Dustless Technologies MU405 Cougar Ash Vacuum, Black

by Dustless Technologies

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Dustless Technologies MU405 Cougar Ash Vacuum lets you clean your fireplace, wood stove, or barbecue without making a dusty mess. Designed to remove warm-to-cold ashes, the Cougar is fire resistant and features a unique double filtration system that traps even the smallest dust particles.

The Dustless MU405 Cougar Ash Vacuum At a Glance: Vacuums ash without creating a mess Use with stoves, fireplaces, or BBQs Clean filters without removing the lid Quiet and dust-free operation Flame resistant for safe removal of warm ash

Double filtration captures sub-micron particles for thorough cleaning. See it in action.

Double filtration captures sub-micron particles for thorough cleaning. View larger.

Flame Resistant for Safety
The Cougar is designed with safety in mind. It features a steel nozzle with a five-foot flame-resistant hose and a fireproof three-gallon steel chamber. The patented filter system uses fire-resistant fabric rated up to 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit, and the remaining parts are all made out of thermo-plastics to withstand high temperatures.

NOTE: Never use a household, or shop vacuum to clean a fireplace, because warm embers can be hidden under ash, which acts like an insulator and can keep embers hot for days after you think the fire is out. The combination of swirling air and debris inside a flammable paper bag filter is an extremely dangerous fire hazard.

Filter System Captures the Smallest Airborne Ash Particles
The Cougar features a double filter system that ensures no ash escapes the vacuum. This system leaves your air ash free and makes the process of cleaning your fireplace simple, clean, and healthy.

Each of the system's filters is designed to trap the finest ash, and the second filter even captures sub-micron particles. This double-filter action effectively traps ash, so your air stays clear.

Clean Filters Without Removing the Lid
Your Cougar's filters can be cleaned without removing them from the vacuum, eliminating any potential mess. For a quick dust-off, simply remove the brass cap from the lid and jiggle the agitator rod from side to side to shake the filters and make ash particles fall off.

After you have vacuumed up 60 to 80 gallons of ash, your Cougar will be ready for a thorough cleaning. Just detach and vacuum the secondary and primary filters to clean them.

Three-Gallon Canister Requires No Bags
The Cougar Ash Vacuum features a cold-rolled steel canister that will hold up to three gallons of ash. This fireproof canister safely contains your ashes without bags, so you'll never need to worry about expensive and annoying replacements. Just remove the canister's lid when it's time to empty your ashes.

Removes Ash Quickly and Quietly
Thanks to its powerful, six-amp electric motor, the Cougar can suck up ash quickly and easily. What's more, specially designed motor housing makes operation as quiet as can be. In fact, the Cougar is the cadillac of ash vacuums, operating with 60% less noise than the Dustless Technologies Cheetah II.

To help speed up ash removal, the Cougar's crimped steel nozzle is designed to quickly pick up ash and leave larger debris behind--for burning at a later time. To use, just place the vacuum nozzle directly on the hearth and swipe it in a circular motion. Ash will flow smoothly through the hose without clogging.

Warranty
The Dustless Technologies MU405 Cougar Ash Vacuum is backed by a one-year limited warranty for home use.

What's in the Box
Dustless Technologies MU405 Cougar Ash Vacuum.

From the Manufacturer

Love-Less Ash Company has made the job of cleaning your stove or fireplace easy. For about 20 years now people have trusted the quality of the Love-Less Ash Vacuum for removing the ash from their wood stove. Our American-made Warm Ash Vacuums make the job of cleaning ashes faster, safer, and neater. "No Mess" truly says it all. Clean your fireplace or wood stove in seconds. Forget about dirty hands, dirty ashes flying around the room and shoveling ashes. The ash vac is designed to remove warm to cold ashes from everything from wood stoves to barbeques. A steel nozzle fits on the 5 foot flame-resistant hose to keep unburned coals from clogging the hose. The patented two stage, high density, fire resistant filter system traps the finest ash particles ensuring that no dust exits the vacuum to contaminate the room. The fireproof 3 gallon steel chamber holds ashes so you donot need costly vacuum bags. The lid with motor remove for easy emptying when full, and the filter can be cleaned without removing lid. Take the step up to the "Cadillac" of all ash vacuums. With our patented filter system you will clean with out the fear adding Ash particulates back into the air you breath.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 20.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 16.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0006FKJG4
• Item model number: MU405
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,809 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
  • #26 in Home & Kitchen > Vacuums & Floor Care > Vacuums > Canister Vacuums

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

137 of 151 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Useless for coal stoves..., January 19, 2005

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Woodsie "Bummed in the Boonies" (Upstate NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dustless Technologies MU405 Cougar Ash Vacuum, Black (Tools & Home Improvement)

With a fat Amazon gift certificate burning a hole in my jammies, visions of a clean coal stove danced in my head. I had been lusting after one of these ash-vacs for years, and now finally, it would be mine...

Boy do I wish I had read a review like this one prior to purchasing this vacuum (which I will return tomorrow). Didn't even have to dirty it, reading the instructions was all it took. Unfortunately, it required getting in to my livingroom to figure this out, since in none of the online descriptions at various sites, including Amazon, did it mention that this unit is for FINE ASH ONLY. In other words, the steel nozzle opening, approximately the diameter of a nickel, is designed to admit fine powder ONLY, and even that in small bits with the nozzle pressed against the firebrick in a "small circular pattern", allowing the ash to "sift" into the hose incrementally. (The instructions went on to detail all the various ways the thing could get itself plugged up...)

HELLO! Has anyone out there ever heated with solid fuel full time? It would take all day to suck up ash in that manner, not to mention that burning wood/coal does not produce exclusively fine ash. For coal especially, clinkers - the molten residue of trace minerals found in anthracite coal, are part of the bargain, and are produced in such abundance that it would render this tool effectively useless for coal burners.

In addition, though the hose is metal, intimating that the odd live coal is no biggie, the filter system in this thing is CLOTH - ie. you can burn holes in it with live material. Then it leaks. Right.

I'll have my 200+ bucks back and suck my ash chamber out with my shop vac, thanks - especially since the stuff would have to be cool anyway. (You can buy fine particle filters and bags at Home Depot). So much for my simplified stove cleaning fantasies...Oh well.

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Look Elsewhere!, March 20, 2006

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Concerned Consumer "helpingman" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dustless Technologies MU405 Cougar Ash Vacuum, Black (Tools & Home Improvement)

I purchased this ash vacuum less than one month ago for use with a pellet stove. In that time, and with only light use, the "flexible" hose has cracked, the motor is making a funny noise as it winds down, and the suction is significantly decreased long before the canister needs emptying. I would never buy this again, and would recommend to anyone needing an ash vac to look elswhere.

48 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Loving my Love-less Cougar Quiet? Ash vacuum, April 4, 2006

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Sami and Madi's Mom - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dustless Technologies MU405 Cougar Ash Vacuum, Black (Tools & Home Improvement)

You know I read and yes, re-read those other reviews prior to going out and purchasing mine. I on one hand was using my own personal vacuum (wind tunnel hoover) to pick up the ash that my fireplace insert pellet stove was producing and I clean mine everyday. Using a ordinary vacuum is insane to say the least and messy so I finally went out and looked at the vacuums and came to this one online at Amazon but I went to my local fireplace center and purchased it there - to avoid shipping cost and they wanted nearly $270.00 for it but I got it at the same price as Amazon just no shipping - Well I LOVE IT - no mess not too loud - (the dog barks at my regular vacuum) no dog barking at this one. The flexible tube I have no issue with as of yet - it moves with ease and no cracking - no problems, no mess - I must tell you that it does not come with tools and I use and need the tools so I purchased them separetly well dont use your own vacuum tools they fit and why spend the $15.00 as you have no where to store them on the vacuum anyways. This vacuum is intended to pick up ash - not the hard stuff that looks like volcanic stuff that sits in the pan - just the ash and for us, no problem it does the job that my vacuum was dying over.