my neighbor hired a concete cutting company to remove his front porch.
after cutting the porch, my house, grill, cars, tables, were covered in
concrete dust...
got to love neighbors....contractors.
"Bob Davis" wrote in message
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I was thinking about this approach lately. I usually grab the blow gun
tip
on my air compressor to thoroughly clean up my table saw. Then I shoot it
at the floor to whisk it clean. A leaf blower seems more civil for
sweeping
the floor. On the other hand, there are two drawbacks to either
technique -
you create a dusty mess to breathe (dust mask advised) and it ruins the
freshly washed and shined Lexus sitting on the other side of the garage.

:-)


"John Aiton" wrote in message
...
I finally completed a bedroom set project this afternoon and decided it
was time to clean the shop. High time, at that.

So I went about it with the shop vac, alternately sucking and blowing,
with only marginal results, when the dawn came. The trusty electric
leaf blower. I opened the shop doors and fired it up.

It was like taking a ride in a dust devil. A veritable maelstrom of
dust swirled throughout the building. Fasteners flew from the bench and
splattered against the wall. Dead flies blew through the service door
like a charge of buckshot. Small tools and offcuts clattered across the
floor. The dust simply billowed out the overhead door and it must have
looked like a small cattle drive.
The process took about fifteen minutes.

I turned on a large fan to vent the settling dust through the service
door, and walked over to the house for a short break. When I returned,
the air had cleared, and the shop was clean as a whistle. Even the
walls gleamed. The technique works.

But don't try it in your basement.....!

John