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   dIrishInMe | Sep 21, 2004 02:38pm | #1

   This is pretty much par for the course.  If you vacuumed, you did better than most.  BTW - now that you vacuumed, clean the filter on your vacuum very well.  That fine dust will easily burn out a vacuum.  If you are that worried about the dust, maybe, try a damp mop.
    

   Matt
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   DANL | Sep 21, 2004 03:25pm | #2

   For what it's worth, on This Old House they said damp mopping will turn the dust into a slurry like thin grout and just spread it around making streaks that will dry to be even worse than when you started, but, that said, the guy I work with uses damp rags (damp, not wet) and it does seem to help the dust stick to the rag. You might also try tack-ragging, but that won't help with the dust in the cracks. You could try using an air hose and blowing it out while you have a vacuum wand near to suck up the loosened dust before it settles again.

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   PedroTheMule | Sep 21, 2004 03:43pm | #3

   I bought color ruined contractor 5 gallon buckets of paint and painted over my vacuumed floor. Two bucks a gallon and it sealed out the remaining dust.

   Now everyone knows I have pink floors........

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   BruceM16 | Sep 21, 2004 07:09pm | #5

   Pedro

   You-da-man!!

   I never thought of that!!

   I've often passed by & looked at those 5 gal buckets of returned and unwanted paint at Home Depot thinking "Now who in the heck would buy that ugly color"...

   ...now I know!

   I'll give that a try...thanks

   BruceM

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   jagwah | Sep 21, 2004 07:16pm | #6

   What I use Bruce is a floor sweep product. It's a waxed or oiled sawdust usually red or green in color. The dust clings nicely to the drywall dust.

   I never vacume drywall dust from the floor fearing that I'll kill my vacume again. Besides it vacuming usually raises a tornadic cloud.

   Using the floor sweep keeps the dust down completely and allows an easier clean up. After using the floor sweep...then I'll vacum the remainder I couldn't pick up.

    

   Edited 9/21/2004 12:17 pm ET by JAGWAH

   Edited 9/21/2004 12:18 pm ET by JAGWAH

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   BruceM16 | Sep 21, 2004 08:29pm | #7

   Can you provide any more information on this product? Brand name? Where is it available?

   Thanks

   BruceM

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   jagwah | Sep 21, 2004 09:58pm | #8

   Yep

   I buy mine through the local Grainger Supply house here in Tulsa, but their all over.

   Item #3H401 gritless Red floor sweep

   It's just an oiled sawdust. I couldn't get a manufacturer name. Rodale press offers a do it your self recipe but it calls for rock salt or kosher salt I think, don't know why.

   Anyway it cost me here $25.75 for 50#'s. Goes a long way.

   Grainger.com 

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   bill_1010 | Sep 21, 2004 10:00pm | #9

   i use Clean Sweep too, its basically a green granule that attracts dust.  Dustmops then move the larger dust dirt globs for final vacum.  For even more dust attraction you can spray your dust mop with a special spray that dust clings too.  YOu can buy this at Lowes or a Janitorial Supply House, Its called Dust Mop Treatment from Johnson Wax.

   YOu can find sweeping compounds at Janitorial SUpply houses or my local lumber yard sells it, Maybe even lowes or HD.  Just sprenkle it over the floor wait a bit and sweep up.

   Sweeping comounds are great for slab on grade houses, sprenkle sweep and your done. 

   Drywall dust is horrible to remove, Nothing is really 100% effective in the nooks and crannies.  Make sure you buy those filter bags for your Shop Vac, they are made for fine dust, ash and drywall dust.  They sell them in the shop vac isle.

   Edited 9/21/2004 3:01 pm ET by WmP

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   rez | Sep 21, 2004 03:59pm | #4

   Try running a smaller hose nozzle. Might have to jury rig a tube setup on there.

   Something like a quarter inch dia will really put the suction to it.

   Small amount at a  of time so you don't ruin your vacuum.