DesertTortoise
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I push a broom around my patio every day to every other day to keep the doggie hair from two energetic huskies down to a dull roar. It collects en-mass in the seams in the slab and floats around like drifting snow. I use an upright dust pan to collect the hair but it's endless and seemingly futile to try to sweep hair. I give up!
So I'm a vacuum oriented guy and the brain cell (only one left after my Naval service I think) fires today. Use a stinking vacuum you fool! Make a chore fun, another excuse to play with your toys. But darned if I am going to use one of my current vacs for patio duty. Not after some of the clean ups I have documented here. No, those vacs have earned a clean future.
My patio is 14 feet wide, 45 feet long and covered. It's a lot of area to keep clean. I like the idea of a shop vac but know next to nothing about them. A wetldry vac would be mighty handy for draining the evaporative cooler in the fall. I use a hand pump now but I have to sponge a lot of water out after the pump sucks air. However, I want to have the dry material I vacuum up in a nice bag I can throw neatly into the garbage pail. I don't want to dump a vacuum bin over the edge of the trash can in a cloud of dust nuking the insides of my trash can in the process (yes, I wash my trash cans periodically, I'm that bad). I also want to buy American as much as possible. Do wet/dry vacs have an option to use a bag or must you buy a dry vac to get that feature?
What are the recommendations of the brain trust here? What's good and durable and US made?
So I'm a vacuum oriented guy and the brain cell (only one left after my Naval service I think) fires today. Use a stinking vacuum you fool! Make a chore fun, another excuse to play with your toys. But darned if I am going to use one of my current vacs for patio duty. Not after some of the clean ups I have documented here. No, those vacs have earned a clean future.
My patio is 14 feet wide, 45 feet long and covered. It's a lot of area to keep clean. I like the idea of a shop vac but know next to nothing about them. A wetldry vac would be mighty handy for draining the evaporative cooler in the fall. I use a hand pump now but I have to sponge a lot of water out after the pump sucks air. However, I want to have the dry material I vacuum up in a nice bag I can throw neatly into the garbage pail. I don't want to dump a vacuum bin over the edge of the trash can in a cloud of dust nuking the insides of my trash can in the process (yes, I wash my trash cans periodically, I'm that bad). I also want to buy American as much as possible. Do wet/dry vacs have an option to use a bag or must you buy a dry vac to get that feature?
What are the recommendations of the brain trust here? What's good and durable and US made?
