crowpotter Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 I am regularly sweeping and wet mopping my 400 sf garage studio. I am aware that a lot of clay dust gets airborne. Can anyone recommend a good shop vac with HEPA filter to use instead of sweeping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scott312 Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Have you ever bought something and wondered how you ever got by without it? http://www.irobot.com/us/ My life has not been the same. These robots rock! I even named mine "Morris". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justanassembler Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 I am regularly sweeping and wet mopping my 400 sf garage studio. I am aware that a lot of clay dust gets airborne. Can anyone recommend a good shop vac with HEPA filter to use instead of sweeping? wet mopping is the best way to clean the studio in terms of health.... A really good HEPA vac would likely work, you're looking at around 500.00 for the vac itself, and sometimes as much as 300.00 for replacement filters... Also I would suspect that with the quantity of dust you will be moving through the vac you'll go through filters like nobody's business... Any non hepa vac (like those irobots) will just throw dust back into the air--bad bad bad. wet mop, rinse, lather, repeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshur Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 The way I think is best to vacuum, is to have the vacuum unit outside, for my shop and studio I us a shop vac with a 50 foot hose and commercial style wand. I put the vacuum outside or just in the doorway with the exhaust pointing out, no issues with dust at all, except when emptying the vacuum, I wear a good respirator, and empty the vac outside. For about $200. you can have the complete system, attached is a picture of my system, a link to WalVac, which is where I got my hose and wand and a link to ebay to show some hose availability, I did have to make an adapter for the hose to the vacuum, also pictured. For a 50' hose it should be a 1-1/2" ID hose, and commercial wand, for a 30' hose, 1-1/4" ID and household wand will work. The paper filter that my vacuum came with works quite well, and has lasted a long time. The more powerful the vacuum the better for these long hoses.http://www.walvac.com/http://www.ebay.com/...cat=0&_from=R40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Placing the unit outside the studio makes all the sense in the world. We have a central vac system for the house and the noise and dust is outside as well.I just may have to make one for the shop. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo_heff Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 These are great for clay dust: high quality, true hepa, small version of their very expensive industrial vacs: Compare Nilfisk Eliminator I Vacuum Our Price: $725.00 NILFISK ELIMINATOR I VACUUM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perkolator Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Another vote for Nilfisk vacuum products. Have 2 in our studio, one large GS82 and a smaller unit that I don't know the model - I cannot imagine not having one. Another great thing to have in studio for cleaning is a squeegee vacuum. I use a Typhoon EV and what's great about it is you just wet the floor and suck it up! Cleans much better than a mop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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