Yes, we all know how bad it sucks... and yes it is superficial in a sense... especially for the amount of time it takes to do it...

The point is, have you had trouble sweeping up all the dust? My brother came up with a ingenious solution. he modified the shop vac and basically made a giant water bong out of it. Therefore, the dust doest spit back out!

hey, hey!

Later
T

Uh. Isn't that pretty much s.o.p.?

You know that those shop vacs are wet-dry vacs, don't you? I don't know how much modification it would need. I suppose maybe he made it so that the intake actually goes through the water rather than just depending on the dust to get caught on the water inside? I suppose that would work better. But even so, just filling a shop vac with water does pretty good.

Shop vacs have a pretty simple filter, usually a flat cloth that's clamped around the exhaust tube. If you soak that in water it would probably do the job. But I agree, what you're doing seems to work and it's easy, so just keep doing it.

What bothers me is that you're making so much dust that it's an issue. My wife and I nailed sheetrock to an entire ceiling, an awkward job which entails always being at the wrong angle and always fighting gravity, plenty of opportunity to be sloppy. And we didn't make as much dust as you seem to have. We just cleaned the room up with our regular hoover when we were done and that was the end of it. What are you guys doing that causes the wallboard to crumble so badly? You shouldn't be sawing it indoors, if that's where the dust is coming from. Geeze, sawing drywall is like opening a bag of cement and tossing it up into the ceiling fan.

I hope you're wearing masks, you really don't want to be breathing that stuff.

Hey guys,

I've worked drywall construction. Sure it's messy, but not a problem whatsoever. When you sweep, sweep slowly. The goal is to not raise the dust like you're in a cartoon. A regular shopvac is all I ever used (after sweeping). I've had to show many newbie temps just this point. I tell you, showing somebody how to sweep gets tiresome. Shoveling too, but thats a different subject.

Basically all he did was make the intake go down into the water so it filters throught the water. Yes drywalling is extremely dusty. why? Well after you put it up, you have to mud all the joints. After you mud, you have to sand all the places you mud creating a very fine mist of the mud. And you have to do this like 10 times, mudding then sanding in order to achieve a flat wall.

It sucks

Later
T

T,
I understand his solution to the cleaning. Fine job.
Regarding 10 appllications, are you kidding? Max is 3. And thats new wall. remodel is 2 mostly. Painters often quickpatch with 1.
I've worked residential and commercial, in and out of unions. Wall, tape, plaster, paint, etc. Never more than 3 coats. Scratch, Brown, Finish.
Never is dustyness an issue. Fraggle's right about the mask though. Use a good one.

Hey Fraggle, why didn't you rent a lift? Man, once I used one I never went back. Hanging 12' 5/8" rock on and angled vaulted ceilings did more than just convince me.
Don't like them stilts though, fun for a while, then worse than a ladder.


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