Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Good suction for 5 minutes

 Three's Company misunderstood conversations.  This is the Z-man Consumer  Reports.  Recently got the Horsepower Duck which promised to be a handy little hand-vac.  Manual says 16-20 minutes run time which would be fine for my purposes but it always dies out after five minutes.  Just now I used it to vacuum up all the cat hairs and dust on my stair treads.  Got halfway through and had to recharge the thing just to finish the job.  Couple summers ago bought that As Seen On TV Arctic Air device which is like a mini portable AC just add water.  Gave off good cooling action for a while but the coils and interior became all rusty in no time and I wound up throwing it all out.  Excuse me while I go Flex Seal my pipes.


Readers of this blog know what a bad winter I endured.  Frozen pipes and a broken smart water meter which ain't cheap courtesy of the City of Yonkers.  Had to call the pros in.  Last two weeks my shower was giving me a problem.  An old diverter valve the flap broke off.  Whenever I took a shower it was like someone peeing on me so yesterday got a new one at my local hardware store and tried to install it myself.  Got a touch more complicated than the YouTube how to video so easy a 10-year old could do it in five minutes so I called a professional plumber.  Again.  The plumbing community loves me.  I'm helping put their kids through college.


Does anyone know of any As Seen On TV products that are actually decent?  A cat crapper?  Anything?

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