If you are looking to increase the value of your home while concurrently making maintenance much easier, central vacuum systems may be just the upgrade you’re seeking. Larger houses can be a hassle to vacuum, between finding electric outlets and lugging the unit up and down stairs. The bags fill up quickly and after enough use a lot of models will lose their sucking power. It’s really a backwards way to keep up with the cleanliness of your floors. A growing number of homeowners are realizing this and consequently putting the time and money into installing a central system. It is essentially a series of vacuum powered tubes that send dirt and dust to a large-capacity receptacle. You can easily attach wands to wall inlets that connect to the tubing. Wands can extend as far as 30 feet, and the inlet to which they attach are will be strategically located in order to ensure you can reach every knock and cranny of the floor plan.
Filtered and cyclonic are the two typical system styles. Making sure an excess amount of filth doesn’t clog up the tubing or main receptacle is important to ensure a central vacuum runs smoothly and does not require regular maintenance. A filter is used in both types of systems to stop a build-up of debris from happening, though they go about doing so in different ways. Filtered systems use just that, a material filter that allows small particles to pass through and collects larger ones. Cyclonic systems use gravity rather than a barrier to separate the two.