Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1913 in Home Improvement
• Brand: Black & Decker
• Model: B/DGW2600
• Number of items: 1

Manufacturer's Description
2600 watt motor for high performance in vac and blow mode. Easy-empty bag. 2 speed switch for maximum control. Comfortable in use for every gardener. High-impact shredding blades to reduce the volume 10 to 1. Wet leaf scraper to increase collection of wet leaves. 35 litre bag capacity to collect up to 350 litres of leaves. Powerful 2,600 watt motor. Innovative collection bag.

Box Contents

• 1 x Black & Decker - 2600 Watt Blower / Vacuum Shredder

Customer Reviews

Beware of this sucker
I found the vacuum extremely powerful and nice & light to carry around. After 2 days of use, still haven't got to grips with the shoulder strap and have discarded it. I've had the same problem as the first reviewer, excessive dust coming out of the bag area, obviously not connecting right. But worse than this, the bag has started to fly off the machine in mid-use showering me in debris! After this happened 5 times, I gave up and started raking leaves with my £4.98 wire rake from B&Q, (5 stars). Am yet to get through to anyone at Black & Decker, they are not good at after sales service, I wonder why?

Saves me time and effort for garden debris from the neighbours trees
As with the previous reviewers, it's a relatively light and powerful unit.
Downside if the vacuum collection back. It slides in simply enough, but it's not a air tight connection.

So imagine a power motor sucking in air, the air will escape in any gap it can and take with it whatever it's carrying.

My workaround, got a black bin liner, cut the bottom of the back off (as the air will just ballon the bin liner until it pops. Tie it round the bag housing area so that anything that comes out will hit the bin liner and stick to that, rather than on me.

It is very loud. So far, it's done what I need it to do.

Does what it says on the tin!
I read the reviews on this and to be honest I was going to stay clear of it due to the negative comments. Seeing that it was on special, I have to admit it was the price that finally swayed me to buy it (down to £34 from £93).

Setting it up was straight forward enough and within minutes I was outside sucking and blowing. I was impressed by the power that this little beauty packs. I have a moderate size garden that hasn't been 'de-leafed' since they started to drop in the autumn (and have a mini woodland to the rear which has provided more than my fair share of leaves!). I found that the B&D Blower/Vacuum tackled everything with ease; even the welded on wet ones some 2 feet under the dry ones! I didn't experience any problems with bits escaping. It lost suction once or twice but this was due to a build of 'mush' on the inside ring of the vacuum which was easily removed with a screwdriver.

Overall I gave it 4 stars (it would have received 5 if Amazon had sent someone to do the garden for me!)