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1. 
   Mooney | Dec 21, 2003 05:28pm | #1

   If you are going to keep the house for your self thats one thing .

   If it goes on the block for sale then all that piping already installed would be a selling point. Course you can invest too much in the new vac.

   On a side bar I saw a new one operate that cost some bucks that pulled the carpet off the floor. [easily]

   Tim Mooney

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   BossHog | Dec 21, 2003 05:46pm | #2

   Central vacs have been discussed several times.

   You can use the advanced search if you want and see what turns up.

   My wife's other car is a broom.

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   WayneL5 | Dec 21, 2003 06:02pm | #3

   I've had a Nutone for three years and like it a lot.  It cleans really well.  The two main advantages are that it's much easier to tow just a hose around then schlep a whole unit, especially on stairs; and it blows all the fine dust outdoors instead of back into the room.  It cost $1000.  I just sold my house because of a job move and I can tell you no one is going to pay $1000 more for a house because it has a central vac.  So, if you are going to sell it, just say the piping is in place but it needs a new power unit.

   If it's for your own house, I'd check out why it didn't work very well.  Are there clogs?  You could pull an electrical snake through the whole system to check.  Open and check the cleanouts.  Is the discharge clogged, or the outside hood?  Also, if it ever ran without a bag or a broken bag the fan itself could be clogged.  The hose, too.  Is the belt broken on the power head?  And so on.

   It could be possible that the piping was not installed properly, leading to poor performance.  For example, in a long horizontal run, if there are vertical runs which come up from below, dirt passing by from the horizontal run can fall down into the vertical runs, filling them up.  There are several other ways of badly installing the piping.

   What I'm saying, I guess, is that if they are good units, properly installed, they work quite well, so I would not avoid them out of hand.  You'll have to weigh convenience vs. your budget.

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   greggo | Dec 23, 2003 01:22am | #4

   Hey Chuck: I put a Cen/Vac in my new home.The unit and piping were  easy to install>Everything was lite weight 2" PVC (Got the piping and elbows  at the big box) The power Unit was a Hayden Super Vac from Vacuum Solutions (9000 model) Lots of power.No one could touch there price.Your old 1 1/4 line was to small. Amertec makes most of the motors for ALL of the  cent.vac companies. I called them and they told me that the  motor on the Hayden Model 9000 is the largest and best one they sell. Hope this helps.  Greg

   http://www.vacsolutions.com/generic.html?pid=17      Get the super valves through them.