Cut-and-Paste Budget Bagless Vacuum Design

[cheesewonton]

I get my bags at the op shop or when I buy a vacuum. I am so cheap I will use the bag that was in the vacuum when I got it ( unless it is the wrong type of split open) until it is stuffed full.

I fill a bag in two weeks or less with our abundant pet hair and desert dust. It's raining tonight and the dogs have tracked in all kinds of dirt already. I will be busy tomorrow though it promises to rain more.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I take 1-2 months to fill a bag, dependant on model. My family has 2 dogs and live rurally, though our house is just not big enough to fill bags.

 

[panasonicvac]

Yeah if I had pets running around the house, I'd have a bagless as my daily driver preferably a true cyclonic Vacuflo where there's no filters to mess with and not have to smell anything as I'm vacuuming. Unless if I can have a bagged central vac connected with a cyclonic seperator because I can have the best of both worlds where I can save money on buying bags from all the pet hair I'd suck up but also have great protection for the motor. Otherwise I can get away with washing out the primary filter on the Sanitaire for a while before ever buying a replacement. But I'm a type of person where I'd rather have a vacuum where I can simply unwind the cord, flip the switch on and off, wrap the cord back up and be done. That's one of the reasons why I favor a bagged upright but it just gets challenging with having pets around since I don't want to spend alot on bags.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I would take that bagged and seperator setup.

 

[niclonnic]

Yeah if I had pets running around the house, I'd have a bagless as my daily driver preferably a true cyclonic Vacuflo where there's no filters to mess with and not have to smell anything as I'm vacuuming. Unless if I can have a bagged central vac connected with a cyclonic seperator because I can have the best of both worlds where I can save money on buying bags from all the pet hair I'd suck up but also have great protection for the motor. Otherwise I can get away with washing out the primary filter on the Sanitaire for a while before ever buying a replacement. But I'm a type of person where I'd rather have a vacuum where I can simply unwind the cord, flip the switch on and off, wrap the cord back up and be done. That's one of the reasons why I favor a bagged upright but it just gets challenging with having pets around since I don't want to spend alot on bags.

My pets (3 small dogs and 1 cat) are the main reason I've been such a strong supporter of bagless. Having a Shark robot that runs downstairs is incredibly convenient, since it saves me the labor of using a regular vacuum all the time. This Shark automatically evacuates the dirt into a larger bin on the base; it only needs to be emptied every month or so. I have another, less expensive Shark robot upstairs, but I've stopped letting it run earlier this year. This one has an annoying issue where it skips on the laundry room floor.

As I've stated before, I'd much rather have a vacuum that is always ready to go without any additional costs. There's a reason I prefer Dyson over the aforementioned budget machines: no loss of suction and a filter that hardly gets soiled. In fact, I don't even need to wash the pre-motor filter every 6 months, despite what the company suggests. I've found that it's absolutely fine to go longer in between washes. I no longer follow a strict washing schedule like I did with our DC07 Animal when I was younger.

 

[centralsweeper63]

You can get a robot vacuum that auto empties into a central vacuum. You could also get a hid-a-hose. That is if a central vac install is possibly.