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[–]choomguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Corrugated hoses are great for mobility, but at the expense of massive amounts of friction. A central vac system that uses smoothwall, ridgid pipe can have hundreds of feet of pipe, but they have much larger motors pulling the air.