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Black & Decker NW4860N 4.8v Wet & Dry Dustbuster Hand Vacuum

By Black and Decker

Our Price: £28.61

Lunch Box,Orange and White

By Black+Blum

Orange Box Appétit Lunchbox
Practical and stylish
Functionality at it's best!
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Measures approx 19cm x 19cm x 5.5cm

Our Price: £12.00

25 Yards Decorative Paper Raffia Ribbon In A Choice of Colours

By (Choose one from Natural, Pale Pink, Pale Blue, Olive Green, Emerald Green, Purple, Black, Red, White, Orange or Daffodil Yellow)

Neat and tidy strands of paper raffia ribbon.
Wonderful tactile ribbon that is great for a number of florist and arts and craft projects
Tie around handmade soaps, presents, bouquets or potted plants to add a stylish finishing touch.
Card makers can use small pieces for effective decoration on cards or gift tags or even for borders and edging.
A Shabby Chic or New England essential

Our Price: £1.99

Black & Decker NW3660N 3.6v Wet & Dry Dustbuster Hand Vacuum

By Black and Decker

Battery not replaceable., 2009-11-17
My V4899 B&D Dustbuster is about 2 years old, and doesn't get an enormous amount of use. Even so, the battery in it is at the stage where it provides full power for maybe 30 seconds and then goes feeble, feebler, feebler and so on.

I discovered that getting the battery replaced was going to cost rather more than buying a replacement unit (when including VAT and P&P etc), because it's an engineers job to replace the batteries which are (I kid you not) soldered to the motor assembly! How environmentally friendly is that? A product that you have to throw away because it's beyond economic repair, even though 80% of it still works fine. 0 out of 10 for B&D

A further 0 out of 10 for them because, when I contacted them to ask if they DO have a newer product with user replaceable batteries, they replied that they don't! That includes this model too. (BTW you'll find B&Ds hand held Vacs on their web site, just a couple of clicks away from the proud statement from their CEO that says how hugely environmentally friendly their products are!). It maybe that their recent merger with Stanley Tools will bring a little 21st century thinking into their designs. Let's hope so.

So anyway, now, I am looking for a Hand vac that has a user-replaceable battery. I'd advise you to do the same unless, a couple of years from now, you too want to be junking a perfectly good vac, that just has a duff battery.

There you go, a rarity! A cleaner review that hasn't used the word "sucks" - doh!

Alan T

Our Price: £24.95