Vacuum Cleaner Blowing Out Dust

An overfull or old clogged bag will not capture dust as effectively.

Vacuum cleaner blowing out dust.

To fix a clog in the vacuum whether it is a canister or bag use your finger to feel for a clog. To investigate disconnect power and lower the cleaner head then turn the vacuum cleaner over and remove the belt cover on the cleaning head. Certain vacuum cleaners spit fine dust and bacteria back into the air where they can spread infections and trigger allergies. Typically when sucking up the water you won t ever have an issue with blowing dust back into the room so we ll scratch that out as an issue right away.

Some vacuums have hoses that connect to the blower motor one for inlet one for outlet. It sounds like your bissell has this and he flipped these around so that it s now pulling through the filter and blowing out the power head. Make him vacuum for a week as punishment. If an upright cleaner is spitting everything out it means that the brush roller is ejecting everything.

If a vacuum cleaner draws air in it must also blow air back out. Pull as much of it out as you can and discard. Also check the seal that seats the bag and make sure it s well connected. Check to see that your bag is reasonably fresh empty.

There are two ways this can happen. Sometimes the belt on a vacuum cleaner eventually cracks or splits causing the vacuum to lose suction which can cause dirt to blow back out of the unit during use. But yours might not be filtering air correctly. Australian researchers tested 21 vacuum cleaners from 11.