Air purifier

[reb78]

Just having fireplaces and particulalry de-ashing the rayburn creates lots of dust. Does anyone have any air purifier recommendations to de-dust the air? Seem to be a lot of choices and range in prices. As silent as possible would be nice!

 

[voipio]

Having a hose from a Dyson, or other cyclonic type vacuum cleaner, near the work area will probably suck up a lot of that fine dust. Just make sure the air outlet from the vacuum cleaner isn't pointing towards the ashes!!! A bag type vacuum cleaner, like a Henry, or similar, would just re-spray the fine ash out through the pores in the bag, but the cyclonic types are able to retain the really fine particles.

 

[Bryan Williams]

I know it sounds basic but if I do any sanding inside I place the biggest fan I can find in an open outside door or window as well as trying to capture as much as possible at source with a vacuum , anything fine gets sucked out of the room before it settles.. mostly.

 

[Gareth J]

Will that sort of thing really work? I just mean, what proportion of the air can a device really exchange and clean before it settles by gravity or static...?

I have a small MVHR unit part of which draws from a cupboard with often dusty clothes. The filter does pick up a lot of dust, but it's not like the cupboard is dust free. Hopefully the world outside of the cupboard is less dusty though.

 

[500e]

They do Hepaflo bags for Numatic vacks

Henry HepaFlo Filter Bags

For no dust, no mess cleaning, the HepaFlo Filter Bag has an innovative self-seal tab, triple-layer filtration and a performance-maximising design. Made by Henry, for Henry.

www.myhenry.com

 

[reb78]

Thanks all. So there is no particular time like when sanding etc. It just creates a permanently dusty environment regardless of how much you hoover (unless you do it all the time - and since my other half doesnt know how to plug it in, it only gets done when i do it!)

Movement in the room will circulate the dust that has laid then and I just wondered if an air purifier on all the time would lessen it. Dyson ones are big money right the way down to sub £50 no name units.

 

[knighty]

https://www.youtube.com/@Matthiaswandel/search?query=dust

this guy does a lot of videos about dust... tried making different things and then measures how clean the air is with a little computer etc..

pretty intresting stuff, cheap and easy to do too

 

[hotponyshoes]

I'm not sure a purifier would be a lot of use in that situation. I reckon you would need to have something located close to the fire/rayburn and it would need to be powerful enough to suck up all the dust before it enters the room and settles.

There are 2 massive extraction fans on our (homemade) paint booth. If the door is open and they are both on there is enough airflow that you can see the paint getting pulled sideways as it comes out of the gun.
But, even that is not enough to pull settled dust off of the floor/walls and that's fairly fine filler dust.

There are 2 'portable' air scrubbers in the operating theatre at the vets, transformer mig welder sort of size. Admittedly, they are probably only designed to capture tiny airborne particals but, on high, they are too noisy to run in a house and they don't do anything for settled dust either

Most effective way I have found for de-dusting a room so far is put a fan blowing out of a window and go around the room with a leaf blower sending all the dust towards the window. I do the living room a few times a year (mostly dog hair and heavy dust) but I've got a cordless fan & blower so it's a quick job. Plus it's justification to the missus for having the fan & blower in the first place...

 

[Blobber]

Most effective way I have found for de-dusting a room so far is put a fan blowing out of a window and go around the room with a leaf blower sending all the dust towards the window. I do the living room a few times a year (mostly dog hair and heavy dust) but I've got a cordless fan & blower so it's a quick job. Plus it's justification to the missus for having the fan & blower in the first place...

Thats my sort of house work!

 

[MattF]

Most effective way I have found for de-dusting a room so far is put a fan blowing out of a window and go around the room with a leaf blower sending all the dust towards the window. I do the living room a few times a year (mostly dog hair and heavy dust) but I've got a cordless fan & blower so it's a quick job. Plus it's justification to the missus for having the fan & blower in the first place...

You idle tw**.

 

[Morrisman]

Most effective way I have found for de-dusting a room so far is put a fan blowing out of a window and go around the room with a leaf blower sending all the dust towards the window. I do the living room a few times a year (mostly dog hair and heavy dust) but I've got a cordless fan & blower so it's a quick job. Plus it's justification to the missus for having the fan & blower in the first place...

I just open the windows and doors on a real windy day. Even lazier.

 

[Bryan Williams]

I found when living on my own years back after 3-months the house didn't get any dustier and the windows any dirtier, in fact they cleaned themselves periodically.

 

[Morrisman]

I found when living on my own years back after 3-months the house didn't get any dustier and the windows any dirtier, in fact they cleaned themselves periodically.

A few months back I was chatting to a window washer who was cleaning next doors windows, he was telling me about the several Harleys he has, a few Jap bikes etc. I asked if he could do my windows, but he said he was fully booked, didn't even have time for a one off bungalow wash. I'm guessing it earns him some very good money.....

Anyhoo, I then had a closer look at mine, thinking I could do it myself, and found all the dirt was on the inside.

I assume the outside is cleaned by rain, basically.