Customer Reviews

Shop-Vac 2-1/2-Gallon 2 HP Wet/Dry Vacuum with Accessories #5860262

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Good:
- Small, lightweight
- Relatively inexpensive.
- Better than not having any shopvac.

Bad:
- "Quiet Series"? Compared to what--a KISS concert? I've used a lot of shopvacs in my day, this one isn't any quieter than any of other ones I've used. Using my sound meter, I measured 88 decibels at the end of the hose. A jackhammer is 90 decibels.

- The ring that secures the filter element to the motor housing frequently falls off. Once that happens, the room instantly looks like the scene inside a snow globe.

- During the first 10 seconds it is turned on, the motor whines and then stops. The problem is likely a bad bearing, so I don't expect this thing to last more than a year or two.

If I hadn't received this as a gift, it would have been promptly returned. I'm not likely to ever buy a ShopVac brand unit to replace it once it does die.

WHEN I FIRST TOOK THIS WET VAC OUT OF THE BOX I REALIZED HOW SMALL IT WAS.
IT ALSO DIDN'T HAVE THE LONG TUBING THAT MOST OF THEM HAVE. BUT, WHEN I STARTED TO USE IT IN MY DAUGHTERS NOT CLEANED IN TEN YEARS BARN I REALIZED IT WAS A VERY POWERFUL AND USEFUL MACHINE. IT NOW STAYS IN MY CAR GETTING READY FOR ITS NEXT JOB.

If you expect it to be quiet- remember "its a SHOP VAC" not your precious indoor ionic vacuum.

When you buy a shop vac you are buying an item to clean industrial size messes - not sound nice!

The Shop Vac wet./dry cartridges will NOT fit this model. You don't actually get to find that out until you buy them. The dry filter on this model is a joke and is simply made out of cloth but it is the only one you can use. The wet filter is just thin foam. I wasted my money on this model. I hope you don't.

I am going to send this back. It says it has "easy roll casters" and it does not. It is also noisy. It would be OK for use as a car vac but does not meet our needs.

I PURCHASED THIS ITEM FOR MY HUSBAND FOR FATHER'S DAY.... HE LOVES IT!! OUR CAR HAS NEVER BEEN CLEANER.