Air mover or dust collector

[3rdgen]

Hi all,

The wife’s on my case about working on our basement since the rona is shutting everything down and we have no where to go. It’s a old house that was poured by hand and the concrete is terrible rough and bumpy and the previous owner glued underlay to the floor which was painted. I’ve scraped what I can off and then started grinding with a dust shroud and a dust deputy hooked to my shop vac. It works good but some dust still gets out I was thinking of either getting a little 1 hp dust collector and putting it outside to **** up as much dust as I can or maybe a air mover in the window to hopefully make a home built neg air machine . Any thoughts or am I just wasting my time.

 

[LX-Markham]

Fellow Londoner! I grew up in London.

We did a bit of concrete grinding on the basement slab prior to our basement reno. Dust shield and Hilti dust vacuum, but inevitably you’ll get dust everywhere. Best you can do is try and seal off the area with plastic and contain the dust from the rest of the house.

 

[couch67]

seal off the area from the rest of the house, put a box fan in a window and crack a window in the opposite end of the basement.

Make sure you seal up any cold air returns in the basement or your furnace will pull the dust through the house.

 

[bad_idea]

seal off the area from the rest of the house, put a box fan in a window and crack a window in the opposite end of the basement.

Make sure you seal up any cold air returns in the basement or your furnace will pull the dust through the house.

What he said to take care of anything the local collection doesn't capture. I would upgrade to the dust collector if you have plans for it after this project. Otherwise, I would just stick with your vac and dust separator.

 

[greg13]

I would keep what you are doing, but add neg.air with a fan or blower in a window to **** dust out of the rest of the house. You are wearing at least a mask aren't you??

 

[3rdgen]

Fellow Londoner! I grew up in London.

We did a bit of concrete grinding on the basement slab prior to our basement reno. Dust shield and Hilti dust vacuum, but inevitably you’ll get dust everywhere. Best you can do is try and seal off the area with plastic and contain the dust from the rest of the house.

I’m actually from Strathroy, but most people have no idea where that is or think Stratford because of Beiber. Did you use an actual floor grinder or just the attachment on a regular grinder

 

[3rdgen]

I would keep what you are doing, but add neg.air with a fan or blower in a window to **** dust out of the rest of the house. You are wearing at least a mask aren't you??

Ya I got a full face respirator, I’ve got some sinus issues from poor family genetics so that’s why I was thinking dust collector with the chute to **** anything close by out the window as well

 

[dfiler2]

Point one of these out a window, then lay the tube near your work.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R13F2QZ/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Mb4]

Get a respirator before anything else.

 

[dswensen]

Is there a certain brand of respirator that you recommend that is effective AND comfortable?

 

[3rdgen]

Is there a certain brand of respirator that you recommend that is effective AND comfortable?

I personally prefer the 3m respirator over even the cheap paper masks or even the masks were supposed to wear for the rona. I believe my full face one is a 3m 6800 series one and the only reason I like it was it was free from the company I used to work for because we were doing electrical demolition in a asbestos abatement

 

[ddawg16]

Air mover.....

Otherwise, you will spend half your time cleaning out the dust collector.

 

[3rdgen]

Well I got it half done using a grinder on a basement floor ***** just an FYI. I tarped the one room off got my 24” fan from the shop and shoved it in the window and put the dust deputy and shop vac outside with 20 ft of hose to the grinder dust shroud. It worked very well and made no mess out of the containment. I’m used to working hard but that just ***** took about 3 1/2 hrs to do 12x12 area.