Clarke Vacuums have been a staple in the commercial vacuum cleaning industry for decades.  Proper maintenance of Clarke vacuums is the best way to keep it in commission for years to come.  One of the easiest and most important maintenance tasks you can preform on your Clarke Vacuum is changing the bag. offers a wide selection of Clarke vacuum bags for your Clarke Hip Vac, Backpack Vacuum, Canister, Upright, and sweeper.  Each Clarke vacuum is as unique as the bags that go in or on them. Clarke offers a wide variety of vacuum bags from reusable cloth bags to micro-lined paper bags.  Every genuine bag that Clarke produces contains the model vacuums it will fit. Cloth bags made by Clarke have been engineered to be usedeither by themselves or in combination with paper-lined bags, depending upon your model.  If your Clarke model vacuum only requires the use of a cloth bag, you can still expect the same great filtration as you would with one of the filtration bags. Clarke filter bags can be emptied into a trash receptacle and placed back onto the vacuum. 

Other Clark cloth vacuum bags conceal one of Clarke’s paper vacuum bags. Micro-lined paper bags have the ability to trap and retain dirt, dust, pollen, pet dander, dust mites, mold spores, bacteria, and other allergens down to 0.1 micron.  Keeping allergens out of your home and in the bag is the top priority.  Some of these micro-lined bags come with a sealing top that will keep these allergens in the bag when transporting it to the wastebasket. Another great feature of Clarke Vacuum bags are made with papermaking them the most environmentally friendly choices.Whether you're looking for a floor scrubber, floor buffer or replacement floor pads we can help! We have a huge selection of parts available, if you need a parts manual, no problem we have virtually every parts manual for Clarke, American Sanders and Nilfisk-Advance machines made in the last couple of decades and if we don't have it we can probably still find you parts. Give us a call at 918-254-5161 for all your janitorial equipment needs

With all of the confusion surrounding the new requirements for remodeling work in houses built before 1978, one of the biggest sources of confusion we hear about is the HEPA vac requirement. As I wrote in the April E-Newsletter/blog: "Proper lead clean up will require contractors to equip their company with a HEPA vac that meets the EPA's definition as follows. "br600 backpack blowerHEPA vacuum means a vacuum cleaner which has been designed with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter as the last filtration stage. vip skybags laptop backpackA HEPA filter is a filter that is capable of capturing particles of 0.3 microns with 99.97% efficiency. maddie ziegler backpackThe vacuum cleaner must be designed so that all the air drawn into the machine is expelled through the HEPA filter with none of the air leaking past it." nexstar 8se backpack

The last sentence has caused a lot of confusion to date. Contractors ready to make the mandated purchase are wondering which models qualify and manufacturers have been hesitant to claim that their tools meet this "no blow-by" clause to the letter of the law because no testing protocol is in place to definitively prove this performance. Zero percent of a vac's airflow escaping around seals is a tough claim to make, and in all probability, virtually impossible to guarantee on the job." sony a65 backpack"A spokesperson for the EPA told us that the "no blow-by" clause was intended to keep contractors from outfitting any old shop vacuum with an aftermarket HEPA filter and considering it a qualified HEPA vacuum."jansport backpack tj maxx Since then, several manufacturers have examined the requirements and now feel comfortable enough to make the claim that certain vacs in their product line will indeed meet the EPA's requirements as currently written. estadio backpack review

I have researched and compiled a list of these vacs for the benefit of our readers. To reiterate, the EPA does not certify vacs, or any type of products, and there currently is no test procedure specifically for RRP rule-compliant vacs. And of course, Tools of the Trade and our parent company are not qualified to designate appropriate vacs. The only entity represented here that is making the claim that these vacs comply with the RRP rule requirements are the individual vac manufacturers themselves. We cautiously recommend that you find a company's guarantee of qualification--in writing--for a vac before you buy it. The rationale here is that if the EPA requires a vac that meets a certain standard of performance but there is no easy way for an individual to determine an individual vac's suitability, a written guarantee of compliance from the manufacturer should be enough to satisfy an inspector who has doubts about your vac. This is, at the very least, a reasonable attempt by a contractor to fulfill the requirements as they currently stand.

So with no further ado, here's the list.(An asterisk indicates the manufacturer's product choice for contractor use.) Dustless Technologies: HEPA model #16006 Fein: Turbo II HEPA model #92025 Hilti: VC20-U HEPA and VC40-U HEPA Metabo: ASR2050 with HEPA set Mastercraft: Backpack Vacuum, *Enviromaster CT-5, Enviromaster 7, HEPA Poly wet/dry vac, HEPA steel dry vac Minuteman: BPV HEPA backpack vac, Lead vac, Microvac, X250 wet/dry, X829 Series Nikro: LV02, LV10, LV15, LVW15 wet/dry Pullman-Holt: 390ASB, 45HEPA Dry Nilfisk brands: (some vacs may be the same, but sold as a different model under different brands) Advance: *AWD HEPA, Canistar HEPA Clarke: Summit 9 HEPA Kent/ Euroclean: GD930H, *UZ934H, UZ964H Nilfisk: *Eliminator 1, Eliminator 2, GD10 Backpack, *GD930 (Lead RRP), GM80, GM80i, UZ 934, 118 Nilfisk Alto: *Attix 30 HEPA, Attix 50 HEPA This list is by no means exhaustive; we contacted several other companies who never got back to us with verified model numbers.

And according to the EPA spokesman we contacted, any certified HEPA vac sold as a dedicated HEPA vac should qualify. If the EPA decides to add another clause to disqualify vacs that are sold in two versions--both with standard filters and with HEPA filters--manufacturers will have to act fast to assign a unique model number to the HEPA version so the HEPA filter would not be considered a retrofit. And companies that sell the vac with a standard filter and require you buy an upgraded HEPA filter to get HEPA performance would also have to sell a unique version that only comes with the HEPA filter. If the EPA decides to disqualify vacs that can work with both standard and HEPA filters (so an inspector could be sure the vac was using a HEPA filter on the job without opening it), that would throw out a lot of vacs on the list. In that case, a manufacturer would have to make their HEPA model not able to fit a standard filter by modifying the filter or mount in some deliberate way. Both of these scenarios are possibilities, and we know of no assurance that previously-qualifying vacs would be grandfathered in to meet further refinements of the requirements.