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A good shredder for home

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Hi
Please can you advise which is the best shredder for home use as seen some but they say cuts off after 10 mintues use 

As I have lot of shredding to do
I saw one at Argo's fellows £30 thinking about but if cut out after shredding a few pages will take years 


TIA


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  • aayush
    aayush Posts: 1,295 Forumite
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    Fellowes P-30C 6 Sheet 15 Litre Cross Cut Shredder


    he P-30C paper shredder can shred 6 sheets per pass into 4 x 34mm cross-cut particles, so you can be sure that your confidential documents have been shredded securely. This paper shredder will shred for up to 3 minutes before requiring 40 minutes to cool down. This cross-cut shredders powerful cutters will not only shred your documents into unreadable pieces, but can shred staples and credit cards too. For disposal of your cross-cut shredders paper waste, the P-30C paper shredder features a handy spacious 15 litre bin with a lift-off-head.Throat width 220mm.

  • facade
    facade Posts: 7,585 Forumite
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    edited 28 October 2023 at 11:20AM
    Buy two, and use them alternately, then they will last a lot longer than 10 minutes before they cut off.

    Domestic equipment is designed for light duty cycle use. You need an industrial shredder, or pay for a shredding service.

    Tbh, 10 minutes is probably as long as you want to bend over a shredder feeding in pages at a time anyway!
    My shredder was a £30 one years ago, and it has never cut out on me, my back usually gives up before the shredder.
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • How much is 'a lot'?
  • aayush
    aayush Posts: 1,295 Forumite
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    6 yrs plus and and to check if need some of paper work as moving to smlaller place 
  • Ayr_Rage
    Ayr_Rage Posts: 2,712 Forumite
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    My 6 years of paperwork would probably be around 60 sheets of A4 !

    How many sheets are you actually talking about ?

  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,204 Forumite
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    One possibility is to go for a straight cut shredder. Less secure than cross cut, but much faster. 


    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • aayush
    aayush Posts: 1,295 Forumite
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    hi loads of sheets but need a secure shred 
  • I've got a fellows cross cut, it has never cut out during shreadding. Don't put too much in at a time and it will whurr away for ages.
    Nothing to see here, move along.
  • aayush
    aayush Posts: 1,295 Forumite
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    does it take staples and paper clips /
  • SiliconChip
    SiliconChip Posts: 1,823 Forumite
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    Buy a dustbin-style incenerator (they're on sale in my local Sainsbury's at the moment for some reason) and burn everything.
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