Going through the biggest questions involved with purchasing a new vacuum.

High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) is a level of filtration we love to have in our furnace filters, air purifiers, and vacuums. A HEPA certified filter must filter out 99.97 of particles 0.3 microns or larger.  To put this into real-life terms, a human blood cell i...

The biggest, single best advice most vacuum professionals will give is to use a machine that uses vacuum bags as opposed to dump-out bagless machines.  When a machine utilizes vacuum bags it's usually the first sign of a quality vacuum.

But vacuum bags are expensive and...