Best Matador Barrel Vacuum Cleaners

Brilliant for fireplace cleanups! – As a wood fire owner, its a love hate relationship - I adore the smell, heat, and entertainment of a the fire, but hate having to clean up after it.… Read more

and they are really messy - lets face it.

Ash, charcoals, bark, small sticks and general detritus from the firewood usually ends up everywhere. Not to mention the task of cleaning out the ash every week or so.

Enter the Matador Ash Vacuum.

You turn this thing on and literally just suck everything out of the fireplace that will fit down the tube! a little work is obviously required to move the remnants of the fire out of the way to get to the ash and smaller pieces of charcoal but its not hard to do with one hand while you suck out the ash with the vacuum in the other. and it beats the hell out of using a dust pan and brush and does a much better job.

Best part is once you're done with the inside of the fireplace - you can go to town on the outside and clean up all those other messy spots, under the wood holder, the hearth, and the whole outside of the heater where dust and ash settles.

This thing was cheap enough (60-ish dollars from Bunnings) and for what it's designed to do - it works really well.

It doesn't have any wheels, or a long cord, or any fancy attachments what so ever.

But it does a fantastic job of cleaning your fireplace. I wish I had have bought one years ago...