ITP Airtight Storage Container 30 Litre for Food, Pet Food, Grains, Flour

One of the strengths of the Amazon ‘machine’ is that it offers you things that you don’t yet know you'll need – but you really do. I had a lot of dust extraction to get through as I was grinding a concrete floor and also my garage had steadily filled with sawdust when my vacuum unit died on me and wouldn’t work despite my having changed the bag and filters. I bought a cyclonic extraction unit reviewed previously ‘vortex’. My mistake was to try to match this with an unsuitable receptacle that was not sturdy and was not airtight. It didn't really work and most crucially it didn't spare my vacuum unit that I'd purchased from our local DIY store and it really went through loads of filter bags.This jolly blue drum is both of these things - airtight and sturdy. Okay, it’s designed for airtight storage and is food safe but as Amazon humbly suggested, it is also perfect to match up with a cyclonic extractor unit.First of all, I drilled the lid. Take your time with this as you can easily go wrong and remember, above all, you need a sturdy and stable and air-tight connection with the base of the cyclonic unit. I only had a 50mm forstner drill bit and it was a teeny bit small. It did, however, provide me with a nice clean hole in the top lid of the blue barrel. I then offered up the cyclonic unit and marked the position where the bolt holes need to go through. In order to do this, I held it tightly in position, don’t let it move, and squirted some white paint from an aerosol to mark position of the holes. I drilled 5mm holes in turn and the cyclonic unit fitted perfectly. To the inside I used the plastic lid from a pack of masking tape and marked this in a similar fashion before drilling it. This was just to provide a bit more stiffness. As I brought the pieces together and before threading the bolts through (that come with the cyclonic unit) I squirted a nice generous helping of clear seal (that you night use around a bath) and made sure the bits were well tight.The lid fits perfectly on the blue barrel. It’s a bit fiddly and it took me a while to get used to but it is airtight and thus perfect for your cyclonic extractor. Connect it up and fire it up and away you go. Well, it works brilliantly. In no time dust and sawdust were falling from the swirling cyclone into this barrel rather than the filters in your vacuum cleaner. I also discovered that the hose was blocked in my old upright and once I’d cleared this it worked beautifully. The photos show the dust and sawdust accumulating in the bottom of the barrel the yellow top from the packet of masking tape and the whole unit linked up. The assembly is airtight and stable.Please note it’s best to have a fairly generous length of hose as the assembled unit is not easy to move around and also if you are not careful the whole thing will easily tip over. In point of fact I used the empty cardboard box that my wet and dry vacc came in when I collected it from my local DIY store and this was a perfect size and mean that the unit did not tip over and was just about possible to drag it around the floor I was grinding and the garage floor. Better still, however, would be a little wheeled trolley I saw in our DIY store for about £15. This has a ring of hard wood that provides support and has three castors below it. This would be prefect for attaching the barrel to though I suspect adding a bit of weight right to the base would give it more stability - those massive saw blades, as in my previous review ‘vortex’, would be perfect. This assembly would then allow you to drag your vacuum and your cyclonic unit around with you and hopefully if weighted properly it would not tip up.All in all this is an impressive assembly and if you are serious about hoovering up dust, cement and concrete dust and don’t want an industrial vacc and filter then this is just what you need. Happy vaccing!

I contacted the seller asking a few questions, I got a short reply explaining he was away from the office and he will answer the questions later. Since then (maybe a week) I have had no message. - I am having problems with my gmail but I was still able to recive mail from other people and websites?When I first got the barrle I gave it a good wash and filled it up with water and turned it upside down to see if it is air tight and I can happiy tell you it is. I dried it out and placed 13 kg of food inside (I think 15 kg is its limit) I have a second very small container (2L) and I place a weeks aworth of food in there so this barrle is only opened once a week to keep the food inside extra fresh. + I put a very small metal bowl in the barrle with 100g of moisture absorber to keep the food even fresher.The food we use only lasts 55 days (2 dogs) so I don't need to worry about the food going bad but it's good it know this food is stored properly.My friends and family sometimes come around and open the barrle, take food and then leave it open (it's hard to close) so I love the fact that you can place a very small wired lock on it. Hopefully I will never need to buy another one of these again as these containers are a VERY solid build but this will be my choice.

Have bought 2 of these, for 2 different uses. One a dust separator dust vac and one for flour storage.For flour storage it's excellent. I've managed to fit a 25kg bag of Caputo 00 into it. Airtight and HDPE food safe plastic and great handles makes this ideal.For shop vac, it does collapse when used with a 1300W vacuum. I haven't reinforced the insides yet but it will work great once it has been. Attached photos of flour storage.

Arrived as expected, within the time-frame stated by Amazon at ordering (approx 7 days).I ordered three of these for storing bulk powered and granular fertilizers in an allotment shed, that can get damp-ish during the winter months. They are strong, sturdy & airtight, so are perfect for the job. They are also strong enough to be stacked, one on top of the other, to save space. Airtightness is provided by an external metal-locking ring together with a silicon rubber seal embedded within a grove in the lid.I gave it 4 stars instead of 5, as opening & closing the metal-locking ring, so as to remove or replace the lid, can be a bit fiddly. When locking, the metal clip can abruptly snap shut, so careful of fingers. With only that reservation, it is nevertheless a good buy and worth the money to prevent spoilage of materials during long-term storage, due to damp conditions.

As with several others on here, I bought this to build a cyclone dust collector for my garage workshop. Originally I bought a screw top barrel off of ebay but I found that it didn't create a good seal and was awkward to fit and remove the lid meaning that the dust cyclone didn't really work. This barrel, however, has an easy to remove and fit lid, good strong handles, and a good airtight seal. The cyclone now works great and no dust gets through to the hoover anymore.

Bought for storing flour, they tick all our boxes: Air-tight, stackable, decent size, and robust enough to handle hauling in and out as we navigate through the stashing cupboard. They have room left over after a 16kg bag of flour, we reckon they take about 20kg filled to the brim.And they make nice drums in the absence of flour :)

I was looking for a food safe container to hold 16kg of flour ad this fits the bill. Sturdy container with a well sealed lid that locks on with a metal band.

Gave it a good wipeout before use and left it open for a couple of days before ladling in the flour. No problem with 'plastic' smell. A good, very robust and airtight container for bulk bread flour. Food grade plastic. The metal closure ring is a little tight as new, but that will ease with use (don't forget to remove the T shaped keeper it comes with before trying to open!).