Aldi - Garden Vac

On offer this thursday:

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have one, any good? What are the two tubes out the front, I guess the larger is blow, the smaller suck and there are manaul flaps to control the function? Does the debris picked up have to pass through the fan/mulcher?

In the process off pressure washing the outside of the house and removing most of the old flaking paint, even with tarps down to catch most of the flakes there is still quite a bit on the ground. Thinking that vacing them up once finished would be good rather than live with 'em for the next 5 years...

The bits are on borders and grass covered large (10mm or so) gravel paths. Will this vac survive ingesting 10 to 20mm stones, if it's got enough suck to ingest stones of that size of course?

Reply to
Dave Liquorice
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Got one couple of years back, better than a rake for leaves

Been a while since it was out , but yup flap to control between blow and suck, blow into pile , suck up.

Yup, to compress into bag.

As long as its dry , dont see it being a problem, wet flakes like leaves might need persauded into air with stiff broom.

Mebbe odd bit of gravel , but its more a draught than a hurricane, their is a speed adjust on handle , though Its no Billy Goat.

Overall ,on leaves, less grief than rakes and brooms on their own.

Cheers Adam

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Adam Aglionby

Be very wary of sucking up anything that is hard enough to shatter the fan blades. I know this from what happened to mine thanks to a friend who used it vacuum up a load of leaves + general cr@p in the garden. The vac was a write off and he never did find the stone that was ejected through the side of it. Geez, thanks friend!

Dave.

Reply to
Dave Starling

It looks like a "venturi effect" vac. The air is blown down the small tube and then jetted back up the large tube creating suction at the end. There is no reason why the debris has to go through the fan on these. To mulch the stuff they probably have a removable strimmer type of thing at the top of the big tube.

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dennis

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