3 Gal. 3.5-Peak HP Portable Wet/Dry Shop Vacuum with Built-in Dust Pan, Filter, Expandable Hose and Car Nozzle

I bought this tool for draining a sump pit. I have used it many times and it works extremely well.

Decent vacuum. Overall, it doesn't quite have the amount of power I was hoping for. For anyone wondering, my previous vacuum was the Bucket Head 5 gallon vacuum which you place on a 5 gallon utility bucket. The Ridgid 3 gallon is definitely more powerful and has a better selection of attachments. I do feel that this vacuum is a little loud for it's size. If you are able to get this for the sale price of $45 I think it is worth it. Overall it is a decent vacuum for the size and price, assuming you get it reduced from the normal $60 price tag. It is a bit less than I was hoping for, as my plans were to use it with my orbital sander to collect dust. Additionally, the car nozzle seems of very high quality. The hose has a tendency to pull the vacuum in the event of a sudden loss of suction, such as covering the nozzle with your palm, or sucking dirt from carpet using the entirety of the hose. Thankfully this can be remedied with the little air relief valve on the hose, but is still a tad irritating. I think this vac could benefit from some sort of small, grippy feet to keep this problem from occurring. If you just need it for light, around-the-house pickups, and for car cleaning, I think this vacuum will be great for you. I have only been using this vacuum for a few days now. I appreciate the availability of dust bags, as I didn't have an option for that with the Bucket Head vac. I also bought to 7 piece car detailing kit to use with this, and they pair well together. **The hose pictured below in my review is from this detailing kit, and is not included with the vacuum.**

I'm very impressed with this shop vacuum. I purchased it primarily to vacuum our cars and it does that and more. As others stated there are a lot of attachments with no explanation. I did some research and these special buy came with the car cleaning accessory kit and details on the additional attachments can be found here: https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-1-1-4-in-Premium-Car-Cleaning-Accessory-Kit-for-RIDGID-Wet-Dry-Shop-Vacuums-VT2534/100638355 I have attached a photo from the webpage for a quick review of the car cleaning attachments.

Suction is sufficient for my car, but it should have another vacuuming attachment with it.

Great little shop vac. I purchased this mainly to clean out my pellet smoker, however I use this thing all over the place. In the house, in my shop. Works awesome for cars. Don’t let the small size of this shopvac fool you. It has great suction for its size. Highly recommend if you need something smaller for little cleanups.

To add a post script to the previous review: I don't mean to offend anyone's viewpoint; but I'd say for the smaller size & form-factor, this shop-vac has perfectly fine suction (if not slightly better than expected). Eh, I'd suggest checking the seal around where the bottom bin/top enclosure meet for any obstructions or that the seal hasn't fallen out of alignment somehow causing the apparent decrease in suction. Also, make sure the twistable "collar" located at the handle-end of the hose is rotated around to correctly cover the entire "vent slot" (I attached a picture of the exact piece so that it's communicated as clear as possible). I'm pretty sure it's for manually adjusting the strength of suction and occasionally releasing the pressure-lock that occurs when the nozzle accidentally picks up something it shouldn't [i.e. - corner of a rug, etc.] that results in clogging the intake. If it continues to perform poorly; exchange it due to defect or perhaps the level of debris you're attempting to clean just simply requires a more powerful vacuum regardless. Now, I attempted the obscenely expensive Milwaukee 18V Cordless "mini"-Vac with 5Ah Battery and it was much worse than this RIDGID for completely different reasons. If other reviewers are talking about "poor suction" with this 3 Gal/3.5 HP model which I believe is intended to be mostly used to clean car interiors... go and try the Milwaukee for 4x the cost. Even though Li-ON is supposed to maintain full power output before quickly failing at the very end; that's not how vacuuming with this one felt. I'd take the 10ft tether/power cord trade-off any day over how quickly the charge falls off (my Milwaukee drills, etc. don't exhibit any semblance of that issue). And WOW is the that tiny cordless loud. Either the motor-type and/or compact structure of the air channels both result in the highest-pitch shriek and electrical "whine" that I've heard with a power tool since using a full-size 15yr old electric leaf blower. I knew within 5 seconds of turning it on the first time it was getting returned. Some circular saws I've used sound relaxing in comparison. So considering all of that long-winded backstory, I am objectively saying that this RIDGID is a much better experience so far. The "dust pan" feature is such a simple idea yet so clever... ingenious and a definite productivity booster. My only complaint is the lack of any extension wands or attachments that RIDGID decided on NOT including with this shop-vac... common guys, you mean to tell me you don't have the room in the profit margin to throw in a simple plastic tube or a hollowed-out plastic brush, if but only for the sake of it being a nice gesture? /rant over. Either way, at the "special buy" price it's well worth it.

I purchased this vacuum because of the side opening. It works, but just ok. When you sweep debris towards the hole is doesn't all go is and you have to move the whole container around and sweep again and again finally taking off the wand to pick the remaining bits left over. It is very light and portable making it very useful when laying a vinyl plank floor and needing to vacuum every edge for every plank. The floor was installed piece by piece, moving the vacuum along with me as the floor was installed was easy and helpful.

This machine works as advertised, but does have some shortcomings. It needs to come with a the extension pipes and dusting attachment. The hose drapes over the top of the machine and is a bit clunky. This unit seems very compact until you factor in the hose, the fact it is plugged in on one end and drapes over the top After purchasing these separately the vac became a bit pricey. The other thing I don't like about this is there is no good way to store any attachments. The two little clips on the top (see photo) are flimsy and a poor effort on RIDGID's part for storage. I was hoping the built-in dust pan feature would work a little better. By the time you get all of the sweeping up off the floor it would be faster to just take the hose out and just vacuum up the sweepings instead of trying to sweep toward the "dust pan." RIDGID makes excellent products, but this particular one does not quite do what I was hoping it would do for me. I was hoping to keep it in the kitchen closet where I could just sweep the floor right into it, but I have to move the vacuum around to get all of the sweepings. The inlet for the dust pan feature needs to be as wide as the entire body of the vacuum to work properly. The opening is only about 4 1/4 wide. It should be about 10 inches. Maybe one day RIDGID will make me a nice looking stand-alone kitchen vac that would look nice standing in the corner. In the photo, the extension pipes and dusting attachment simply will not stay put on top of the unit. My other experiences with RIDGID vacuums is much better than with this one.

I needed a small, powerful shop vac without wheels and with a paper filter for my workshop. I attempted to use two cheaper products, but the cloth filters would saturate with sawdust, get partially sucked into the fan, and blow sawdust all over the room. So far so good with this vac!

Awsome shop vac, this is high quality, the hose I think is rubber not the cheep plastic that Craftsmen makes. Its hard to find a 3.5-Peak HP in such a small vac. I use this with any kind of cleanups that I use for my carpets. Your typical brush attachment fits with this vac if you use the adaptor which I bought at Ace, but they have them at Home Depot I also modified mine for my convenience. This is easy to lift and you can hang on to it while u vacuum up leaves in your home and messes. I can't lift much but this just works. Very happy.