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Building an addition with a basement woodshop for general woodworking and architectural millwork. Need to install a shop dust removal/vac system.
Would also like to install a whole-house vacuum system (with power plant and collection in basement).
QUESTION: Is there a way to adapt a power plant/collection system designed for shop use to also handle general vacuuming needs in the living spaces of the house above?
Confused about comparing cfm’s, filtering needs, hose sizes, etc.
Seems like this could work . . . any ideas?
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Todd,
I really do not know all the specs, but vacuums move a little air at a fast velocity and dust collectors move a lot of air at a slower velocity. Also I have had a shop in my basement and you do not want any systems connected to the house, wait until your wife sees the dust!!! Use a dust collector to catch the dust at the machines then use a hanging air cleaner with a 1 mircon bag filter to catch the dust that gets away. Then put a seperate central vac in for the house.
Good Luck
*I'd look at the shop vac style that fit on top of a standard 55-gallon drum for the extra capacity. Using a cloth filter bag outside the vacuum will catch additional small particles. D.I.Y. warehouse stores that cut plywood inside the store have such systems.How automatic do you want it be? Should inserting a vacuum hose in the house start up the vacuum? Do you want the vacuum to switch from the house to the shop automatically? If you use the available in-house vacuum system fixtures, the house vacuuming will be automatic. Then, to use the shop, plug a flexible hose into the system, just like it was another fixture in the in-house system. But you'll want that shop hose to be larger and be connected more directly than the in-house lines. Treat each shop tool as a separate zone of the in-house system (or have very long hoses coming from the more distant tools and plugging into a single fixture in the shop). I would not worry about sawdust getting into the house, as long as the vacuum is located in the shop. All flow will be from the distal points of the system towards the vacuum motor. Shop dirt won't move towards the house because it can't move upstream (upwind?).Select a system for the shop, and, if it is so large as to suck up the cat off carpet, then throttle the lines going to the house. And try to find a system of fixtures that come in different sizes. 1-1/2 for the house and 3 to 4-inch for the shop. -David
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Building an addition with a basement woodshop for general woodworking and architectural millwork. Need to install a shop dust removal/vac system.
Would also like to install a whole-house vacuum system (with power plant and collection in basement).
QUESTION: Is there a way to adapt a power plant/collection system designed for shop use to also handle general vacuuming needs in the living spaces of the house above?
Confused about comparing cfm's, filtering needs, hose sizes, etc.
Seems like this could work . . . any ideas?