Can we talk about my vacuum cleaner dying mid-clean last night?

I was finally tackling the living room rug around 9pm, you know the kind of deep clean you put off for weeks. Then my trusty old Hoover just made this grinding noise and stopped working entirely. It's been with me since college, like 8 years old now, and I didn't have a spare filter or anything. I ended up sweeping the rest by hand with a dustpan, which took forever and left me sneezing. Should I just buy a new one or try to find a repair shop for this thing?

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young.spencer4d ago

Did you actually hear that grinding noise start up gradually or did it just go from quiet to dead all at once? Because the way it died tells you a lot about whether it's worth fixing or not. If it was making that noise for a while before it quit, you probably got a belt snapped or something simple like that. But if it just went silent with no warning, that sounds more like the motor burned out which is usually not worth messing with on an 8 year old Hoover. What kind of noise was it exactly?

ben4864d agoTop Commenter

Add to that, a gradual grinding probably means a bearing was going bad for weeks before it finally seized up.