Eureka Airspeed One

[man114]

Picked up one of these to clean out a wood stove as it was cheaper than shop vac filters which burn up if you get a hot ash by accident.. This thing is cheap! Build quality is beyond cheap. Only redeeming factor over an equally cheap Bissell is it is dual cyclonic. I tested it against a Fantom Thunder & Rainbow E Series single speed last night. It was mostly good against light surface dirt. It had decent hose suction. The brush seemed overly stiff. It has only a foam filter and nothing else. Can't believe they make stuff like this & it proclaims to clean better than the best selling brand. What is the best selling brand? This thing can't possibly filter well as the filter is just foam. I may buy one for dirt I don't want to put through the Dyson, Rainbow or Fantom (which is what I did) but this is really scary bad as a primary vac.

 

[joshdonnell]

Airspeed one

I wouldn't thats the best thing a household vacuum to clean out your wood burning stove out with. I would think maybe a ash vac might be a better thing to clean out your wood burning stove . A household vacuum would clog and then might burn out. I just don't think that would be safe. Thats just my opinion.

 

[dustin]

I wouldn't use any vacuum to clean up hot ashes, let alone a brand new one. However, I use an ash shovel and metal bucket to shovel out the stove, then promptly haul the bucket outside. Then, after I have thouroughly scraped the stove out and made sure nothing is hot, I use a crummy old vacuum to vac up the remaining ashes. It really doesn't hurt the vacuum, just makes it smell a bit smoky and clogs up all the filters.

 

[super-sweeper]

Keep in mind,

He purchased this Cheap-O Deluxe super vacuum for the Sole purpose of cleaning a stove. It' nothing more than cheap plastic. So what if he burns it out? They're so cheap you can buy them buy the Truck load for less than one of those fancy Ash Vacuums.

 

[man114]

I am not intending to suck up hot ash with it, on rare occasion after a long burn you get a hot coal even after a few days and I don't suck up all the ash, I scoop most of it into a metal bucket, just cleaning the traces I can't get with the shovel. Even so you get a hot one every so often, poof goes the shop vac filter. In a plastic bin cyclonic vac such as this the force of the other ash buries and extinguishes the perhaps one tiny coal you miss, it costs less than most shop vac filters, shop vacs, ash vacs and even decent house vacs.

I used to use a Fantom Thunder with a broken baseplate to do this, a dual cyclonic does surprisingly well at this, I just opted to save what was left of that Fantom for future parts as they have become harder to find.

That really isn't the point of my post. Ok, the vac was $38 on Black Friday I understand that. The quality is just amazingly poor. The performance is poor. If it was referring to the Dyson about supposed cleaning ability it certainly didn't hold a candle to my DC33 or Rainbow. It has a single half inch piece of foam as a filter. Allergy sufferers beware. I bought it with an intended purpose, there are people using these as primary vacs. The brushroller is scary stiff. I generally use better quality vacuums and usually don't buy something like this so it is shocking how low they go these days.

 

[dustin]

I can't believe the ash stays inside with only a thin foam pad! I tried a Sharp bagless to suck up a little ash that I couldn't get with the shovel, and as soon as the ash hit the bin, I was greeted with a cloud of white ash from the exhaust... It has a 1" foam filter, a foam exhaust filter, and a pleated exhaust filter after that... not more than a teaspoon in the bin, and probably 1/4 of a cup flying around the room.