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Thread Number: 30974
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
central vacuum sales myths |
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| Post# 342299 , Reply# 1 1/29/2016 at 12:31 (3,003 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
Don't you love what they LEFT OUT of their amusing anecdote about Central Vacs? Remove the bag & filter, and you have CONSTANT airflow. That's why I chose a 2 motor commercial VacUFlo for my new (to me) home. Why a two motor machine? So Donnie could be vacuuming in the back bedrooms, and I could be cleaning the formal living room, and we'd have CONSTANT airflow and suction through BOTH hoses. I wouldn't own a central vac that used bags or filters, when there's really no need for bags or filters at all.
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| Post# 342302 , Reply# 2 1/29/2016 at 13:15 (3,003 days old) by Marks_here (_._) | ||
Yes I chose
Vacuflo also because it did better then ALL the other central vacuums installed in the homes in my neighborhood, easier to use & best of all the suction is incredable. I'm still waiting to see this infamous cloud of dust people have been saying because it's bagless when they dump the canister out even cleaning the screen I'm not covered in dust or need to wear a hazmat suit. I don't even have to dust maybe once a month even then trying to find dust on any surface is non existent. I even have the kit you can put on the end to pick up water with so it is a great machine & has already paid for itself many times over.
Mark D. | ||
Post# 342335 , Reply# 4 1/29/2016 at 21:31 (3,002 days old) by n0oxy  (Saint Louis Missouri, United States) |
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bagless central vacuums My beam unit was bagless when I first got it, I didn't like emptying the bucket at all, it was quite dusty. I converted it to a bagged unit and would never go back. It's a personal preference of course, but I much prefer bags, far easier to deal with. Also, I'm not sure if they still do this but vacuflo used to use nonstandard wall valves. | ||
| Post# 342384 , Reply# 6 1/30/2016 at 08:26 (3,002 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN) | ||
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"dirt goes away by magic" In the mid 60s Whirlpool(& Kenmore)had a CV that connected to water supply and drain lines.When the vac stopped the dirt was flushed down the drain.Could also be used for wet pick up. | ||
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Post# 342386 , Reply# 7 1/30/2016 at 08:41 (3,002 days old) by n0oxy (Saint Louis Missouri, United States) |
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wet pick up with central vacuums That's interesting that Kenmore had a central vacuum in the 1960's that flushed everything down the drain. There are two companies doing that now, drainvac and aqua air. The power units are much more expensive and it's more work to install them since you have to connect a water supply and a drain, but, it's a very nice concept. | ||
| Post# 342389 , Reply# 9 1/30/2016 at 08:58 (3,002 days old) by delaneymeegan (Mary Richards lived here) | ||
 My parents used to sell Nutone, and they had a CV. They are noisey, the hoses are cumbersome, It's a lot of work to install, they're expensive.... you can only use them within the areas of the inlets.... the hoses can damage woodwork or drywall.... Don't recommend them. They haven't used theirs in years. In fact if anyone want to buy the power unit and non electric hose(s), its a 90s model. let me know. | ||
| Post# 350157 , Reply# 12 4/12/2016 at 14:09 (2,929 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
MMMM Made for some interesting reading...
I dont agree with a number of things, Thru flow motors aren't less of a motor than bypass motors. While a thruflow motor uses the air sucked in to cool the motor and as such can suffer premature failure because of clogged filters or bags they do tend to ( In the correct environment tend to out last bypass motors in life span ( by the way I am taking about the big twin fan thruflow motors not the Hyper speed single fan ones found in many vacuums these days ) 500 hour life span????? Really that little, When I worked at Electrolux a bottom of the range vacuum had to have a minimum run life of 500 hours continuous running. Commercial motors tend to last 1000 and upwards, even the cheap made in china ones have a 800 hour run life. Dommel motors I like amatek /lamb motors, but you cannot compare them to the performance of a dommel motor, They have better designed suction fans which give great suction and airflow,When I replaced the motors on my carpet machine from Lamb Ametek to Dommel I couldn't believe the difference in cleaning performance. Twin motor is not necessary, While it may not be necessary their is a massive difference between twin motor and single, You dont get double the suction power ( not without making some changes, To get double the power you need to up the tank size and the diameter of the hose to at least a 50mm, but saying that its pointless doing a twin motor is nt a wise statement. YOu will normally get 1.5 times the suction power without any modifications to hosing. but 1.5 x the suction power is allot more than it sounds, To test this out simply get your hands on a twin motor ( with option to run each motor separately ) industrial vacuum, switch on one motor at a time , they have shut off plates that shut off the opening to each motor when not in use you will notice a huge difference between one motor running and two | ||
| Post# 350159 , Reply# 13 4/12/2016 at 14:32 (2,929 days old) by luxflairguy (Wilmington, NC) | ||
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Noxy! If you're interested, the owners manual for the Kenmore water based central is in the Library section of the site. It came from my parents, who installed one in our all terazzo floored house in Florida in 1965! Greg | ||
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