So, I was out and about earlier today, and just sat out on the street, notional ‘please help me’ sign scrawled on cardboard next to it was a Dyson DC07. We’ve been hunting for a replacement for our aged DC01 which despite still working seems to clog with startling frequency; it’s filters being rapidly replaced because it just stops sucking, and starts to, instead, suck.
So I knocked on the door of the house that it was sat outside. No answer. So I left it there, for a while, whilst I did my stuff. Then I came back and it cried out ‘help me’. So I hefted it into the minor (in which, incidentally, a hoover is a surprisingly neat fit) and brought it home. All the while I was worrying that despite it having been deposited on the street, it was someone’s and they’d be distressed. I got home and applied my usual high-tech fault-finding*. I assumed that the motor had gone, I understand that’s the way most dysons die.
But no, it sucked. It span up its little motor smooth as butter and sucked. Then I started to worry that I really had pilfered someone’s prized Dyson and should take it back. And then I noticed something.
The beater bars weren’t beating. A few moments later and a disintegrated belt was in my hand. I’m assuming something more must be wrong with it. But I suppose to many people, a vacuum cleaner that’s 6 years old and stops working at all is simply grounds for replacement (it’s a pretty wealthy area I was lurking in).
Still; I’ve ordered a new belt, and hopefully we’ll have a vacuum cleaner that sucks a bit better’n our old one. I might even give up the hoover junior at some point.
* Plug it in, see if it goes bang.
