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I am looking for help on thoroughly cleaning my Hoover Conquest bags. I find no direction as to actually cleaning the bag. I find that I am at the point where I can not get all of the dust out and if I bump into something in a home, I get a small plume of dust coming out. Not the image I want. Any help? Thanks in advance.
Every once in awhile, take the dirt cup off and set the vacuum so that it is far downwind. Then, turn it on and let it run for about 3-4 minutes – it will blow all the dust out! Sometimes, I then use another vacuum w/attachment and ‘sweep’ the bag, floowed by wiping down w/damp cloth. This seems to work pretty good, but I too have been interested in the “bag system” switch, because this is a time-consuming problem!! BTW, I’m looking forward to meeting you – we’re your Hill Country neighbor!! Give me a call if I can ever help: (830) 792-2185 Kerrville
I know it it not standard procedure, but we wash the bag every day after cleaning. I just keep 3 or 4 in the van and change them out all of the time. It has worked great for us. A little time consuming though.
Jamie
About once a month I put the vac in my driveway and take my lawn and leaf blower to the bag.
Guys,
Thanks for the helpful hints. Seems like a good idea to order a few extra bags.
Jeff, looking forward to meeting you as well. I will keep your number handy for my “what the heck do I do now?” moments.
I thought that washing the bag would slowing make the bag not hold air. I could be completely wrong, but blowing or vacuuming the bag of with the port a vac or u mate seems to work well
Matt
i think you are right about washing the bags. the rubber coating inside the bag comes off and they loose their effectiveness. Seem to be able to get a wash or two and then replace. I will sometimes swap in an old bag just before I am going to vacuum a nasty carpet and save the new bag for the “sweet” jobs.We vacuum the bag, wash out the cup, and then before using spray the inside and outside of the bag with Lysol…disinfects by killing germs, controls the first puff of dust when starting and smells a lot better than some of the rankness we have all witnessed. The Lysol kills the bacteria, causing the odors…works for us.
Dave
I changed over to the paper disposable bag set up a year ago, and I’ll never go back. No dust and no more 10-15 minutes every night cleaning up the bag. I’ve found the paper bags at Walmart for about .32 each. I change them about once a day in less than a munute!
If/when anyone decides to purchase a new Hoover cloth bag, try taking your old one off first. Can be a pain under certain conditions and may want to consider purchasing whole assembly. Bag itself costs approx $33, which shouldn’t break the bank if you have to get a new one. Heck, that’s only the equivalent of 9-11 gallons of gas! Check into price of disposable bags and then do the math factoring in your time to clean the cloth bag. We fill up our dirt cup 1-3 times a day (so 1-3 paper bags a day if all things equal). We could pay for the equivalent of a new cloth bag every 2-6 months if we went with paper. Math/money doesn’t necessarily seem beneficial to me unless I’m figuring it wrong. We are sticking with the cloth bag and will replace them as needed. That said, do whatever works for you. We do very little maintenance on ours (blow out occasionally like Jeff does and use small edger vac on it) and have no dust problems (yet) with the bag we purchased over 6 months ago. Unfortunately that time period includes our slow season so take it with a grain of salt.
Matthew,
To use the disposable paper bags, you need to buy the whole set up from Adam at corporate.I pay my help $12/hour, it takes about 10 minutes minimum to clean the
cloth bag the way I required it to be cleaned. So, my costs just in labor for him is $2.00/night. That’s not counting my time for my van. I use no more than one bag per day per van and each van does about 4 jobs per day. Besides the savings I think I get, I have no more of that dusty mess in the shop. Cloth bag/disposable bag . . . both approaches work. Pick what’s best for you.
I never have liked the dirt cup, its just nasty, dirt fogs out of the thing any time you dump it or dont have it hooked right. I changed both of my vacs over to a cloth inner bag almost immediately after purchase. These work great, i empty it about mid week and take an air hose and blow the dirt out. When it gets smelly i throw it into the washer and dryer, viola! good as new. Plus the cloth inner bag is a one time buy and I dont see that it lets the outer bag get that dirty.
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