Day: January 12, 2011

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It Sucks!

I took the new shop vac out of the box tonight and it took a half hour to get it going. I’m so brain tired that the instructions might as well have been in Chinese! I finally figured out how to open it up and install the filter and then I had it pick up saw dust and kitty litter. WOW! That thing is super powerful!

The shop vac comes with a crevice tool and a wide pick up tool. You can also buy accessory kits for it, one of which has a furniture brush. The basic tools were good for my needs, but I liked the micro accessory kit for electronics. So, I got the shop vac and the accessory kit for just a dollar more than I would have paid for the shop vac only in Canada.

micro accessory kit for shop vac

My only complaints so far are the same ones that all the reviewers have–the cord and hose are very short and the unit is tippy.  I also discovered that you can go from dry vacuuming to wet, but not vice versa because the filter has to dry out. I’m glad I read instructions. 🙂

I also found a place for it. It’ll fit in the loft at the head of the bed. Not ideal, but storage in a motorhome rarely is!

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Walmart Run

Donna needed to go to Omak today, so I agreed to chauffeur. I took the opportunity to pick up a shop vac I’d seen at the Walmart in Penticton. There, it was $35 (plus 12% tax) and I found the same one in Omak for $24!

It’s a small (one gallon) wet-dry vac. My hand vac died recently and I knew why–I’d been using it like a shop vac. So, replacing it with a normal vacuum cleaner didn’t make sense. I debated whether or not to even replace the vacuum, but considered what I need to clean up from the renos I just did and realised that having a vacuum on hand was a good idea.

The reviews for this machine are excellent, which is great since it only comes in at 720 watts, making me wonder how much sucking power it really has.  I just hope I can find a place to store it since it is about twice as big as the old hand vac!