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.
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.
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.