Ct36 AC and job site question

[TheTrooper]

After 9 years of  constant use my Rigid vacuum has passed away and ive been using my CT36. I do hardwood floors and tile. Normal day is scrape the floor with a 4" razor blade, cut door jambs and baseboards, sand the joints of subfloors or grind high spots in concrete. If the floor is flat and doesn't need leveling I will vacuum the floor 3 times to get all of the dirt, drywall dust and so on out of the pours of the floor plus anything that could be under the baseboards. The Rigid had a Clean Stream filter in it and they last about a year or two. Once it would get clogged, I would tap it on the dumpster at the site and i was good to go.
So here is my question.  Should I be using the white bags or the plastic and just use the auto clean function and just tap the filter off when I  dump the machine? The other thing I'm considering is purchasing a mini or midi to save space in my truck.

 

[Brice Burrell]

It's my understanding that the plastic bags are used for sanding drywall compound, the dust from grinding thinset or other fine dust that would quickly clog the normal (white) filter bags.  If you aren't grinding a lot of thinset on a somewhat regular basis then you don't need the plastic bags.  In a perfect world you use the white bags most and when the need arises break out a plastic one for grinding.

As a general note for the masses.  I think a fair number of people somehow think the CT36AC is better than the regular CT vacs when in fact they are a specialty tool that few really need.  If you don't sand drywall compound (with the planex) or grind cementitious materials on a regular basis you don't need the CT36AC.  If you only occasionally sand drywall or grind you can easily get away with a regular CT vac. 

 

[TheTrooper]

Then that explains why the suction was low and the bag was only about a ⅓ full. The filter was clean.  Probably 70% of my debris is drywall dust, concrete dust and 30% is a mix of wood from cutting jambs and various other chunks of stuff hiding underneath the baseboards