On Jul 21, 11:58*am, windcrest wrote:
On Jul 20, 10:04*pm, (Danielle Eastman) wrote:





Our basement flooded in January and we had to replace the sheet rock.
There was also an area of popcorn ceiling at the entry into the
basement. *We hired some one to resheet rock and remove popcorn ceiling
finish. *We had put some plastic up, but did not realize the devastation
that the contractor would be doing to our whole home. *He did not warn
us or put up any protection or suggest that we did. *He sanded the 3
foot by 5 foot popcorn ceiling and sent a plum of white dust through out
the house through the duct work as well as blowing to the second floor.
( we thought that there would be a vacuum system on any major sanding
that he did) We tried to get this terrible dust up by vacuuming to no
satisfaction. *(the dust made our window screen WHITE). *We were very
upset with the way the contractor did this. *We had no idea what was
going to happen. *Then as he was getting ready to finish the walls he
did it again *and it went all through the house again. *

My question is does anyone know how we can get this terrible dust out of
our home. *We have tried our vacuum cleaner and it just cakes up in the
cleaner or blows out of the back. *This is making our family sick and is
in everything *It has to be in the ducts as well as carpeting,
furniture, clothing and bedding. *Can we rent something get it up? *We
have tried washing the basement floor, but it does not seem to help. *We
cannot put carpeting down until we get this all out of the house. *We
are worried that we will have to take the rest of the carpeting in our
home up because of the dust.

We would appreciate any ideas on how we can get this dust out of our
home.
Thank you so very much.

Betty

Too bad you didn't ask here about methods for mitigating dust during
construction, I'm sure you would have gotten a lot of good ideas.

But for now all you can do is maybe get a crew of Polish cleaning
ladies over to the house 2 weekends in a row. *The Poles here
(Chicagoland) tend to start that business when they immigrate, and man
they are good. *Do this for a couple weeks in a row and things will be
back to normal. *A whole house vacuum system would help too as regular
vacumm bags do release a percentage of their dust again.

For the future. *When doing interior sanding I find that if I cause a
negative pressure draft in the room I'm sanding it will prevent any
dust infiltration out of that room. *Additionally a cheap water bucket
sanding device works wonders, a small vacuum sucks through your
sanding pad with a water bubbler in the middle. *Also you can wet sand
a popcorn ceiling to knock down the heavy parts first then do a dry
sanding the next day for final smoothing. *But I still like negative
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I made a huge wallboard dust cloud once by cutting a rather large
opening with a circular saw. Fortunatley I had the presence of mind
to open the nearest window and turn the whole house fan on high. The
cloud of dust moved out like some sort of scifi movie.

Vacuums with bags are useless for wall board dust. It clogs the bag
in a few minutes. I use my shop vac and connect a 2nd hose to the
outlet and run that out the window.