KärcherLBL 2 Cordless Leaf Blower

Bought this blower after the name of Karcher. blower is relatively light in weight and handy, but the unforgivable downside is the powerless air flow that barely moves dust and dead leaves. The battery was defective and it never powered up even after plugging it into the charger for 10+ hours. First time to get disappointed at Karcher - don’t waste your money!

This product is lightweight and easy to use. A spare battery would be useful for extended use, but they are a bit pricey!

Got leaves? Need to blow them?This is Kärcher LBL 2 Cordless Battery Leaf Blower (Battery Set).It comes in a surprisingly small box.There is a UK plugged battery charger in the box; it takes a few hours to fully charge the battery.In use:• It's loud! There's no getting around this.• the performance is not bad — not great, but not bad either.• I would say its blowing ability is moderate to weak❌ it's poor on wet leaves; especially clumps of wet leaves.✅ It's good on loose, dry leaves 🍃❌ It a pile of leaves has been sitting outside in the rain for a long time, this device has NO EFFECT, even when you get right up close 😮‍💨⚠️ UPDATE: this is even useless on a few wet leaves (not a pile) - it's pathetic.⭐️ BUT you can just nudge it with the black nozzle to mechanically move them (or just kick them!), and THEN they become easier to blow!

I’m not impressed by this leaf blower. There are several fronts on which I was disappointed in this: build, battery, performance, and price. I had quite high expectations from this leaf blower. I’ve had a couple of window vacuums and a hard floor cleaner from Karcher, and these have all been pretty exemplary. I’m less keen on the leaf blower.On getting it out of the box the build quality seemed decent enough – it’s larger and chunkier than a Bosch leaf blower we used to have, without being cumbersome like our twin battery Sprint blower/vac. There’s a little bit of assembly needed – connecting and adding two parts of the blower tube, but it’s all pretty self-explanatory.The thing I’m not so keen on build-wise is the handle. This isn’t very comfortable to hold. There’s a textured grip on the upper side, but the whole thing is hard plastic and on the underneath, where fingers wrap around, there’s a thick and slightly rough join in the plastic. The battery charger is quite flimsy-feeling: a little plastic connector frame that joins on to the battery rather than a proper charging base.The battery came with some pre-charge, but insufficient to power the blower (around 19%), and when I put it on to charge I got a bit of a shock. I’m used to chargers from Ryobi and Murray/Sprint systems which, even using standard chargers, will get a 5Ah 18V battery charged in around 2 hours.This battery has an LCD screen display which shows how long it will require to charge. 247 minutes. Over 4 hours for a 2.5Ah battery that still has around a fifth of its charge. Really slow. The screen with time remaining for charge and battery status indicator are clear and easy to read.Power-wise, this is OK. It’s not an incredibly powerful machine. It works quite well on dry leaves especially over hard surfaces, but (even with the built-in scraper) is next to useless on anything that’s damp and sticky. We have quite a big garden, with a lot of leaves around it. I hadn’t got round to clearing these up earlier because I’m waiting for an operation and am finding our twin battery Sprint blower/vac too heavy and cumbersome to manage and was hoping this smaller device would make things easier for me.This Karcher machine works reasonably well on dry leaves, but doesn’t run for long at all. This is probably fine if you have a small garden and not many leaves, but less useful for medium/larger gardens. To my mind, the run time of 22 minutes is inadequate after the long charging time for the battery. I don’t mind needing to take a break after around 20 minutes – but having to wait more than four hours for charging seems excessive. You can get a fast charger for this, but costs approximately £40 and still takes around an hour and a half.I’d expected this leaf blower to be a bit like our old Bosch ALB 18. Small and light, easy to use, with a battery that drains quite quickly (17 minute run time) – but that recharges fairly rapidly (60 minutes) too. It isn’t.

In an ongoing attempt to replace petrol garden tools I choose this leaf blower. Its well made and comes looking the business but when it comes to a good old patio leaf clear I had to go get the brush. Think cheap hotel hairdryer. Sorry but not a patch on the old petrol one = almost useless.