Wet Vac

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Przrat

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Seems to me that the wet vacs avaliable go from about $100.00 then jump to about$400.00. Problem with the ($120.00)Rigid and Sears shop/ wet vacs is that the brittle plastic head breaks. Sometimes on the first night. Catching the grout areas on a kitchen floor.Additionally they put a removable squeege in the head of the vac which snaps, or gets filled up with debris. Piece of crap. The head doesnt work without it. Sears had a good wet head years ago but stopped making it. Now the alternative is a real expensive vac. Rigid has the same inferior wet heads. The hose size is 2 1/2 which is not standard. Metal wet vac heads are 2 inch. Not interchangable. Probably sized that way intentionally. Anyone know how to get the 2 in wet head on the 2 1/2 in wand? Or a reasonably priced wet vac? We have tried the adapters but they too are brittle plastic.
 
Przrat said:
The Vacs do last for years. I am asking about the wet pickup head.
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Yeah, there junk. You're lucky to get 4 weeks out of one. At $12 a pop they should be made better.
 
always pull those with little pressure. Let the vac do the work. If you start pushing them across the floor with those grout lines, they will break very quickly. We can usely get about three to four months from one head, but eventually they do break. Then its duct tape till we pick up another one.
 
Nicole,
When using one of these heads in a commercial kitchen, the grout lines catch the flimsy head and crack it. I am not aware of what you use it for but in Kitchens it is brutal.
 
I traded my vac for a squeegee a long time ago. Quicker, cheaper and best of all..............its cordless.
 
RMedbery said:
I traded my vac for a squeegee a long time ago. Quicker, cheaper and best of all..............its cordless.
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What do you do when the floor drain... doesn't?
 
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