Fellowes Paper Shredder for Home Office Use – 11 Sheet Cross

Only had it a couple of weeks and has not had a lot of use. It seems to work as expected but not had it long enough to give 5 starreview, but so far so good!

Never received it as after much chasing was forced to cancel.

Bought to replace a very old 6 sheet shredder that had given up. It handles a decent number of pages (although 10 sheets is probably pushing it, particularly with heavier weight paper). It handles staples if you’ve forgotten to take them out too.

The safety feature that detects your hand is near the lid can be a bit annoying and can trigger if a page being shredded flops over, but better safe than sorry I guess.

Fellowes customer service is second to none.

There is a safety feature that prevents the shredder from working if it detects something too close to the blade and unfortunately mine developed a fault after 24 hours and the shredder wouldn’t work. HOWEVER, I contacted Amazon who contacted Fellowes who immediately replaced the item for me without any fuss.

The replacement is working brilliantly and has proved reliable. A great compact shredder for a home office that I can recommend with confidence.

This is our second shredder. The new Powershred went for 30 – 40 minutes before stopping to cool down. Compare this with about 3 minutes for our older shredder.

Supposed to wait 20 minutes to cool down, but we found 10 minutes was sufficient. We filled three really big bin liners in an hour with the Powershred. Compared to half of one of the same bin liners in four hours with our older machine. It won’t work if your fingers get too close to the slot.

We had no jams at all.

Despite what other reviewers have said, with the window on the front one CAN see the extra large bin filling up with shreds. They probably did not wait long enough before emptying the bin. The window is at the top so one only sees the shreds when they get right to the top. Due to the size of the collector bin, extra large bin bags are recommended to allow the collecting bin to empty straight into the bin bag.

We made sure to oil both our machines this time. Neither machine jammed on this occasion. Our older machine has some paper compacted in the middle so we have to fold documents in half to shred them.

I gave no mark for ‘Sheerness’ because I don’t know what it means in this context. To me it means either ‘the measure of a slope’ or ‘the name of a town in Kent’.

Money well spent for us.

Excellent shredder, does the job well, not too noisy, looks good but some odd design points and it’s just not designed right unless you are not going to move it . The on/off switch is tucked away at the back and the panel at the top of the bin which should let you see how full it is, is so dark it’s useless. Lifting the top off is difficult – no finger places and it is very heavy but the worst thing is trying to lift the whole thing – the smooth design of the bin gives nothing to get hold of. All these sorts of shredders (this is my third, I’m hoping it is more robust than its predecessors – so far so good) are top heavy but this one seems to have been designed primarily to look good . its fine if you just put it in the corner in an office but not so good if you want to move it about or tuck it into a cupboard at home.

Bought in an exchange for a slightly cheaper shredder which had not performed well. This Fellows Powershred hitherto has fully met my needs occasionally struggling with the 10 sheets capacity advertised. I therefore confine mine to around 6 with which it copes very well. Run time and cooling time is comparable to others in this price range. Haven’t tried shredding credit cards yet but have no reason to believe anything less in a good performance. At this price I would certainly recommend it.

I am impressed by the apparent robustness of the shredder, it is well made and functions exactly as advertised, the proximity cut-off feature works very well, the opening could possibly permit a very small child’s finger to be inserted (although I am not sure it would actually touch the shredding mechanism) but the proximity cut off eliminates any possible risk of this anyway. The overall capacity is rather small for a busy office, but is ideal for intermittent use or as I am finding shredding about 30+ years of old bank statements, utility bills, grown up children’s old school / college /university papers etc. in the home – Why have we kept all of this ‘stuff’ for so long! This unit gives the impression it will last a long time and while providing therapy in the process – Highly recommended, just check the dimensions and think where you will position it if using in the home, as while its not huge it is somewhat bigger than the typical flimsy domestic units generally bought by a home user.