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Post# 87024 , Reply# 1   12/24/2009 at 14:51 (5,207 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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Bad, bad, bad. |
Post# 87028 , Reply# 3   12/24/2009 at 14:57 (5,207 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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Aaaaaggghhhh! |
Post# 87029 , Reply# 4   12/24/2009 at 14:58 (5,207 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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People just don't learn, do they!? |
Post# 87030 , Reply# 5   12/24/2009 at 15:08 (5,207 days old) by kenmore81 (Warwick, RI)   |   | |
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They don't,I have a cousin that is like that and she always call me and says "why isn't my vacuum picking up?" I say duh you do have to do more than change the bag, after 20 years shes now learning to clean the brushroll and change the belt,but she still dont pick up anything that fits in the vac. Good thing she has a direct-air(did I say this right lol) vac so she dont break the fans anymore lol..
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Post# 87041 , Reply# 6   12/24/2009 at 18:00 (5,207 days old) by edgar (Belgium)   |   | |
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Post# 87085 , Reply# 7   12/25/2009 at 11:04 (5,206 days old) by turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 87363 , Reply# 8   12/28/2009 at 21:38 (5,203 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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Post# 87365 , Reply# 9   12/28/2009 at 22:01 (5,203 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)   |   | |
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John, those are tough warp & weft nylon 'threads' that form the back weave base that the carpet tufts are trapped in as the shuttle passes through the carpet looming machine. After weaving the backside is often coated with a plastic glue that still allows the weave to breathe but secures the tufts 'for a lifetime'. All this is negated when such carpeting is laid wall to wall over an impermiable layer such as rubber underlay, same as glueing carpet to the floor will defeat the lifting & pummeling action of a Beaterbar. The strands are as strong as fishing line, do not break easily and are quite literally torn and ripped out of the carpet along with yarn tufts. This happens when one vacuums over a torn seam or a worn patch, or an exposed carpet edge. I see it all the time in 'broken' vacuums that have been tossed in the garbage, from plastic Wallyvacs to Kirbys. The same damage can occur to a carpet whether top of the line expensive or bottom of the line cheap; it is more the lack of care on the owners' part, not attending to repairing a loose section or seams in a timely manner before the damage begins and escalates with each vacuuming. I carefully hand trimmed the loose weft threads of all the lifted seams in front of the TV shelf floor and applied new heat set tape to prevent this from happening as I now gleefully vacuum my entire livingroom carpet. :-) "Must be the Vacuum's fault" she says as she heaves out the perfectly good vacuum along with what's left of her common sense... Dave |