UK gardening - Garden Vac Recommendations?

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Garden Vac Recommendations?

Patrick E. King

2005-09-13, 2:15 pm

Earlier I mistakenly posted to free.uk.diy.home and was advised to post
here.
I'm trying to source a Qualcast Turbo Vac 1100W.
My next-door neighbour has one of these which I've used and was very pleased
with
it's performance.
He bought it some years back but cannot remember where he purchased from.
However, I cannot seem to find a supplier of this model.
Qualcast's site does not offer any garden vacs.??
I don't want to buy a more powerful one which will lift half my gravel along
with the leaves!
Any recommendations appreciated.
TIA
Regards
Patrick.

Pam Moore

2005-09-13, 2:15 pm

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:56:21 +0100, "Patrick E. King"
<seldom@home.pek> wrote:

>Earlier I mistakenly posted to free.uk.diy.home and was advised to post
>here.
>I'm trying to source a Qualcast Turbo Vac 1100W.
>My next-door neighbour has one of these which I've used and was very pleased
>with
>it's performance.
>He bought it some years back but cannot remember where he purchased from.
>However, I cannot seem to find a supplier of this model.
>Qualcast's site does not offer any garden vacs.??
>I don't want to buy a more powerful one which will lift half my gravel along
>with the leaves!
>Any recommendations appreciated.

I bought one at Lidl last Thursday, for £34.99. It is still in its box
until I feel brave enough to unpack it. The box is huge!
They have probably sold out by now.
Did anyone else buy one?

Pam in Bristol

Patrick E. King

2005-09-25, 4:21 pm

"Patrick E. King" <seldom@home.pek> wrote in message
news:dg6i9q$6qu$1@reader01.news.esat.net...
> Earlier I mistakenly posted to free.uk.diy.home and was advised to post
> here.
> I'm trying to source a Qualcast Turbo Vac 1100W.
> My next-door neighbour has one of these which I've used and was very
> pleased with
> it's performance.
> He bought it some years back but cannot remember where he purchased from.
> However, I cannot seem to find a supplier of this model.
> Qualcast's site does not offer any garden vacs.??
> I don't want to buy a more powerful one which will lift half my gravel
> along
> with the leaves!
> Any recommendations appreciated.
> TIA
> Regards
> Patrick.
>
Just in case anybody is interested I ended up buying a Flymo 1600 Watt Vac
and it does the job perfectly without lifting any of my gravel.
I deliberately opted for the lower power model for this reason.
Also it is a relatively quiet-running machine.
Patrick.

Mike Lyle

2005-09-25, 5:21 pm

Patrick E. King wrote:
> "Patrick E. King" <seldom@home.pek> wrote in message
> news:dg6i9q$6qu$1@reader01.news.esat.net...
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> Just in case anybody is interested I ended up buying a Flymo 1600
> Watt Vac and it does the job perfectly without lifting any of my
> gravel.
> I deliberately opted for the lower power model for this reason.
> Also it is a relatively quiet-running machine.
> Patrick.

I don't want to sound silly, but if you want a low-power machine to
lift leaves without disturbing the gravel, perhaps the one you use
for the house might be quite good enough. My 20-year-old Vax would
probably do the job pretty well. Or you could just wait for the
leaves to go away: they do that, you know...

The reason I take this attitude is that I disapprove of the present
commercial tendency to make people think they need more and more
machines to do simple, and often absolutely unnecessary, gardening
tasks. It's a simple hobby, for simple people: why anybody should
want to Hoover the garden is utterly beyond my understanding.

Leaf litter on the lawn will vanish in the course of mowing; the bits
you miss on flower beds will just add to the soil quality; and if a
few bits rot down on your gravel drive and make five cubic
millimetres of soil, well, next time you walk past, just pull out the
odd optimistic weed which may result. If that much bending sounds
like hard work, well, just run through with a Dutch hoe every three
or four years. Easy, and costs nothing.

Take it from me, the commercial gents are even now working on a way
of selling you a washing machine for the lawn. Do you want to be one
of the smart ones, or one of the suckers? Your choice.

--
Mike.

Janet Baraclough

2005-09-25, 8:21 pm

The message <3poeajFbc0prU1@individual.net>
from "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> contains these words:

> Take it from me, the commercial gents are even now working on a way
> of selling you a washing machine for the lawn.

Maybe you'd like to be one of the first lucky buyers to trial the new
Lawn Steam Iron? Produces a perfectly flat, smart hygienic lawn. Kills
all those nasty worms and insects. Clears snow like magic!

Janet

Mike Lyle

2005-09-25, 8:21 pm

Janet Baraclough wrote:
> The message <3poeajFbc0prU1@individual.net>
> from "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> contains
these
> words:
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>
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> Maybe you'd like to be one of the first lucky buyers to trial the
new
> Lawn Steam Iron? Produces a perfectly flat, smart hygienic lawn.
> Kills all those nasty worms and insects. Clears snow like magic!
>
> Janet

My Missis, ye know my Missis, I won't say she's houseproud, but when
I got oop 's mornin' (to go down 't dole office), she were ironin' 't
froont drive!

--
Mike.

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