I spent about an hour cleaning my vacuum cleaner yesterday. It's not that I'm overly obsessive about cleaning - in fact, it's not something I even intended to do.
I noticed the suction was, well, less than sucky. I figured I'd empty the cup and see if there was any junk clogged anywhere. Sure enough, I found a huge clog - in the SELF-CLEANING HEPA filter. Self-cleaning! How's that for irony? Getting all the dust, etc. out of the filter meant shaking, tapping, spinning and brushing the dickens out of it. It would have been easier to replace it. (Did I mention it's supposed to be a LIFETIME filter?) In the process, dust, etc. flew everywhere. It was in the carpet, in the air, falling on light fixtures, furniture, and anything within a 10 foot radius.
Now my vacuum cleaner is all sucky again, but who's to tell how long that will last? Especially since I need to clean up all the dust that fell out of the vacuum to begin with (which means not only do I have to vacuum, I have to dust! again!). Bagless vacs were supposed to be a vast improvement. No more messy bags! No dust flying everywhere! Well, my bag vac was far cleaner. You removed the bag, installed a new one - done. Once in a while you replaced a belt. No major cleaning sessions necessary.
Just another instance where "new and improved" isn't necessarily so! *Harumph!*
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