another option or choice if you will, in the type of equipment that is used in the cleaning of their homes, businesses, etc. One man's food is another man's poison. What works for you, will not necessarily work for me. Is there a right Good or bad? Not necessarily, I don't think. Personally, I prefer the bag. Worked in my moms and grandmas house in years gone by, and it works for me today. How about the circular robot vacuum? Have a great day!
I bought a bagless, and loved it so much I bought one for my upstairs so I didn't have to carry it up and down, and bought one for my Mom. Did I mention I threw out a $400 machine that was older, but still worked well, to get the upstairs one? Mom had a even more expensive machine, and when it broke, I replaced it with a $50 Walmart special and it picked up stuff the expensive one never had. The bagless ones have ssssssssssooooooooooo much more suction. They get fuzz out of carpet that you never even saw. And when you need to dump, it is no big deal, just replace the paper filter every year or so, maybe longer. I get not liking the dust and stuff when you dump, but I did the 'tv style test' and ran my older bagged machine and then the cheap bagless over the same area. You would not believe how much it picked up the bagged one had missed. And it wasn't even a bagged one that didn't work well, it worked as good as ever, the bagless was just better.
I've had both types and will never go back to bags! I have an older Bissell I use upstairs that takes bags and I'm saving money to get rid of the silly thing. My reasons: 1. Bag less have much more suction. Most of us empty them after every use because you can see the dirt/pet hair and such or at least right before we use them so you're always getting maximum performance and suction. 2. Cost and availability of the bags. 3. One would go broke if you changed bags every time you used the sweeper! And after about the first 5 minutes of a fresh bag, the filter paper is partially clogged and there goes your suction down the tubes. 4. Because we empty them more, stinky sweepers are much less likely. How I empty mine to minimize the dust issue is to place is all but in the bottom of a 13 gallon trash can I keep on the enclosed back porch just for that purpose. It was an extra I had hanging around. I keep a trash bag in it also. I pop the latch and the high sides on the trash can keep a large part of the debris right in there. And filtering technology has changed a lot and gotten a lot better over the old bag vacuums. Several manufacturers are doing the cyclonic thing now. Dyson, of course, but Bissell has their version for 1/2 the price. This action spins more of the dirt out of the air stream moving through the machine, deposits it in the collection cup and your suction stays much more powerful. Nope, ain't going back to that hassle or additional cost all the time.
I love mine! I will ABSOLUTELY NEVER own a bagged vacuum ever again! I do understand the dust issue, but I've found that dumping it out creates a minimal mess, which is contained in a small area around my garbage bin. That gets cleaned up when I sweep the kitchen floor. What was wrong with the bags? The one in the machine was always full, and I never had replacements. Buying them was a huge process, because they were never available in anywhere near convenient. I always had to go to the department store where I purchased the vacuum cleaner, or a specialty store to find them. And making sure I got the right ones was also a hassle...did I need type J, or was that the last vacuum cleaner we had? Maybe it's type I. For me, the small amount of dust created in emptying the can is well worth the opportunity to vacuum whenever I need (as opposed to whenever I could, depending on whether or not the bag was full). The good news is that bagged vacuum cleaners are still readily available. If the bagless doesn't work for you, then shop for a bagged option that does. :) Edit: Hmmm...I was just reading the link that AdamG provided. It, too, suggests that bagless machines create a horrible dusty mess if emptied inside. This makes me wonder if it's a brand-specific issue, 'cause I have definitely not had that problem. There's a small (less than 2-feet across) dust cloud that's created when I bang the filter against the inside of the garbage bin, but most of that settles inside the garbage bin (and again, the rest is easily cleaned up later). Do y'all find that you're getting more dust than that?
You still got the filth when you messed with the bags. And if you ran out of bags, you couldn't vacuum. Bags were/are not universal, so if you owned 2 different brands of vacuums, and sometimes if you owned 2 different models of the same brand, you had to have different bags for each one. The most cost effective way of buying them was in bulk, and you had to store them somewhere. Give me bagless any day!
