Waiting Months for Bags/Filters

[mark40511]

Back in Late Oct, I ordered a 6 pack of HEPA bags and 1 HEPA filter and 1 pack of belts....they are STILL in backorder! I wonder why so long? I've never seen anything on backorder this long....and it's all of the items, not just one.


https://evacuumstore.com/p-32286-cirrus-c14035-6-pack-of-style-b-hepa-paper-bags.aspx

 

[huskyvacs]

Perhaps it went NLA ? Sears did that to me with a Z700 airpath access door in 2018. Said it was available and they had it, went to order it, a week later it was listed as discontinued. They never refunded me. 3 years later, still nothing.

 

[lesinutah]

Covid

The masks are killing vacuum bags and filter markets. If we didn't have covid pandemic bags would be plentiful.

 

[superocd]

My theories...

People have been using HEPA vacuum bags to make masks. Since bagged machines of any variety are in the minority, this phenomenon may have caught suppliers/manufacturers by surprise because suddenly everyone needs vacuum bags when for several years now, the demand for bags have decreased as everything except for high-end are pretty much bagless. Did those long-lost bagged machines suddenly rise from the dead? Probably not.

You wouldn't believe it but a couple months ago our scheduler for the HVAC-R company I work for received a call asking if we had a large amount of HEPA filters (well, we do have HEPA, but they're typically reserved for higher-end, specialized and usually commercial installs designed to handle HEPA media as the air handlers of those systems HAVE to be optimized for HEPA, so they really meant MERVs which are very commonly mistakened as HEPA) as they wanted to create masks out of them. I'm not a medical professional, nor am I a tailor, but I don't think an HVAC filter would be the best option for a face mask.

 

[dysonman1]

Those are the same bags as the Vacuum America Clean style 56 bags (made by Nationwide Sales and Service, V.A.C. 56). That's the same machine as the new Perfect Light Weight.

 

[mark40511]

OK WEIRD!
All this time and I get the package today in the mail.
I had emailed a while back asking them if they could check on it for me. They offered to cancel or just let me wait until they were available. I told them just to wait. They said they would update me. I never got anything from them as far as any update. Just suddenly showed up today.
I think I'm good for a while. The original HEPA lasted more than 2 years and it took me 2 years through a six pack of bags.
It's a bit freaky that I just randomly made a post about this and the next day they show up (LOL)

 

[mikanic]

Same here

I have a Purepower PU71 and ordered h74 Purepower bags from ransom Spares, and several weeks later they have never come. Perhaps I should go onto Amazon and order 4 your home bags. Or if THEY don't come maybe superocd was right. People are using bags for wrong reasons!

 

[human]

Supply and Demand...

It is also possible that materials and manufacturing capacity have been diverted to making personal protective equipment instead of vacuum cleaner bags. Businesses go where demand and profits lead them. If more people are clamoring for masks, then that is what they will make more of, even to the point of exclusivity. The old-school, multi-layer paper bags will likely have to suffice for a while. They're made from different materials and thus are less likely to compete with masks, assuming they're not made on the same production lines. At least the paper bags are generally cheaper than HEPA.

 

[suckolux]

I ordered some of the VAC, vacuum America clean style c for my Electrolux from Amazon about 4 days ago and they are here!

 

[thevacomaticiec]

Same here waiting since jan 5 for filter whit mchardy vacuum....

 

[mark40511]

Actually

I had 2 bags left in a previous pack. I thought I had used them all. So now I have the bag that is currently in the vacuum, and 8 more unused HEPA bags. I also got a HEPA filter (which I haven't changed yet) I'm hesitant to put the new one in when the current one (even though it's over 2 years old) has air still pouring through it. It's covered in carbon dust but I think I'm going to leave it in a while longer. The bag chamber is always clean so I don't think anything is even going into the HEAP filter except carbon dust.

One thing I will say, I changed the belt to day. What a massive difference! In all the years of owning vacuums, I've never had a vacuum get to the point where I could actually TELL the belt needed to be changed. This belt was terribly stretched or something. It was over a year old..

I'm thinking I'm good for a couple of years or more with this vacuum so hopefully by then it won't be this whole "THING" trying to get supplies by then.