Is it possible to use ONLY as vacuum? Without mulching?
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No the vacuum has a steel blade in it (the reason my husband likes it) that mulches and is permanent.
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No, Timm you cannot. Everything passes through the blades. With some custom modifications, perhaps you could isolate the incoming vacuumed debris from passing through the impeller. If this is your goal, why not buy a shop-vac that has a blower function, instead?
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I'm not sure, there is no way to by pass the fan blade. I think what ever gets vacuumed comes in contact the the blade. Hope this helps.
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No, Timm you cannot. Everything passes through the blades. With some custom modifications, perhaps you could isolate the incoming vacuumed debris from passing through the impeller.If this is your goal, why not buy a shop-vac that has a blower function, instead?
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nope, I don't think so. As soon as you switched to vacuum mode, it sucks and mulches at the same time...
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We absolutely love the mower- it's the best we ever had. As for mulching, I cannot comment on that as we bag everything it picks up and put it in a mulch pile in the corner of our yard, so never really used it as a mulching mower. As a bagging mower it works fine, vacuuming up even small stuff.
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No. Due to the smooth edges of the mylar it cannot form a vacuum. What I do is to put an oxidizer in the bag, use my jar sealer attached to a straw, seal the bag with a hot iron up to the straw, pull a vacuum as best you can, then quickly remove the straw and seal. The oxidizer in the bag will remove whatever air is left. You want to use extra oxidizers to ensure good air removal.
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There is a lever to turn off the brush roller at the base so you get direct vac to floor only. I turn off the brush roller on bare floors.
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You can use the blades without a mulching plug/cover although you are losing the effectiveness as a mulching blade. The blades create a vacuum under the deck that sucks the grass up over the blade and when it falls back down it is cut repeatedly thereby achieving a fine mulch. So yes you can use it without a side cover, but you are losing most of the mulching efficiency of the blades.
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Yes, you can remove the fence entirely, but you would loose the vacuum port.
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No it is a blower only - I have had several blowers with vacuum and they never worked or got clogged up...just my opinion
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A wet/dry vacuum can be used with wet leaves, but it might clog up in no time. My best solution so far: let leaves dry the stuff into any leaf bag (for your town to collect weekly).
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Yes, only with the sanding attachments. The cutting blades are not ported for use with the vacuum.
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We use a manual pole vacuum attachment with hose . The method works great with no issues.
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I don't think you can. It is a Dyson attachment so you need to have a Dyson Vacuum
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Yes, I just put the whole vacuum on the sofa or bed and vacuum it that way, but you can use the attachment. It's easy to manage and not so heavy.
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In theory, the leaf blower works as a vacuum, but I have avoided using my leaf blower that way. It doesn't take much, according to other reviews, to break the unit. Why risk it?
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absolutely, regular house vacuum does just fine, a shop vac would also have no problems. It's just pulling air out.
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Hi Samantha, Unfortunately no is only deep cleaner and is not designed for just vacuuming. Sorry!
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I have never tried doing this. I am not sure, but I see others have already addressed your question. I'm sure it could be done if you transfer the contents into one of the FoodSaver type bags and omit the vacuum step like someone else mentioned.
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This isn't a vacuum. It's more like a dust mop. When used with a wet cloth, it's a wet mop. Whatever sand didn't cling to the wet cloth or the dry cloth would just end up being pushed around.