29 • chronically ill, ND, disabled 🌈🏳️⚧️ 💗🤍🧡
Cohost's #1 Draculaura Stan
people who design vacuums hate people who use vacuums
i have been needing to clean the beater bar on my vacuum cleaner but you have to unscrew 6 screws to get it out and ofc one of the screws kinda got stripped. but it's out and clean now.
i would think a Bissell pet vacuum would want me to easily get to the beater that becomes a tangled mess of corgi shed. but what do I know
I think the people who design them have people who clean and if they don't, they have enough money to just get a new one when it stops working optimally. It's nothing they even think about!
But maybe send them a note; you never know if it'll ping someone to make it easier to remove. Or just give you a 5% off coupon for a bottle of cleaners.
Hmm I might, because I am just kinda surprised it isn't easier to be remove a part that is advised to be cleaned at least once a month. I looked for a video because I wanted to make sure I was actually supposed to remove all the screws, and found a video from Bissell themselves.
But also thinking about how a friendly recently told me how he helped a friend fix her vacuum cleaner. Apparently she had it for 7 years and didn't once clean the beater/intake the whole time, so it was super jammed with dust and hair
I don't always have the dexterity to get the screws out, so sometimes I just cut the hair off and find it easier.
I might have to start doing that once a week or so I think. That way I'm taking less of a risk of the screws stripping.
Of course there is this "cage" thing that goes over it (the piece I had to screw off). I think it is meant to keep larger objects from getting in there, but it does make it a little harder to spot clean.
