You are reading a single comment by @Dramatic_Hammer and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
Dramatic_Hammer
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.