Okay. So something is stuck in the hose of my vacuum. Both ends of the hose

are bent so I cannot get a broom handle in there. Is there any other way to get at the blockage without cutting the hose in half?

I bet she could help. Where's her number?

Ask for "Ken."

as long as it wouldn't stab the hose and create a hole?

a wire coat hanger that I had unbent. It was flexible enough to follow the bends.

If you have a fragile hose don't poke too hard or you could damage it.

Then you could fix the hole with duct tape.

With water turned on.

Assuming nothing else works.

I think most blockages will become more heavy and compact, and should be happy to find the open end of the hose.

Especially if you go out and swing it around.

I'm not kidding, but I am smiling at the image of all this.

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Talk about s novel way to "re-paint" your house!

Would a high pressure washer work to rinse/blow that gunk out? A Leaf Blower?

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Good luck!




Laura

But it's an oldie, most new ones can't do that, so a leaf blower sounds good!

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I hesitate to say but maybe I should use a plumber's snake..... I'm sure that will cost extra !!!

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I'm more curious other than having a solution (sorry, but i found the other advice up-thread to cover everything I could suggest)

Anyway, I was just curious because it made me remember an old vacuum and it's torture at the hands of a group of idiot kids in high school.

We had an old Electrolux vacuum (decades old at the time), that while it didn't feel like it had good suction or blowing (depending on the end you hooked hose to) it was very strong. In high school, a group of us (The idiots mentioned above and ok, it was mainly one of us but the rest of us didn't stop him) dropped it into Lake Travis and plugged it in. It Worked! It was actually sitting down under the dock pumping water up onto the dock. We were all amazed. We pulled it back out after half and hour of letting it clean the lake bottom and let it dry between repeated attempts over the following year. It eventually died after a close encounter with a pick-axe and a bonfire, but that is another story.

The memory made me laugh and I felt I would share. Hopefully someone else will get a little giggle from it.

We went past chemistry!

Heavy equipment, guns, and power tools!

And all of that was before 9pm...we didn't get wild until midnight!

Swing it around your head like you were going to rope a cow until its going fast, then whack it against the driveway or sidewalk.

The junk will poop out.

Or it will be ruint.

Either way you're good.

That is what your pets are for!

And they have cartoons of it curving around plumbing. As long as they package it on the outside of the bottle of Drano, you might give it a try.
NOT Drano itself, however.
I bought a bendy plumber's thingie once at our local hardware store that would do the trick too. It's metal and quite springy and about 4 feet long.
Now I'll just relax and count the double, triple and quadruple entendres.

Something got in and there was no way to get it out because the hose didn't detach from that end.
I was able to exchange it for a new one.

My advice would be to exchange it for a new one if you can !

so that you have full suction.
then, if you hold closed the 'open' end with your hand for a moment or two....
you will hear the motor work harder.
you might build up enough pressure that it will come loose.

or if you have a wet dry vac, you could reverse it out...or maybe use a neighbors vac to get it out.

the kind for cleaning dust out of computers?

Maybe blow that in there?

It's a reel with a flexible metal "line" wrapped up into it with a hook on the end that shouldn't damage anything on the way in or out.