Recommend a workshop vacuum cleaner please.

[indy4x]

It was an EU thing.
Funny nothing has changed.
Not even our fire extinguishers going back to proper colours

Did you really expect anything different

And yes they changed passport colours, not that the colour bothered me anyway

 

[indy4x]

This has served me well for the best part of 25 years now!

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I know there's lots of Henry fans on here but I have one of them Vax jobbies, had mine for probably 10 years and it was given to me SH as it was a bit noisy


Used and abused in the garage for cleaning everything from cars to floors to machinery. Stick it outside and plug an extension hose for sawdust and woodchips off my saw so any dust it doesn't capture in the bag or filter is outside the garage

Still noisy but works great so not looking to change until it finally goes bang

It doesn't work well on long stringy swarf but then neither would anything with that size hose

For dust extraction you probably want something bigger

 

[James1979]

I understand that the power has to be no more than 750 watts on a vacuum now, part of a green idea! Cut the power & take twice as long, that makes sense. It’s not as if you spent hours vacuuming anyway, far better things to cut consumption on.

I have a ‘transition period’ Henry and it’s got a turbo button on it. It defaults to some pathetic power but push and hold the button and it sucks like a sucky thing.

The house one is newer and just has a blanking plate where the button should be. I wonder how easy it would be to retro fit the button.

The German (I think) ones have no eyes. It’s an EU directive so that kids won’t want to play with them as they aren’t toys

if you can get a good one they are good but there’s so many variants it’s hard.

 

[mart]

I understand that the power has to be no more than 750 watts on a vacuum now, part of a green idea! Cut the power & take twice as long, that makes sense. It’s not as if you spent hours vacuuming anyway, far better things to cut consumption on.

Not applicable if the vac has wet vaccuming capabilty. I bought a Guild brand purely for dry vacuuming. Decent motor capacity, price and warrenty. No intention using it for wet vacuuming. Great. Click & Collect from Argos.

 

[fizzy]

Did you really expect anything different

And yes they changed passport colours, not that the colour bothered me anyway

Nope

 

[AVI_8]

I understand that the power has to be no more than 750 watts on a vacuum now, part of a green idea! Cut the power & take twice as long, that makes sense. It’s not as if you spent hours vacuuming anyway, far better things to cut consumption on.

I didn’t know that, mines 1200w so a new one at 610w is like using an older one with a clogged bag, fantastic common sense, that’s meddling EU for you.

 

[julianf]

In applicable but I'm going to say anyway...

I've been after a M18 vac, but the previous models all seemed to have a real irritation to them.

They've just bought out a new one that looks spot on... But £200 for the bare tool : /

M18 FUEL Compact Vacuum | Milwaukee Tool

MILWAUKEE® M18 FUEL™ Compact Vacuum delivers performance & versatility in small-area and spot clean-up jobsite applications. The compact shop vac is optimized for dry jobsite debris.

www.milwaukeetool.com

 

[fizzy]

I didn’t know that, mines 1200w so a new one at 610w is like using an older one with a clogged bag, fantastic common sense, that’s meddling EU for you.

Indeed - but we have left now - are they going to fix it? Or anything else?
Don't hold your breath.
Bureaucrats just love to meddle!

 

[fizzy]

In applicable but I'm going to say anyway...

I've been after a M18 vac, but the previous models all seemed to have a real irritation to them.

They've just bought out a new one that looks spot on... But £200 for the bare tool : /

M18 FUEL Compact Vacuum | Milwaukee Tool

MILWAUKEE® M18 FUEL™ Compact Vacuum delivers performance & versatility in small-area and spot clean-up jobsite applications. The compact shop vac is optimized for dry jobsite debris.

www.milwaukeetool.com

I have a Dyson cordless handheld which is similar.
Waste of time.

 

[James1979]

In applicable but I'm going to say anyway...

I've been after a M18 vac, but the previous models all seemed to have a real irritation to them.

They've just bought out a new one that looks spot on... But £200 for the bare tool : /

M18 FUEL Compact Vacuum | Milwaukee Tool

MILWAUKEE® M18 FUEL™ Compact Vacuum delivers performance & versatility in small-area and spot clean-up jobsite applications. The compact shop vac is optimized for dry jobsite debris.

www.milwaukeetool.com

I’m waiting for them to go down a bit too. That’s too much just for a bare hoover

 

[Bobupndown]

I have a Dyson cordless handheld which is similar.
Waste of time.

Have 2 dyson handhelds, new one in the house old one in the garage. OK for the house and cars but not heavy duty garage cleaning.

 

[Maker]

Have 2 dyson handhelds, new one in the house old one in the garage. OK for the house and cars but not heavy duty garage cleaning.

We've got one, it's great for catching dust bunnies on hard floors but no match for a proper hoover on carpet.

 

[Matrixx]

Wickes ones last for ages , and take some abuse.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Resurrecting an old thread I know, but I'm in the same situation. I want a really powerful vacuum for the workshop, will probably rig up some sort of pipework with dust extraction points along the back of the workbench, so needs to be able to pull through 4-5m of duct. Not too bothered about capacity/whether it can do wet/ease of use, I just want the most powerful one on the market. What's everyone's suggestions?

How are the various points being linked? I suspect length of any connecting pipes will be a problem. You might need to devise some of sort of 'cap' arrangement so the your vacuum isn't trying to serve all your machines at once?

I have the original version of the Lidl one @Popcorn linked to, but larger capacity? It copes with lathe swarf, mill turnings, sawdust very well.

 

[Fred Trevvett]

I was going to use 40mm waste pipe. I know it doesn't seem very big, but I read somewhere that it only needs to be as big as the inlet on the vac itself, any bigger is just wasted. And yes 40mm ball valves are a thing so I was just going to stick one on each outlet and only open the one I was using at that time

 

[Pete.]

I also use my twin-motor numatic to hoover up swarf and muck in the workshop but be warned that it will coat the pipe and tools with a layer of black gunge on the inside. A dunk in a dustbin part filled with caustic cleans them out but if you leave it too long it'll block up the pipework.

 

[Cobbler]

I didn’t know that, mines 1200w so a new one at 610w is like using an older one with a clogged bag, fantastic common sense, that’s meddling EU for you.

We’ve got a 2000w cleaner, global warming? you can smell the polar bears sweating, cleans the carpet well though.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

We’ve got a 2000w cleaner, global warming? you can smell the polar bears sweating, cleans the carpet well though.

Greta will be knocking on your door any time soon.

 

[bert]

I have been abusing the wickes wet and dry on my boat restoration, easily sucked up 350liters of water as well as used during the rust removal from the inside of the hull so about 25kg of rust. Just bought a new filter bag for it as I felt sorry for the original

 

[Ped]

The Karcher NT27 I bought last year has been excellent. Big bin and copes with everything from fine dust to swarf. Can't fault it.

Karcher NT 27/1 Wet & Dry Vacuum Cleaner | Kärcher Center Trafalgar

The Karcher NT 27/1 all-purpose wet and dry vacuum cleaner built for demanding cleaning applications.

www.karcher-center-trafalgar.co.uk