Thread 106318915

Americans will pay $400 for this, having to drag it around the floor, getting stuck on furniture around corners etc, and needing to constantly wrangle and plug and unplug the power lead.
But then they'll turn around and say a $70 Chinese Dyson clone from amazon is too expensive and that charging it is a hassle. Lmao.
>but it's not as strong!
Okay, but it doesn't matter if you vacuum at least once a week. Literally not a problem for people in the 1st world who don't walk muddy outdoor shoes onto the carpet kek.

what if it was pink and had eyelashes

I've never seen one of these, I thought they were british.

>>106318915 (OP)
>if you vacuum at least once a week
try once per year

>>106318915 (OP)
i don't buy anything from chinese brands or manufactured in china. sorry, i just don't lol

The only ones buying that are reddit users. Americans are buying Sharks and Hoovers before that dumbass thing. Anyone else is buying better looking stuff like Miel

>>106318915 (OP)
nilfisk coupe neo still going strong like 10 years of usage

>>106319077
kill yourself

>>106319077
I would've fixed her

>>106318920
hetty is a whore! friendship ended with henry. now harry is my best friend.

>>106318915 (OP)
Enjoy your dirty floors.

I've got ESL fatigue

For me? It's George.

>>106318915 (OP)
i have never met a single person in the 35 years of my life that has ever owned this vacuum. never in my life have i ever seen that vacuum in person. all i have ever seen it was in obscure photos. and rarely.

whether you buy a chinese dyson clone, or an actual dyson, that piece of shit will die within a year or two while a real vacuum will just keep on running with minimal maintenance for 20+ years

>>106318920
then I'd never leave the house

>>106318971
All your pc hardware was made in China (taiwan).

>>106319206
I've used them plenty of times, mostly in commercial settings. There's a reason you haven't seen them much in your tame, domesticated life, they're strong and last forever. Not good for profits so they aren't sold everywhere.

>>106319299
>There's a reason you haven't seen them much in your tame, domesticated life
Because he isn't a middle aged Mexican cleaning lady?

>>106318915 (OP)
>Not having a central vac
>5 horsepower continuous duty motor in the basement
>Enough suction on high to peel the varnish off a bookshelf
>No weight to carry. Literally just drag the hose around the house.
>Collection bin is so big you only need to empty it 3-4 times a year even with 2 dogs, a cat, and 3 children tracking dirt, sticks and god only knows what else all over the place.

Honestly, shitposts aside, the battery vacs have gotten fairly decent in the last 3 years, but the only ones I've tried that have vaguely usable suction require hearing protection to use. With the motor in the basement there's no noise except air flow, and none of the cordless ones I've seen have even half the suction of our corded miele. Even that's paltry compared to the yawning abyss that is the central vac.

My rule of thumb is the wet sand test. Any parent of two boys is familiar with their propensity for magically generating sand and spilling it all over your kitchen. How it's possible to go outside for less than 5 minutes and come back with pockets full of sand in a yard of pure grass is beyond me, but believe me they find a way. With the central vac you can pull wet sand out of the grout channels in the tiles. That takes a power head with anything else I've tried.

The other big thing is that you aren't kicking up and recirculating dust. It creates a massive amount of airflow into the room your cleaning so any dust that you do manage to kick up without immediately capturing it doesn't go anywhere. When we had our kitchen redone a few years ago we just hooked up two tubes to nearby ports and ran them into the dust barrier the contractors put up and let the vacuum run for 4 days. Zero sheetrock dust in the rest of the house. The electric bill was a bitch because we were dumping hundreds of CFM of chilled air outside, it was clean.

Before buying this house I would have said that central vacs were stupid. Now that I have one I don't think I'd want a house without one.

>>106318915 (OP)
I had a Henry Hoover, thing was built like a tank, i miss him

>>106319349
Didn't even know central vacs were a thing. Interesting.

>>106318915 (OP)
These are pretty cheap shits with explosive batteries

>>106318915 (OP)
My wife (not American) bought one of those, and I (former American) thought it was silly but then I used it myself and it is amazing. Eat shit, OP.

>>106319392
Give it back, Tyrone

>>106318915 (OP)
What the fuck do you mean $400 they're like £160 max in the third world (England). Mine has lasted 11 years.

>>106319396
*stab*

>>106319269
Akshually nta but the only part of my pc made in Taiwan is the gpu

>>106319376
they are nearly standard in fifth wheel rvs

>>106319349
Not the reaction image I thought I picked, but it'll do.

>>106319376
It's honestly amazing. My system is very heavily overbuilt. It had obvious additions made to the collection cabinet. My best guess is that the original owner had a motor burn out or wasn't happy with the degree of suck and did some upgrades. I've seen some other ones with 2 and 3 horsepower light duty motors. Maybe 5 is common in big mansions or something, but this is a 5 hp continuous duty Baldor you'd expect to see on industrial equipment. It's on it's own 30 amp 240v circuit and has a double belt drive.

To put how strong the suction on this thing is into perspective. You know how if you fully obstruct a normal vacuum cleaner the motor starts to chug and it accelerates due to sucking all the air out of itself and no longer having to fight wind resistance? Yeah.. that doesn't happen on this one. The motor won't even notice.

In fact, it has a spring loaded flap near the capture bin in the basement that opens up if the suction gets too strong. That's so that if you get your arm stuck in the tube or something like that you can still detach yourself from it without dying. I straight up destroyed one of my wife's mass market paper backs by ripping the front cover and a few dozen pages clean off when I was running it on high shortly after we moved in. I'm honestly not sure you could legally sell something like this today because it's possible to hurt yourself with it. We typically use it on setting 2-6 out of 10. 8 is silly, 9 is dangerous, and 10 is just plain fucking stupid.

>>106319548
>burglar breaks in
>glance at wife
>I'm turning it to 10 and going in honey, tell the kids I love them

>>106318915 (OP)
I'm pretty sure this is a children's toy.

My rainbow vacuum from the 70s still works fine but man I hate dumping out the gunk from the water tank every time I use it

>>106318953
they are. this is a troll thread and you are a fucking retarded asshole for replying to him

>>106319597
Just as the founding fathers intended.

>>106318915 (OP)
proooooh

>>106319548
>>106319376
>>106319349
man I cant afford this kind of setup, what's the next best thing?

bump

Oldtroon thread, sage & move on.

>>106319349
>>106319548
Where do you live
As in country
My understanding that central vac is more of a Scandinavian or Canadian thind

>>106318915 (OP)
I paid $450USD for this Miele C3 and it is amazing. It is so quiet and doesn't scare me or the cats as much as my previous 20 year old vacuum. I was going to get the Sebo equivalent, but the salesman was rude on the phone because I didn't know what type of carpet I had and he said I was going to destroy my carpet. Idk man it is just carpet.

>>106318915 (OP)
Dyson are garbage and so are shop vacs.
Either use a rainbow vacuum or setup a central vacuum system

>>106319039
>that dumbass thing
Numatics are industrial quality bag vacuums that are miles better than Dyson/Shark slop. The same company builds vacuums used for building sites.

I just use a shark and replace the filters. I barely vacuum so its lasting way longer than what most users experience. 3 year on a shark is unheard of for the unwashed masses. I can easily push it another 3 years with filter replacements.

>>106319269
Its not the same. More importantly just don't buy battery tech made from china so you can avoid fires. Atleast most power tool brands uses korean/jap made batteries to reduce the risk of fires.

>>106318915 (OP)
>Americans will...
...continue to live rent-free in your head.

>>106318915 (OP)
>in your path

>>106323723
These things any good now? And affordable

>>106318915 (OP)
Why did you steal my thread from biz nigger?

>>106323767
Kek because it archived before I could call you a nigger for not buying a dyson clone for $70 instead of an overpriced meme vacuum

A must have for woodworking.

>>106323758
Works for me but then again I have hard wood floors all on the same level

>>106323963
You sound like a link advocate. Fuck you.

>>106318915 (OP)
A Henry is indestructable and will last you a lifetime

>>106322749
Me too
Miele gang.

>>106322749
>>106324203
I also have a Miele. I suppose lugging it around is mildly annoying but it sucks very well and I rarely have to change the bag.

>>106318915 (OP)
You're actually retarded. Also, the Henry is from the UK not the US.

>>106322379
We had one growing up in a house in Colorado. The issue is that it's a ton of extra plumbing to run and it has to be done during construction unless you feel like ripping walls apart.

OP, how come i paid 140 bucks for my Henry? Where are the remaining 370?

>>106319349
central vacs are typically only in workshops, machine shops, carpentry etc. pretty fucking pointless for a house.