PowerSmith PAVC101 10 Amp Ash Vacuum,Green / Black

Working great. Been using for more than a week. Using it on a pellet stove wgich has very fine ashes. No problems. Seems to be a very sturdy vac...also no blow by of ash which is key using indoors.

Works wonders on our pellet stove and for the price 0 dust gets kicked up. Before we got it, the HEPA filter would pick up dirty air even after cleaning. Now it reads clean! Compeltey works but is messy to empty. Easy to use. Small which is nice because it's easy to move around. Works well!

Great! Not only for my pellet stove, its a great vac. My stick vac does not clean the dirt off my hardwood floors like this vac does. I love it.i ordered some extension poles so I dont have to bend over to vac the floors. I would recomend this vac to anyone.

This is a convenient vacuum but it cannot handle anything larger than a marble (larger chunks of ash). Make sure you use the small attachment or else you will need to remove the hose and unclog it repeatedly.

Works great so far. Used a metal shop vac for years but filter always clogged. Finally burned it up and this still needs emptying often but works better

They are NOT fireproof. Hot embers burned thru the filter, melted the plastic basket on the bottom of my vac, passed thru the motor and foam motor filter and shot hot embers and ash all over my living room! Don't trust it to pickup warm embers! Keep an extinguisher handy!!! Feb. 22, 2014 This item and the PowerSmith PAVC101 vac and PAAC301 filter have been grossly and dangerously misrepresented. from the start!! The company video asserts the danger of how warm ash can burn thru a conventional vac but not with there's? Warm ash contains small glowing embers that are not always evident in daily use. Here lies the danger! You can vacuum warm ash and when the added air flow thru the hose (which I must add is fire proof) mixed with unburned carbon in the ash, the warm ash will quickly turn to white hot sparks and burn thru the filter, pass thru the motor and be ejected strait up in the air thru the exhaust port while your happily looking at the wonderful job your doing on your stove and not seeing what's going on behind you!. Then consider the erroneous assumptions from some users such as--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filter caught Fire? Impossible! It cannot catch fire - I do not believe the Reviewer - I vacuum warm (Sometimes glowing Hot) ashes all the time with no problems ever! Q: Can you vacuum up warm ashes/ potentially sparks and have them safely stored in the can? A: Yes, it works great for that. I do it often with my pellet stove. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This can contribute to deadly outcomes and everyone should be aware of this. THIS SYSTEM IS NOT FOR USE WITH ANY WARM ASHES potentially containing even microscopic invisible embers! When my 11 months old vacuum and 3rd filter burned thru, it melted the plastic basket surrounding the motor intake, melted the foam filter surrounding the motor, (which is NOT HEAT or FIRE PROOFED and not replaceable) and ejected embers and hot sparks straight in the air in my living room. After a lengthy phone conversation with the parent company - Richpower Industries, Inc for a replacement plastic basket, I also suggested to there RD department they incorporate a metal spark arrester and use a better grade of plastic components such as DuPont(tm) Zytel® PLUS nylon or HTN92 Series PPA, good to 230 deg. Centigrade. When there customer service told me the plastic basket was not covered under warranty and tried to charge me $14.95, I was about to pack it all up and send it back to Amazon (2 year warranty) they relented and sent a replacement basket free of charge. Here is the bottom line on why I am keeping it. It has a robust 10Amp ball bearing motor with a cast aluminum fire proof impeller. The hose is fire proof with metal lining. Metal canister with good casters (great on a carpeted floor). Easy to clean with great pulling power. I intend to upgrade it with a metallic spark arrester on the motor intake and replace the foam motor filter with nonflammable fiberglass. The basic design is sound, but it appears quality took the hit from the drawing board to the production with there overseas "manufacturing partners" (China). Should Amazon pull this for safety concerns? Not yet, but the company Richpower Inc. should at least be called to task on there deceptive, contradictory advertising. (140 deg. ash filter verse fire resistant hose and canister) after asserting other Vacuum can "potently become a fire hazard"? (like the PowerSmith PAVC101 won't do the same thing???) I am a qualified professional as a retired engineer from the US Department of Energy and a contractor / owner of a successful HVAC company for over 40 year.

This thing is perfect if you have a fireplace. Much better than snowjoe. Construction is superior and suction power is much better than others. I was very surprised how easy it is to clean maybe a five minute job.

Ok. I'm that girl. I'm the one who looks for a bargain and a lot of times I find I should have gotten the more expensive one. This time is kind of in the middle. There were other ash vacuums that were cheaper and some that were ridiculous expensive. I did a Google search for independent reviews of various ash vacuums. This one was one of the better ones. I find the price just ok. But I don't even slightly regret my purchase. One of the main things I was weary of was vacuum strength and would things clog up. Strength: This vacuum has sufficient strength to suck up just about anything in your fireplace. And it did. It did quick work of sucking up not just ash but solid burn chunks as well. Clogging: I am so impressed with this machine I can hardly stand it. There were a couple of times I sucked up something that just didn't quite fit inside and down the tube that leads to the hose immediately. A little poke with my finger and "floop" down it went. No clogging. And when I tell you my fireplace was a mess... It was an absolute disaster! It hadn't been cleaned in a year. Maybe longer. My husband passed last May so I'm still trying to figure out my world and the easiest way to do everything that I know must do by myself. This definitely made this horrendous chore much easier! Look no further. This is the one.

This ash vacuum was purchased to replace another model of ash vacuum that was nothing but problems from the start. Since receiving the vacuum, it has work flawlessly. It is considerably quieter than the other model I had, and it does not lose suction after using it. The filter is easy to clean and keeps the dust from getting up into the motor which the other one I had did. The only thing I would suggest is to get the cleaning kit with the smaller adaptor for the hose because the metal tip that come with it is a little long and that make it hard to get into the corners of my pellet stove. Other than that, I highly recommend this ash vacuum.

Works well lots of suction. Unit actually has 2 filters, a standard pleated filter and the filter liner. The liner is heavy duty and well constructed. Filters work well they did not set off my air purifier that will go off if u fart to close to it. Good long extension cord, hose locks in well and flexible. Only reason I locked it down a star is my hose attachment for my stove will not fit in the hose without the metal pipe. I can live with that but would have been nicer if I could shorten that up

Good vacuum. Much quieter than the last one. I ordered the accessory pack based on other reviews that said the hose was too large to fit into their stove, but I never even opened it. I think our pellet stove is a pretty typical size and the hose, even with the metal piece and the brush attachment both installed, fits to clean it just fine. So I recommend getting this vacuum and not getting the accessory pack unless you find that you need it later. The vacuum even comes with a floor attachment, which I did not expect, so I can vacuum the floor around the stove more easily. It also has a top port where you can attach the hose to blow air instead of drawing it, so you can blow dirt and dust out of the motor and other areas of the stove. Let me say again: it is MUCH quieter than the last ash vacuum we had. I used to work as quickly as I could because the noise of the last one made my ears hurt, but this one doesn't bother me at all. The lower noise level alone is worth one star.

Unlike some others, I vacuum up glowing embers out of my wood stove with this vac. Works amazing! I can get most of it empty before the heat sensor kicks out. I never let my woodstove go out all the way in the winter, so emptying it is a pain, this allows me to take out the light/white ash and of course I get glowing embers in at the same time. LOVE IT!

This worked great for all of a month and then suddenly mid vacuum it shut off and wouldn’t turn back on for more than a few seconds. We followed all manufacturer instructions. Don’t waste your money.