I want to catch the brick & plaster dust when I drill a hole in
the wall at home.

I usually use my ordinary vaccuum cleaner (held by someone else)
to catch the dust as I drill. It works really well. And it
extracts and remaining debris in the drill hole which might
prevent a wall plug going in.

However the brick & plaster dust block up the vaccuum cleaner's
bag. Yes, it's one of the older vaccuum cleaners with a bag.

How can I fix up something which will trap the dust before it gets
to the bag?

I was thinking of somehow using some filter material: perhaps a
bit of densely woven fabric, or perhaps a square cut fro m an old
vaccuum cleaner bag. Any other ideas of what material to use?

How would this best be secured? Do you think the best arrangement
is to simply trap a piece of this filter material between the
nozzle attachment and the vaccuum cleaner pipe?

Maybe there is something economical I can buy here in the UK to
attach to the vaccuum cleaner to do this job. This Drill Mate
product looks a bit elaborate for infrequent home use and I can't
think it would trap enough of the dust. Does anyone have any
experiences with it? http://www.mustget1.com/pages/drillmate.html

Any other ideas onhow to trap the masonry dust?

Maybe it is possible to somehow wet the brick with water to
control the dust? Or something else? Use a handheld water mister
spray on the drill bit while drilling?




David

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PS: In the past I used a "ceiling cup" on the drill bit but it
was not as effective as I would have liked.

I've also seen little plastic bag gadgets which you stick to the
wall and drill into to catch the dust but these are too expensive.