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by Most favourable review

PondExpert PondMaster 1400w Vac

After recently taking a full day to manually remove 25 years of pond debris prior to laying a new liner on top of a damaged original and having to find somewhere to dump all this muck i thought, never again. So i decided to buy a pond vac and hopefully going forward stay ahead of excessive build up.
I have used the pond vac just once so far and of course i didn't need to vac that much off the bottom. It appears to work fine, is quite straight forward and easy to use. I found experimenting with the angle of the hose head attachment affected how it manages the pick up.
I cannot tell how it would cope with sludge yet but it collected enough green muck etc in the bag placed on the end of the discharge hose to see the evidence.
Found the hoses plenty long enough and the start/stop feature worked well.
The vac also has a dry suction feature and 1 collection bag supplied which i havn't used.

Given 4 stars rather than 5 simply because i need to use it more to learn more about its merits.
Recommended and so far so good
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Puzzled and annoyed

This only works by gravity expulsion of the water, for the instructions to suggest the waste water is disposed of!!!! is ludicrous, as it would mean topping up your pond with tap water?? So to avoid this I purchased their filter basket, around £40! Do not believe the photos on the vacuum box that both products can sit on the same level. The vacuum has to be higher than the filter basket to work.If you intend to empty your pond in the process of cleaning out sludge and discard your water as suggested, then thats fine, but it doesnt make sense!!!

UPDATE, 8th JUNE. On the second time of using this vacuum it has not bloody worked!! Instead of sucking up the water the machine is blowing in both modes, Pond/Indoors! Clearly a malfunction, so I'm about to pack it back up and return it.Read full review

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Good product works very well and will get better with practice.

My pond had a deep 2 year layer of muck on the bottom and the fish were constantly stirring it up so the water was permanently cloudy. Spent a couple of hours vacuuming it and it now has only a fine layer of particles which the fish do lift. I shall vacuum it again in a couple of weeks trying not to stir up the fine layer of silt. My two pump filters are starting to take some of it out and the pond is now crystal clear.Read full review

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works well i would say better for small ponds as could take a long time with a large pond.

Works well has good suction but you do have to be quick at the cleaning as you don't get much
time before it goes off for emptying the water out .

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Great Vacuum

I was a little sceptical about this machine before I bought it. I used it for the first time the other day on my pond and was amazed how powerful it was and how it cleaned the muck off the bottom of the pond. It was easy to use and put together. What an amazing vacuum this is. I would recommend this to anyone.Read full review

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value for money

powerful hoover gets plenty of silt from bottom of pond nice and light easy to use.... good value

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Amazing lightweight with great features

Have used a similar one for years but this seems to out do it power & easy to use

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Good for leaves and dry stuff

Does not get sludge and silt up very well need a different vacuum head.

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Excellent!!

Best product ever brought for our pond!! Have had a problem clearing water and sludge and all I can say is WOW! Used once and pond is already clear. Will use once more to make water crystal clear definitely recommendRead full review

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Pond to the Ready!!!

Husband very pleased with quality,and performance of this pond vac,good value too and some happy fish can now see daylight.

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