Need incentive to install a central vacuum? Here are seven reasons:

1. Less Noise: Cleaning your home or workspace with a central vacuum system can be a life-changing experience. Loud, life-depleting noise is no longer a part of vacuuming. Gone are the days when the operator is lost in a pool of motor whining noise. You are now free to engage on other levels while working. One major benefit is central vacuum units are located away from the living area. Their motor noise is masked by the natural layout of the home, making it possible to do other things while you vacuum such as talk on the phone, watch TV, and listen to music.

    

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2. Ease of Use and Versatility: Homeowners often appreciate the ease and versatility a central vacuum provides. With a central vacuum hose, instead of a common upright design, you can get almost anywhere. The hose’s light weight, length, and flexibility enables access into high reaches and narrow areas. It's so easy that, in one survey, 80% of men say they vacuum more often because of it.
   
   
3. Power and Deep Cleaning: Central vacuum units have bigger motors that are much more powerful than regular uprights or hand-held's. Central vacs clean deep down into the carpet grabbing dust, pet dander, mites, allergy causing particles, and other unwanted filth, helping to preserve your flooring and your family's health.
   

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   Most central vacuums have 2-3 times the cleaning power of portable vacuums. This deep cleaning accompanied with the versatility to reach areas more quickly reduces the time needed to clean the room.

    

   Syndicated columnist James Dulley writes, “the energy-saving advantage of using a central vacuum cleaner is the fact you probably will have to vacuum less often. Since dust and dirt are captured in the central power unit located in a garage, utility room or basement, none blows through the filter and back into the room."

   
   
4. Green Benefits: A central vacuum is “greener” than a portable vacuum. With an average lifespan of 20 years compared to 2.5 for a portable vacuum, the central vacuum has only 1/3 of the waste footprint of a portable vacuum. 
   
   
5. Great for Garages and Cars: Another benefit central vacuum owners notice is they can easily use them in their garages. The long hose can make it easy to get into every area of a garage, car, truck, van, boat, or RV.
   
   When you take your car to the car wash, you usually drive up to the vacuum section before you get out. Have you ever noticed what type of vacuums they are using? That's right, they use a central system. 
   
   If your garage is a big craft area, has a wood-shop for example, a central vac system is a perfect way to clean up when you are done. It is more efficient than broom sweeping which is messy and incomplete.
   
   
6. Allergy Relief: A major benefit central vacuum owners don't realize until after they have a system is how much easier it is to breathe in their own home. Allergy sufferers usually notice a difference in their symptoms after using a central vac system. Central vacs pick up allergy causing dust and remove it from the living area, unlike many common household
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   In 2002 the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the University of California, Davis, conducted a clinical study that proved a link between central vacuum systems and allergy relief. The study found that patients experienced a 40% to 61% improvement in their symptoms when they switch from using a portable vacuum to a built-in central vacuum system to clean their homes.
   
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7. Cost Saving and Value Added: Installing a central vacuum adds instant value to a house in the event you'd like to sell your real estate. And aside from the instant bump in value, as mentioned, central systems are more durable and longer lasting than common home vacuums. You'll spend less time and money replacing inexpensive vacuums and more time enjoying the quality of a central vacuum system.

 

About Grant Olewiler

Grant Olewiler entered the central vacuum industry in 1976 as an assembly worker at M.D. Manufacturing.  He eventually formed his own central vacuum installation and service company interacting with tens of thousands of central vacuum homeowners.  He returned to M.D. Manufacturing as General Manager in 1992 and holds numerous patents on central vacuum technology.  He serves on ASTM committees establishing standards for central vacuums, and has instructed over 100 central vacuum seminars over the past 26 years.  He has written numerous published articles on the subject.