Central vacuum system

When we chose our mechanical heat recovery pump, the nice people at Villavent gave us a central vacuum system.
We had seen these at the house building shows - they are usually set up with clear tubes in complicated shapes, and they vacuum up coloured dusters to create a show. We are told that after hours they set up competitions ( wonderful people you meet when you're doing a build!)

So Keith has been setting ours up. The pump will be in the garage, with a big dust bag attached. There are 3 vacuuming points in the house. The one in the hall and the one on the landing are for attaching a hose, that you use to vacuum with. One in the kitchen is for sweeping bits into.
This is the downstairs point, and the tube goes up to the ceiling and out to the garage. What you can't quite see if the immediate 90 degree bend (behind the white oblong) that enables you to rescue anything that might block the system.



Some time ago, my friend Gill gave me a book about Victorian architecture. It seems that when the vacuum cleaner was first invented, some London houses were fitted with this system. Of course, the more usual domestic vacuum cleaner had a bigger market, and the central system fell by the wayside for some years (although some blocks of flats had them) until resurrected, mainly by self- builders.

On Monday, we were made very welcome at Denford's Harvest Supper & auction of produce. We came away with a blackberry & apple pie (not much time for cooking at the moment) and a basket of lovely apples to sustain us.