Top Fill Or Bottom Fill Bags?

[ryry_87]

My Hoover u7008 has been converted to take bottom fill bags rather than just the shake out cloth bag at some point, so I use Electrolux C12/Columbus Dixon/Sanitaire style bags. Do a great job and the filtration's better than bog standard hoover ones

 

[pnluxconvlvr]

Top fill HEPA

I converted a bottom fill to a top fill and instead of using the standard "A" bags I buy the Hoover Platinum "Q" bags and after a slight trim with a small knife on both sides of the seal membrane these work great and hold more. I have even fit and had these fill up properly with a little tucking on a bottom fill "C" style outer bag after changing it's tube/bellows to a top fill. Growing up with two Convertible Specails they always spilled dirt from the bottom fill bags back down onto the bottom plate and onto the floor when carrying up and down stairs and were a mess to change and clean the dirt and odor from the huge dirty prophylactic on the fill tube. Never understood the idea behind the design, but it is history.

 

[twocvbloke]

"I use Electrolux C12/Columbus Dixon/Sanitaire style bag

Are they the standard bags or Filteraire bags? The latter tend to be better at filtering, as they have a micro lining on the inside, though the genuine ST bags are much better, but they won't fit in a Hoover...

Also, for those who don't know yet, over here they're called the Type E74, rather than F&G, but I tend to call them the latter...

 

[ryry_87]

they were just bog standard pattern Columbus-Dixon ones, must admit the filtration isn't great but thats my fault for buying cheap bags lol still a hell of a lot better than the shake out bag on its own though

 

[twocvbloke]

You can get the proper type E74 Filteraire bags from Electrolux:

http://shop.electrolux.co.uk/node544.aspx?wscid=21&wssubcid=30&wspartno=9001952002

 

[ryry_87]

funnily enough, despite the ones i've got being a pattern part, they looks completely identical to the genuine ones

 

[twocvbloke]

I think all the F&G/E74 bags all look alike despite their origin, I think the only one that differs is one for another brand (can't recall which) that has a Polypropylene bag attached onto a paper tube, though from what I've been told about them, they're not particularly well-made so best avoided...

I was looking at my set of bags yesterday, and noticed the differences between the Genuine Eureka F&G and the Genuine Electrolux E74 bags, mostly just manufacturer names, addresses and whatnot, but the main difference is on Step 5, the F&G has a bit of a typo on the go ("Tuck into out bags"), but the E74 has it corrected ("Tuck into outer bag")...

 

[hoover1]

bottom fill but dont call me crazy