WEN Drywall Sander, Variable Speed with 15 ft. Hose (6369)

Dust collector actually works!!Static charge continually zaps me. Too bad US did away with mandatory three prong plugs on all appliances.There instructions are very important. See photo.Overall, I’m pleased with it. One pass is sufficient and it does not tear drywall or paper. Sandpaper last long time. Did large room with one and half papers.

One of my best buys. This is an outstanding piece of equipment. I am a land lord with 8 rentals. One of my units had severe wall damage in one bedroom and ceiling damage in kitchen. Gut and replace bedroom drywall and 1/2 of ceiling in kitchen. Wasn’t looking forward to all the sanding of joints. While whining about all sanding to my wife, she said I should get one of those power sanders she had seen used on TV. Sorry, not rolling in money to buy one and went to Amazon to see just how much one might be. I came across the Wen drywall sander. My thought was, this is probably a piece of junk but it might help some. I was sooooo wrong! This is a piece of professional grade equipment. When you set it up for work, you know you have a quality tool in your hands. Heavy duty construction. The variable speed motor is heavy duty and will cause the sanding pad to cut through the toughest sanding jobs with ease. It’s “soft start” function (slower start vs full speed start) keeps you in control.The kitchen ceiling needed to be retextured but there were so many coats of paint, I couldn’t get water through to remove the texturing. With an 80 grit sanding disk and I was able to cut through the paint on the texture enough to wet the ceiling in order to scrape off the texture. Only took about 15 minutes to do the ceiling (10 x 25 kitchen), with almost no dust.It took me about 15 minutes to sand the bedroom. Light enough to work about 15 minutes continuous without a break other than to move to next wall. Again, almost zero dust in the room.Only complaint I have with the unit is the hose attachment. It doesn’t fit a standard 2” vacuum hose. Matter of fact, I haven’t found anything that it does fit. So I fixed it with the universal adapter - duct tape. Bit of a pain but that’s easy to live with the time and labor saving of the marvelous tool.Without any doubt, this sander is worth every penny of its very reasonable price. I expect this sander will be a great tool for me for many years to come. I highly recommend this product.

If you do much in the way is drywall work this is defiantly worth having. I was able to send an entire house in about 4 hours instead of spending days. It is variable speed and I didn’t need to go above about 4.5 (goes up to 9). Hooking it to a shop vac it collected 90% of the dust which also saved me a lot of time on clean up. The heads are easy to switch between so that you can go from the round head to do main area to the corner head quickly.The down sides: It is heavier than I expected, spending an hour with it was about as exhausting as spending a full day sanding by hand. Part of this could be due to the fact that the round head has a brish ring that hangs below the level of the sanding disk, so you have to push agenst to wall to get the sanding disk to touch the wall. The on switch is in a location that makes it easier to turn on but I kept bumping it when using the tool and it would shut off, the button either should be moved or redesigned so the it doesn’t shut off when bumped.

This sander lives up to the advertising, good power, good dust collection using a shop-vac and good features. I watched several YouTube videos on this sander before purchasing and most all were pretty much accurate in my experience. The sander seems to have plenty of power even when using 60 grit sanding disks as I never had it bog down. Dust collection with a shop-vac is very, very good, but as I saw in videos when everything is turned off and you rotate the unit sanding head down there will be some dust fall out. You do have to have a vacuum for dust collection, but it will run without it if you can stand the dust! The difference between sanding with a manual pole sander and this WEN unit when connected to a shop-vac are night and day! I have a basement to finish out and just doing a room previously, there was dust everywhere and I was trying to figure out how I was going to keep all that dust from getting upstairs. Using this WEN sander and a good shop-vac has alleviated my concern almost completely! A couple of things to know: the unit is slightly heavy and you will need to rest or switch arms occasionally and the On/Off switch is a little too easy to switch OFF accidently. The unit has one extension section if you have high walls or ceiling work and also a shoulder strap for the ceiling work to take some of the strain off your arms. I would bump the switch moving my hand around while moving the sanding head on the wall and turn the unit off and I think it just needs a slightly better location or more recessing to correct that. This WEN sander has delivered on its advertising promises and I'm happy with it and the results. I can recommend this product!

This is way faster than screens. I hooked it up to my shop vac with a hepa filter and bag to cut most of the dust out. The hose is a bit flimsy and the shop fan was almost too strong for it. Great value for the money. Prob wouldn’t last long if used daily, but great diy tool.

I took on the challenge of renovating my home myself, and one of the biggest headaches was taping and sanding drywall. Hand sanding was a complete nightmare—dust everywhere, uneven spots, and my arms were ready to fall off. I finally caved and got this sander, and it made a world of difference. It saved me so much time and effort, especially on ceilings, which now look smooth and even.That being said, it’s not perfect. The build quality feels decent but not super durable, and I wouldn’t rely on it for professional use. The hose is long enough to give good reach, but it does get in the way sometimes. The dust collection helps, but it’s not 100%—there’s still some cleanup involved. Still, for personal projects, it does the job well, and I don’t regret getting it. It saved me from hiring a pro, which meant more money in my pocket.