Buyers Guide

Gardening today is still regarded as a chore or a hobby for some of us which can certainly be quite time consuming and hard work. But lucky in this era we are offered much in the way of products and services to help take the hard work and time out. Leaf blowers are one such gardening tool that was created primarily to help with the clutter of leaves that we find around our homes and streets, especially during the Autumn. Like many other products out there many brands, types and sizes can be found. With so many available this causes us to research into them to find out just why they would be of any use to us. Making buyer guides just like this one spring up to help us consumers into finding the best product or leaf blower in this case.

 

Importance of this guide and taking our time buying

There are many different factors that you need to think about with any leaf blower such as range, power and ease of use which includes many factors but it’s primarily weight and size. Unfortunately we can’t just go along with which one has the highest power and which is perfect for someone else because they may need a leaf blower for a completely different situation. This is important to understand so that you get what you want and require, not what suits someone else. Here’s a common example…

Say you have a large garden where you have many flower beds and ‘sensitive’ areas but you need a leaf blower as you are fed up raking leaves which just seem to show up the next day again. Most people in this situation will automatically think they need a powerful leaf blower (not thinking about these sensitive areas). So we do research through customer reviews and they state something along the lines that its amazing and the best leaf blower for their large garden, perfect for getting withered and wet leaves off the lawn, pathways and away from flowerbeds. So you go and purchase this leaf blower… only to find out that the thing has damaged your flowers and blown gravel from your paths everywhere. This has now cost you more time and even damaged your lawn mower from all the gravel and stones on your lawn.

However this guide will give provide you a step by step method which will iron out those all those factors and make it simple for you to find the best leaf blower to suit your needs. You will also find some helpful links to resources on this site that will provide you with all the information you need.

Our Simple Steps to Purchasing a Leaf Blower

1-Requirements

The first thing is deciding whether or not you really need a leaf blower by knowing what you need it to do. This will also help in greatly narrowing down possible matches for what you need. So think and write down your requirements, here are a few things to think about:

• How big is your garden or work area
• Would you want a vacuum attachment to clean up the leaves afterwards
• Do you require portability or perhaps easy storage of the machine
• Noise levels

Looking at the requirements you have written, do you think you still need a leaf blower, or could you just do with a rake and dustpan? If not lets continue!

Step 2 – Attributes

Moving onto attributes. When we say attributes we are referring to air power, weight, mulch ratio and more. Importantly they are the core of a leaf blower/vacuum and the solution to your requirements. Take reference to our attributes resource here: Attributes of a Leaf Blower

Peeking at these attributes can you think which would be most helpful or limiting in achieving your requirements? For example, price, would you spend any amount? Or, does the weight have to be a certain class – lightweight, medium, heavy? If so write down a list of limitations and a list of essentials.

As a side note, please understand air power is not always as vital as you may think, some models can be too powerful and damage or disrupt surfaces. If you have sensitive areas such as gravel paths or flower beds keep this in mind and right this down under requirements now.

3-Selecting Valuable Features

Features are enhanced attributes for user satisfaction. They can aid in such problems such as, strain, sensitive surface areas (as noted earlier) and concentration of air flow. All features aid in the ease of use of a leaf blower. Of course we have a resource listing all features and describing what they do. Find it here: Features of a Leaf Blower

Taking reference to features write down the ones you require or think you will definitely need. These features will be used as a rough guide that you expect the leaf blower to do/contain.

4-Selecting Power Source & Type

Let’s start by going over types. There are a few different types to select from, namely, backpack, handheld and push/wheeled/walk behind. Backpack and pushed machines are gas powered to get more power out of them, they are also aimed at a more commercial use for clearing larger areas. For home use look to get the handheld machines as they are more practical. Handheld blowers also come in varied power sources, gas, electric and cordless. Check out this article about the different types. It goes into more detail about each and hopefully helps you decide more easily. You can see it here : The 3 Leaf Blower Types

Moving onto power sources. They are a vital part as they have a big impact on portability, range limitation, operation time and power. All of these factors will affect your experience and possibly the task you are using the leaf blower for. There are three power sources, they are, gas, electric – mains supplied and electric – battery supplied(cordless). Now don’t limit yourself here and think you have to pick one, if you require a bit of power for example both mains supplied and gas powered models can provide a lot of power. However it is important that you understand the benefits of each, they can impact largely on what you need the leaf blower for. Find our detailed resource on power sources here – <<< Article link here >>>>. It will go into depth about each power source and explain the benefits and negatives of each.

Decided on what’s best for you? If you do prefer a certainty power source and type write it down. It’s not necessary that you pick a selected power source as long as you know each ones characteristics, although ideally if one doesn’t take your liking write down the other two. For types the same applies but really pushed models are of a different league and you should either select handheld or backpack if you are going for home use.

5-Finding the Leaf Blower

Now this step is all about utilizing the criteria in the previous steps to search and find the leaf blower that fits best. We have a great feature on our site for this but before we dive into that lets state a few important things. You should:

Look Around – If you happen to come across a leaf blower that hits all areas and looks good to what you need don’t buy it off the bat. Take another look around to see if more options are available. You may be surprised to see another similar model which suits you even better. The main point is take a few options into consideration so we don’t limit ourselves. This is important to get the best fit leaf blower. Of course some situations only result in one result.

Check out customer reviews – One of the best ways to find out about a product is through responses of customers that have verified purchases. These reviews can be a vital source as they can be from people who were in the same situation and have now tried and tested the product. However keep in mind everyone has their own requirements and a bad review may be because they did not select the right one for them, not because the leaf blower was bad. Also like above look out for many reviews and overall ratings, don’t get your information from one sole review. The more reviews stating a point, whether it’s good or bad, has more weight in the statement being true.

Videos – From my very own experiences I have found checking out videos from popular video websites has helped a lot. Videos display more clearly the actual machine in use (beware some videos may end up showing the wrong thing). But by seeing videos it can help give you a better understanding and overview. Seeing a product in use and by someone who owns it describing it gives more influence and insight.

Specialised Search Function

We have our own buyers search feature on our website. This will help you find the leaf blower for you from our reviewed leaf blowers, of course you may not find a compatible leaf blower from our search. Our database of reviews is ever growing at a steady pace but it is unlikely we can review every leaf blower available out there. Although you can be sure that we do review the most popular and highest regarded leaf blowers as well as an array of them to get a varied reviews database.

Our search has been designed in a way to help you in the best, simplest and easiest way to find a compatible leaf blower from our reviewed leaf blowers. You can search now with your requirements from above, here is our search: <<<Search Page link here >>>

Simple Checklist

Creating this guide we decided to create a quick reference checklist. You of course can create your own or simply use a notepad. Get it here: <<< download Link >>>.

Buyers Example

If you need a reference to an example of finding a leaf blower through specific criteria then we also have an example. This example simple shows you we selected a leaf blower through a specific list of criteria. From that we tried to find the most compatible leaf blowers that matched and selected what we thought would be the best leaf blower. You can find the example:

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Conclusion

Leaf blowers require some research and understanding to get the right one for your needs. Once you have the acknowledgement of what they can offer, you will have great foresight and getting the right one will be a doddle! Don’t forget to use our search function first as it has been built in synchronization with our database of reviews to provide you the best from our expertise.

As a final note check out the resources from our site. You can also see our information by navigating through our website. All guides and information are created to give anyone great insight into leaf blowers and what they can offer. If you have any problems or suggestions please contact us here: <<< contact image here >>>