EnviroCare Replacement Micro Filtration Vacuum Cleaner Dust Bags for Riccar 8000, 8900 and Simplicty Type B Uprights (12 bags) Review

What can you say about vacuum cleaner bags? Well I can say that they work very well. So far I've only bought spare parts for the famous Riccar brand but it saved money so we thought we'd try them out with the idea that if we didn't like them we'd give a bad review and never buy again. This was not the case with these bags. They're fine and doing exactly the job we're asking them to do - take what's on my rug! I will buy more of these in the future!

They're not bad, but the collar that fits the vacuum cleaner is too loose. They are too easy to remove and there is some dust inside the bag which has not been the case with other bags I have used which were marked Panasonic Type U6 and were not made by Envirocare like these bags. I love the little peg they have on the pocket. After you put on the used one, you plug the hole and keep the dirt in the bag on the way to the garbage. I don't usually fill my vacuum bags as I change them once a week.

I have a Riccar 8000 series vacuum. I hate that it always has little plastic parts that break but it still sucks 20 years later. Since I've had this Riccar vacuum, the bags often (unknowingly) "fall off" inside the vacuum with normal use. What exactly happens is that the cardboard collar falls off the 2 inch tube that this bag is placed on. Why? because the pipe is actually 1.850 inches in diameter. The carton opening at the collar of Ricar factory bags is 1.820 inches. Although you can ACCEPT…