On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:00:42 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote:

On Mar 19, 2:54*pm, The Reverend Natural Light
wrote:
On Mar 19, 11:05 am, Bruce K. wrote:

My kitchen is going through a renovation and they are tearing down the
walls and ceiling.

There is a fine dust residue all over the floor and stuff in the
basement below.

Whats the best way to vaccuum up the floor and other small items.

My regular vaccuum cant handle the fine dust.

I bought a shop vac from Sears and put in one of their HEPA filters.
Works great. *It even works with soot and ash.

Been using Sears shop vacs for decades. IMO they have the best value

Sears shop vacs are made by Shop-vac, and painted Sears colors.

I've never seen "drywall filter bags" as mentioned above, but I have
seen "find dust filter bags" or something like that. Recommended for
soot and I'm sure for drywall dust too.

But the smallest machines won't take this kind of bag. The outlet has
to be through the bottom container, not through the clip on top with
the motor. Of course this was a couple years ago, so I would make
sure before buying that the fine dust filter fit the vacuum I was
buying.

I ended up buying from Pep Boys, which also sells Shop-Vac and had the
biggest small model at the best price, only 10 dollars more than the
next one down. (they may have had two models. I bought the bigger
one, probably because fine dust filter bags wouldn't fit in the ohter
one.)

Lowes also sells Shop-Vacs, painted Lowes colors.

for the $$ out there. Drywall dust not a problem, vacuum it up and
clean the filter with your compressed air spritzer when it gets nasty.
They can be reused for many months in commercial service that way.
HTH

Joe