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Why It’s Important to Service & Maintain Your Equipment   Take a moment and think about your business and processes. What’s your most important asset? If you said your equipment, then you’d be right on the money.   Without the ability to remove insulation from a loft or cavity wall efficiently, effectively, and safely, there’s really not much you can do. And if your client is banking on you finishing on time ready for new insulation being put in, you need to ensure that you’re providing a timely service that really delivers on your promise. When your income relies on...

Here at Extract Vac, we have a vision: We want to see improved standardisation in the cavity wall extraction industry, generating greater consistency in technique and equipment usage to provide homeowners with predictable results, every time. The Problem One of the biggest issues in the cavity wall extraction sector today is unpredictability. As the number of businesses offering insulation removal services increases, we’re seeing more and more deviation in the processes and tools that are used to extract, clean, and prepare a space for a new installation. This means that homeowners can never be sure what to expect, nor can...

The concept of cavity wall insulation is a good one. Filling unused space with materials that prevent heat loss and make it easier and more cost effective to keep the home warm and comfortable? It makes sense. Unfortunately, poor quality installations now mean that many homeowners are seeing more harm than good from their cavity wall insulation, with it absorbing moisture and forming mould. How is it absorbing moisture? While there are a number of possibilities, moisture-wicking debris is one of the most common. There are two issues we’re seeing more and more frequently when our team are inspecting cavity...

It’s often said that Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, failed 10,000 times before succeeding. And while there’s really no solid proof that Edison ever admitted to facing such a challenge, what we do know is that he told Harper’s Monthly magazine in 1890 that he had ‘constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently to be true.  Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory’. You don’t always hit the jackpot on your first try. In the Formula One 2022 season, for...

This is a quick update to let Extract Vac cavity wall extraction machine owners that the new E10 fuel will not effect the engine and is ok to use but we strongly advise to use a fuel additive/stabiliser.  You can get some at your local Toolstation or Screwfix. What is E10 petrol? It's a motor fuel that contains less carbon and more ethanol than fuels. Current petrol grades in the UK - known as E5 - contain up to 5% ethanol, with the other 95% being regular unleaded petrol. Their replacement, E10, will see this percentage increased to 10% - a proportion...