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Been purely laundry and cooker repairs for many years but was wondering if vac repairs are worth the hassle now that some of them cost more than a washing machine?
What to fix? What to avoid etc
Neil
Re: Are Vacuum Cleaner Repairs worthwhile?
Hi Neil
We repair any make as long as a value repair can be carried out. We won’t touch Bissell wet and dry machines, horrible things. Dysons are our bread and butter machines, probably do about twenty a week.
Don
Re: Are Vacuum Cleaner Repairs worthwhile?
Don, do you actually call out to these vacs or are they all ‘carry ins’?
Jim.
Re: Are Vacuum Cleaner Repairs worthwhile?
Hi Jim
Workshop service only. We do offer a collection / delivery service for the “locals” which we charge a small fee but probably 99{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} are carry ins.
Don
Re: Are Vacuum Cleaner Repairs worthwhile?
iadom wrote:Don, do you actually call out to these vacs or are they all ‘carry ins’?
Jim.
Likewise,as I try to explain to customers ‘I can’t be repairing if i’m collecting!’.Because they always want it done yesterday!!
Back to the the OP,we are similar to Don,no Bissell or Vax and will repair anything providing spares are available.Floorcare products do tend to get ‘forgotten’ if our workload on the road is high.Dave
Re: Are Vacuum Cleaner Repairs worthwhile?
I stopped doing vacs almost thirty years ago, then it was mainly Hoover, Lux and the cheap & nasty Hotpoint ‘Light & Easy. In those days you could even get single quantities of the parts, even down to the odd belt. It only really became a problem when my spares supplier at the time decided to introduced minimum quantities for most vac spares.
As I have only ever worked from home in the customers premises I didn’t have the option of buying 10 of a part for one job and putting the others on the shelf for shop customers.
It all came to a head when my dear, late mothers next door neighbour Mrs Rick asked me to repair her 1940’s Hoover Senior, it only needed new brushes in the roller bar, but they where the ones with the brushes embedded in metal plates and fixed in with a screw at the end. I could only get them in pairs of 5 but as it was for the neighbour I had to get them. This neighbour moved away more than 25 years ago and until I did a clear out about six months ago I still had the other four sets of brushes. 🙁
Jim.
Re: Are Vacuum Cleaner Repairs worthwhile?
Did loads with Lux,stopped when found out that vacuum cleaners bags are full of something like 60{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} dead skin 😯
Breathing in dead skin,no thanks.
If I were to do them I would do only in workshop with a serious dust extraction system to remove all nasties,yuk !Re: Are Vacuum Cleaner Repairs worthwhile?
I wear a dust mask when doing tumble dryers. Wouldn’t touch a vac any more unless I got really desperate. I usually take a shower and change clothes after any t/dryer repair involving anything more than stats or element. Just feels like there’s a thin layer of dust covering my skin. Might just be psychological.
Mike.
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