Miele canister vacuum owners, should I worry about this??

[skycaptain]

Hello, fellow Miele canister owners!

I have a technical question I am wondering if someone can advise me on. If I am being OCD please tell me as well!

I recently purchased a S8990 UniQ Vacuum cleaner. When it arrived I unboxed it, set it up and started vacuuming with it. I understood from the manual that it came preloaded with a vacuum bag and all available filters. After an hour or so of vacuuming and trying it out I decided to pop open the bag compartment to take a look at what kind of filter it came with.

Took a look and closed it back up. I noticed that the vacuum compartment door was a little hard to close but it closed with a slight bit of force. I vacuumed some more, but was curious about the bag and went to open it again. This time I noticed that the vacuum bag was not clicked in all the way into the blue holder. I realized that the door had been a bit hard to close because of this, and that the vacuum bag itself had most likely come from the factory with the bag not seated correctly but still inserted and lid closed when I unboxed the machine.

Being a new owner I had not thought of checking for the bag to be properly seated from the factory as I assumed it would be. My question then, is there a possibility the vacuum was damaged in some way for using it a bit with the bag not inserted fully into the holder? Can there be damage by having the door closed with the bag not pushed in all the way into the holder as well?

With the bag in this condition the vacuum bag compartment itself got quite a bit dirty with dust and particles as there wasn't a tight seal between the bag and door opening. Thankfully the pre-motor filter was properly in place and seems to have caught the dirt without stuff getting through the motor.

I am still concerned the vacuum may have been hurt by this, or is there nothing to worry about.

I have since learned to push the bag all the way in and the door closes very easily now. I also noticed the vacuum is much quieter, as before it made a very slight jet engine style startup sound when powering on, and now it doesn't, powering up very quietly.

I hope I have explained this clearly and hope someone can put my mind at ease.

Thanks all.

 

[kirbyloverdan]

Nothing to

Worry about clean it out and you will be fine plain and simple enjoy it .

Dan

 

[skycaptain]

Yes, being the OCD individual that I am, I immediately took it outside, and cleaned out the compartment with a dry rag, a brush and another small handheld vacuum that I had laying around.

I swear if the neighbors had seen me they would have thought me insane. Vacuuming a vacuum with another vacuum! I noticed only a bit of dirt made it past the engine pre filter and was caught by the HEPA exhaust filter on the other end.

I pretty much left the inside almost like new, replaced the filters, PROPERLY seated the vacuum bag, and closed the latch.

Oh gosh.. I wish I didn't worry so.. keep thinking about the door having been kinda forced shut before when the bag was not all the way in. Should be fine right? right? lol.

On a side note I am frickin impressed by the Miele vacuum bags for this thing. It looks like the only reason it had dust on the outside was due to the unfortunate incident of not having it seated correctly at first. I even dusted off the semi used bag, slapped it a few times and after the surface residual dust was patted away, no amount of hitting it would cause the dust that did make it inside come out through the bag! I am impressed. And the bag itself is only considered stage ONE of the filtering system of this machine. Wow.

 

[skycaptain]

Thought I'd post a picture of it as I notice a lot here enjoy a good pic!

Here she is looking all nice and new.

 

[skycaptain]

And here is the inside looking all clean after the "incident" lol

Notice arrow holes matching arrow holes on the bag and holder. Before it was half inserted :*(

 

[sebo_fan]

There's no need to be OCD given the high price of the Uniq8.

Don't forget you also have the motor filter at the back of the bag, so that should catch any viewable dust in the filter felt should your bag not be seated correctly.

Some movement does occur naturally when some brands models have been moved about in transit such as dust bags not locked in properly to some of the tools not having the proper angle in which they are usually locked into.

 

[kirbyloverdan]

It's fine

You did good looks very clean now relax and enjoy it .

Dan

 

[pr-21]

If you open

The bag compartment lid on a Miele, always reseat the bag as it sometimes pulls it up a bit and you won't know it until something like what happened to you happens.

Better be safe than sorry......


PR-21