Commercial & Central Vacuum Repair
4.79★ · $59 service call · same day
Same-day slots most days, 7 AM–9 PM. 19 factory-trained technicians, 4.79★ across 1,300 customer reviews — the $59 service call is waived when you proceed with the repair. $59 covers the visit and diagnosis and is credited to the repair if you go ahead. If you don't, it's the only charge.
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Commercial and central vacuum repair across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. ProTeam, Nilfisk and Tennant machines for hotels and cleaning crews. Beam, NuTone and Vacuflo built-in systems in houses and condos. Motors, relays, inlets, line clogs. $59 service call, free with the repair.
Two kinds of vacuum are worth a technician’s visit: the built-in system with a power unit in the garage and pipe inside the walls, and the commercial machine a housekeeping crew runs six hours a day. Both cost real money. Both fail in predictable places. Both get fixed on site.
What we do not service: household portable vacuums. Dyson, Shark, Bissell, Hoover, Miele home models, cordless sticks, robot vacuums. On those the right call is the manufacturer’s own service line or the store that sold it; a $59 visit from us would be money wasted, so please contact the maker. If you have a Beam unit that quit or a closet of Sanitaire uprights with three dead motors, keep reading.
Brands we work
- Beam and Electrolux central vacuum
- NuTone / Broan, Vacuflo, Cyclovac
- MD Manufacturing, Hayden, Cana-Vac
- ProTeam, Sanitaire, Windsor / Karcher
- Nilfisk / Advance, Tennant, Clarke
- Minuteman, Numatic
Built-in systems in single-family homes and in condo towers, including older Aventura and Sunny Isles buildings where the pipe was roughed in during construction and nobody has opened the power unit since. On the commercial side: backpack and upright machines, wet-dry units, and the industrial vacs that live in restaurant kitchens and warehouses. Floor scrubbers and carpet extractors we take only when the fault is the vacuum motor or its wiring, and we say so up front. Brush drives, solution pumps and traction batteries belong with the scrubber dealer.
Vacuum problems, cause and fix
| Symptom | Likely cause | Typical cost |
|---|---|---|
| Central vac: every inlet weak | Clogged PVC line near the power unit, full canister, or a filter bag packed solid | $150 to $300 |
| Central vac: one inlet dead, the rest fine | Broken low-voltage contact in that wall inlet, or a clog in its branch line | $120 to $300 |
| Central vac: nothing at any inlet | Relay or control board in the power unit, or a low-voltage wire cut at the unit | $180 to $300 |
| Power unit runs and never shuts off | Relay stuck closed, or a shorted low-voltage loop behind one inlet plate | $180 to $300 |
| Power unit screams, then quits | Motor bearings or brushes at end of life, often after years of running with a full bin | $350 to $650 |
| Commercial upright: no suction, motor sounds fine | Blocked hose, torn bag, or a filter nobody changed all season | $59 to $150 |
| Backpack unit cuts out mid-shift | Cord damage at the strain relief, a cracked switch, or thermal cutout from a clogged filter | $80 to $200 |
| Commercial vac motor dead or sparking | Carbon brushes gone, or the motor drowned on a wet-dry unit with a failed float | $200 to $450 |
Central vacuum systems in homes and condos
A built-in system is three parts: a power unit, a low-voltage circuit that tells it when to start, and a run of two-inch PVC behind the drywall. The pipe almost never fails. Everything else does. Motors in a garage or utility closet run hot in our climate and lose brushes and bearings somewhere between year ten and year fifteen. Relays and boards go after lightning season; a surge on the low-voltage side kills the board while the house breaker never trips. Inlet valves lose the little spring contact that closes the circuit, which is why a dead inlet with a live motor is one of the most common calls we take.
Clogs are their own subject. Someone vacuums up a sock or a length of packing tape and it stops at the first tight elbow. We find it with an airflow check at each inlet, then clear it from the nearest opening with reverse flow or a snake made for the job. Walls stay closed in nearly every case.
Condo towers add a wrinkle. Some buildings still run a shared system with one big unit in a mechanical room; the association owns the machine and the resident owns the inlets. We work either side, and we bring the certificate of insurance that Miami Beach and Aventura management offices ask for before anyone rides the service elevator.
Commercial machines for hotels, offices and cleaning companies
A ProTeam backpack or a Sanitaire upright is a $400 to $900 tool that gets used harder than any appliance in a house. The failures follow the use: cords chafed at the strain relief, switches cracked from being kicked on, hoses split at the cuff, harness straps torn on backpacks, and motors that finally give up after a thousand shifts. Most of those parts we stock or get in a day. We would rather fix five machines at your property in one visit than watch you buy five new ones.
For a housekeeping department or a cleaning company we set up a standing visit, monthly or quarterly: every machine on a list, filters and bags checked, cords and hoses swapped before they fail on a guest floor. Hotels and restaurants with other equipment on the list can book through Berne Commercial, our commercial division, and put the vacuums on the same ticket as the kitchen.
Wet-dry and industrial units in kitchens and warehouses get the same treatment, with one warning. A wet-dry machine whose float valve has failed pulls water straight into the motor. If yours went quiet mid-pickup with the tank half full, stop and call. A motor dried and cleaned the same day usually survives. A motor run again the next morning does not.
Typical pricing
| Job | Typical range* |
|---|---|
| Service call (applied to the repair) | $59 |
| Central vac line clog, locate and clear | $150 to $300 |
| Central vac inlet valve, replace and rewire | $120 to $200 |
| Central vac relay or control board | $180 to $300 |
| Central vac power unit motor | $350 to $650 |
| Commercial vac motor, upright or backpack | $200 to $450 |
| Backpack harness, hose or cord assembly | $80 to $200 |
| Fleet visit, per machine after the first | $45 to $90 |
*Parts and labor. The diagnosis names the exact number before any work starts, and the $59 service call is free with any repair you approve. 90-day labor warranty.
Repair or replace
Central vacuum: repair, almost without exception. A new power unit installed runs $900 to $1,800, and the expensive part of the system is the pipe in your walls, which is fine. A $500 motor on a fifteen-year-old Beam gives you a unit that will likely go another ten. We suggest a new power unit only when the motor, the board and the canister seals are all gone at once on a model whose parts have dried up.
Commercial machines are simpler math. Motor plus labor on a $700 backpack is $200 to $450, so it makes sense. On a $150 upright from a warehouse club, a motor job costs what the machine did, and we tell you that on the phone. Cords, switches and hoses are cheap on anything and always worth doing.
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