Flymo Garden Vac 2200w Turbo

Please help - I am wondering why a well known garden vac manufacturer provides such flimsy collection bags that develop holes after very few uses, very very few. Patch them up and a couple of brief outings later new holes. The replacement ( still flimsy) bags are ridiculously expensive so……hang on, I think I know the answer to my question. Take a tip from a frustrated user. Have had 5 bags, all the same problem. DO NOT BUY.

I recently bought the Flymo 2700 garden vac, primarily for vacuuming lawn clippings from around our pool. We have a slab terrace around the pool, then lawn. Prior to buying the Flymo, collecting the lawn clippings meant grovelling on me hands and knees with a dustpan and brush, so I hoped the Vac would be the solution to all my problems. Wrong!

It's unbelievably unwieldy, heavy and awkward. I cannot imagine how an elderly person or unfit female would manage. When vaccing, the air drawn in has to come out somewhere and this is through the bottom of the sack which hangs immediately below the motor, thus blowing air back out on to the surface you're trying to clean and scattering the very stuff you want to suck up. Brilliant! The cretin who designed it obviously never tried using it for its intended purpose. Why can't the exhaust air be blown out the back of the motor? Furthermore, the shoulder harness is an uncomfortable waste of space.

The Easi Wheel expensive option is essential, unless you have the muscles of the Govenor of California. Quite why this an extra and not standard is beyond me.

not too bad except for the leaf shredder thing mentioned above....

Every time I use the Flymo Garden Vac 2200w Turbo leaf blower I hope it's going to work better than it does. It blows stuff away very well, but I don't want it for that. When vacuuming, the angle of attack of the head to the target is critical, otherwise the loose leaf just stays there. Much time is spent wiggling the business end up, down and about to get the angle just right so that it works.

The bag is attached by a flexible plastic skirt, which isn't very secure, and comes apart in places very easily. This makes gaps between the bag and the machine, through which leaves it has managed to pick up, escape.

It may be that they're all like this, but all in all I think the Flymo Garden Vac 2200w Turbo leaf blower is a no-no.