The heat is(n't) on!

Many ages ago I found that there was a solid pipe coming up from the offside heater channel, where the flexi hose type stuff should have been.
I attached a hose to said pipe and then attached that hose to the plastic vent malarkey (technical term) hoping to get some windscreen demisting action going on... it didn't work!
Today I found out why!

This is the solid pipe...

Somewhere a vacuum cleaner is missing an attachment

And this is the weirdly melted and not very well attached to the heater channel hose that the solid pipe was totally failing to be attached to!

That poor vacuum cleaner! How was it supposed to do under the sofa?!

Oh yes, nearly forgot, this is the front of the offside heater channel that the melted hose was badly attached to and the solid pipe wasn't channelling heat towards the windscreen from!

It just came off in my hand (that's what she said!)