GarageVac by InterVac® · Clean made Simple® · Molded & assembled in Palm City, Florida
GarageVac lives on the wall. Nine pounds, thirty-five feet of reach, and nothing hard rolling around next to your paint. Mount it in ten minutes and get your floor back for good.
From $279 Free shipping Ships in 1–2 business days
Checkout is handled securely by InterVac Design Corp — the company that builds GarageVac.
The whole point
Every other vacuum in your garage is also furniture. This one is on the wall at eye level, out of the walking lane, out of the parking envelope, and out of reach of anything you'd rather not scratch.Two and a half feet of wall · 35 feet of hose · 9 lbs
The honest comparison
Because a rolling wet/dry drum is a jobsite tool that happens to live in your garage. It is bulky, it is top-heavy on four small casters, and garage floors slope toward the door. So it gets dragged around, it parks where you'd rather walk, and it spends its life at rocker-panel height next to a fender you had painted twice.
| GarageVac | Wet/dry drum vac | Built-in central vac | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space | None — it's on the wall | 2–4 sq ft, permanently | None, but the canister lives somewhere |
| Reach | 35 ft of hose from one point | Hose plus a cord you keep re-plugging | Whole house, if you ran the pipe |
| Setup, every time | Pull the hose off the wall | Roll it out, find an outlet, unwind | Carry the hose to the nearest inlet |
| What you handle | A soft hose. The 9 lb unit never moves. | A bulky 20–30 lb drum you tow behind you | A long hose to carry and store |
| Near your paint | Nothing rigid ever reaches the floor | A hard shell on casters, right at rocker and door-edge height | Nothing rigid on the floor |
| Can it tip? | No — it is screwed to the wall | Top-heavy on a narrow base, on a floor that slopes to the door | No — the canister is fixed |
| Where it lives | 2½ ft of wall, above the bumper line | Wherever it was last pushed | A closet, the attic or the garage corner |
| Filtration | HEPA-type, rated to 0.3 micron | Often recirculates the fine dust | Varies; usually vented outside |
| Installation | Four screws. Ten minutes or less. | None | Contractor, wall work, days |
| In a finished garage | Looks like it belongs there | Looks like the jobsite it came from | Invisible — that's the appeal |
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Two models
SKU 8-GH-120-X
The original wall-mount. Everything needed to keep a two-car bay and both interiors clean, on four screws and a standard outlet.
$279Free shipping
SKU 8-GH-120-X-REMOTE · Ebony or White
The same vacuum with the switch moved into your hand. Kill the suction from inside the car instead of walking back to the wall every time you reposition.
$361.08Free shipping
Ebony White
Buy in Ebony →White is built to order. Email orders@intervacdesign.com and we will confirm lead time and take the order.
The numbers
It stretches closer to forty. We publish the conservative number on purpose — if you take a tape measure to it, we would rather you find more hose than we promised than come up two inches short. That is the same reason every other number on this page is the one we can prove.
120V · 10.7A · 50/60 Hz · 5½ ft attached cord · 1 gallon / 7 lb debris capacity · hypoallergenic triple filtration · polycarbonate and ABS body · UL certified · 2-year warranty. Handles dust, sawdust, dirt, metal shavings and small hardware.
Like for like
Wall-mounted vacuums tend to advertise whichever number sounds biggest — peak horsepower, or the wattage the motor draws. Neither describes what reaches the end of the hose. Here is every figure we publish, beside the same figures from the three closest competitors, taken from their own product pages.
| Specification | GarageVac GH120 | Giraffe Tools Grandstorm | Bissell Garage Pro 18P03 | Prolux Wall Mounted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sealed suction How hard it pulls. Ours in inches of water lift; converted, 27.4 kPa. | 110″ water lift (27.4 kPa) | 20 kPa | Not published | Not published |
| Air watts Suction and airflow together — the only figure describing work actually delivered. | 514 AW | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Filtration, to a stated micron "HEPA" without a micron figure is a word, not a measurement. | HEPA-type, rated to 0.3 micron | "HEPA" — no micron published | "2-stage" — no micron published | "Standard HEPA" — no micron published |
| How the dust is contained The part you actually have to deal with. | Sealed disposable bag, about 4 months per bag | Bagless bin, 4.5 gallon | Bagless tank, 4 gallon | Reusable cloth bag, 22 L |
| What emptying it is like See the note below. | Pull the sealed bag out, drop it in the trash. Nothing goes airborne. | Carry a loaded bin to the trash and tip it out | Carry a loaded tank to the trash and tip it out | Shake the cloth bag out and refit it |
| How far it sticks out from the wall What you squeeze past with a car door open. | 4″ | 19″ | Not published | Not published |
| Unit weight What is hanging on your drywall. | 9 lb | 42 lb | 25 lb | 25 lb |
| Hose | 35 ft stretch, from 8 ft | 30 ft retractable | 32 ft | 30 ft |
| Where the body is molded Not who ships it — who makes it. | Palm City, Florida | Not published | Not published | "Designed and developed in USA" — manufacture not stated |
| Warranty | 2 years | 2 years | Not published | 3 years |
| Price | $279 | $297–$351 | $249.99 | $299.99 |
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Bagless looks like the convenience feature until the day you empty one. You carry a loaded bin across the garage and tip it into a trash can, and the fine dust you just spent an hour collecting — brake dust, drywall, pollen, whatever came off the mats — comes straight back out at face height. A reusable cloth bag is the same problem with extra steps. Drop either one and it is in the air of a closed garage you are standing in.
A sealed bag goes from the vacuum to the trash without ever being opened. You handle it about three times a year and you never breathe what was in it. That is the entire argument, and it is why we did not go bagless when it would have been cheaper to.
Watts describe electricity going in. Peak horsepower describes a motor spun up unloaded on a bench — no hose, no filter, no bag — a number no vacuum ever produces in a garage. Air watts describe suction and airflow together at the end of the hose, which is the only place it matters to you. It is the harder figure to publish, which is why fewer companies do.
InterVac has written this up at length: why horsepower ratings are misleading and why horsepower isn't relevant to vacuums.
Competitor figures taken from each manufacturer's own published specifications, recorded 31 August 2026: Giraffe Tools Grandstorm retractable wall-mounted vacuum; Bissell Garage Pro 18P03; Prolux wall-mounted wet/dry garage vac. "Not published" means the figure was not stated on that product page on that date. Water lift converted at 1″ H2O = 249.09 Pa. Specifications, prices and product lines change — check the manufacturer before relying on any of it.
The missing number
Air watts is not a proprietary measurement. There is no license to buy, no trade secret, no lab you have to be invited into. Any manufacturer can put a vacuum on a test rig and publish the result, and it costs them a morning.
So when a company leads with 1,200 watts, or 6.5 peak horsepower, or a kPa figure — and then says nothing at all about air watts — that silence is a choice, not an oversight.
Look at what those other numbers actually describe. Watts is the electricity the motor pulls out of your wall — a cost, not a result. Peak horsepower is a motor spun up on a bench with no hose, no filter and no bag on it, at a load no vacuum ever runs at. Sealed suction is how hard it pulls with the end of the hose blocked, which is not how anyone has ever vacuumed anything.
Every one of those can be raised by bolting a bigger motor to a restrictive air path. Air watts cannot. It measures suction and airflow together, at the end of the hose, with the filter and bag in place — the machine actually doing its job. It is the one figure a bigger motor alone will not fix.
We publish 514. Ask the others for theirs.
And if any of them do publish one, send it to us — we will put it straight into the table above. It is there to be updated, not to be won.
Nothing to add
No starter kit, no "tools sold separately." Every attachment stores in the caddy built into the unit and the hose wraps around the body, so the whole system lives in two and a half feet of wall.
The housing itself is injection-molded at InterVac's own plant in Palm City, Florida — the tooling is theirs, and every replacement part ships from the same building that made the unit.
Installation
No electrician, no wall opening, no pipe run. If you can hang a shelf, you can hang this.
Tape up the printed guide anywhere with 2½ feet of vertical space and an outlet within 5½ feet. Center it in the bay and the hose covers both cars.
Into studs or anchors, straight through the guide. The unit is 9 lbs, so you are not wrestling it into position.
A standard 120V household outlet. Load the tools into the caddy, wrap the hose, and you're cleaning.
Want it flush? The GH120 can also be recessed into a standard 2×4 stud wall instead of surface-mounted — so it sits flat with the drywall and reads as part of the build, not as equipment hung on it.
Keeping it running
A bag runs about four months in typical garage use, so a five-pack is close to two years of cleaning. Genuine bags are what the filtration rating is measured with — and non-genuine consumables void the vacuum warranty, which is a bad trade for a couple of dollars.
Y08-5
$20.75 $18.87Five-pack
Bags Essentials
From $20per year
Choose a plan →Everything about bags on one page → · Bags for other InterVac models — Y20-3, Y11-5, Y10-5 and Y09-5 — are available on the InterVac store. The subscription covers any of them.
In the wild
Straight answers
In a standard two-car garage, yes — mount it centrally on the back or side wall and the hose reaches both vehicles, all four footwells, the trunk and the floor between them. It sits compressed at about 8 feet and stretches out to 35, so you are never managing slack you don't need.
In practice it goes a little further than that. We publish 35 feet because it is the number we will always beat, not the number we hope you never check. In a three-car or deep bay, mount toward the middle rather than a corner.
The only thing that moves around your car is a soft hose and the tool on the end of it. The vacuum itself never leaves the wall.
That matters more than it sounds. A drum vac is bulky and top-heavy on a narrow set of casters, garage floors are poured with a slope toward the door, and the whole thing sits at exactly rocker-panel and door-edge height. Give it a tug on the hose and it rolls; catch it wrong and it goes over. A wall-mounted unit removes that failure mode completely — there is nothing on the floor to roll, tip or be backed into. For a lot of our customers that is the entire reason they bought it.
Bagged, and deliberately so. Triple HEPA-type filtration rated to 0.3 microns means the fine dust ends up sealed in the bag instead of back in the air of a closed garage.
Bagless bins are marketed as the convenience option, but you still have to empty them — carrying a loaded tank to the trash and tipping it out puts the brake dust, pollen and allergens you just collected straight back into the air you are standing in, and dropping one is worse. A sealed bag goes from the vacuum to the trash without opening. The bag holds about a gallon and runs roughly four months in typical use, so you deal with it three times a year.
Use genuine InterVac bags and filters — non-genuine consumables void the vacuum warranty. A five-pack with motor filter is $18.87, or you can put them on a delivery subscription and stop thinking about it.
No. It mounts with four screws and plugs into a standard 120V household outlet on a 5½-foot attached cord. Nothing goes inside the wall — that's the difference between this and a built-in central vacuum. If you do want the flush look, it can be recessed into a 2×4 stud wall, but that's optional.
Two years, honored directly by InterVac Design Corp — the manufacturer. They build the unit in Palm City, Florida and stock every replacement part, so the warranty and the parts come from the same place. Units bought through resellers are covered under that reseller's own terms.
Because it's the same company. GarageVac is built by InterVac Design Corp, and intervacdesign.com is their secure store — the one that holds your order, your warranty registration and your parts history. You're buying factory-direct, not through a marketplace.
Orders leave Palm City, Florida in 1–2 business days and typically arrive within 2–7 days. Shipping is free on orders over $199 in the continental US, which covers both models.
The polycarbonate/ABS housing is injection-molded at InterVac's own plant in Palm City, Florida, and the units are assembled there. Some components — motors and certain small parts — are sourced globally, which is true of essentially every vacuum sold in the US. What that means practically: the tooling, the molds and the people who build it are here, replacement parts ship from the same building, and warranty work does not go overseas.
Yes. The same unit goes into workshops, RVs, boats, cabins and utility rooms — anywhere you want real suction without storing a canister. It only needs 2½ feet of wall and an outlet.
The rest of the range
InterVac builds wall-mounted vacuum systems for RVs and motorhomes, boats, salons and barbershops, workshops, pet grooming rooms and whole homes — plus every bag, filter, hose and tool for all of them. If you need something this site does not cover, it is on the main store.
Free shipping, out the door in 1–2 business days, two-year warranty direct from the people who build it.
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