Dust control in your garage

[dogdog]

How do you guys keep dust to minimum in your garages.
I am not refer to just vacuum when / what you sanded and scraped or have those dust collectors or a broom stick ?

Guess I haven't been in my garage for a while and find out all my stuff were cover in thin to medium layer of dust.... wiped it down, after another 2 months or so, it's covered with dust again. at this rate I am spending more time wiping dust than spending time actually doing something useful.

Any tricks tips?

 

[buzz4041]

epoxy coat the floor will help a bunch.

 

[Koken]

Weed blower, fast and easy.

 

[zkdiesel]

Large trolley mounted air filter on my ceiling. Run it when doing high debree things. Then also cleans up surface dust that occurred in last few days. Wall tin stays cleaner as well

 

[rosspulliam]

Large trolley mounted air filter on my ceiling. Run it when doing high debree things. Then also cleans up surface dust that occurred in last few days. Wall tin stays cleaner as well

Pics? This is something I've wanted to do for awhile and have been brainstorming ideas of how to do it.

 

[galute]

I was thinking about this yesterday while in my shop. When the sunlight was shining thru the windows it is amazing how much dust is in the air. No wonder I been sneezing so much lately. Here is my bright idea. Don't know if it will work yet but maybe worth a try. I have a couple of squirrel cage fans out of old house furnaces. I'm going to seal one up good then figure out how to attatch an old air cleaner off an auto onto the intake side of it. Then just set it out of the way somewhere and let it run when I'm in there. What do you guys think? Might help some.

 

[michiganmike]

After a new house build, I attached quality Furnace Filters to two Cheap Box fans and left them on in the basement for days ....there had been a fine red dirt dust on the floor, and I could see the accumulation on the filters. Your idea of the squirrel cage fans is good, also. Any fan that pulls air through a filter would be better than nothing at all.

 

[Falcon67]

This is west Texas - one of our main exports is dirt. You get used to it and keep a few California Car dusters around.

>Weed blower, fast and easy.
The Carl Spackler solution.

 

[Builder302]

I try to move heavy dust creating projects near the door, circular saw, kreg jig, etc. then almost weekly hit it with the leaf blower. Forces me to put away tools and get everything buttoned up. Eventually I will get everything on wheels to really blow all the dust out behind and under.

 

[zkdiesel]

Pics? This is something I've wanted to do for awhile and have been brainstorming ideas of how to do it.

On my cell now so no pics for a while. But go to my post yesterday in diesel mechanics thread in free parking and you can see the blue box hanging from ceiling. Inlet is on both sides with furnace filters for first filtering, then fine "bag filters" inside of that with clean air coming out center

 

[dogdog]

does that vented outside or just circulating air between filters ?
that looks like a commercial unit and probably larger than my garage.
so if you were to build something what is suggested boxfan/sqirrel cage filter what would be good enough for about 15x20x15 garage.

 

[zkdiesel]

***** from inside building and blows back clean into building. Keeps from forming a negative pressure to cause air leaks(heat loss or cold loss, as shop is ac)
I have a separate exhaust system to blow contaminated air out of building

 

[Streetbu]

I have a house furnace in my garage, i run the good pleated paper filters in it, have to change them out at least once a month, but helps with the dust a lot. I get the filters thru my work at cost, but on sale they are only $2.99 each anyways

 

[Joe69]

Before I painted my mustang, I pulled evrything I could out of the garage and cleaned it. I simply couldn't believe just how much dust was in there. The biggest thing I see is to seal the shop up and keep it from getting in there in the first place.

My pole barn is terrible for dust. It's pretty drafty, and dust and cobwebs collect everywhere. I'm hoping that after I seal it up, it will be much better.


Joe

 

[NitroShark]

I found that coating the floor made a Huge difference in dust control. You can't really get it clean without it.

Shawn

 

[McFarmer]

I rigged a dryer fan inside a box with furnace filters on the sides, quiet and moves a lot of air.

 

[HTGTS350]

The biggest open pit mine in the southern hemisphere is at the end of my street, dust is just a fact of life I have to deal with.