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Other Vacuum Cleaners & Site Suggestions => Discussion About Other Vacuum Cleaners & Appliances => Topic started by: beko1987 on May 15, 2014, 08:24:11 am
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Picked a Miele off of freecycle earlier, had lived in a landrover nut's barn for 8 years.
Opened it up and discovered a little mouse. The missus picked it up :snivel: but it jumped free and legged it. Took the chewed bag out and...
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We had no idea what to do with them tbh although they were cute. After letting Eva have a good look we jumped in the car and went to our local wildlife hospital place thing...
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Where they got triaged and fed. They will be hand reared until their old enough to be released into the wild.
Anyone top that? :king:
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That is amazing! :o
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A Miele turbo tool was brought in cos it wasn't turning. Found the smallest thong :o stuck inside, boys couldn't wait to see who came to collect.
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Was she hot? :reading:
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Not for me to say but she wasn't as skinny as it would have suggested. I Put the item in a brown envelope saying she might want it back. Her boyfriend who also came in insisted on opening the envelope. She was mortified. Then started to explain thy were worn when she did aerobics - boyfriend said she should not say anymore as making it worse :))
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Blimey! Don't think anyone will beat the cute mice babies!!
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A complete wasps nest inside the handle of a hoover floor polisher! (Same design as senior handle).
Poor darlings were dead tho, but preserved nonetheless.
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Worst thing I have found in a vacumm cleaner is Human :censored: from a care home brought in to work for a "service" as it was not picking up as it should and had a very nasty smell,
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Worst thing I have found in a vacumm cleaner is Human :censored: from a care home brought in to work for a "service" as it was not picking up as it should and had a very nasty smell,
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You turned the work down, right?
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Nope charged extra for the urm extras that was in them and they have been back with the same issues :sick0012: :sick0012: :sick0012:
nothing safety glasses a mask and disinfectant can't resolve.
Also had a bosch cylinder in that had vomit in now that almost got bounced out of the shop but haay if it was easy everyone would be doing it.
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Nope charged extra for the urm extras that was in them and they have been back with the same issues :sick0012: :sick0012: :sick0012:
nothing safety glasses a mask and disinfectant can't resolve.
Also had a bosch cylinder in that had vomit in now that almost got bounced out of the shop but haay if it was easy everyone would be doing it.
If I were the manager there I'd be firing the idiot who keeps vacuuming that stuff up. That's just a sign of laziness or stupidity.
Ugh.
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My apologies if this has been covered before, but I thought it might be worth mentioning what was found in a DC07 I gave my daughter a few weeks ago, and which was returned to me this week with the comment "it doesn't suck, and blows fluff out".
A quick inspection revealed a u-bend completely clogged with sweet wrappers, cotton buds, a plastic dinosaur, a pencil, a child's paintbrush and most of the family Labrador's coat. So far, so bad. The machine also wouldn't stand up, due to the usual problem with the changeover valve mechanism. Easily fixed. The hose and wand were totally blocked virtually from top to bottom with more bits of Labrador, a sticky sweet, and numerous wrappers, etc. Principal cause of the blockage - a bulb of garlic. I was, for a while, speechless. Anybody found anything odder than this? Daughter just shrugged her shoulders.........
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On a couple occasions I have had dog cr-p been sucked up in a dc14 and a dc24 these where brought in when I was out on a service call, after a phone call they where collected next day by a very abusive
female :dead-dyson:
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:chuckle:
Had a brand new henry a few years ago come back, customer managed to block the hose, cleared that to reveal cat sh*t.
i refused to clean it out, told boss it was a health hazard.
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Used, set solid cat litter :sick0012:
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I just fixed up (And sold for $20, so it wasn't so bad for 2 hours of work while watching TV) a POS Bissell Easyvac.
It fired up but had no suction. I open it up and found a 1/2 lb of cat hair matted in the hose, beater bar and in the motor housing. I also got out a 1/4 cup of cat litter (mud and sand), 3 tissues and a rubber band. The HEPA filter got so plugged that hair started going around it, getting into the motor and housing. The motor looked like this:
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with hair coming out of all the bits. The seam of the housing was exactly the same.
All in all, 10/10 would fix again.
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I've found a two pence piece up the wand which was stuck really fast. Had to ram it with a broom handle to dislodge it.
Seller had said it was temperamental. The coin was rotating in the pipe like a valve - open...shut.
My last DC04 strip was obvious what the problem was as the soleplate was flexing outwards under the pressure of hair wrapped round the brush roll. A real Cousin It!
David
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not so strange, but in january when the vacs arrive in numbers blocked is funny.
tinsel, pine needles, the crappy toys from xmas crackers...
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I've found a two pence piece up the wand which was stuck really fast. Had to ram it with a broom handle to dislodge it.
Seller had said it was temperamental. The coin was rotating in the pipe like a valve - open...shut.
We have had that one quite a few times.
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I can update my original post. I was at my son's house at the weekend, and his girlfriend proudly told me that she had resolved a poor suction problem on their Dyson. My son (who uses shotguns professionally, and for sport), had picked up a live small-bore cartridge, which had lodged in the cleaner. The possible consequences don't bear thinking about.....
I shouldn't really be too surprised. I was replacing the belts on our DC07 on an almost weekly basis when he lived at home, always due to the ingestion of large objects.
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not so strange, but in january when the vacs arrive in numbers blocked is funny.
tinsel, pine needles, the crappy toys from xmas crackers...
So that still happens then. January was always a profitable month for that very reason.
Many years ago, about 25 to 30, I got a call from a shop on an RAF base to say that a pet gerbil had somehow got into their suction cleaner and was trapped in the hose. Can't remember all the details as it was a long time ago, but I did finally manage to get it out unharmed.
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Had many a coin in the wand, bugger to shift sometimes.
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I seem to get all the crap jobs.
Got a Bosch in with vomit in. :sick0012: :sick0012: :sick0012:
O and had the nursing home sebo back in with human :censored: again.
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I had 2 Vorwerks to fix recently, an old dear that Amy knows. Bit of soldering on a broken wire and an unclog later, they work fine. When she collected them, she bought an 'old hoover' round she found in her loft.
It was a fabulous Goblin Solo!
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Utterly filthy, and with a broken cable. But what did I find in the bag compartment?
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3 dry mice!
Tipped those out, new cable, drop of oil on the motor, good clean of the seals, wipe down of the plastics and a new post filter made from a cut up numatic hepaflo bag and job done, worked perfectly!
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*snip* *snip* *snip* if I ever find a mouse in a vacuum I'd throw it away!
I don't know how you can cope :o
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It's only a mouse! You Chinese eat dogs, a little mouse should be like a malteaser is to us europeans...
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It's a mouse not a black mamba :boggleeye:
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I hope you never have a cat
Ours bought in a live rat and let it go in our bedroom. Took over an hour to catch it and let it go.
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We had a rat infestation in our old flat when the shop downstairs had the drains done. They let us off the last months rent and refunded the deposit in full when we moved out (the lady who ran the shop owned the flat), my apocolyptic anger may have helped there!
Don't like rats, mice are OK. I want to get Eva a hamster when she's a touch older
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I'm not Chinese tho either haha :)) It's a phobia of mine, idk why but they are just... Nope!
We have two cats which we started to get a month ago (a cat and a kitten)
Hope that never happens :o
I kinda want a dog, I think they are awesome ;D
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There is no point getting a kid a hamster, its always asleep. Its a nocturnal animal. A couple of rats however make great pet's, they like human company, they are very friendly and affectionate and like to play, kids love them.
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Rats? You're crazy.
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I've had loads as pets, there like little dogs.
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I had a dc08 in once it had no suction, sounded horrible and really did pong 🤢 Turns out it was full of parrot crap and was clogged everywhere with it it had been used without a filter and seed had got into the fan 🤔
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We had one recently full of rabbit droppings and blocked up with bits of straw (probably wee soaked) :sick0012:
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I've pulled a mutilated rat out of a sanitaire, bloody bandages and all sorts of good stuff, my personal favorite is when a households cats/dogs/etc select the vacuum as a urinal. Those sticky, yellow machines are probably the grossest things I've ever smelled in my entire life. Right up there with old dog Kirby outer cloth bags. Nasty.
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Just refurb'ed a DC26, and it was full of mud, an insane amount of polyester stuffing (the type inside stuffed animals/pet toys) and the turbine head clogged with damp Wal-mart receipts pressed into a solid mass. I'm new here (Hi!) and might do a little writeup on the process.
Way way back when, in junior high, I worked on a project that required a high-wattage fan motor, and someone's parents' friend donated to us an old Hoover that had been run without a bag in place. It was inexplicably filled with the obliterated remains of a head of garlic...
Mildly related, but I'm always astounded at how many eBay listings I see that are proud to include a half-full bag already fitted, as if old carpet dust was a great bonus.