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Seems like I saw a mention SOMEWHERE on this forum about
combining your central with your shop vacs. This sounded
interesting, especially since I’m going to be building new house in a
coupla years, and the shop will be small and attached to house.
I’m going to have a one-story with crawl space, which will simplify
piping. Main problem, I guess, would be how to blend the switching
systems of the central vac with those of the shop vac.
Any suggestions? Anyone done this?
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Sorry you haven't gotten any responses. I'm building a new house with a basement workshop and that sounds like a good idea.
*Sounds great, works terrible. A friend actually hooked up his shop vacuum system to his central vacuum. The shop system was one of those Sear's systems with the clear plastic tubing. It barely worked with a 200 cfm shop-vac. Even though the central vac was a top-end model and had a LOT of suction/volume, the first time he used his table-mounted router, he clogged the filter bag in the vacumm unit. It seemed to be able to handle his table saw, but everything else either left half the dust in the shop, or bogged the unit. For what it's worth, go out and buy one of those Taiwanese units and 20' of reinforced 4' vacuum tubing - they do an amazing job.
*I'm building a new house and thought of this also. I called Jet and talked to one on their tech people and he said their shop vac would not have the volume/suction to do the whole house.
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Seems like I saw a mention SOMEWHERE on this forum about
combining your central with your shop vacs. This sounded
interesting, especially since I'm going to be building new house in a
coupla years, and the shop will be small and attached to house.
I'm going to have a one-story with crawl space, which will simplify
piping. Main problem, I guess, would be how to blend the switching
systems of the central vac with those of the shop vac.
Any suggestions? Anyone done this?