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Central Vacuum Systerms- Recomendations?
QUESTION: We're building a new house in the (hopefully) very near future (long
story there, mostly county bueracracy stuff)
We were thinking about putting in a central vacuum system. Believe it
or not, after an extensive search of the local yellow pages (major
metropolitan area, Mont Co. MD near WDC) we have had minimal luck in
finding suppliers and zero luck for installers.
HD sells Nutone systems, and we found a sew & vac that sells Hayden
systems. but that's it.
I can do the install, or I can get the builder to do it. He's got a
guy that'll do the nutone stuff. Haven't talked costs yet with the
builder, so may be worth it to have him do the install (at least the
piping etc...)
So Recomendations?
Brand? Beam, hayden, Nutone, electrolux, hoover, Other?
Why? reliability, features, components, efficiency, noise?
Type system? filters, cyclonic, bag or bagless, etc?
How about the convenience? Do you like having the system?
Suppliers? Online, price, service, knowledgeable?
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through and not bounce back.
ANSWER: I also live in Montgomery county, & had a central vac installed in my new
(4 yrs ago) house by a guy named Henry.
It is a "Vacu-Maid" brand, & it came with a great assortment of
attachments. The hose is nice & heavy duty, & has held up well to my
wife's abuse.
The unit is located in the garage, & the exhaust runs to the outside.
There is no filter to ever need replacing. Just open the cannister & dump
out on a regular basis. There is a screen up near the top og the unit that
will clog if you wait to long between dumpings of the cannister.
We have 3 long haired dogs, & 2 cats who tend to spread the kitty litter
from their box onto the floor. Having the central vac makes cleanup a
breeze.
I will look up the installer's company name & phone # when I get a chance.
We bought ours from a local Sew-n-vac place and wouldn't do it again.
We learned later that our local electrical supply house also sells and
installs central vacs and I'd have tried them if I'd known. They seemed
much more knowledgeable and I've had better service from them in the
past than what we've got from the Sew-n-vac place. The electrical
supply house is a much larger outfit with a larger crew. The Sew-n-vac
is a "mom and pop" place, and I don't have anything against that per se,
but it typically takes them a week to respond to a call.
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