Modern Day Installed

[gman]

Hey Guys,

It’s been a couple of weeks but I had the MD installed. LOVE IT. I don’t know how I went this many years without one.

Now that we both work from home and with the two new fur babies, I can actually vacuum without disturbing anyone and the puppies freaking out.

Cannot get over the power this thing has. Powerful than any other vacuum I have. Here are some pics of my power head collection. I also got a 35ft low voltage hose.

 

[n0oxy]

central vacuum

Congratulations on the new central vacuum, yes, they are very powerful, I use all of my units without pipes by attaching a hose directly to them, the power is awesome and I find myself using my central vacuum units more than my other cleaners. By using a unit without pipes, anyone can have that cleaning power, no need to mess with pipes.
Mike

 

[regularrett69]

Idea

I don't know much about central vacs or their power heads, but how hard would it be to switch a canister powerhead for use with a central vac if the suction fittings are right? Would it be possible to use a hoover WindTunnel power nozzle on a central vac?

 

[bagintheback]

Congrats!

I've always wanted a central vac. MD used to have some great older sales tapes online I would watch all the time. There's some new home builds out where I live where I saw a DirtDevil system being installed. Thought that was an odd choice.

How did you decide on the ModernDay model? I know they really push the SilentMaster as the TOL, and there's also the FlowMaster, which may be the lower end. I'm sure there's some sort of overlap in terms of airflow, so I wonder how their sales model works.

 

[n0oxy]

power nozzles

Most power nozzles can work with most canisters or central vacuums. I think Hoover's hose connection was nonstandard so you may need an adapter to make this work. I've kind of done the opposite of what you mention, I have just about all of the central vacuum power nozzles and I've gotten them to work on most of my power team canisters. In most cases, it was just a matter of using a power nozzle extension cord that has the mini connector on both ends and connecting the cord to the connector on the hose. This means that you have an external cord but that's no big deal.
Mike

 

[gman]

Hi Mike,

I didn’t go through a vacuum dealer, I went through a company that installs home theaters, central vacuums, etc.

Because the previous owners had installed cabinets I had limited space, and this unit was the perfect fit. I had actually decided upon it before they came out. There was no hard sale, no push for upgrades, etc. That was the unit they came back with in the bid.

 

[dysonman1]

I love my Modern Day. Love the True Seal bags. I had a Vacuflo for many years until I got a sinus infection from emptying it. Cost me more than $100 for a doctor's visit and the prescription. Out went the Vacuflo and in came the Silent Master (which is NOT silent - not even quiet). I love it. I use it with my sixty foot hide-a-hose and the battery Perfect power nozzle as well as the Volt battery nozzle.

 

[ultralux88]

I both own/use an MD as my primary vacuum, and I’m a dealer for them as well!

 

[ultralux88]

Also, which model of MD is that? My guess is either the M615h or the M715h.

 

[vacuumdevil]

@gman aka "gestapo man"

Welcome to the central vacuum club!
MD Central Vacuums are wonderful and put one in my house before I even moved in.
Love it years later it really is hard to get over the power that Central Vacuums have.
#CentralVacuumpropaganda

 

[tolivac]

I have an MD vacuum unit like in the picture.Mine can use the large open top bags or the Tru-Seal ones-use the Tru Seal bags.Takes MOMENTS to change-and they are HUGE hold like 8 gal of debris.You connect the inlets on the bag you are using-mine I use only the utility inlet.There is just a tiny bit of dust leakage from the top of the bag-but no big deal.Cleaner to replace than the open bags.Those are like GIANT TriStar bags.You replace those when about half full.The MD dealer here says he had to replace one of those open bags in a customers machine-had over 60 pounds of stuff in it!!WHAT A MESS!!!!

 

[tolivac]

For my Silentmaster use the Volt powernozzles or others I have.One time used a Kirby as a "powernozzle"was using the open bags on that experiment-got a LOT of stuff in the bag!!!Had to run the Kirby and MD on separate outlets-the MD machine needs 15A 120V.Kirby needs 7A.The two are a KILLER system!!!No stuff on the floor is safe from those!Its sort of a headache to set up,though.

 

[n0oxy]

power of central vacuums

I love my central vacuum units, I know many of us collect canister and upright cleaners but a few of us, myself included collect central vacuum units, I've been meaning to do a post showing all of my central vacuum units, hopefully I will get to that soon. My favorite ones are what I call the beasts, and I have 4 of them, they are 240 volt dual motor units. Plug a hose directly in to those, the power is amazing. I have at least one central vacuum unit in every room of my apartment, and some rooms have more than one.
Mike

 

[cam2s]

Perhaps this needs to be in another thread but those that have a “portable” central vacuum system I would be interested in seeing your set up. Could be a fun little project to rig something up.

Cameron

 

[n0oxy]

portable central vacuum

Some central vacuum units already have a utility valve built in, and for those that don't, it's very easy to turn it in to a portable unit, well, they're kind of large so I'm not sure how portable it really is, but it's a simple matter to use them without installing pipes. You can just attach a utility valve to the in-take, depending on how the in-take is designed, you may need a small piece of pipe as well. Some units have a manual switch to turn them on and off, for those that don't, you can connect a short wire to the utility valve and then connect it to the terminals on the unit, and there you go. Connect your hose to the utility valve and you have yourself a very powerful hose cleaner, and since you're not using pipes, you get the full power of the unit.
Mike

 

[tolivac]

I did the conversion to a NuTone central unit-bagged.Forget the Model# offhand.Simply bought the inlet plate and parts needed from the vac dealer I bought the machine from.Came from their central unit trade in pile towards an MD.Works fine this way.The machine didn't have a utility inlet on the machine itself.Its red-gray-sort of looks like a medicine capsule-I call it the mdedicine capsule vacuum.Has a 12A motor.All of my units are 120V too much trouble to go 240V-no more 240V poles in my breaker panel and don't want to have to run the cables and put in another 240V outlet.The last 240V poles in the panel were used for a 240V GE Advantium oven.Bought that before any central vac units.

 

[ultralux88]

Back years ago, we had to have a whole sub panel installed to allow for adding in the 240v circuit for the central vac.

 

[n0oxy]

another way to use a 240 volt device

If you want to run a 240 volt central vacuum without running a whole new circuit, this device allows you to do just that. Even though I have a 240 volt outlet, I picked up one of these as well and it definitely works. Basically you connect the two cords to two different 120 volt outlets on opposite phases, works great. Whoever designed this was a genius.
Mike

https://www.quick220.com/-A220-15D.html

 

[panasonicvac]

I miss ours

We had a SilentMaster unit with the Stealth powerhead at our old cabin until we sold the place back in like 2007. We've only had it for like a few years. I liked it better than our system at home which is a Beam 287S with the Rugmaster Plus powerhead and a few Turbocat turbineheads that we rarely use nowadays. I don't know which model our unit was, it might have been a S2 since the place was about 6,000 sq. feet but given for the fact that our cabin was located in the highest altitude of Idaho, it might've been a different model (Could also been used as 240 volts). Another thing too was that our third floor up (We've had four floors in that place), there were no inlet valves installed in that floor. I still don't get why we didn't had those put in when we first built the place but eventually we've somehow managed to reach the hose up there without either having the contractor come back out and put in more inlet valves (Which probably would've effected the performance) or simply buy another vacuum which that was our original plan. Anyways, I've somehow managed to grab some pictures of our unit from the realtor since the place had been recently listed for sale again so these first two pictures is what was our old SilentMaster when it was put in. The next two is an older SilentMaster literature that I've also managed to save from work a few years ago since they looked just like ours. I think these are my most favorite looking units ever from MD.