If you’ve ever felt like your vacuum isn’t really picking up anything from your carpet, or noticed that your dishes aren’t coming out of the dishwasher as clean as they used to, then you’ve experienced the effects of accumulated gunk and grime inside your cleaning equipment.
Our cleaning devices perform important functions, but they cannot perform those functions properly if they are backed up with dirt and debris. This applies to you Washing machine, Your microwaveAnd that too Your dishwasherAll of them need to be cleaned periodically to keep them running smoothly.
Your vacuum is no exception, and in today’s post, I’ll share a simple solution I found to a related problem I recently encountered with my own vacuum. It’s a problem that anyone with long hair (or anyone who lives with someone with long hair) probably knows all too well!
To learn more about how to clean your household appliances and how often you should, Check out this post.
Problem: Hair is wrapped around the brush roll of your vacuum
The problem I’m referring to, of course, is the tendency for hair to wrap around the vacuum brush roll. We often don’t even realize this is happening until the hair becomes so thick that it begins to affect the vacuum’s performance.
The same thing happened to me recently, but once I figured out what the problem was, I was no closer to fixing it! I initially tried pulling the hair out of the brush roll, but it was too tightly wound and tangled to have much effect.
I knew I needed a different approach, and after some good old internet research, I finally found a quick and easy solution to my problem!
Solution: Remove the hair with a seam ripper
It turns out that the secret to easily removing hair from my vacuum brush had been sitting in my sewing kit the whole time, in a form Seam Reaper! Its curved shape and sharp blade make it perfectly suited for this particular task.
All I had to do was lay my vacuum on its back to access the brush roll, then run my seam ripper under and through the layer of hair. It took some hacking on my part, but it only took me a minute or two to cut all that hair.
Once I cut the hair, it became infinitely easier to pull it off the brush roll. Now that I know how easy it is, I plan on going once a month to keep hair volume under control and my vacuum working efficiently.
If you’re struggling to remove hair from the brush roll of your vacuum, I highly recommend getting out your seam ripper and trying it out for yourself! 🙂
Still having vacuum problems?
If you remove all hair, string and other debris from your brush roll and your vacuum Still Doesn’t seem to be working properly, probably a different issue that needs to be addressed. You may be able to solve this by cleaning your vacuum thoroughly from top to bottom, which you can learn how to do. Read this post.
Do you have any tips or tricks for fixing vacuum problems?
