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Kitchen dust pan vacuum - NOT central vac

6 years ago

I am looking for an automatic dust pan system to be built into the kitchen cabinet toe kick, that has a bag or canister inside the cabinet to vacuum up dust and whatnot. Any recommendations? We do not have a whole house central system, nor do we plan on adding one. Just thought it would be handy to instal in the kitchen during remodel. I have seen this sort of thing in beauty salons in the past. Thanks for any advice.

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JAN MOYER

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

Get a cordless "stick" vacuum. Keep it charged and USE it.

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
6 years ago
I have no idea why not just get Roomba.
DavidR
6 years ago
I have no direct experience with such a machine, so I can't give you a recommendation, but do you mean something like this? (No endorsement intended.)
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rwiegand
6 years ago
I can address why not a roomba-- they don't work if you have furniture or rugs with fringes. I've had three generations of them, if you have any amount of furniture they find there way into a corner from which they can't escape. If your carpets have fringes, they eat them and die. If you have four cats, they eat cat hair for a while and then die. If you have big rooms you have to play all kinds of silly games with the "walls" to contain the roomba to an area it can clean, but they escape anyway, wandering off into oblivion. As a long time lab robotics guy I badly want them to work, but they don't.

I too have been looking at adding the dustpan device cited above to our kitchen-- the toekick opening was the only thing we liked about the whole house vac system we used to have. I hope someone who has one will comment.
DavidR
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The other problem a relative of mine discovered with a Roomba was that the batteries don't last very long, and are expensive to replace. After the second or third replacement gave up, her Roomba went into the closet and stayed there.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
6 years ago
She just wants the thing for the kitchen the Roomba will work fine. I have had mine for 5 yrs it goes back to its charger when done never had a problem .
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JAN MOYER
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Get a cat to ride on it too. ? I have never been "taxed " from a three minute vacuum event ......lol
geoffrey_b
6 years ago
Cordless Dyson

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