Are you sick of breaking Henry's and Karacher's on site? I was sick of unblocking filters. I was sick of taking filters out, tapping them clean and putting them back in. I was sick of buying a new hoover for each project. This solves everything! It is a sturdy powerful cleaner. Pay more for this rather than buy a Karcher to save money. I love pressing the button to clean the filter, and the capacity is enormous. Sturdy, powerful and get the job done. Typical Makita. Won't bother with anything else now.

Bulky and sturdy but not as powerful as I had hoped.

What your not told about this Makita vacuum cleaner is that it’s fitted with a non standard uk 3 pin plug and so is the power takeoff plug so it’s useless in the uk , the company have emailed me to say they know the problem is there but still happy to take my money and post to me , knowing I can’t use it ,

Very powerful cleaner

Excellent suction but noisy

Excellent customer service and exactly the quality product you'd expect from Makita- but surprisingly well priced!!

What can I say it's a Makita so I knew before it even arrived it was going to work and work well... I was not disappointed.I tried to keep it pretty but that lasted about a hour before the abuse started. I have abused this machine heavily over the last month in a very busy home workshop and it's handled everything perfectly including a load of panel nails which I accidentally sucked up when hidden under a load of wood shavings. I felt sure the 25 litre capacity would barely last a few days but it's still going strong.. granted I haven't bothered looking inside to see if it's full or not if it's still sucking and that's good enough for me... see abuse!The hose length is a lot and it stretches to pretty much anywhere in my workshop without having to wheel the machine around and it's flexible enough to get around and through all my machines, benches etc with no trouble. The cable is also pretty long too which will be handy for most people but given my machine never actually moves I shortened mine to keep it tidy.The machine comes with all the parts to act like an actual vacuum cleaner being a long pole thing, heads and pokey bits ... given it's my shop vac / chip extractor / dust extractor that all went into the workshop's "drawer of madness" never to see the light of day again.The plastic body is made with some kind of witchcraft at work ... the body is made of the pricer scratch resistant plastic and so far it is doing a great job.For the small workshop or for those of you that don't want to buy and or fit massive dust extractors and at the price this machine really is superb value for money and it broke outside of it's warranty period I would happily buy another but being a Makita it will probably outlive us all!

What can I say it's a Makita so I knew before it even arrived it was going to work and work well... I was not disappointed.

I tried to keep it pretty but that lasted about a hour before the abuse started. I have abused this machine heavily over the last month in a very busy home workshop and it's handled everything perfectly including a load of panel nails which I accidentally sucked up when hidden under a load of wood shavings. I felt sure the 25 litre capacity would barely last a few days but it's still going strong.. granted I haven't bothered looking inside to see if it's full or not if it's still sucking and that's good enough for me... see abuse!

The hose length is a lot and it stretches to pretty much anywhere in my workshop without having to wheel the machine around and it's flexible enough to get around and through all my machines, benches etc with no trouble. The cable is also pretty long too which will be handy for most people but given my machine never actually moves I shortened mine to keep it tidy.

The machine comes with all the parts to act like an actual vacuum cleaner being a long pole thing, heads and pokey bits ... given it's my shop vac / chip extractor / dust extractor that all went into the workshop's "drawer of madness" never to see the light of day again.

The plastic body is made with some kind of witchcraft at work ... the body is made of the pricer scratch resistant plastic and so far it is doing a great job.

For the small workshop or for those of you that don't want to buy and or fit massive dust extractors and at the price this machine really is superb value for money and it broke outside of it's warranty period I would happily buy another but being a Makita it will probably outlive us all!