Too dang dusty to clean..

[Mikey P]

I showed up at an empty house yesterday and met the owner as she was seeing it for the first time after her tenants moved out.
Her plans are to move in for a while than go travel the continent by RV.
Not a single visible spot or traffic lane on the carpet was left by the tenants but the layer of dust on every single surface was incredible. Window blinds and casings, ceiling fans, baseboards, door moldings, spider webs in every corner....just everywhere.

The carpet had been vacuum but the machine must not have had a brush roll because with every step a puff of dust would poof up.
If I didn't know better I'd sware the last residents were ghosts.

I strongly suggested that she spend the next few days dusting/cleaning everything but the carpet and that I'll come back during the week to do the carpet.

33 years, never seen anything like it.

 

[Jimmy L]

Suggest she change the filter on the ac/furn too.

 

[Mikey P]

Suggest she change the filter on the ac/furn too.

I pulled it our for her to measure.

I visually inspect them in every home for some odd reason

 

[Jimmy L]

When you walk into a home and it smells dusty that usually is the problem. Most people don't change them very often.

 

[DAT]

I seen some real bad one too.. dust layerscthat look like half inch thick.. any pics?

 

[Acp]

we did a room with a bed in it taking up most of the room.. went to speed dry it with our new down draft fans and out shot a tornado of dust wads from under the bed all over the room. clean home except I guess they haven't vacuumed under their bed in 10yrs.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

That’s exactly what happened to my girls last week, except it was concrete dust throughout the house. Inside of cabinets, in the toilets, dust everywhere. They did an initial clean with backpacks.

 

[steve_64]

That’s exactly what happened to my girls last week, except it was concrete dust throughout the house. Inside of cabinets, in the toilets, dust everywhere. They did an initial clean with backpacks.

Did the dust plug them up fast?
We have a couple smaller shop vacs for stuff like that. Thought about trying the back packs but afraid they will plug up.

We use the soft brush on cabinets and counters.damp rags for ledges and trim.

 

[Old Coastie]

No, they don’t plug up fast unless you are vacuuming sheetrock powder. I use one for the convenience and HEPA benefits. It allows me to go under and around pretty much everything.
Use horsehair brushes for dusting and doing baseboards, not nylon.

 

[Dolly Llama]

We have a couple smaller shop vacs for stuff like that

smallest/lightest (worth owning) this is the best one in the history of the world, Steveo

this one's better still
larger/heavier
but more vac
and on board hose and tool storage makes it damn nifty

..L.T.A.

 

[steve_64]

No, they don’t plug up fast unless you are vacuuming sheetrock powder. I use one for the convenience and HEPA benefits. It allows me to go under and around pretty much everything.
Use horsehair brushes for dusting and doing baseboards, not nylon.

We use it in new construction mostly for cleaning out cabinets and vents.

 

[steve_64]

I

smallest/lightest (worth owning) this is the best one in the history of the world, Steveo

this one's better still
larger/heavier
but more vac
and on board hose and tool storage makes it damn nifty

..L.T.A.

'll get a picture of what we use when Genny gets home or I go to the shop.

 

[Dolly Llama]

hope it's not a POS Stinger .....garbage

pure garbage

..L.T.A.

 

[steve_64]

this has been the best small shop vac or canister we have found.

 

[Acp]

concrete vacs are nice for drywall dust and of course concrete dust.. every 30 seconds or so the filter smacks down and beats the dust out.

 

[Nomad74]

I vacuumed under my couches today.

 

[bob vawter]

smallest/lightest (worth owning) this is the best one in the history of the world, Steveo

this one's better still
larger/heavier
but more vac
and on board hose and tool storage makes it damn nifty

..L.T.A.

How many gal Larr....how much?

 

[Dolly Llama]

How many gal Larr....how much?

the little one is 3 gal
$39 right now in the Black Friday floor section

the 4.5 gal rectangle one is $79 I think

I had both for years

..L.T.A.

 

[rick imby]

I have the bigger one---I hate the collapsing/springy hose...

 

[Lee Stockwell]

I have the bigger one---I hate the collapsing/springy hose...

Crappy hose like that was often used on the earliest truckmounts, late 60's to early 70's. Could shorten over ten feet when the vacuum locked.

 

[Dolly Llama]

-I hate the collapsing/springy hose...

I've never collapsed one of those hoses .
Have kinked flat the 2.5" hoses on the full size ones
(which are thinner and less supple)

..L.T.A.

 

[Nomad74]

I have.