If having a big house has a downside, it has to be keeping up with cleaning. Two-story homes with basements and attics have all kinds of nooks and crannies where dust and dirt collect. Add a few kids into the equation and it’s even worse. A central vacuum is the modern-day solution to what portable vacuums can no longer provide: an easy way to clean up every end of carpeted and tiled floors. Dirt and dust collects in even the most remote corners of the house, and sometimes the typical push vacuum has trouble reaching to those places and really getting into the corners and along the baseboards. Upright units also tend to break down and the bags always fill up quickly.
If keeping the floors clean in your humble abode is a priority, there’s nothing more cumbersome than having to empty garbage out of the bag every time you finish vacuuming. Add in the hassle of having to wrangle a cord up and down flights of stairs and you start to understand why so many people are starting to switch over to a centralized system. By having inlets in every room, you can attach a wand that sucks up all the debris in your carpet and sends it to a receptacle that’s well out of the way. In fact, you’ll only have to empty the collection of particles every 3 months or so on an average cleaning schedule. Plus, the wands are easily maneuvered and can get into places that traditional upright vacuums cannot.