Did anyone use this with a non-shop vac (regular household) vacuum? It implies it works, but I'm skeptical. If so, how well did it work?
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NO. You should use a Dust Extractor vacuum designed to handle fine dust to use this product.Your regular household vacuum will burn out it's motor with continued use.Al
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It will possibly work IF you can connect the hose to your vac with an air tight fit. The outside diameter of the hose end is 1 3/8" and it includes two adapters with O.D.'s of 1 5/8" and 2". On the other hand, I think the filter bag might clog up right away. I had to clean my larger filter regularly.
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I have used it with a Shark Vacuum. It works fine. The shark vacuum has two foam filters stacked on together plus another fine fiber-ish (cloth-like feel) under these two so it does a great job of collecting the dust. I give it a thorough cleaning after each drywall project.I would NOT try this with an older vacuum that uses bags.
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As others have pointed out a regular vacuum is not meant to handle the fine dust from drywall sanding. Use a shop vacuum with a drywall dust rated filter. A five gallon bucket with a lid can be made into a type of pre-filter. It uses water in the bucket to trap the dust before it gets to the vacuum. Look on line for instructions to make one.
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it has an adapter to fit the larger shop vac so i think it would directly fit up to the smaller hose. i found the tool to be cumbersome & quit using it. the vacuum works fine but took too long to sand.
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I concur with the other responses. The volume and fine nature of dust would clog a typical household vacuum in a very, very short amount of time. The extra stress on the motor might ruin the vacuum. I am curious how it might work with one of those Dyson models though. Could they actually spin out the dust? My guess is "No".
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I only used it with my shop-vac and then only with a double filter. It would probably work with a regular vacuum but all that dust would probably destroy the vacuum motor. It works perfect with the shop-vac. Very little dust gets out of the sander.
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I used it with the shop vac, but, I feel sure it would work with a household vac.
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Didn't try that and probably wouldn't. The fine abrasive dust might damage the vac, Shop vacs are cheap enough,
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This will work as good as your vacuum can suck air; I'm using it with a 4.5HP and it works like a charm. If your Household vacuum has that much power it will work, however, I don't know if you really want to put it through that amount of dust, since it will fill the filter right away (more if you have a bagless one) and make your job twice as long due to having to clean it every five minutes... unless you're just sanding a patch in your wall, then you'll be fine.Now, if you don't want to spend around $45 on a 2.5HP, you can always get the one you put on top f a bucket for around $20I hope this helps This will work as good as your vacuum can suck air; I'm using it with a 4.5HP and it works like a charm. If your Household vacuum has that much power it will work, however, I don't know if you really want to put it through that amount of dust, since it will fill the filter right away (more if you have a bagless one) and make your job twice as long due to having to clean it every five minutes... unless you're just sanding a patch in your wall, then you'll be fine.Now, if you don't want to spend around $45 on a 2.5HP, you can always get the one you put on top f a bucket for around... » Read More This will work as good as your vacuum can suck air; I'm using it with a 4.5HP and it works like a charm. If your Household vacuum has that much power it will work, however, I don't know if you really want to put it through that amount of dust, since it will fill the filter right away (more if you have a bagless one) and make your job twice as long due to having to clean it every five minutes... unless you're just sanding a patch in your wall, then you'll be fine.Now, if you don't want to spend around $45 on a 2.5HP, you can always get the one you put on top f a bucket for around $20I hope this helps « Show Less
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You should be ok. I added some hose that was was not Shop-Vac and had no problems. Attachments from older household vacuums don't always fit though.
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No. This does not come with the vac. You can hook up to a vacuum cleaner that should be powerful.
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Cathy, I have searched and tried to find this answer and have failed, but I would suggest going to https://www.shopvac.com/support/support.asp and submitting this question to Shop-Vac and then letting the world know. I am sorry that I only have another direction for you to meander in your search for truth. good luck - Baker
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Dust pick up works well. It will some what depend on the vac. My commercial vacuum works well. With my small 5 gal. shop vac it picks up about 75%. It will not get all of the dust but easily enough to cut in the room you are working. For the price this is a nice saw.
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I have the DC45 cordless and wanted the pet brush attachment, I called the customer service department (number is in your manual) and they got my vac and the attachment put them together to see if it would work, (even though the pet attach. wasn't meant for the cordless) and it worked! I would call and ask Dyson directly, they will help you. I plan on calling them myself to ask if I can use this.
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I'm not familiar with that vacuum cleaner. It does work on my Kirby vac and my shop vac.
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I haven't used it with a vacuum yet, but with the way the saw is set up, it is almost a necessity. The dust collection bag is worthless. It fills up fast, and if you don't empty it the sawdust dumps right back into the saw (making a mess). I have a flex hose attached, and will be trying out a shop-vac in the near future.
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I have a shark auto brush, which attaches to my shop vac, but yes they are very hard to keep clean.
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Couldn't find the review you speak of, but I have realized that really can't trust or rely on the limited power of cordless vacuums. I own this and during use it picks up my cat food but when you turn it off, the food bits just fall right out, meaning it lacks adequate suction to fully draw into the collection chamber. I ended up just buying another "corded" vac for real usage and use this weak vac for dirty simple jobs, like my car. But, before I shutoff after using it "everytime", I hang it over a garbage can to let out whatever doesn't get sucked up, its pretty ridiculous. Hope this helps Couldn't find the review you speak of, but I have realized that really can't trust or rely on the limited power of cordless vacuums. I own this and during use it picks up my cat food but when you turn it off, the food bits just fall right out, meaning it lacks adequate suction to fully draw into the collection chamber. I ended up just buying another "corded" vac for real usage and use this weak vac for dirty simple jobs, like my car. But, before I shutoff after using it "everytime", I hang it over a garbage can to let out whatever doesn't get sucked up, its pretty... » Read More Couldn't find the review you speak of, but I have realized that really can't trust or rely on the limited power of cordless vacuums. I own this and during use it picks up my cat food but when you turn it off, the food bits just fall right out, meaning it lacks adequate suction to fully draw into the collection chamber. I ended up just buying another "corded" vac for real usage and use this weak vac for dirty simple jobs, like my car. But, before I shutoff after using it "everytime", I hang it over a garbage can to let out whatever doesn't get sucked up, its pretty ridiculous. Hope this helps « Show Less
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It does not work as a regular vacuum cleaner where the dirt goes in a bag or so.... it sucks the dirt pass it through the hose out... I filter the dirty water and the clean water goes in a separate container so it can be used again.
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No, I used it with my Shark vac. It is very thick and almost cat litter texture. It was hard to vacuum up
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Hi Bethany, unfortunately for my case, this thing never worked. No vacuum at all. Even if it did, I think it will be too tiny to work for a cat litter.
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I only use it outdoors, it's impossible to keep the dust from blowing around, I just point out away from where I'm cleaning, one disadvantage of shop vacs, make sure your filters are clean and bag is kept before 3/4 full and at least you won't be blowing the dust you've just sucked up back into the floor. with a little ingenuity you could make a short hose and zip tie a little high flow filter element, maybe like a lawn mower filter, but it would have to show high volume and you'd have to clean it too. Does the floor attachment fit, turn it face up, Still need a filter.
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It comes with an adapter. If your vacuum has a standard hose end you won't even need to use it. I've used my set of attachments with several different makes and types of Vacs without any problems.
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Don't have a pet, but I probably wouldn't recommend it if you have a lot of pet hair. It's suction power is not nearly that of a full size vac.
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Sorry, I haven't tried a shop vac. But, I assume if you get the opening completely covered; it should work. I'd try on smallest unit.