With this simple maintenance tip
Ever noticed your vacuum cleaner isn’t pulling up as much dirt as normal? Now I know many folks will think this tip is blooming obvious, but I’m posting it for a reason. Day in and day out do I see vacuum cleaner heads like this (and no, I’m not kidding, I see this a LOT!)…
Seriously? I wondered why I just seem to be moving the dirt around…
Amazing huh? The way a vacuum cleaner works is simple; debris passes through little slots in the front brush and the suction of the motor pulls it up and into the dust-bag/chamber. Now it doesn’t matter what model of cleaner you have, nor how powerful, or how feature laden your machine is; if the crumbs and hairs get caught up in a clogged front brush you’ve effectively reduced your highfalutin vacuum cleaner to a sweeping brush!
Fortunately the solution is simple and easy. You even have the very tool in your hands. i.e. the vacuum cleaner itself! Just uncouple the tube and head assembly, switch the vacuum on (use full power) and use the short stub to clean all the gunk out of the brush. Hold the nozzle close to the end and scrape it across the brush back and forth quite hard, and be prepared to work at it for quite a while on really neglected vacuums, as the dirt really gets ingrained in the brush, deep into the bristles clogging it up.
The running vacuum will suck all the resulting muck back into itself and afterwards the vacuum cleaner will work like a brand new one; well, at least it will if the bag or chamber isn’t totally clogged up as well….
If you have a dog I recommend you do this before you vacuum every time (I know, shock horror, right?), if you don’t have a dog you’ll get away with doing this say, every 4 or 5 times you vacuum. The good news is that once you’ve removed the initial build up, it will only take a second or two each time to keep your vacuum cleaners brush in tip top condition.
Hope that’s useful to you, and grovelling apologies if you thought I was patronising you in particular… 🙂
Stay well
Ian
Update: examples as I find them…
Still don’t believe me?
