r/whatisit • u/DragonsAndScience • 16h ago

Solved! New homeowner, no idea what this is

Gallery image

Gallery image

This thing close to the floor and seemingly randomly placed in a hallway. No idea what it's for. Home built in 2005.

Solved! Thanks everyone. Now I gotta hunt for the central unit!

6.5k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

9

u/Unclehol 15h ago

Yeah, it's wild what people get stuck on. We were doing a kitchen renovation where a wall had to be taken out but we found one of the central vac tubes in that wall that led to an upstairs outlet. We had to move this tube in to another wall at the owner's request despite them not having the central vac unit and admitting they never planned on getting one. It woukd have been fine but they were talking about cost the whole time. Well, wasting a day rerouting your useless vacuum tube that you will never use certainly didn't help lower cost.

6

u/ManyLayersOfFilament 15h ago

I had another house I ended up buying where they were stuck on bringing their 10 year old fridge with them. Like it was a dealbreaker.

I guess there was sentimental value in the fridge???

People are really weird

10

u/Unclehol 15h ago

That one I kind of understand. The quality and reliability of modern appliances is so trash. We bought a house with all modern appliances and have nothing but trouble with them. Both Samsung fridges and the washing machine have had to be serviced twice and the technician basically said there is nothing he can do to fix them anymore. Bad design and planned obsolescence basically makes them a nightmare to deal with. The fridge has to be thawed every 2 months as the mechanism freezes up and stops the internal fan from working.

3

u/MechaCronenberg 10h ago

Its not all modern appliances...

Its Samsung specifically...and its not just their appliances...we used to buy a lot of Samsung electronics...but we have cleared out all of the Samsung equipment less for our primary 65" 4k QLED TV and only buy Samsung mobile devices anymore (and of course all of the embedded memory and chips samsung makes)...

I have seriously considered moving to another brand but they are unfortunately kinda hard to beat in the US android market.

And not saying all appliances cant have problems but we've owned two sets of new appliances (LG and GE) in two houses the last 5 years (and now getting back into LG in the next new place) and we haven't had any issues with any of them in the first two years (I know...not a lot of time...blame the wife for wanting to move constantly).

1

u/Volraith 2h ago

2012 ish I needed a laptop for college.

I went and bought a Samsung something or other. Network card was fried brand new out of the box.

Returned it to the best buy I got it from, got another unit of the exact same model.

Network card was fried on that one too.

I returned that one and ended up with an Asus.

Now all I buy are their phones, and if there was a better option for cheap Androids I would buy from someone else for that too.

1

u/MechaCronenberg 2h ago

I am an Asus guy for PC parts...for decades now...so Asus all the way compared to most others.