Get the Right Vacuum Cleaner Filter for Your Home and Hoover VAc

There are many types of vacuum cleaner filters out of the market today. The most popular vacuum filter is the hepa filtration system. A hepa vacuum cleaner filter can remove dust and particulate matter down to 3 µ or less in diameter. This is very important for people who suffer from allergies and asthma as dust is considered a major trigger for an allergic or asthmatic attack.

Many companies on the market provide a hepa vacuum cleaner filter system in many of their midrange and literally all of their premium vacuums. HEPA stands for "high efficiency particulate absorbing" filter. There's a specific definition of what made a hepa filtration system that's been recognized by the US government.

To meet the definition of hepa, a vacuum cleaner filter must catch 99.7% of all particulate matter that is 0.3 microns or less in diameter. Based on testing by the United States Department of Energy. As an example, a human hair is between 40 and 300 micron in tobacco smoke is between .01 to 1 micron. This suggests that almost all plant spores, pet dander, many bacteria, household and insecticide dust can all be captured with an effective HEPA type filter.

There is some evidence that indicates reduced symptoms for allergy and asthma sufferers if their home is cleaned with a vacuum cleaner that features a quality HEPA filter.

Sometimes a vacuum cleaner filter is labeled “HEPA type” or “HEPA technology”. These are mainly marketing terms that are used in place of providing actual hepa filtration on the vacuum unit. If you want real HEPA, watch the language on the vacuum’s packaging. The only downside to a hepa filter vacuum cleaner is that the filters do need cleaned, much more often been a regular filter types. This is due to the much finer mesh used to capture the very fine dust particles in a hepa filter.

When ordering parts from an authorized Hoover shop, remember they have the right part for almost every Hoover vac from the basic units all the way up to the hoover self propelled windtunnel parts and most hoover motor vacuum parts needed. This of course, would include genuine hoover vacuum bags

Many vacuums use microfilters that are as many as five layers thick. Some of the higher-priced and allergy centric vacuums. Even offer an electrostatic type filter to capture dirt and pollen particles. They did get the mission of a microfilter is that it will trap 99.5% of all particulate matter letter to microns or more in diameter. To give you some perspective, most dirt, dust mite bedbugs and saying and are huge in relation to these microfiber filtering systems.

The key to using any vacuum cleaner filter type however, if you need to recognize the need to replace or clean them as part of the ongoing vacuum maintenance. Cleaned filters provide maximum airflow which protects the motor in other electrical parts.

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