Vacuum Cleaner Blowing Out Dust

Also check the seal that seats the bag and make sure it s well connected.

Vacuum cleaner blowing out dust.

To fix a clog in the vacuum whether it is a canister or bag use your finger to feel for a clog. If a vacuum cleaner draws air in it must also blow air back out. To fix a clog in the hose feed one end into a garbage bag and poke the other end with the back of a mop pole until you push the clog material out into the garbage bag. It sounds like your bissell has this and he flipped these around so that it s now pulling through the filter and blowing out the power head.

An overfull or old clogged bag will not capture dust as effectively. Australian researchers tested 21 vacuum cleaners from 11. Sometimes the belt on a vacuum cleaner eventually cracks or splits causing the vacuum to lose suction which can cause dirt to blow back out of the unit during use. Although the filters should deal with it a torn vacuum cleaner bag will also allow the dirt and dust to simply blow through the machine.

There are two ways this can happen. Certain vacuum cleaners spit fine dust and bacteria back into the air where they can spread infections and trigger allergies. Typically when sucking up the water you won t ever have an issue with blowing dust back into the room so we ll scratch that out as an issue right away. To investigate disconnect power and lower the cleaner head then turn the vacuum cleaner over and remove the belt cover on the cleaning head.

Make him vacuum for a week as punishment. Check to see that your bag is reasonably fresh empty. If an upright cleaner is spitting everything out it means that the brush roller is ejecting everything. But yours might not be filtering air correctly.