Vacmaster VBV1210, 12-Gallon* 5 Peak HP

Serendipity – and 5 stars
Hi Friends,The short version: I recommend this vac, easy assembly, great suckage, nice big visible power button.The long version: I recently purchased a cabin/weekender to escape to once in a while. So, I recently ordered a bunch of stuff to ‘stock’ the place, and had added a canister vac to my initial list. When I placed the order – that vac was no longer available, Bummer. I noticed this Vacmaster VBV1210 on the ‘customers also viewed’ list and on a sheer whim added it to my order with little if any research – and bonus (as you will soon find out) it is a wet-dry vac.The order arrived, and last weekend my mom’s cousin and I made a trek to the cabin to kick the tires, turn on the water/well since the freeze season was over. By chance I decided to put the boxed Vacmaster into the car, heck it had to go up anyway why wait for the movers at the end of May?Several hours later we arrived, moved stuff from the car inside, and eventually ventured into the dark and eery crawl space to turn on the well/pump, water heater, and so on. We met Hammy, my non-rent paying chipmunk who was rather shocked to see us in his chip-cave.We turned everything on, and all seemed to be ok. As we helped each other hoist our middle-age bodies out of Hammy’s domain, we heard a somewhat unsettling rush of water. “Hmm,” I said, “sounds like the shower was left on when they drained the pipes.” Close, but no banana.We entered the lovely vintage 1983 blue-everything-including-the-toilet bathroom to realize that there is a pipe in the wall that was disconnected as part of the drain process, which the sellers had not felt the compunction to mention. It was a mini-Niagra with a gusher emanating from the blue formica closet – not unlike old faithful. Water water everywhere and not a mop in sight.I dove back to the crawlspace, again causing Hammy not insignificant terror. He was like, WTF!? I shut the pump off, and went back up to find several inches of water in the blue-beauty bath – which was now flowing with verve out the door. Like the wondertwins, my cousin and I activated and both immediately said “THE VAC!” Mind you, there were no towels, no mops, nothing at all in the all-but-empty cabin. Luckily, the wet-dry vac was mere feet away.We ripped open the box and began assembly, literally tossing the instructions to the side. There is no time to do things properly when in panic mode! Fortunately, assembly was easy-peasy, the hardest part being locating the attachments and hose (they are stored in the central canister for easy shipping). Still, we had the thing together and plugged in within 60 seconds. Without our glasses.I turned it on, and within moments sucked up the gallons of water that had baptized my fabulous formica and pooled on the floor. The vac has great suction and made short work of the mini-flood. I later used in to suck up some debris from a bit of wall-demo, which the vacmaster also sucked up with ease.So, I sure am glad that quite by chance, I ended up with this unit and it ended up in the car on our first trip. It sort of got us out of a pickle. Mind you, this review is based only on a few uses one afternoon – it is not a long term review. And, I ended up saving about $45 vs. the one I had originally planned on getting.Pros: simple simple assembly, it has great suction, and has a blower detachable (I have not yet tried).Cons: the only slight thing that could be improved is the cord length, seemed a bit short 4-6 more feet would be great (when I used it later in the day, it kept coming unplugged as I tugged the unit around because the cord is maybe only 4-5 feet long – just a guess).Anyway, I would recommend this unit at least based on my initial use. I promise on my next visit up there to read the assembly instructions 🙂

This is for the US, it is not compatible for the UK. I had to buy a separate adapter converter which cost over £100 and it still does not work unfortunately.

one downside is the very short cord…so buy an extension especially for the leaf blower.