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I reckon 80% of use is going to be outdoors/garage vacuuming and 20% dealing with treated wood sawdust/plaster dust/other nasty crap. Maybe that use is too wide but I'd like to be able to suck up rubble and leaves without blowing dust out the back or fucking up filters!
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Titan should be good then.
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This might sound stupid/obvious, but picking up the majority of material with a dustpan and brush (but not just sweeping all the dust into the air again), hoovering with a hoover, and using an extractor to extract directly from tools when you're using them works best IME.
If you're sanding or cutting and generating really fine sawdust, you want that to be sucked up instantly from the tool by an extractor with a good filter so it's not just recirculating fine particles into the air. You also want to preserve the filters by not battering them by using the extractor as a hoover too much. This is a personal thing, and many people happily use their extractors for all the cleanup. I also think it's daft to use an extractor to suck up loads of dust, filling bags that are expensive, when it's easier to get the big piles with a dustpan.
I'd also say wear a dust mask when sweeping up if it's really dusty - but I'm quite anal about avoiding dust inhalation.
Hovis
Nef
@Dramatic_Hammer Depends what you use it for and how often. If you are working with mdf, or any fine dust for that matter, I'd go for something better than the cheap wet n dry vacs. I had a titan, now I've gone tart and have a festool Midi and would never go back. Night and day in terms of quality. The titan has a mega exhaust blower that blasts air out and stirs up any dust that is nearby. I also felt it was leaky /bypassed the filter so wasn't blowing out all filtered air either. Filter got blocked quickly and annoying to clean.
It was also incredibly offensive to the ears. Mine was an older model mind.
If you're using it for just clean up though then I reckon it's a good buy.