Robert Gift
Jul 22, 2010, 03:14 AM
If possible, I would like to do this:
Holes can be drilled up through the floor plywood and bottom plates and PVC pipes can be run up interior walls from the basement.
For second floor wall inlets I would have to run pipes down interior walls from the attic.
Presumably I would have to get a main trunk pipe from attic down to the basement through the furnace vent chase.
Any special difficulties which I am not considering?
Can I glue the wall inlets to the pipes in the wall without tearing out drywall bigger than the inlet covers?
Instead of a wall-mounted central vacuum machine, I found a shop vac with much higher vacuum and air flow and for much le$$. Plus, I could disconnect it and use it elsewhere.
(I used an upright floor vacuum with its dirt bag tube connected to a long flexible hose instead of running up into a filter bag. I connected the long hose to a shop vac. With the upright vacuum sucking in air and pushing it out the dirtbag tube, and shop vac sucking air, it worked amazingly well.)
Thank you.
Robert
Holes can be drilled up through the floor plywood and bottom plates and PVC pipes can be run up interior walls from the basement.
For second floor wall inlets I would have to run pipes down interior walls from the attic.
Presumably I would have to get a main trunk pipe from attic down to the basement through the furnace vent chase.
Any special difficulties which I am not considering?
Can I glue the wall inlets to the pipes in the wall without tearing out drywall bigger than the inlet covers?
Instead of a wall-mounted central vacuum machine, I found a shop vac with much higher vacuum and air flow and for much le$$. Plus, I could disconnect it and use it elsewhere.
(I used an upright floor vacuum with its dirt bag tube connected to a long flexible hose instead of running up into a filter bag. I connected the long hose to a shop vac. With the upright vacuum sucking in air and pushing it out the dirtbag tube, and shop vac sucking air, it worked amazingly well.)
Thank you.
Robert