Thanks for the help/emails/advice everyone, spent a couple of hrs with Brian at extracta, he was really helpful and had alot of knowledge of pumps, vacs etc, no hard sell at all, I also chatted to a cc that had and still used an extracta for 14 years, my opinion was, its a good solid built machine that does what it says, so I bought one, I will use it for the time being and see how I go, maybe in time I will try/buy a higher powered machine and use this as a back up.