Since moving into our new place there has been a number of different projects on the “to-do” list. However the one that is currently under was is the installation of a Beam Central Vac.
It took us some time to decide on which central vac manufacturer to purchase. Driving to each vacuum store and getting different answers to the same questions. However when we finally entered the Beam store, I knew they made a sale the second I knew my wife saw it on the wall. It was her dream vacuum, sporting all the air watts, suction, and capacity as the other manufacturers. However, they were simply not making their systems in the right colour… Light Green.. Or as APE refers to it “Our Wedding Color”.
Since we are doing the installation our selves, we brought home the system as well as some a bunch of piping. After reading how to install the central vac we were off to the races. Simply take the rough-in from the house, and put them to the main system. Sounds easy!.. It is easy.. If you don’t forget about a couple of the rough-ins and all of the rough-ins don’t have leaks… Unfortunately that was not our case.
Luckily, we only dry fit everything so it was easy to make some changes to the piping layout. It took a few days, but everything is now hooked up, except for one outlet as we’re waiting for the builder to fix it.
APE has only had a few tried with the Beam, however so far it gets a thumbs up! Which is the opposite of the mustache I sported the first day of Central Vac Installation…