Dewalt has come out with a new wall-mounted wet/dry vacuum, model DXV06G. Over at Amazon, they’re calling this a garage vacuum.
The new Dewalt vacuum features a 5HP motor, 6 gallon capacity, and it can be removed from its wall mount for portable use. There’s a blower port on the side, onboard cord storage, and an accessory storage bag for keeping all of the included accessories within reach.
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It comes with a 20-foot hose, which makes sense given that you’ll need greater reach with the vac wall-mounted, and the hose is described as being ultra-flexible.
Accessories include 2 extension wands, 6 cleaning tools, a washable cartridge filter, and a foam filter.
Here’s a full list of what you get:
- 2 Extension wands DXVA19-1202
- Washable cartridge filter DXVC4001
- Crevice nozzle DXVA19-1400
- Disposable filter bag DXVA19-4103
- Ultra flexible hose DXVA19-2601
- Foam filter DXVA20-1200A
- Round brush DXVA19-2400
- Floor nozzle DXVA19-1900D
- Claw nozzle DXVA13-4364
- Muffler DXVA22-2520
- Utility Nozzle DXVA19-1300
- ON/OFF remote control DXVRM01
I’m sorry, but a remote control? I think I’m sold, or at least I would be if I had the wall space.
Here’s what it looks like handheld, to give you a better sense of its portability and size.
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Do you think this would be a good shop vacuum for DIYers, homeowners, or for workshop use?
Price: $199
Jared
Interesting size. I might have expected a wall-mounted vacuum to be larger, but it seems it is intended to be portable too.
Can you detach the bottom while the top stays mounted to the wall? I figure that would be handy for emptying.
The remote could be handy. I like that!
Stanley
The last few Black Fridays Home Depot has put their 6.5 HP 16 gallon shop vac on sale for $99; comes with a fairly complete accessory kit, 4 sheels and a push handle, and a push-handle bag for the acessories. Also a 8 ft hose, which makes me ask “why bother?” 8 ft is pretty useless, but at least the 20-foot hose is internet-available at $25.
It’s not – immediately – wall mountable, but dump the wheels, get a 4″to-2 1/2″ inch adapter (common for planers), build a shelf (gets it off the floor and allows storage space underneath, extra points for making the “shelf” mobile with casters, if you do, strap the vac to the “mobile shelf” ), put a 4″ PCV drain-waste-vent pipe on the ceiling with Tees in appropriate places (I put one between the first 10 ft sections, and one on a 90 degree elbow at 20 ft), rummage through the PVC pipe bins for adapters and screw-in plugs, use the useless 8 ft hose to connect the vac to the 4″ pipe, plug your 20 foot 2 1/2 hose into the Tee connections and “almost Presto! – you have a “garage vac” that will reach every corner of the garage and into the driveway and actually be useful.
They’ve also cut the price on the $40 “car cleaning accessory kit” to $20 the past 2 years on BF. Not sure it’s worth $40, but at $20 it’s a great deal.
FYI, outfit called http://www.centecsystems.com has hoses in 1.25″, 1.375, 1/5″ and 2.0″ in 25 ft and 50 ft lengths, with cuffs and adapters).
Koko The Talking Ape
I was going to say, ordinary shop vacs are wall-mountable AND can roll around on casters (which allows shorter hoses for less pressure drop.) What’s the advantage of a small vacuum that doesn’t come with casters?
But the remote is cool.
Carl
Neat, I like it. Not enough to replace my much larger and cheaper Rigid right now, though the idea is certainly appealing if storing the Rigid when not in use starts to become a problem.
Mac
Any wall mount unit should come with an adapter for pvc or other fixed piping in a shop.
I assume it’s corded? Hard to tell from the pictures and description? Would be more interesting if I don’t have to buy into another battery ecosystem.
Steve
It’s corded, you can tell from the model number. A cordless one would start with DC and be DCVsomething.
Steve
Howz-a-bout an updated 2 gallon 20V vac from Dewalt? Maybe with a brushless motor so it develops more than 34CFM of suction. One can dream about features like a hose holder that actually holds the hose and an exhaust port doesn’t blow directly at what you’re trying to vacuum up most of the time too. They should make that a higher priority over at SBD than the wall mounted one, let alone my dream that they ever come out with a Dewalt 20V stick vac.
Big Richard
SBD offers a Craftsman V20 stick vacuum, why they do not offer a yellow version is beyond me. Maybe it is around the corner, but maybe not.
Also, I second the notion that an updated 20v/AC would be a welcome addition to the lineup. It’s a great little vac, but it is getting long in the tooth.
Wooglin
I totally echo your sentiment. DeWalt, please come out with a stick vac. I drool over Makita’s with their optional cyclone attachment.
And yeah, Milwaukee’s (and Makita’s) cordless options leave ours in the dust (pun). I use the same one you do, the cordless DeWalt, and it’s not elegant, kinda bulky, a bit weak, the filter isn’t designed that well, the hose doesn’t store elegantly, etc.
Jared
I am onboard too. I love my little 20v cordless vac – but I think it’s getting a little long in the tooth when you look at what else is on the market.
If all they did was make it brushless with a little more power – I’d be happy.
Corey Moore
I’m still sore about the 60v dust extractor being Tstak. I’ve got all toughsystem, got no interest in tstak. I’m not buying it for a good vac and toughcase integration. I use the same 20v 2gallon, gets the job done, but not winning any objective competitions.
Mike
You can save $80 with this option:
https://www.amazon.com/Vacmaster-Gallon-2-Stage-Mountable-Control/dp/B001O6RA6Q
I’ve had this in my wishlist for about 3 years, but i keep debating about getting the M12 vac instead.
Addicted2Red
Keep the vacmaster unless you plan on getting the newer M12 packout/fuel ones. The old one kind of was worthless.
I have a wall mounted vacmaster I bought from costco 4 years ago. Works great, the remote turn on feature is a godsend.
fred
It just doesn’t seem large enough for what I think of as a garage vacuum. But I’ve seen garages with polished epoxy coated floors and “display” tool racks – so to this might have some appeal.
While this does not purport to be a central vacuum system – it has one of the characteristics of being mounted. We installed central vacuum systems for some of our clients over the years, and I have one house that has one installed. I find it to be a love-hate relationship – and still back it up with a separate upright machine for some rugs.
Gordon
There is a Ridgid version that is pretty similar for only $99. But I’d say the version with the car cleaning kit for $150 more closely matches the accessories you get with the DeWalt.
I have a 14g Ridgid which is really nice for big jobs. But it’s a pain to lug around when you need to clean up small projects. Especially as it gets full. Cordless models are nice, but still very expensive.
Bob
Kinda neat. Agree it seems a little small for a garage vacumm system. But it might be handy to mount close to the workbench suck up all the junk instead of blowing it all over the place with the air gun.
Compact size does have its advantages. Fits in a tight garage bay easier.
I could see this is as a nice little vacuum for cleaning out the car/truck etc. especially with a 20ft hose.
It would be nice to have a reel for the hose though. Dewalt could sell it as an accessory.
I’ve been meaning to buy an old central vac system and retrofitting it the garage but this is a plug and play solution kind of tempting.
Also the remote function lends itself to working with station power tools for dust collection.
MM
Looks like a nice tool, though there’s obviously some funny business going on with the specifications. 5 horsepower from a normal wall outlet? That’s impossible. Sounds like people are quoting inrush current specifications as continuous power again.
cary heggen
a vacuum gets a remote, but the new lasers do not?
JoeM
Uh… Coming up a little foggy here, I don’t use the lasers… But can you install one of those Bluetooth battery socket adapters in the lasers, then turn the laser on and off using the connection to a phone? It’s not exactly the healthiest for the electronics, but if there’s a hard on/off switch on the Laser, I think a Bluetooth option may help until DeWALT sorts out this particular oversight?
I do find it odd, hearing that any kind of light, laser, or stationary unmanned tool doesn’t come with some sort of remote operation method. That kind of oversight would be one of my first design thoughts, if I were to design the electronics… Bluetooth remote operation, or some sort of universal light/laser/on-off RF remote for these kinds of tools. If you can get a remote shutter button for your phone, it shouldn’t be a terribly difficult, or expensive, thing to add to the operation.
And… Yeah… They added exactly that kind of thing to the Vacuum here… I’m… A little floored that this has been left off other tools… I’m not outraged, but… I am confused.
Derek
Wall-mounted vacuum with a dust deputy attached would be pretty sweet in my woodshop. I think at $200 it’s overpriced but maybe that’s just all the accessories. With the included remote I could realistically put this up almost to the ceiling and put the wall-mount dust deputy underneath of it.
Jared
That’s clever thinking. That would make the smaller tank size an advantage too. Easier to find space for the dust deputy.
JoeM
Dust Deputy? What about the full-on Cyclonic Bucket Lid? I think you can get those to fit 65-100L Trash Bins like the old Rubbermaids. (18-25 Gallons in Imperial, for my esteemed American comrades here.)
Or… Would that break a 5HP engine, trying to pull from so large a space like that?
I think I may be sold on this product as a small-shop dust collector anyways, especially at ~$200 US… Might be closer to ~$300 CAD… but… For a shop dust collector in an apartment? That’s reasonable, I think.
MM
“Or… Would that break a 5HP engine, trying to pull from so large a space like that?”
No, that wouldn’t have any effect on the vacuum. Think about it: if you just vacuum normally you’re “pulling from” a really huge space: the entire earth’s atmosphere.
Also, there’s no way this thing is anywhere close to 5 horsepower. The maximum power a North American standard wall outlet can provide is 15 amps at 120 volts, which equates to 1800 watts. That’s roughly two horsepower, theoretically. In practice you won’t even find that much since motors are not 100% efficient–to get 1 HP’s worth of work output it takes more than 1 HP worth of electricity input. Anytime someone claims a plug-in appliance has more than about 1-1.5 HP it’s some kind of misleading marketing nonsense, since any higher is physically impossible.
JoeM
Okay. Whatever power it actually draws at, I don’t care the number. The size and form factor do suit me, and the idea of the giant cyclone-lid debris filter in the vein of this “Dust Deputy” device they’re talking about… Let this little vacuum pull an enormous diameter cyclone (even if it’s low power) in a full-sized garbage bin underneath (perhaps even with its own bag ready to go?) … That sounds like a pretty ideal apartment-or-condo sized workbench dust collector and vacuum system to me.
The physics seem to work in my head… but does it seem appealing to any of you? Because a tiny vacuum is a quiet one… which works well for apartments or condos… thin walls and all that… And the price seems right for this use more than it does as a portable tool. A full Dust Extraction system you just have to add a giant collector bin to? That’s actually really cheap.
I wouldn’t get it to replace a proper workshop dust collection system, obviously… Just for small spaces… like I have in my apartment. Seems perfect to me. Am I wrong here, MM?
By the way, I am enjoying the fact that I can double check what I am thinking with someone like you, who seems to have the actual equations in their head all the time… I see patterns and visualizations, but I don’t see the numbers themselves… I hope you don’t mind if I pick your brain a little on some of these issues? I like having actual smart conversations. (Unlike other places on the Internet these days.)
Derek
This is what I’m talking about – https://www.oneida-air.com/dust-deputy/wet-dry-vacuum-kits/dust-deputy-bagger-cyclone-separator-kit
Not saying it would replace my real dust collector, but for small tool use (sanders, routers, etc.) and general cleaning up this combined could be pretty sweet.
JoeM
Oh, I totally agree, Derek. I looked it up and saw the same awesome idea you had. Then I remembered another product I had seen in multiple places.
https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/workshop/dust-collection/parts-and-accessories/30282-veritas-cyclone-lids
This is just one version. There’s dozens of companies that make them for various sizes of containers. Imagine scaling all the way up in size to a 100L Garbage bin! Huge volume! (I think it’s 18 Gallons? They make bigger as well…Huge volume.)
Dust Deputy… Cyclone Lid… Just imagine putting something 3, 4, or even 10x the volume of the actual vacuum in underneath! Now that’s a small shop dust collector, right? Either way… Really awesome combo!
Wooglin
I’m curious how this compares to the Bissell 18P03 (https://www.amazon.com/Bissell-Garage-Wall-Mounted-Vacuum-18P03/dp/B003R3JFJO)
and to the Ridgid wall-mounted vacuum (https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-5-Gal-5-0-Peak-HP-Portable-Wall-Mountable-Wet-Dry-Shop-Vacuum-with-Filter-Hose-and-Accessories-WD5500/100377372#overlay)
The Ridgid seems to have a fair amount of accessories, but lacks the remote. (And doesn’t look as nice, IMO.)
The Bissell seems more marked towards car cleaning, but seems like it could easily pull workshop duty. And the semi-clear dust bin that allows you to see how full it is seems nice.
Opinions? Stewart?
Jim Felt
Looks useful. But that said I’ve got 3 or 4 battery vacs, two HEPA wheeled units and the Milwaukee M18 backpack for mostly concrete wall drilling.
Oh. And my favorite fast grab DustBuster.
If it’s possible: too many already?
fred
You just need more houses/garages to put them in.
MFC
Yeah, that is pretty sweet. Especially that remote. They should definitely make a bigger one and a dual 20′ hose or 50′.
Nathan
wall mountable might be an accident here – in that I also would see it van mountable.
the remote might well be a great addition for someone to cart this to a site – setup either the table saw, miter, or something else that needs dust collection. And have remote switch on – to the vac sitting on the floor/ground by it.
not enough for major just – but good enough for some use – needs a bag probably.
But yes for the dollars there are many other shop vac devices out there that do more for alot less. Any 12 gallon job is better than that but not quite a portable.
Adam
Sounds like my Craftsman I have on the wall in the garage, from Sears of yester-year (or decade).
Abby
I love mine, in fact I have 2! One is near my workbench and the hose reaches everywhere and hooks up to my saw easily.
The second one I have near my dog grooming table, off of the floor, easy to use!
Wooglin
Where do you source your bags from? Replacement bags for this (part no. DXVA19-4103) seem to be non-existent.
Brian
DeWalt has to come up with a new cordless vac — their current one lacks power and is behind the times.