Three men in a tub. It just sounded amusing to me. As nothing else about the remainder of the day will be. Yesterday, Mikel decided to shit on the floor of his room. Instead of telling me he had to potty. I always let him out to go, he has never not asked. I guess he did it so he could paint the walls and carpets with it AGAIN. I cleaned it up as best I could yesterday. Having no shampooer and ran out of the animal mess clean up stuff. It's good stuff though. That spray in the animal aisle is great for when my kids do this stuff. They're always so quiet about it, it sounds like they are taking their nap. Walls need scrubbing still, did the best I could without screaming my head off. It really pisses me off. So, I cleaned them up and made them sit in a chair while I cleaned. Most of their toys had it crammed in the nooks and crannies. They are trash now.
So, on with the story. Today sent hubby to wal-mart. Picks me up a bissel shampooer. Start in with it. Smell burn rubber, check the belt for the sweeper part, its fine. So I figure since it's new it's just doing it cuz of that. Then stop spraying cleaning. After much cussing at it, apparently there's another belt on it. For the water pump. Now the instructions to put together say just put the top on the bottom. In other words, the handle had to be put on and screwed into place. Finally found the problem. In the factory, they put the belt for the pump on wrong. Caused it to slide to the edge of the sticky out metal thing it attaches too, you know the motor thing. It was rubbing against the plastic. Now when I smelled the burnt rubber, I emptied the excess water and stopped running it and checked stuff. I do know about belts and what not. Before you say anything, even my hubby was puzzled. Yes I figured it out before he did. Not to say he doesn't know anything, I just have worked on more vacuums than he has. Once we got the complicated belt housing hard plastic crap off, the problem was easy to spot. At the factory they had put it on the wrong wheel. Basically it was too far to the right and rubbed up against the hard plastic stuff. It's fixed now, but I'm calling them. Going to try to get them to send me a free belt. Since it was their fault. Waiting for the sticky out metal thing to cool off before I use it again. Don't want to melt the new rubber belt on it. They don't sell them at the store. Have to special order it.
Up note: They have bissel cleaning solution that is pet smell removal stuff also. Just like the spray stuff I ran out of. So the remainder of the day will be spent trying to clean the boys' carpet. Then probably tomorrow, will shampoo the main parts of the house. Never again will I insist on carpet everywhere. I just didn't like linoleum, cuz it's cold on your feet. I don't like to wear socks. |