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Posted by Brian Sharrock on March 6, 2006, 4:38 am
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> wrote:
>>> Envelope. With a bit of masking tape attached. Works better if
>>> you poke the corners inside out first, so as to make it bulge
>>> outwards.
>>Do you make a hole in the envelope so that the masking tape sticks
>>itself and the envelope to the wall?
> Get an envelope. Ideally DL size, with the flap on the top not the end
> (typical "A4 folded in 3" commercial envelope - recycle your junkmail
> for one).
> Poke the two bottom corners in, so the the envelope bulges outwards and
> is an inch or two "thick" at the top edge.
> Use a few inches masking tape to tape the envelope flap to the wall,
> just below the drill hole. Single sided tape, half on the envelope, half
> on the wall. Don't press the tape down too hard, or it may lift paint
> from the wall.
> Drill. Catch the dust in the open and gaping envelope.
Concur with all of above: just want to mention that the dust 'cascades' over
the masking tape and down into the envelope. The 'few inches' of masking
tape is to catch the dust as it exits the hole in a fan-shape .
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> Blow or brush gently to knock the dust off the tape's top edge.
> Remove envelope, taking care not to rip the wall off with the tape.
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Posted by Rob Morley on March 3, 2006, 6:00 pm
> I saw a product at Lowes that was a round disc made of plastic baggy
> material with a slightly adhesive back. You mark where the hole goes,
> then drill through the plastic, and all the dust collects on the inside
> of the plastic thing.
>
> When you're done you just remove the drill, peel the disc off the wall
> and toss it.
>
> Unfortunately I can't remember what it's called. You might be able to
> find it if you ask someone in the power tools secton about it.
>
>
A colostomy bag?
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Posted by David Peters on March 4, 2006, 1:23 pm
On 03 Mar 2006, nhurst wrote:
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> I saw a product at Lowes that was a round disc made of plastic
> baggy material with a slightly adhesive back. You mark where the
> hole goes, then drill through the plastic, and all the dust
> collects on the inside of the plastic thing.
>
> When you're done you just remove the drill, peel the disc off
> the wall and toss it.
>
> Unfortunately I can't remember what it's called. You might be
> able to find it if you ask someone in the power tools secton
> about it.
Ah, that's what I was thinking of when I mentioned I'd also seen
"little plastic bag gadgets which you stick to the wall and drill
into to catch the dust but these are too expensive".
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Posted by Brian Sharrock on March 3, 2006, 4:32 pm
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>I want to catch the brick & plaster dust when I drill a hole in
> the wall at home.
> I usually use my ordinary vaccuum cleaner (held by someone else)
> to catch the dust as I drill. It works really well. And it
> extracts and remaining debris in the drill hole which might
> prevent a wall plug going in.
The method that works for me is;-
take an envelope and push - inwards- the two bottom corners
so it bulges to a 'pocket'; use a piece of masking tape (low tack
type is best) to affix the envelope just below the mark for the hole
(and sufficeintly far down so the Bit doesn't catch the tape) - then drill
your heart's content. The envelope will catch 99.9(recurring)% of plaster
and brick dust. Work the bit backwards and forwards to clear dust from the
hole.
With practise one can use the masking tape cum envelope for several holes.
Discard - straight into the bin. The technique was demonstrated on one of
the D-I-Y TV programmes.
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> However the brick & plaster dust block up the vaccuum cleaner's
> bag. Yes, it's one of the older vaccuum cleaners with a bag.
Catch the debris _before_ it gets into the vacumn cleaner - envelopes are
cheap!
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> How can I fix up something which will trap the dust before it gets
> to the bag?
Use the envelope
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> I was thinking of somehow using some filter material: perhaps a
> bit of densely woven fabric, or perhaps a square cut fro m an old
> vaccuum cleaner bag.
You're thinking too much :)
--
Brian
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Posted by trader4 on March 3, 2006, 4:40 pm
A small shop vacuum works. But easiest of all is just putting down
some newspaper on the floor below where you are drilling the hole.
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>>> Envelope. With a bit of masking tape attached. Works better if
>>> you poke the corners inside out first, so as to make it bulge
>>> outwards.
>>Do you make a hole in the envelope so that the masking tape sticks
>>itself and the envelope to the wall?
> Get an envelope. Ideally DL size, with the flap on the top not the end
> (typical "A4 folded in 3" commercial envelope - recycle your junkmail
> for one).
> Poke the two bottom corners in, so the the envelope bulges outwards and
> is an inch or two "thick" at the top edge.
> Use a few inches masking tape to tape the envelope flap to the wall,
> just below the drill hole. Single sided tape, half on the envelope, half
> on the wall. Don't press the tape down too hard, or it may lift paint
> from the wall.
> Drill. Catch the dust in the open and gaping envelope.