Hose leaks after 1 year

Ok, the appliance works great, except the hose gets brittle and breaks. Try to get a new one and the company doesn't sell it directly, have to go through an appliance repair place, even though I assembled the hose on the bissel in the first place. There's no repair place nearby so I'm SOL. So the thing works fine except a cracked hose, which I've tried to patch together with electrical tape that leaks.

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