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You'll always have a fine layer of dust about if you're routing/table sawing Mdf. The CTL is great but smaller ones team up more with the sanders. I use 4 Festool hoovers for different jobs, the largest one is too heavy to cart about unless I'm on site a long time. Portability and integration with the Festool box system is a big part of the cost with those, if you are only going to use it in one place looks at some of the cyclonic dust catchers and a big industrial type of vacuum unit.
Festool used to be the best game in town for this kind of stuff but there's lots of competition now.
Airhead
Dust extraction question. I've started working inside my garage as opposed to in the back garden to save me the hassle of setting up and packing away every day. Problem is dust is going everywhere. Main culprit's are my table and mitre saws. I connect up my cheapo Titan wet/dry vac which does a good job of catching a lot of the dust, but I want to try and improve things further. Is a more expensive extractor going to help? For example a Festol CTL is £350, what does that get you that a cheaper vacuum doesn't?
I'm wearing a dust mask so my lungs should be okay, but I'd like to do something about the fine layer of mdf dust that is accumulating on absolutely everything.