Central Cleaning Inlet Placement.

[rainbowd4c]

One of my favorite time killers these days is playing around on Realtor.com. I tend to automatically set the sort feature for highest priced and dream about houses I will never in my life have. Anyway today I was doing a 3D tour of a place in Minneapolis and one of the houses had a central cleaning system installed. My question is are you not supposed to install the inlets on outer walls of the house? I believe reading a article saying that inlets need to be in interior walls. This multi million dollar house I fell in love with had inlets on framing walls.

Thoughts?

 

[myles_v]

It's easier to install inlets on interior walls in existing homes because they generally lack insulation, while exterior walls (should) have insulation in them. This goes for anything that's ran through the wall of a home after it's built.

Many of the homes you're looking at were likely built with central vacuum systems, so they didn't have to blindly fight with the insulation through the exterior walls while running the piping.

 

[gregvacs28]

wait a minute


We should share notes.
That is if we don't want to get into imaginary bidding wars over the same houses.

And should we be concerned about the recent topping out of certain markets, growing inventory levels, and the real concern that's stalling activity: rising interest rates along with stalled incomes?

And you are correct, CV pipes, when running in unheated spaces like through attics or under cement, are supposed to be insulated and protected from direct contact.

 

[huskyvacs]

Some places have no code violations for running a central vac to an exterior wall, which people do so they can clean out their car. However, it is not a smart thing to do because it gives a perfect entryway for insects and wasps as well as rain and snowmelt pounding against the valve connection. Also as stated above, if its not insulated, it's pretty much piping cold air into your home in the winter.

What year was the house built? The mid to late 1980's were when central vacuums were at their pinnacle because everyone was trying to "streamline" things because "the wave of the future" and all that. So if the house is from around that time, it would have been built with the central vac already in place, likely a optional accessory provided by the homebuilder. "Multi million dollar house" though makes me picture that it's one of those McMansions that had pretty much every extravagant thing put into the house just for the sake of spending money.

 

[rainbowd4c]

Follow the link.

Greg. This one I'm not so much interested in. But this has the Central Vac and if you do the 3D walk through you can see how and where they placed all the inlets. The 3D lets you do pretty good zooms also. So if you want to do the big go a head. LOL



https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/4-Merilane-Ave_Edina_MN_55436_M83165-16396?view=qv

 

[gregvacs28]

Andy,
OK, yeah, it's a nice enough house on a quiet street but the proximity to the golf course makes me nervous. Besides I don't like that roof or the stucco. The pool in this climate, or any climate for that matter, is an expensive nightmarish maintenance issue. My imaginery house won't have that. Bodies of water are things I shy away from. Anything larger than a bird bath spells trouble for me.

Here's one that, although it looks like the Beverly Hill-billies house, it's only on a paltry 2/3 acre lot. I'm going to pass on this. Besides at 30 million, it's too expensive for my imaginary income.

I've over extended myself with an imaginary BMW lease at $698 a month plus I have over $95,000 in imaginary credit card balances that are dragging down my imaginary credit score to 695. I'm also dealing with an imaginary gambling addiction, at the moment, so.... I'm still in imaginary denial about that.
Gotta stay within an imaginary budget.



https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sa...-118.353568,34.052268,-118.445492_rect/13_zm/

 

[myles_v]

I see one of the inlets you mentioned.

Central vac inlets are fine inside of exterior walls as long as they're insulated, otherwise it'll cause condensation inside the pipes during the winter and outside the pipes during the summer. If you read an installation guide then it'll likely suggest installing on an interior wall because many of those guides are for existing homes. Installing anything inside an exterior wall of an existing home is a hassle because of insulation.

Also, huskyvacs, I believe you misunderstood OP. He's talking about inlets that are inside the house, but that are on exterior walls. Meaning the pipe was ran through an exterior wall to get to the inlet, most installation guides suggest interior walls which was the reason for the question.