Best Service vacuum

[solutions]

Any recommendations? Im looking for a vacuum to clean up deposits brushed from heat exchangers in domestic gas boilers. I assume given the potential for carcinogens in the deposits or potential for asbestos fibres in some older boilers that it should idealy be at least hepa filtered. I dont know if such a thing exists but is there a vacuum that have a bag with built in hepa filter so once the nasties are in the bag you dont have to expose yourself or any one else to them in order to empty it?

 

[LPC]

There can and will only be one answer to this; Henry.

 

[Chalked]

Or George

i have a festool midi vacuum too. Mega bit of kit with a massive filter. Don't want to get it dirty. Was on offer at Anglian tool for£199 inc vat and delivery.

 

[LPC]

Definitely prefer a separate wet vac. When I've been sucking out waste pipes etc I don't then want to take that same machine into Mrs.Pensioners house to service her gas fire.

 

[Killy Bing]

keep your vacs seperate if you switch from wet to dry it coats everything, strains the moter and soaks the paper or hepa bag.

henry do a hazardous vac but it costs a bomb.
see here HEPA Filter and Cyclonic Vacuums

or just use a bog standard henry with the hepa flo bags and microtex filter would be a more cost effective option

personally if i was to buy one again, i'd go for a metal cased version

seee here
Commercial Dry Vacuums

 

[solutions]

keep your vacs seperate if you switch from wet to dry it coats everything, strains the moter and soaks the paper or hepa bag.

henry do a hazardous vac but it costs a bomb.
see here HEPA Filter and Cyclonic Vacuums

or just use a bog standard henry with the hepa flo bags and microtex filter would be a more cost effective option

personally if i was to buy one again, i'd go for a metal cased version

seee here
Commercial Dry Vacuums

Thanks 1king will check those out. Agree with keeping vacs seperate, I have a wetvac just want a seperate service specific dry vac.

 

[Killy Bing]

i think the hepa style hoovers are around the 400 to 600 quid mark.

how far do you want to go for your health ehh ?

 

[TBServices]

I'm after a milwaukee cordless vac for servicing etc, apparently they're the business

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

Henry every time they were designed for servicing oil boilers(google it),hepa filters are cheap as chips for them

 

[Killy Bing]

*whistles*

 

[TBServices]

*whistles*

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Any good then lad don't keep me in suspense???!!!!

 

[Ermintrude]

I'm after a milwaukee cordless vac for servicing etc, apparently they're the business

I have one it's excellent, does suck and blow ( use the blow to clean filter. ) best price is tool monkey - Leighton buzzard. (Free delivery)

 

[Killy Bing]

pretty good, power is impressive tbh.
i use it to clean out the cars and the van too.
makes a good seat.
haven't used it for wet work yet.
milwaukee rep did say buy a second filter for wet stuff or the dust goes like cement in the filter.
good for gas fires and servicing but isn't really for cleaning up a building site..
fairly noisy.

main con is it does suck alot of juice out of the battery.



i am a touch cheeky and use the blower function to blow all the dust away after i core drill outside of the house.

if you have 4+ 3 or4 amp hour batts then its a good addition

on a milwaukee note this was announced today.

BUYING IT ASAP

http://www.milwaukeetool.com/power-tools/cordless/2792-20

i need a flipping radio

 

[Ermintrude]

Only problem is radio ain't dab

 

[Killy Bing]

ffx has tool monkey beat by 6 quid.
Milwaukee M18Vc 0 4002395243037 18V Cordless Wet And Dry Vacuum 18V

i know but i'd have it playing off my phone.
no bother to me

i'll tweet milwaukee and see if a dab version will be available

 

[TBServices]

I'd be all over that if it was DAB, regardless of price.

 

[solutions]

ffx has tool monkey beat by 6 quid.
Milwaukee M18Vc 0 4002395243037 18V Cordless Wet And Dry Vacuum 18V

i know but i'd have it playing off my phone.
no bother to me

i'll tweet milwaukee and see if a dab version will be available

Im beginning to think if you were cut open you would spill milwaukee. Which are owned by AEG if im not mistaken. I have makita kit but I like the milwaukee stuff I have seen, just haven't had the chance to try any of it. With battery tools once you buy in to a system youre kind of tied to it. Maybee I should just invent various intrtchangeable adapters to allow batteries from different manus to work on other manus tools.

 

[TBServices]

I'm always amazed that no ones invented a ..........

In fact, I'm keeping it quiet. Could make me a fortune.

 

[Killy Bing]

milwaukee ryobi,vax,aeg, dirt devil and many others are owned by TTI which is a chinese company admittedly however it's still good quality

corded tools i'm looking at hilti more than milwaukee.
milwaukee, panasonic, hilti and festool are the higher end of the market in my opinion in quality

hey festool have more tools now, even a cordless sds (they used to run a sub company called pro tool but they absorbed it again)

 

[TBServices]

milwaukee ryobi,vax,aeg, dirt devil and many others are owned by TTI which is a chinese company admittedly however it's still good quality

corded tools i'm looking at hilti more than milwaukee.
milwaukee, panasonic, hilti and festool are the higher end of the market in my opinion in quality

hey festool have more tools now, even a cordless sds (they used to run a sub company called pro tool but they absorbed it again)

Thought it was Atlas Copco? My milwaukee tools say made in Germany

 

[Killy Bing]

atlas copco got them in the 1990's and let them go to TTI i believe.

copco wanted them to be industrial tools but it didn't work out all that well
same
just owned by a Chinese company it seems