Best and worst aftermarket brand of bags?

[mariotron]

Just a little fun question here.
I genuinely use HEPA OEMs when it comes to my Kirby aftermarket when it comes to other brands especially Bissell and my Ridgid shop vacs i gotten after market. Some pretty good some made really thin and prone to tears and poor filtering.

One good one I found for Bissell was the Clean fairy style 7 HEPA bags which are MILES better than the OEM and Fabreeze ones. Not just filtering but last overall longer because of the cloth vs the paper.

Any other brands you guys used that were just as good if not better than OEM? And what brands do you NOT recommend?

 

[vaccumkid]

Just a little fun question here.
I genuinely use HEPA OEMs when it comes to my Kirby aftermarket when it comes to other brands especially Bissell and my Ridgid shop vacs i gotten after market. Some pretty good some made really thin and prone to tears and poor filtering.

One good one I found for Bissell was the Clean fairy style 7 HEPA bags which are MILES better than the OEM and Fabreeze ones. Not just filtering but last overall longer because of the cloth vs the paper.

Any other brands you guys used that were just as good if not better than OEM? And what brands do you NOT recommend?

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[vaccumkid]

The clean fairy are very good bags for those Bissels

 

[cheesewonton]

DVC makes very good synthetic HEPA dust bags. Casa Vacuums does too with one exception, their Style P bag for the Aerus Guardian Platinum has too thin a mounting card and caves in when you shut the lid. But otherwise their synthetic bags are five layer and very good. Menalux and Swirl are two brands you don't see in the US but they also sell synthetic HEPA dust bags for a lot of older vacuums that were never sold with a synthetic bag. If you have a Swedish made Eureka like the S6982/83/84 Home Cleaning System or Europa, all Eureka sold were miserable leaky paper bags. Menalux has synthetic bags that fit since the Swedish Eurekas all have a European counterpart. I buy their bags through fhp.fi in Finland, though I have not tried to buy anything since Jupiter ( the orange colored gas giant ) instituted tariffs.

 

[mariotron]

I forgot to mention these! Kobolenz HEPA F&G bags are AMAZING. I had to clean an old carpet in a large house for my grandma (I got her a Sentria that fixed up now) that haven't been properly vacuumed in a good while and that had drywall dust in it BAD due to some carless renovators but It worked great in my rescued Eureka 5134B. Absolutely no dust leaked and the neck/trunk being the fabric material bag changes were super easy. I love F&G bags for their size and lack of a fill tube poking out the front of the outer bag but the tearing on some other brands sucked.

Only down side is they ARE pricey.

Sorry if the machine looks dirty that's when I first rescued it.

 

[cheesewonton]

I forgot to mention these! Kobolenz HEPA F&G bags are AMAZING. I had to clean an old carpet in a large house for my grandma (I got her a Sentria that fixed up now) that haven't been properly vacuumed in a good while and that had drywall dust in it BAD due to some carless renovators but It worked great in my rescued Eureka 5134B. Absolutely no dust leaked and the neck/trunk being the fabric material bag changes were super easy. I love F&G bags for their size and lack of a fill tube poking out the front of the outer bag but the tearing on some other brands sucked.

Only down side is they ARE pricey.

Sorry if the machine looks dirty that's when I first rescued it.

Kenmore has fantastic synthetic HEPA dust bags. The thread was about aftermarket bags so I didn't mention them but yes Kenmore bags are the best.