Central Vacuum Cleaners - Review on Eureka Central Vacuums

Eureka Boss central vacuum cleaner

by Mercia Tapping, President, AllergyBuyersClub.com

I have always been ambivalent about central vacuum cleaners. We had a ten year old Nutone at my house and it languished unused until recently. I disliked the yards of vacuum hose which felt like a giant python around my neck. My old Nutone vacuum attachments were also completely ineffective, so this is why I have been using a Miele canister vacuum. When our flood damage made the central vacuum burn out, I took the opportunity to replace it with the largest model of Eureka central vacuum. I was very pleasantly surprised. First of all my contractor only took an hour or so to install it, even though he had to run to Home Depot to get an extra piece of piping. He did remark that it would take someone about a day's work to install it from scratch - more time than Eureka themselves predict it will take.

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Bottom line is that I am delighted with my new Eureka Boss central vacuum cleaner. The hose is light weight and while it still feels like an incredibly lengthy affair, I found that the length was useful as I was able to get around the whole house without changing the outlet. Additionally, the central vac powerhead is satisfyingly powerful. It did an excellent job on the remaining carpet in the house and the floor brush and attachments sucked up the dust. This was especially important in our post flood clean up as we seemed to be encountering a very high level of dust coming through our forced air heating system.

I had two little grumbles. One is that I had to be extra careful as to how I inserted the vacuum's direct connect nozzle into my existing sockets. From time to time the central vacuum power level wavers. Of course, I could replace the sockets with Eureka made connectors with which I am sure there would be no problem…but I am lazy as well as thrifty and did not want to do this. My second grumble was I had to fiddle to get the bag holder back onto the central vacuum unit correctly. This was definitely annoying and due to poor design. However, thankfully the bags are changed infrequently - at most twice a year. The plus of a central vacuum is they are perfect for allergy sufferers. There is no possibility of allergens escaping into the air out of the vacuum cleaner and any vacuum cleaner noise is usually confined to the basement. What's more the bags last forever- they are HUGE. Of course, the dust could be directly expelled into the outside air, but in my case our condominium does not allow this. All in all, I like it and I am thrilled that my old built in vacuum cleaner burnt out!

First Published: February 2001
Updated: April 2007

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