Friday 24 April 2015

The doctor is in: sewing machine servicing

As I'm having a bit of a lull in my sewing at the moment (did you notice the two missing blogs?!), it seemed a good opportunity to send Naomi the Janome off for a service.

So, telephone directory in hand, I started ringing around places.

It seems that a standard service (no nothing is broken, she just needs to clean and oil) is around £60 from a reputable Janome dealership. There are non-approved dealers out there but, considering the cost of Naomi, I'm not entrusting her to anyone other than an expert.

Saying that, the first Janome dealer I contacted was convinced that Naomi was an overlocker. No amount of insistence on my part would convince him otherwise. I must have been mis-threading her all this time...

The main stumbling block now seems to be that the service will take about a week. 7 days without her?! I'm going to have to plan for that. I'm getting cold sweats already at the thought!

Do you have your machine serviced? How regularly is "regularly serviced"?

4 comments:

  1. That is a really quick turn-around! I just brought my machine in for service and I won't have it back for a month. Generally, you should bring it in once a year for service.

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    1. Oo, she's definitely over-due then. Although a week doesn't sound so bad compared to a month!

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  2. I usually take my machine to be serviced when I go on a girls' vacation in July. The turnaround would be 3-5 days if I needed it. It is recommended to take it in once a year. Just plan to do lots of cutting while Naomi is being serviced!

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    1. Good idea! My next holiday away isn't until November but Naomi could have a spa break at the same time. I've got so much to do that November is probably the earliest I could spare her anyway!

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