• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      1 day ago

      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

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        17 hours ago

        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.

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          4 hours ago

          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

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            3 hours ago

            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.

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      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.