Install brush bar dyson dc14 animal

SOURCE: works on carpet not on bare floors

It's not supposed to rotate on bare floors

SOURCE: beater bar belt needs replacedon a dyson DC14 animal

Remove the glide plate at the bottom of rhe machine. Remove brush and broken belt. Fit new belt and re install brush. Fit glide plate, job done.
Its in the instruction book

SOURCE: Dyson Animal DC14 brush will not rotate. Removed

If this model takes a clutch then it is stripped and needs to be replaced.

SOURCE: Dyson DC14 Brush Bar won't turn

You don't need to take it for repairs, I just corrected the same problem on the phone with a tech. Have the head on your lap, make sure the end nearest the little belt has the rounded side of the bar facing you. The squared off end faces towards the machine. Place your left hand pointy finger under the bar (the 2 inch bar next to the little belt) and lift up, while finessing the loose end of the bar into place, with the rounded part still facing you. Then it sort of snaps into place. Now, replace the face plate. In the upright mode, starting at the carpet dial, switch the dial back and forth between carpet and bare floor, ten times. (the tech actually referred to this as re-setting the vac. LOL) Plug the vac in, incline the hand, and start. It should work. It didn't for me the first time and made a horrible sound. That meant I had to go and repeat the process again, but lo and behold, IT WORKED! When in doubt, call the tech and don't let them get away from you; have them stay on the line until the problem is resolved.

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• Posted on Jan 21, 2011

SOURCE: Dyson DC 14 Animal - The carpet brush does not

The brush will only spin when the machine is reclined. Not when the machine is stood upright.
If the brush doesn't turn when the machine is reclined, and the brush control set to "auto", you have a brush bar and/or belt problem.