Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Have you selected the C/V for your Daughter/SIL's home? (I favor MD for quiet performance and convenient dirt disposal) I was wondering what your take on C/V is? The #1 complaint, of course, is the hose. There are at present three solutions: 1) The hose Genie which stores the wire reinforced hose in a wall cavity between studs. 2) The Hide-a-Hose which stores the hose in the C/V tubing itself (but cannot use an electric p/n.) And 3) the new 'click' modular hose offered by M/D which looks positively brilliant. With sufficient inlets a 20ft hose is adequate for vacuuming all the major traffic areas, and a 10 or 15 ft section can be clicked in when needed. No more struggling with fiddly buttons to push while simultaneously pulling or pushing on a tube. I also saw online a coiled stretch hose in a reel. Pull it out and the C/V automatically starts. Instant clean up of a thousand tiny messes that are too small to bother dragging out a vacuum (or a big C/V hose) to deal with. If I were going to go to the trouble and expense of intsalling a C/V I would not stint on inlets, Vacu Sweep inlets, or the above mentioned at-the-ready-stretch hoses. A hose, tool kit and P/N on each level and a tool kit in the garage. If it is worth installing, might as well get the maximum convenience possible. Your thoughts, please and what would you select as as pn/ and tools all the way around?

If you get an S7 be prepared to push it yourself. While most people would not find it objectionally heavy, if your wife has been used to an 8 lb. Oreck I don't think she will transition easily to the S7. As to the matter of the CV, PLEASE, please, please do check the layount and the number of the inlets. Even if you have to call a professional installer to add more, it is worth it. You should never have to place the hose on top of furniture to reach anything, and now with the advent of the modular hose, you should be able to vacuum the major traffic areas with just a 20 ft. section, storing an extra 10 ft section up and down. In fact, I advocate complete separate tool kits/PN on each level, particularly if the carpet is very different. Central vac sare as much about convenience as cleaning power and filtration. If you are going to do it, go full tilt, even if your daughter says it is not necessary. She will thank you many times over after it is done, and all those little messes that are just a part of everyday life are gone in seconds. Do check out the VROOM. I'd do one in every closet and a base cabinet in every room, seriously.

Trebor

Carmine D.