[QUOTE=losing-the-plot;3594315]Thanx guys. I've got scrapers, just fed up of constantly breaking dust pans!! I've never seen oversize ones, where do they come from? Or does anyone know if you can still get metal ones? Last metal one I saw was at primary school lol!! I'm not sure my dyson could cope with anymore hay going up it!![/QUOTE]
Have you thought of getting one of those ash buckets that are used with vacuum cleaners . I use one to clean out the ash from my woodburner. It's a big metal bucket with a filter in the lid . You'd fix your hoover nozzle in the top, and clean the hutch using the nozel from the dust pan. So the hoover does the sucking and the bucket does the filtering. Everything therefore goes into the bucket and nothing goes into your hoover..as the meerkat would say .."simples"!! :lol::lol:
ETA it a big heavy hose with a wide metal nozzle