Things You'll Need

Instructions

Preparation Stage

1

Create your vacuum layout. Use only interior walls and with a pencil, make a mark where you want the outlets to be located. It's important to choose walls with little, or no, cross wiring or pipes. Walk around to determine where your plumbing runs and avoid it. Compare your plan with your basement layout to make sure you will be piping into open areas.
2

Examine the items that came with your system. Make sure all of them are present and separate them into the stages you will be using them.
3

Drill a lead hole with a small bit on the floor exactly beneath the desired outlet against the wall. This will be your guide for drilling the hole in the floor stud from the basement. Stick a thin wire through about 4 inches.

Wall and Pathway Cutting Stage

1

Trace around the outlet valve on sheetrock, level with electrical outlets and between studs. Cut sheetrock with either a hole bit or with carefully with a hacksaw. Double check to make sure you have a clear space between your hole and the floor stud.
2

Measure 2 ? inches from your lead hole with the wire sticking out, back into the wall. You will be in the basement looking up. Take your 2?-inch hole bit and drill directly up into the stud space. Your previously-cut outlet hole will be about 2 feet above that. Repeat this process with each outlet you have chosen to install.
3

Cut the provided low-voltage wire long enough to reach from your outlet, through the basement and to the main unit. Using the rope, tie one end around the wire and drop the rope through the hole down into the basement. Gently pull the wire through, leaving at least 2 feet above to work with. Repeat with all outlets.

Pipe and Wire Installation Stage

1

Glue the provided elbows onto the back of the mounting brackets. Line the elbow up so the opening is pointing straight down to the hole you cut from the basement. Cut a piece of PVC piping 2 inches longer than the length from the bottom of the elbow down to the bottom of the ceiling beam your piping will need to clear.
2

Attach the wires to the provided nuts on the back of the outlet plate. Allow the excess to drop into the basement.
3

Ask your assistant to hold the outlet firmly in place while you thread the PVC pipe up through the hole from the basement and into the elbow. Brush the outside circumference of the pipe with PVC glue first. Make sure the pipe is secured firmly into the elbow. Repeat with all the outlets.
4

Install the outlets to the walls with the provided screws. Your upstairs work now done; head down to the basement.
5

Suspend the provided trunk hangars from the floor joists in the basement, aligning the trunk pieces and cutting through as few joists as possible to reach the location of the main unit. Most trunks are flexible so you can bend them a little, but try to keep them as straight as possible.
6

Glue the pipe end mounts to the trunk openings and install using the provided clamps to secure the flex tubing. Attach the trunk to the main system unit at the inlet opening. Do not glue this connection.
7

Splice the low-voltage wires and attach them to the unit.
8

Plug in the basement unit to an electrical outlet and you are ready to go upstairs and attach the hose to any outlet and start using your central vacuum.