Many bad hoses come to mind....
Wouldn’t mind a picture of your Bissell. My niece has one and the hose does lock on if you twist it, on the other end, when using in upright mode it nestled into a little notch and while not locked it doesn’t come off. The hose is stretchy which is nice.
I have a dirt devil with a short hose that doesn’t stretch it’s hard plastic like a shop vac hose. It does ok, but as soon as you block off suction with it such as put it against an object to really pick up something stuck or whatever any dirt in the dirt canister immediately gets sucked on to the filter reducing suction substantially until you clean the filter. So using the hose is sorta useless unless you only use the brush head attachment which allows the suction not to be cut off at any moment at all,
My Shark rocket stick vacuum I ordered a stretch hose for it, the end where you add attachments is not glued to the hose and it unscrews itself and falls off and that’s annoying, but I noticed they are not all like that...I think mine forgot to get glued.
The old Electrolux braided hoses that disintegrate from the inside causing them to leak caused many unsuspecting people to think their Electrolux wasn’t cleaning well anymore and they threw them away never to buy such an expensive vacuum again when all they needed was a new hose, but this hose issue went on for a long, long, time until they finally changed to rubber material. But the old ones would have the rubber come apart inside which would cause fuzz and other objects to catch on the rubber strips and then start clogging the hose. At one point on one of our machines I removed what seemed to be a quarter bag full of dirt and debris that had accumulated in several feet of the hose. We learned the hard way to not connect it to the blower end to unblock it unless we had the other end pointed into the suction hole...the clog didn’t want to dislodge at first, then with rigorous shaking of the hose with it connected to the blower port and the machine on, suddenly it blew out...all over the house in a huge cloud spewing dust everywhere...we had to revacuum the entire room, the couches, etc. We learned...take it outside next time we had to clear the hose if it wouldn’t come out holding the handle end of hose in the suction end.
The Dyson DC07 hose is really long but a pain in the butt to take off the wand and feed back on and mine has ripped because of having to slide it on and off the wand repeatedly causing stress on it.
Had a Hoover bagless windtunnel and the hose end would never stay put in its spot and it needed to be or some suction would be lost through the hose. By putting it in its spot, suction was not allowed through its end as the storage spot was solid. I think the machine was supposed to have an automatic diverter to prevent suction through the hose when tilted down, but there always seemed to be some suction coming through the hose even when tilted. Since the hose wouldn’t stay put, it often would be flapping around on the side of the vacuum when it wasn’t in use and also vacuum efficiency through the floor nozzle would be compromised. I gave the vacuum away when two other things broke on it.
Not a fan of most Kenmore canister hoses as the giant handles hamper getting into tight spaces width just the hose end and feel clumsy.
On the Electrolux Renaissance the electronics in the hose handle talked to the circuit board in the machine, they failed a lot and a new hose was $289 plus tax. Without buying a new hose with all new circuit boards, the entire machine is rendered useless. Fortunately this design problem was changed with the next model (Guardian) to follow to eliminate this issue.
Hate the cheap plastic hoses on most brands of shop vacs, they don’t stretch and often kink up and can be too short or cumbersome to use if they are the fat ones for larger debris. My Brithers on his Rigid shop vac kinks right next to the machine and then clogs there constantly so you have to stop and hold it unlinked to unclog it and get the machine to suck in all the dirt collected in the now clogged up hose.
I’ve had very few issues with Aerus/Electrolux genuine rubber hoses kinking or clogging out of all the different vacuums and hoses I’ve used, if it does clog, the handle end can be removed if one knows the correct procedure and then put a broomstick through the hose to clear it.
Don’t like anything that doesn’t swivel easily at the handle end. That makes a HUGE difference.
Jon
