Airborne Dust Control

Bob Schmidt shows you a simple way to control overwhelming dust in small work spaces. Used along with air respirator, dust masks, this method can keep your house cleaner and your work space more livable.

AIRBORNE DUST CONTROL Hi I'm Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop. If renovating a large area you’ll have a little bit of room to breathe. When you’re doing that tear out you got a lot of air space and stuff pretty much not choky to death. But what you do when you’re renovating a small area like this one here, a small half bath or whole bath where with very minutes of tear out all of the sudden you can't see your hands in front of your face. I’ve got a quick simple solution for that, let’s get to work. As I’ve shown in my other videos, my personal belief is veining from the outside is the very best way to go, using largest fan as possible to create a positive air flow coming in your space, but what you do if either due to the sizes of the window you can't really get an adequate fan in here or you have an extreme temperature outside hot or cold, where you don’t want to allow that to be brought into your house? Or you a neighbor’s house that’s real close or your landscaping downstairs is going to dye if put all the drywall plaster dust on it, what do you do then? The solution that I have for this is a simple as a shot back. I would even start a small remodeling project without a decent horsepower shot back on my project, and what I used with the shot back is this two-inch PVC pipe connection, which also fits inside my flexible aluminum three-inch duct work, which when I combined all these along with the attachment that generally comes with the shot back I can ventilate that space, yet filter the air going to the outside. Out of that small window, simply drop the female end of your extension cord down to where your shot back’s going to be down on the ground and drop this 3inch aluminum flexus down. Now, you don’t need to be out on the roof to do this I can just tossed it out. Now, the reason I have this PVC adapter here, is there any event that there ‘s a crash issue here with this pipe? I can simply slide this into the pipe like that and then slip it in to the window making sure that the window does not crash in. Now, if it is a different operating window that will be more of an issue. Upstairs simply take a scrap piece of cardboard, cover the base of the hole and cut a hole out for this vacuum tube to become an end, and then seal up all the other air joints. In any event that a hundred and ten out there the less air transfer in here you want as possible plus you don’t want air socking from a gut like this directly into the hose, which you’re trying to do is create a positive air fresher coming in to this small room, which will going to draw air from the living space and suck it out this hole and be filter before it goes to the outside. Now, it’s time to get outside, yes go ahead and take that female end plug you shot back in there. Generally, I’ll take one of the arms for standing up and sweeping and even though it does not generally always fit in here perfectly sometime I’ll take a little bit a duct tape and wrap it around here to give it a more snug fit. I’ll take my flexible pipe here and I’ll go ahead now stick it over top with this and take a little bit a tape and I’ll go ahead and tape it on, so it will stay there, so I know it’s going to be sucking in from the upper side. With it being unplug upstairs I’ll go ahead and turn the switch to on, and then I know when I plug that in upstairs I’m going to be able to remove the operating shot back from inside my project. All you have to do is to turn that shot back on and create my suction and plug this in. As you can hear right up here at the window as I put my hands and cover it, you know that, that’s going to suck in air into my project when I’ll close and seal up this store, and it’s going to filter it to the outside, and I’m not making the neighborhood nasty or kill any plant. When you get to that part of the project once all the clean remove is done tops and doors and all such or out, and you’ll get to the point when you turn out the plaster in the concrete, and the dust is getting so nasty, you really need just prior to that get above seal around it leave the bottom open and allow some air to suck in to the project and out to that ventilation hole. You’ll be real happy that you took a little bit of time and expensive tool to set this up. Make your project a lot more lovable, house and lot more plain. I’m Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop. If you appreciated this tape please subscribe and have a happy tear out.