how often should i replace the bag?

[suckolux]

Yes, dust leakage, bad! I put a miele pre motor filter in the bottom of the bag cage, just to see, they are very white. One bag, 4 ply genuine Electrolux bags, it was dark brown, packed! Tried a few other brands , same thing. The Perfect hepa bags, 4 bags so far used and nothing on that filter .

 

[n0oxy]

perfect bags

The perfect bags do seem to be better than the ones provided by Aerus, the Perfect Power Team vacuum is great as well, just like the older Electrolux vacuums, but more powerful.

 

[suckolux]

It filters well I think, also maintains suction much longer.

 

[mark40511]

suckolux

The total opposite has been true for me. Since I bought the 100 c bags a long time ago, that's one thing I noticed that amazed me because I thought the c bags felt so cheap - but I was so surprised that there was no dust in the bin that holds the bag at all. Multiple times I've gotten a white damp cloth after changing the bags and gone through the grooves and flat areas in the chamber and saw no dirt on the rag at all. I was expecting the opposite since these bags felt cheap...Now, the Kenmore I had had more power than the Lux and the bags felt of higher quality (thicker) but my kenmore leaked dust into the bin like crazy.

Lately, I keep my lux in the laundry room and I use it to suck out the bin of my shark and clean the shark filters...and with all that dirt going in at one time, I was sure there would be some dust in the bin of the lux, but so far, there hasn't been any..I wonder if I just got lucky with this lot of bags or something?

 

[suckolux]

I am glad you found that to be the case, I did not notice much in mine prior to installing a pre motor filter either.

 

[ralph123]

It's somewhat surprising that Aerus has been so slow to adopt cloth HEPA bags. Their stubborn clinging to paper bags is bewildering given that their competition (e.g. Riccar/Simplicity/Miele/Sebo and even Kenmore) offer superior bags. Just looking at the Consumer Reports ratings, the top rated machines use cloth like HEPA bags to improve air flow and filtration. Given the ultra premium pricing of Aerus products, they probably should be less obstinate about clinging to outdated technology.

 

[countryguy]

There are cloth bags available for the Lux Guardian....not sure about the other models.

 

[kirbylux77]

Jeff, I totally agree with you on this! Aerus does need to start offering a HEPA Cloth Type C bag. Just thinking offhand, I can't think of ANY residential PN canister on the market presently that has been introduced in the past couple of years that HEPA Cloth bags aren't standard or optional equipment. Aerus can't use the cost of manufacturing the bags or pricing them as an issue....there are companies in China already manufacturing the bags they can source the bags from, & there's one website offering a 100 pack of bags for only $90 dollars, that's less than $1 dollar per bag. Speaking of pricing on Aerus vacuum bags, though, one issue I have with Aerus is for whatever their reason they aren't offering a 100 pack of the HEPA Cloth bags for the Guardian Platinum. They did it for the Guardian & Guardian Ultra, so I would love to hear their rationale for NOT offering a 100 pack for the Platinum. To my mind, that's one very valid excuse not to buy one.

David - You say you were seeing brown dust on the Miele pre motor filter? Let me ask you this....did you check the blue sealing strip that holds the back of the bag together, & was it still intact when you changed the bag? If the blue sealing strip was coming undone, that could explain the dust leakage you saw on the filter. I tried the Arm & Hammer Electrolux Type C bags, & the Filtrete version, made by Electrolux Home Care Products, & they totally solved this problem, since the bag is folded over & glued in the back instead of using the blue sealing strip.

Rob

http://evacuumstore.com/p-20153-ele...nti-allergy-style-c-vacuum-bags-100-pack.aspx

 

[suckolux]

I tried a few brands, was using the big box of genuine Electrolux 4 ply the chamber looked ok for all those years, but I smelled dust. I have a Very strong nose? Changed to the Perfect, that was gone. The pre motor filter I cut to fit the bottom of that chamber, both times with other bags had to be thrown out it was so packed, no bags had separated at all, with the Perfect bags, months later is is perfectly clean, no smell.

 

[suckolux]

It did seem the genuine Lux bags were better than, Envirocare,Arm and hammer and Grocery store, said Hoover on the bags. The last two were really dust leakers for me.

 

[n0oxy]

paper and cloth bags

My Panasonic mc-cg902 actually came with a paper bag in it, going to get some Kenmore style q bags that are cloth based to replace that, I'm also surprised that Aerus has not switched to cloth bags. I have the Perfect vacuum, and it came with several of the hepa bags, I'm thinking of putting one of those in my aerus classic. With the Aerus paper bags, another odd thing happens, when the suction is reduced on my classic, it makes a loud whistling sound, almost like someone blowing one of those kid toy flutes or something.

 

[suckolux]

The perfect bags seem to have a thicker collar, makes it a bit tough to close the lid on mine

 

[floor-a-matic]

I change the bag when it starts to smell bad like dust or other odor or when suction power is diminished

 

[kenkart]

I keep the

Automatic control on my old Luxes set to eject as soon as possible,that way they are not choked .

 

[suckolux]

Ditto

 

[vacuumlad1650]

Ive yet to use my germgrabber bags, but my older, brown genuine electrolux bags hold suction for a lot longer than my generics