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- The quick and easy way to clean your pond
- 2m reach to get right to the bottom of the pond
- Light weight for easy manoeuvre
- Three brush heads for a variety of cleaning tasks
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The Hozelock Pond Vac is the quickest and easiest way to a clean pond. It is 2m long, is lightweight and comes with three brush heads--a thin brush head for cleaning the corners of the pond, wide brush head for collecting large pieces of debris and a head with rubber bristles for lifting stuck on dirt. Includes a 10m cable and plug.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
This tool should be really designed by Dyson, as Hazelock did very bad design here. First of all it doesn't have power switch. So you have to run back and forth like mad, specially if you have small pond, before you will switch it off, half of the pond will be pumped out. Second problem is that it's heavy and akward to handle. Especially if you have a small pond.
But as there is not much choice of pond vacuum cleaners on the market Hazelock can get away with this. The way it works is that it sucks out water and anything you will point it at through the hose, to somewhere else (anywhere). It pumps water approx 70 litres a minute. So in our case 850 liters small pond, water would be pumped out completely in approx 12 minutes.
SOLUTION
Ok, as we all need to clean our ponds anyway, my way around it is:
We have had small spur presurised filter which I have used to construct this superb solution.
You need to connect the hose from the PondVac to the pressurised filter and short hose from filter back to the pond. This way you can clean your pond for as much as you like without the need of topping up your pond when you finish. All dirt is simply stopped by pressurised filter.
But as there is not much choice of pond vacuum cleaners on the market Hazelock can get away with this. The way it works is that it sucks out water and anything you will point it at through the hose, to somewhere else (anywhere). It pumps water approx 70 litres a minute. So in our case 850 liters small pond, water would be pumped out completely in approx 12 minutes.
SOLUTION
Ok, as we all need to clean our ponds anyway, my way around it is:
We have had small spur presurised filter which I have used to construct this superb solution.
You need to connect the hose from the PondVac to the pressurised filter and short hose from filter back to the pond. This way you can clean your pond for as much as you like without the need of topping up your pond when you finish. All dirt is simply stopped by pressurised filter.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
I thought Hozelock had a reputation for quality products so I took them at their word and bought one of these. But actually this product is nothing more than a little pump on a long stick. On the video on Hozelock's website, it looks effortless to use, but what they don't show you is how many times it blocks and needs stripping down and cleaning out. Mine has never worked for more than two or three minutes at a time. Thinking I must be doing something wrong I persevered, but despite trying the pondvac out lots of times I've had no success. Another annoyance is that it seems that the whole of the pump head has to be under water - which means that you can't vacuum the shallow shelves. I just feel it was a lot of money to spend on something so completely useless. Avoid!
34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Four stars for a horse that fits my course.
I have a seven foot long by four foot wide by three feet deep pond with butyl liner which I built myself about a year ago, it was clean from the start save for a few grains of sand. It has a pressurised filter and the water is very clear. The pond is by my own admission well over stocked and I do tend to overfeed my fish as I love to see them battle to gourge themselves.
I needed a pond cleaner that was easy to use once a week to keep the pond floor clear of fish waste. In this respect the Hozelock works perfectly. It was very easy to assemble, there is no disassembly when not in use, I take it out the shed put the drain hose in the flower bed and plug it in. It is comfortable to hold and use simply by use of a sweeping motion back and fourth. The fact that it drains water is useful for topping up with clean but you could put a filter bag on the outlet pipe and flush the drain water back into the pond. It has a useful clear window in the handle so that you can see what you are drawing up. The whole process takes 5 mins each week, very simple, no fuss or bother or without clouding the water, perfect for my needs.
What it wont do is pick up stones or sizeable vegetable matter (it does pick up sand and grit). My pond is new and I have kept it clean from the off, and I dont suffer with leaves or vegetation falling into it, if yours has stones in the base or routinely suffers from roting vegetation then the rotors will block and stop the machine. The rotors are relatively easy to clear out as the nozzle is removable but it will be a pain if you need to do it often.
If it had an on/off switch it would get 5 stars, you turn it off by pulling out the plug, not ideal with wet hands.
I have a seven foot long by four foot wide by three feet deep pond with butyl liner which I built myself about a year ago, it was clean from the start save for a few grains of sand. It has a pressurised filter and the water is very clear. The pond is by my own admission well over stocked and I do tend to overfeed my fish as I love to see them battle to gourge themselves.
I needed a pond cleaner that was easy to use once a week to keep the pond floor clear of fish waste. In this respect the Hozelock works perfectly. It was very easy to assemble, there is no disassembly when not in use, I take it out the shed put the drain hose in the flower bed and plug it in. It is comfortable to hold and use simply by use of a sweeping motion back and fourth. The fact that it drains water is useful for topping up with clean but you could put a filter bag on the outlet pipe and flush the drain water back into the pond. It has a useful clear window in the handle so that you can see what you are drawing up. The whole process takes 5 mins each week, very simple, no fuss or bother or without clouding the water, perfect for my needs.
What it wont do is pick up stones or sizeable vegetable matter (it does pick up sand and grit). My pond is new and I have kept it clean from the off, and I dont suffer with leaves or vegetation falling into it, if yours has stones in the base or routinely suffers from roting vegetation then the rotors will block and stop the machine. The rotors are relatively easy to clear out as the nozzle is removable but it will be a pain if you need to do it often.
If it had an on/off switch it would get 5 stars, you turn it off by pulling out the plug, not ideal with wet hands.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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I have a 400gallon preformed pond which was desperate for a clean. The bottom of my pond contains gravel and small stones. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Baz
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I have a small pond wih a fountain, This thing empties the pond in about 5 mins and is absolutely useless for cleaning this particular pond. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Calibro
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One of my sons took an interest in fish from the moment he caught his first fish whilst fishing, he decided he wanted to have fish at home so we set about building a pond in the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by honest answer
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WHILST THIS WONT CLEAR LEAVES I HAVE READ OTHER REPORTS ABOUT IT BEING USELESS AS IT BLOCKS UP WITH LEAVES. Read more
Published 12 months ago by LOL
Awful product
This is, quite simply, the worst product I have bought for a long time. It clogs on a regular basis because it can't handle large debris - or large amounts of debris - and it won't... Read more
Published 14 months ago by A Redman
Terrible and unusable DO NOT BUY
This product is terrible . There is no reason to buy it . I doesnt work unless fully submerged and even then the suction is minimal .
Published 15 months ago by InternetShopper
Great for pile of poo
Lulu said this thing is a pile of poo. And actually that's what I've found it most useful for. (Fish poo). Read more
Published 18 months ago by AJay
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This product is okay if the pond water is clean to start with. It gets blocked easily,and can burn out the motor. Read more
Published 20 months ago by conigio
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unfortunately my pond was too far gone to use a vac but what it did do was empty the water out very quickly to ensable me to start again . Read more
Published 20 months ago by bw
Hozelock Pond Vac
The Vac did an excellent job of cleaning up the algae on the base of my 4ft x 6ft pond. The Vac could be improved by the addition of an On/Off switch on the pump.
Published 22 months ago by John Kessell
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