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Quick answer
Everything on TestMyVacuum is researched general information to help you plan and diagnose, not professional advice. Nothing here can see your machine, so no page is a diagnosis, and your own manual is the final authority on your vacuum.
Researched information, not professional advice
Everything on TestMyVacuum is researched general information intended to help you understand how household vacuums work and to plan a purchase or a repair. It is not professional advice and it is no substitute for the documentation that came with your own machine.
Nothing here can see your vacuum. The diagnostics give you a checking order and explain what each outcome would mean, which is different from telling you what is wrong. Where the two conflict, your manual and the part numbers on the machine win.
Doing the work
Work on your own equipment is your own responsibility. The parts this site covers are the ones manufacturers design owners to replace, and the safety notes state the non-negotiable steps plainly, above all isolating a machine before reaching anywhere near a brush housing. If a job looks beyond what you are comfortable with, a repair shop is a perfectly reasonable answer.
Accuracy and change
Prices are read from retailer listings when the site is built and move constantly. Manufacturer specifications can be revised without a model name changing. Treat every figure here as a guide and verify anything consequential against the source.
Content
Short quotations with a link back are welcome. Wholesale republication is not. Product data comes from retailer listings and remains theirs, and published specifications belong to the manufacturers that issued them.
Liability
This site is provided as is. To the extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for loss or damage arising from decisions made on the basis of information published here.
Common questions
Can I rely on the figures here?
They are researched carefully and labelled as either published specifications or service conventions, but they are general information rather than a specification for your particular machine. Manufacturers revise figures without changing model names, and a convention that holds across a category can still be wrong for one model. Check your own manual before acting on anything consequential.
What if a repair goes wrong?
Work on your own equipment is your own responsibility. The guidance here covers owner replaceable parts that manufacturers design to be changed without tools, and it states the safety steps plainly, particularly isolating the machine before reaching near a brush housing. If a job feels beyond you, a repair shop is a reasonable answer.
Can I quote or reuse content from this site?
Short quotations with a link back are welcome and are part of the point of writing quotable tables. Wholesale republication of pages is not. The product data comes from retailer listings and remains theirs, and the manufacturer figures belong to the manufacturers who published them.
Every figure here comes from published manufacturer specifications, owner reported measurements and repair documentation, and each is labelled as either a standard or a convention. This is researched general information to help you diagnose and plan, not professional advice, and it cannot tell you what is wrong with one particular machine. Your own manual and the part number printed on your machine are the final word.