WHAT WOULD life be like with out bagless vacuum's

[sensotronic]

I had the Powerplus Dustcup but sadly never did a video of it. Within a few days of getting it I wished I'd gone for the bagged version as it lost its suction rapidly and was really messy to empty. I was constantly having to use another cleaner to vac out the inside of the bag.

 

[sebo_fan]

Ty Roger. I was always intrigued by the shake out element of that design. Sounds like it was quite a dusty process. I know the U.S have ones that are similar in their commercial line up.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Sebo_fan, I'm not that dialed in on all the vacuums out there, but I haven't seen an upright that filled from the bottom. What a mess that would be to remove the bag! I can't even imagine. How do you keep the dirt from spilling out?

My preference is for older Kenmore canisters. The only uprights I have had are a brand new Windsor Sensor S12 and an old pos Hoover U5133 something or the other, I call it a "U-Boat". Both of these fill the bag from the top. Do most uprights fill from the top or bottom?

 

[vintagerepairer]

The dirt stayed in because the tube from the cleaner was higher up than the dirt full level. To empty, the cleaner pretty much had to be turned upside down.

 

[DesertTortoise]

So with an upright that fills the bag from the bottom, you have to invert the whole machine before removing the bag? Wow!

 

[sebo_fan]

Well the tube from the Hoover Junior and Senior that holds the bag on would bend down, so you just had to carefully remove the bag to ensure no dust falls out. The Powerplus is the Senior-Ranger-updated model and Id imagine the fill tube was located at the top.

Im not sure when Hoover UK started to have top fill uprights, I know the Junior U1012 (another favourite of mine) had a top fill dust tube and that dates from 1976. Hoover's last updated Junior U1104 also had a top fill tube that sat with the Powerplus, range wise - those were the "last of the classic uprights" as Hoover called them before the Turbopower series took over in 1987, but even the Junior U1104 sold alongside that range.

I am not sure if there are any modern uprights that are bottom fill now. Only one that I can think of that is bottom fill would be my Miele S162 Alternative stick vac and as far as I'm aware that still sells in other EU countries and the U.S

 

[super-sweeper]

the science of bottom-filling!

Don't forget, as the bag fills, dirt weighs down the bag around the fill-tube, too!