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Hi All, I have 2 vaccum cleaners, that do not work. Meaning everytime I try to vaccum on the back sweep it just drops what was picked up. One has a paper bag, the other two are the new built in bags, you just empty.
I went and bought another one. It does the same thing. Is there something wrong with my electricity?
Before these I had the best vaccum ever. The one's with the paper bag by Hoover.
TIA,
Linda
Something must be blocking the uptake into the container.On the forward stroke, the particles are being collected by the brushes but not moving on into the bag or debris cup. Then on the back stroke the brushes release the load. Call the manufacturers about the problems and/or take the units to a local vacuum repair shop.
Do you have access to a compressor? You might try blowing out the hose,
blowing all over the vac. It sounds like you might have something large stuck
somewhere.
If I were there I would take it apart and check it out for you.
:-) Karen...who has an obsession with vacs working properly.
I have a Kirby. It cost a fortune 13 years ago, but it does everything! It even has a paint sprayer attachment. (Not that I have used it) It has a shampoo attachment that is great!
It has sucked up more legos, pennies, even a sock or two over the years. It is a great machine! Well worth the investment. I figure when my youngest goes off to college ( he starts first grade in three weeks) I may be able to part with it and buy a new one(grin)
Dayna
i have a kenmore and i hate it. hate it hate it hate it. it's for carpets. dh bought it for me 3 years ago. we don't have any carpets in our house, unless you count the bathroom mat. it's big and bulky and i hate it.it doesn't fit in my broom closet. so it sit's in the corner of my kitchen, irritating me. i put it in the basement once, but dh brought it back up. he didn't want it to get dirty.
i want one of those wood floor sweepers, that also mop. so now i have to somehow break the evil kenmore so i can get the one i want. it will be hard though since it's only been used a few times.
I just moved into a house that has all tile floors, and since I have a dog the tile still needs to be vacuumed to get up the hair before I can wet mop it. After about a week, I got tired of lugging the vacuum up and down the stairs and figured since I didn't have carpet I could get away with something that had less power, so I bought a Swiffer Sweep & Vac, they're pretty cheap and very light weight and run off a rechargeable battery, it's so much easier now using that to go around the house and pick up the hair. Only part I don't like is it comes with this cloth filter that you have to clean off all the time and it's a pain picking the dog hair off of it (don't use it to clean anything really gross!). But it's still a huge improvement over using the regular vacuum.
I was in the cleaning business for years and can offer you some suggestions:
The belt may well be shot. After many thousands of rotations, the belt that turns the beater bar stretches and the beater bar will not turn. If you push the vacume forward, it seems to pick up the debris, but if you pull it backward the stuff comes back on the carpet. A belt costs about $2.00. You can either have it repaired at a vacume servicing center, or do it yourself by removing the bottom cover and the motor housing cover. You can then pop out the beater bar, place the new belt around the motor shaft and beater bar. Just screw the whole thing back together and you're ready to roll.
Yep I would bet it is the belt also. My Mom never had any vac that was not a Kirby. She got hers in the 60's and that was the heavest dang thing I ever pushed around. Never broke down unless the belt slipped. I always had trouble with replacing that belt thing. Just turn that thing in front and there she is! It just boggled my little brain. She got a new Kirby in the 70,s just because a neighbor boy was working his way through school by selling them. Dang heavy thing is still going like a bat out of H..ll. Dont think you can go wrong with a Kirby.
One of the best vacs available is Sanitaire. It is THE standard for people in the cleaning business. Easy to use, easy to service (belts). It has a cloth bag that takes forever to fill. Gets stuff in corners and has a level adjustment for floors or carpet. You can purchase them with 25 foot cords or 50 foot cords.
I had three of these vacs that we used for cleaning restaurants. We used them 364 days a year. All kinds of things went into them: water, butter, paper clips, wet food, coins, packs of sugar (our employees really put them to the test).
We bashed them around toting them from place to place. They were dropped on pavements, in water, fell out of the car onto the highway, were crushed under heavy equipment.
Sanitatire, commercial upright...ask for it at your local vacuum dealer. You'll have it for life.
Your intake area and your hose is probably clogged. Check to see and remove the nasties that are sure to be there. You can pull stuff out with a piece of wire with a hook on one end. and wa la you are in business again..
I bought a new vacuum called SEBO a couple months ago. It's self propelled like the lawn mower. I'm really pleased with it. It's light weight, easy connections for different attachments and the filter bag comes with a cap to keep the dust in.
