Hi,
I am looking for a tool that I saw a guy from a flood restoration company use to cut and remove drywall. It was a power tool like an angle grinder but it had a vacuum attatchment and when cutting the drywall to remove it, there was no dust. Does anyone know of such a tool and where I could fine one?
Thanks
Paul
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Maybe you could hook up a hose to a Rotozip. Those don't make a whole lot of dust anyway--at least not like a circular saw! Even reciprocating saws don't make a lot of dust, but it's hard to control depth (bummer when you cut a wire!).
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I recently had to make a long horizontal cut through old Z-Brick and 1/2" drywall to install a new countertop in my existing kitchen. I used my 4 1/2" angle grinder with a thin kerf diamond masonry blade. I carefully duct taped the inlet hose of my shop vac to my grinder close to the exit end of the blade, allowing me to have both hands to control the cut. Sucked up all the dust!! Fast, low-teck, and effective!!
dustmuzzle.com
My rotozip has a vac pickup attachment - that would work.
Edited 6/13/2007 10:29 am ET by kate
Not much dust cutting wet drywall. :)
Joe H
Take an old sawzall blade, chuck it up in the recip., and roll the motor around till it's at full extension. mark the blade at 7/16th's or so long, cut it off with the side grinder. mark wall and follow the yellow brick road. cuts over studs and won't cut wires. creates no dust. Jim
i hate to even share this..........
http://www.kett-tool.com/webpages/tools/saws/KSV-432.htm
absolutely, the balls.......
carpenter in transition
Thanks for the website, that looks like the tool.As for the other suggestions I want the tool to cut through interior plaster walls and the blades I use with a recip saw get chewed up with the plaster and metal lath and I do think that a rotozip will work either.