• toynbee@lemmy.world
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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.