Hi folks, I'm new here!
I have a problem: My loft has incredibly fine dust inbetween the joists, and while boarding it over I've been using a Dyson DC07 (with HEPA filter) to clean out this dust. I just don't like the idea of leaving it there "out of sight"!
I think it may be soot from when coal fires were a thing (this house was built in 1937 with 4 open fires) although it's grey rather than "as black as soot". If it's not soot then I have no idea what it is!
Anyway, it's so fine that the washsable pre-motor filter and the HEPA post-motor filters clog up in about half an hour, so I spend more time washing the one filter and replacing the other (expensive!) than actually sucking up the dust. Also, some of it makes it all the way through and shows deposits around the air-exit, so I'm probably breathing some of it too - a Bad Thing.
So: I thought of getting a cyclone and putting in a first stage to catch the stuff before the Dyson gets it - and then found out about the Thien baffle.
My question, then, is which would be better at collecting this stuff? I can get a cyclone for about £15 from eBay, and I have a bucket I can use for collection, but all the "shoot outs" I've seen are testing with woodworking equipment, so (probably) don't have anything as fine as my problem stuff.
Thoughts, please?
Cheers,
Howard
I have a problem: My loft has incredibly fine dust inbetween the joists, and while boarding it over I've been using a Dyson DC07 (with HEPA filter) to clean out this dust. I just don't like the idea of leaving it there "out of sight"!
I think it may be soot from when coal fires were a thing (this house was built in 1937 with 4 open fires) although it's grey rather than "as black as soot". If it's not soot then I have no idea what it is!
Anyway, it's so fine that the washsable pre-motor filter and the HEPA post-motor filters clog up in about half an hour, so I spend more time washing the one filter and replacing the other (expensive!) than actually sucking up the dust. Also, some of it makes it all the way through and shows deposits around the air-exit, so I'm probably breathing some of it too - a Bad Thing.
So: I thought of getting a cyclone and putting in a first stage to catch the stuff before the Dyson gets it - and then found out about the Thien baffle.
My question, then, is which would be better at collecting this stuff? I can get a cyclone for about £15 from eBay, and I have a bucket I can use for collection, but all the "shoot outs" I've seen are testing with woodworking equipment, so (probably) don't have anything as fine as my problem stuff.
Thoughts, please?
Cheers,
Howard