I am about to rent out my first shop and I am wondering if anyone has any interesting solutions for dust removal. I have previously considered a raised floor type of workspace with ducting underneath and some kind of large extractor fan to suck out dust. Does anyone have other ideas? I do a lot of repairs on jet skis and such, and do not want to have to grind/sand outside this summer.
Make a seperate box/room where you have a dust extractor installed. Keep that as clean as possible. Do not store anything in there, to make life easier.
I have a DCE/Vokes Unimaster 4hp dust collector system for sale, cheap too! Might be overkill for what you need…I actually posted it in the equipment section. Let me know if that would interest you…
Thanks SLS but yes thats a bit more than what I need. Anyone pave pics of their own setups?
I recently purchased a large vacumn extractorits a numatic nvd750. Basicaly a powerful twin motored vac with heavy duty filters & hepa flter bag.
I use it for grinding GRP while doing boat repairs, it has a huge amount of suck through its 4" inlet duct & you just place the pipe where it sucks dust best.
I wish i had bought it years ago. Must be something similar over there.
What Herman says, a room for sanding, with a lower pressure. Keep your “clean” rooms at an overpressure. That way you force all the dust(and contaminated air) out, while getting fresh air in(well, depending on where you are). May be a bit overkill though, normally a separate room, a good vacuüm cleaner and good sanding equipment are enough to keep most of the place dustfree.
A quick solution is to find one of the cheap 12" dust/fume extration fans and run it into a large bin with a water mist spray to subdue the dust and or fumes and just have a large filter bad for an exhaust this system works a treat !