Is It Me Or The Vacuum?

@AbbyGreenhill Thanks

Decisions, decisions. Having a very hard time to make them these days.

@marlina Take your time, do some research and then decide.

Yes, the hose is long and a pain in the neck to pull too. You lucky you! You are finished now. I still have to find the energy to get back to it.

@Susan2015 I never tripped over the house, not even once in all those years that I have owned a central/vac.

A lightter vac would be great for me right now.

Thanks.

Started to look around on what could I get.

@bluesa Thanks.

@marlina , I hope you find a vacuum that will suit soon.

I have a tendency to think that it is half and half now.

@shikharava I think the system is okay except the motor for the carpet is too heavy now for me.

@marlina yea, bud. It could be true. But I still feel it's the vac. I hope not there's a dust bunny controlling the internal circuitry! :)

@marlina It is the V6 Animal, it only weights 6 pounds. But the new V8 lasts a lot longer without a charge and I plan to get one of those soon and bring my V6 to Florida. It is so easy to use. I got mine from QVC.

@marlina No it is very light, this one is cordless and I swear could suck up my dogs.

@BelleStarr Would you mind telling me the exact model? Thanks.

You are lucky!

@amadeo I understand. I have lost a lot of strenght over the last few years and I don't like that one bit.

@marlina yes,I do not have the energy to do this.

So I guess the Dyson is kind of heavy too. I find it so frustrating that people can figure out how to land on the moon, but can't NEVER get to make an EXCELLENT vacuum cleaner.

@Maluse A central vacuum system is built into the house as it is built. There is one large vacuum motor in its own room with a "catcher" receptacle. Each room of the house has a hookup with a hose that leads to the one receptacle. You only use each hose in its own room, then close that hose off and move to the next room's hose. You only have one "bag" or "can" to empty into the trash when you are done vacuuming the entire house. If my explanation is not clear, here is the Wiki article on this: I do hope this helps.

@MALUSE You're welcome! The house my first wife and I had built was equipped with one of those central vacuums. It worked very well for the first six years after we moved into the house. That type of vacuum can begin to have problems around the six year mark and ours was no exception... Although it did have some help from a little "spider monkey" named Pretty! (Pretty didn't like to pick up her toys, so decided the best way to clean them off her floor was to vacuum them up.) It took me a week to figure out why the system had suddenly lost suction in half the house. Luckily, all we had to do once we figured out what had happened was reverse the ducts on the vacuum so it blew through the system instead of sucked. Then attach the hose in Pretty's room and drop the hose out her bedroom window. She still had to pick up her toys, but outside instead of in her room! LMFAO! She wasn't happy about that! We use a vacuum cleaner that we move from room to room in this house.

@DaddyEvil Thank you. Your explanation is clear. I've never heard of or seen such a thing in Germany. We have a vacuum cleaner which we move from room to room.

It is working right, it's got to be me who is not that strong anymore.

@marlina They sure are a lot easier on a persons body.

Yes, I should also get a light vacuum.

Exactly.

Thanks for your input @YrNemo, I might just get a cheap one too to keep in the basement.