We have vacuum!

[davidgillon]

Ha! I have succesfully fixed the issue with my hoover (actually a Dyson-style Vax).

I let it get over-full a while ago and since I took it apart and fixed that it hasn't been working very well. It would suck and then start making this pop-pop sound, and not really pick anything up.

I was having another look at it yesterday and realised the pop-pop was actually a hidden (it's underneath the handle) safety valve triggering, which sent me delving through it looking for a hidden blockage. Turned out the hose and the cylinder might be clean, but the floor-head was completely choked between brush and hose with a piece of cardboard (one of those tear-off strips from Amazon packaging), with a completely gross build-up of felt around it. Cue an hour poking things into its various apertures to try and howk it out. Yeuch!

Mission accomplished, I promptly ran it into a bag of rubbish and triggered the safety cut-out as it wrapped itself eight times around the brush *headdesk*

That had reset by this morning (there is a reset button, but I've never gotten that to work, easier just to unplug it and leave it), so I finally managed to hoover the house, which desperately needed it, particularly as there were little black bits of disintegrated faux leather from my office chair that had gotten literally everywhere.

Comments

Congrats.

[jesse_the_k]

The way faux leather disintegrates is a perfect analogue of the end of our civilization.

(How do you wield that working vac? I've never found one that's sturdy enough to support me, and can't maneuver it from my pchair.)

Re: Congrats.

[davidgillon]

I'm good for about five minutes unsupported, so I can do it in bursts (plus my house is relatively small), and I have done it from my chair at times - brakes on, do about a 120 arc in front of me, brakes off, wheel to next position. Bit laborious, but doable.

The stairs, OTOH, are a real pain and don't get done nearly as often.

[hamletta]

Well done! I'll remember to call you when mine packs up! ;)