If your vacuum cleaner doesn’t have a HEPA filter, you’d be smart to use sub-micron vacuum bags. Sears has them for almost all vacuum cleaner makes and models.

Efficient Vacuuming CANNOT Be Rushed

Move your vacuum cleaner no faster than one lineal foot per second. Vacuum each square foot at least twice. Then repeat the vacuuming at a 90-degree angle when possible.

Don’t Do It!!!

Never use a vacuum cleaner on the delicate fringe on oriental rugs. If you do, it will become stringy, frayed, and dingy.

You BETTER check it!

Often enough, people tell me they vacuum frequently. But when I examine their carpeting, I know something is wrong. In checking their vacuum cleaner, I often find that the vacuum bag is packed FULL. Make it a habit to check the vacuum bag each time you start to vacuum. And change it when it’s twothirds full. If the bag doesn’t seem to be filling up, chances are the vacuum channel is plugged up.

Listen to your vacuum motor

While you’re vacuuming, the sound pitch of the vacuum cleaner motor should remain fairly even. If the pitch drops too sharply when you pull the vacuum cleaner backwards, either 1) you’ve got the vacuum head set too low or 2) the belt that drives the vacuum cylinder has gotten too loose and should be replaced.