Wet and Dry Vac

[tolly]

Hi, Im after a cheapish wet and dry vac....a quick search and it seems a "Earlex" or the wickes one are good budget choices...

Is the wickes one this one here

Wet & Dry Vacuum & Blower - Workshop Tools - Power Tools -Tools, Electrical & Plumbing - Wickes

I ask as someone said the earlex one toolstation now sell and wickes one are the same. But they look different so i was wondering if wickes have changed theres now?

thanks in advance

 

[rob2048]

Hi I've seen screw fix are doing karcha ones for under 50quid would have thought it will be quite good

 

[SimonJohns]

I got the £35 from b and q and it hasn't let me down yet

Just have to empty it more often

 

[Roger Welton]

Mine empties itself all over the back of the van unless I drain it.

 

[rodders09]

Wickes do one for £20.00 so far so good.

 

[kay-jay]

Hi I've seen screw fix are doing karcha ones for under 50quid would have thought it will be quite good

Me too but gets crap reviews

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[R1CKY]

I've got a Titan one from Screwfix, paid around £40 for it, no complaints.

 

[Pipedream]

I bought a Karcher from Plumbfix. Problem is the seal is poor and it has the habit of spraying water all over customers lovely new carpets. It now lives in the garage with all the other useless tools I have bought over the years.

 

[dancinplumba]

I have a goblin (no zeb you carnt have it ) found it in a skip 🙂

 

[Mr Doberman]

Its funny how forums vary in opinion. I asked this on another forum a few times and general opinion was anything under £100 was rubbish !

 

[dancinplumba]

just goes to show how sensible, intelligent and tight plumbers are !! lol

 

[Mr Doberman]

just goes to show how sensible, intelligent and tight plumbers are !! lol

i was thinking something similar myself ! :smilewinkgrin:

 

[TBServices]

Karcher ones are utter tosh, bad filter design and they leak. don't bother. Just bought myself a nilfisk multi on Wednesday and its immeasurably better.

 

[plum ber]

Wickes one's are great IMO I used them for allsorts in the past but they seem to change every 3 years now getting a new filter is immposible so need a new one myself

 

[Guest123]

Best wet vac by far is to get your mouth over a bit of inch and a half pipe and sook for Britain.

No leccy costs or leaky filters to worry about either.

 

[Dotty]

I use the Earlex mainly for servicing. great little hoover!

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[Mike Jackson]

I've got the Wickes one as well. Great little machine, does the job but cheap enough that I'm not too precious about it. I didn't fit the castors and chucked all the tools out as all I want is the hose. Don't need any fancy filters as it's just used for wet pick up, the Henry is used for dry work. Gets me out of trouble at least once a week. This weeks one was catching the water as I cut out a blocked cold feed, ten feet of pipe above the blockage which was directly above the boiler.

 

[malcky]

has anyone used the Metabo as1200 wet/dry vacuum? can be had for less than a Henry or George and seems to have almost identical spec apart from capacity is much larger on the Metabo model.

 

[lame plumber]

he wasnt cheap but I luv my george does wet and dry and wet cleans the carpet when you really cock up a rad removal.

 

[jase158]

bought my wickes vac as my vax one kept leaking black stuff on carpets.
I took it in the attic today and it fitted through a small gap, meaning that i dint have to bring the F&E down to clean it out.

mine is light, doesnt leak, very powerful (used it for cleaning F&E tank then emptied it and used it 10 minutes later to hoover carpet of dust from attic.
I am so impressed.

Only issue is that the filter ends up getting wet when it is full so be careful when opening.

And also the wickes one has a blow side aswell, meaning that if you have a blockage in pipe you could try pushing it out aswell as sucking it out and also clean filters/ boilers out with it for that hard to reach dust/ dirt

 

[Gmaservices]

Best wet vac by far is to get your mouth over a bit of inch and a half pipe and sook for Britain.

No leccy costs or leaky filters to worry about either.

Would fancy doing that on a saniflow!!