Ridgid WD1450 14-Gallon 6-Horsepower Wet/Dry Vacuum

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Ridgid WD1450 14-Gallon 6-Horsepower Wet/Dry Vacuum

Product Details

Item Weight: 15 pounds
Shipping Weight: 27 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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ASIN: B001MBADFI
Item model number: WD1450

By : Ridgid

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Ridgid 18718 WD1450 14-gallon high performance set wet/dry vacuum has a six. peak horsepower motor that delivers effective suction to manage tough jobsite clean-up. Scroll noise reduction is a patented feature that gives quiet operation by precisely controlling the flow of air by way of the vac. The 18718 has 4 swivel casters which delivers easy 360-degree mobility. Also attributes quick release accessory storage bag keeps accessories close at hand but is swiftly removable to make emptying debris from drum rapid and simple and easy. The Ridgid 18718's 2-piece drum provides improved, additional rugged construction to meet the greater demands identified on the job website. three-layer Fine Dust Filter captures fine dust particles such as dry wall dust. Tug-A-Extended locking hose won‘t pull loose during use and the significant carry handle permits uncomplicated lifting of vac into service car. The Ridgid 18718 WD1450 has a hassle-free long 20-foot cord that wraps neatly about carry handle. The 18718 is equipped with a powerful exhaust airstream can be directed by way of the vac hose to blow debris from garages, decks, and sidewalks. The Ridgid 18718 WD1450 includes 2-1/2-inch-by-7-foot tug-A-extended locking hose, 2 extension wands, utility nozzle, vehicle nozzle, wet nozzle, 3-layer obtain dust filter and owner’s manual.
Power head with new patented SNR Scroll Noise Reduction design. Tug-A-Extended positive locking hose. Removable accessory storage bag. Filtration - 3-layer material treated with microban. Large built-in drain.

Technical Details

Powerful suction to handle tough job-site clean-up
Quick-release accessory storage bag keeps accessories close at hand but is quickly removable to make emptying debris from drum quick and easy
2-piece drum provides improved, more rugged construction to meet the higher demands found on the job site
Tug-A-Long locking hose won't pull loose during use and the large carry handle allows easy lifting of vac into service vehicle
20-foot cord wraps neatly around carry handle

Ridgid WD1450 14-Gallon 6-Horsepower Wet/Dry Vacuum

Customer Reviews

This vac hits just about every mark right on the nose for me.
PROS:
It has a ton of suction power (as long as you keep the filter relatively clean).
It has a large diameter hose that can suck up large chunks.
Well thought-out attachments. I didn't think I would, but I've used all of them for different applications, and found all to be very useful.
It is very quiet for how powerful it is.
Great carrying handle, and easy to use snap-locks to take the lid off and put it back on.
Long cord, long hose, quite portable.
Great casters, very stable.
CONS:
Just one, but it's nasty: The output blower blows with incredible force on the opposite side of the suction input. Some form of this is to be expected to a certain extent, as the air that is sucked in has to be pushed back out in some way with equal force; I've just seen other designs that manage this much better. This design pushes with equal force out of a hole equal in diameter to the input hole, horizontally out the opposite side. Like I said, the force is great. It is like a leaf-blower. This design is supposedly set up this way so that one could hook the hose up to the output hole and do things like blow leaves... but if you're not blowing leaves, you blow dust, dirt, debris, and other unwanted things out into the air to fly off and settle somewhere else. A nightmare for, say, cleaning up drywall dust after hanging, taping and sanding drywall -- by turning on the vac, you are effectively distributing all the dust on the output side out into the rest of the house.
Don't get me wrong; the suction is amazing, and what you suck up is sufficiently filtered and deposited into the base... It's just that anything that happens to be on the wrong side of the vac will be lifted up off the ground and spread off into the distance. The only way I've found to avoid this is to aim the output hole out a door and be mindful not to tug the vac in too far while cleaning. Seems like a serious nuisance to me.
Are most shop vacs designed this way? I guess I've only seen one other brand's design, which came out the top and somehow spread the "impedance" of the air so that it exited gently out of a vent that ran 360 degrees around the motor, instead of being concentrated into a tight, forceful air jet shooting out of one side.
Overall I really like the vac. It's the most powerful of any I've ever used and has really worked well for all the things I've used it for. I just have to pay close attention to where that exit port is and make sure it won't cause any problems.

Purchased this vac and a Craftsman Gutter Clean-up Kit (Sears $19.99) and cleaned the gutters on my ranch house this afternoon. I am a 5'2" 66 year old woman, and with these two items I finished the job in just over an hour!
The gutter kit contains 2 extension tubes (identical to the ones that come with the vacuum) and a candy cane shaped piece for the end which fits into the gutter. All I had to do was walk along and vacuum up the leaves, twigs, dirt, etc. SO EASY!
The pieces did NOT come apart - stayed together much more securely that my little 5 gallon Shop-Vac. It was also WHISPER QUIET compared to the Shop-Vac even with 6hp motor compared to 1.3hp on my old one.
Assembly involved putting on the wheels. The top half was very easy to put on and latch with two side latches. Nothing spewed out as it had a good seal. Cord wraps neatly around the handle.
I have been paying $40 to $50 twice a yr to have my gutters done, so this will pay for itself in no time. I have had a problem with water running over the top of my gutters in heavy rain, so today was an interim clean-up, but the container is very roomy and will hold lots when the full fall clean-up happens.
Vac rolls nicely on hard surfaces, but must be carried over grass. I was worried about the size and weight, but even at my small size it was not a problem.