How Clean Is Clean Enough?

Posted in Clean up office | November 8th, 2009

How good, necessary and important is a filter when talking about vacuum cleaner filters. Every vacuum cleaner on the market today seems to push that they have some kind of special filtration or even use HEPA type filters and are the cleanest vacuums available. My question is how much of this filter mania is a marketing gimmick, versus what is actually needed by the consumer.

Understand that we’re not talking about folks that have allergies or suffer from asthma. It’s understood and completely reasonable that people living with respiratory difficulties would want in demand the absolute cleanest air filtration available. For the rest of us however, I simply wonder if there’s any benefit to paying for that type of absolute clean air filtering from a health perspective.

We know that any dirt not captured by the vacuum cleaner bag were filter will end up back in the house. This by itself justifies at least some interest in a good filtering system for any new vacuum cleaner under consideration. After all, why vacuum the house only to have the dirt redeposit itself back onto the furniture and carpets?

Also consider that a vacuum cleaner filter is critical to the efficient suction and dirt handling ability of the unit. A good filter will keep the dirt and grit from entering critical mechanical parts, which in turn will cause unnecessary abrasion and premature part failure.