Suction gradually weakens during use or has dropped off over time
The rotating brush bar under the floor head has stopped turning
Burning smell while the vacuum cleaner is running
Cordless vacuum won't charge, or runtime has become much shorter
Before the vacuum cleaner, “cleaning” a carpet largely meant taking it outside and beating it with a stick — genuinely standard practice across Britain well into the 20th century for anyone without domestic staff to do it for them. Early manual and horse-drawn machines The first carpet-cleaning machines, from the mid-to-late 1800s, worked by blowing […]