I was elated to find out our house has a built-in vacuum system. The shit you get excited about as you age would probably make your younger self disappointed.
I’m happy that trash day comes two times a week where I live. I often forget to take the trash out on time, so I appreciate that each week gives me a second chance.
Not exactly. The garage holds the main vacuum and container. The walls have the hoses built in. The house also came with a wand that could turn the vacuum on or off. Just open one of the ports, plug the wand in, and you’re sucking like a champ.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s worth adding retroactively to a house, but I certainly didn’t mind living in a house that had one.
I’ve never encountered these myself, but apparently some houses have a similar system but without the external tubing. In those, you would sweep debris under a thing that resembled a baseboard radiator, then flick a switch or press a button or something and it would magic the debris away. I doubt those are as clog resistant though.
I was elated to find out our house has a built-in vacuum system. The shit you get excited about as you age would probably make your younger self disappointed.
I’m happy that trash day comes two times a week where I live. I often forget to take the trash out on time, so I appreciate that each week gives me a second chance.
Like pneumatic tubes?
Not exactly. The garage holds the main vacuum and container. The walls have the hoses built in. The house also came with a wand that could turn the vacuum on or off. Just open one of the ports, plug the wand in, and you’re sucking like a champ.
That’s really weird, and I imagine absolute hell to fix if it clogs (or breaks in any way), but jealous af, that’s so cool
My parent’s house had one. It was used at least one a week for the entire time I lived there. To my knowledge it never clogged.
The tubing was huge compared to a more traditional vacuum, which I imagine helped.
Well shit, looking into them now I’m gonna have to consider them when it’s time for my wife and I to buy a good vacuum if we own a house by then
Yeah, I don’t think it’s worth adding retroactively to a house, but I certainly didn’t mind living in a house that had one.
I’ve never encountered these myself, but apparently some houses have a similar system but without the external tubing. In those, you would sweep debris under a thing that resembled a baseboard radiator, then flick a switch or press a button or something and it would magic the debris away. I doubt those are as clog resistant though.
You see those at hair salons a lot.
Makes sense!
My house has this thing called electricity and if you want to vacuum in a room you plug in an electric motor that generates the vacuum.
Which decade was this? Because for the last 10 years, between vacuum/mop robots and a Dyson I haven’t used a traditional vacuum at all.
My house built in the 70s had one. The house I built 6 years ago? Just buy a stick vac. Those walls are for CAT6a.
Oh, PoE vacuum!
My house is only 30 years old or so.