Re: Exhaustion Vacuum Outdoors...how-to-do?

[Guest guest]

When I was on the sail boat I did this. My thinking has changed a lot

in the past year where I used to suspect a lot of things like dust,

pillows, mattresses etc. I don't anymore. My only concern is mold,

growing mold. I believe if I can eliminate this I will achieve clear.

Still working on it, the van thing seems to not want to materialize

for me so I am making my own camper like did.

Once I get a van I am going to strip it including motor and tranny and

dash. than I am going to bleach it and pressure wash it. So there will

be no reasonable chance of it being contaminated. I am going to use

this to establish my base line. Than that way I will be able to

identify when I experience hits whereas now I am so toxic I can't do

this.

I used pool hose and a shop vac to duct my vacuum exhaust outdoors.

Some shopvacs have an option to hook a hose to the exhaust. there

extension hoses were too expensive so I used some pool hose I got for

free.

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:18:29 -0000, you wrote:

>Has anyone extended their vacuum exhaust outdoors? Did you buy

>something from a vacuum cleaner supply place for this or did you go to

>hardware stores and buy some king of generic accordian tubing like

>clothes drier ducting????

[Guest guest]

I DO have a shop vac that has never come out of the box I could use.

Is pool hose like a garden hose ??

The radiator is REALLY **FULL** of dust and dirt. When it is heating

up apartment, it is cooking this dust and dirt so creating air

pollution that way...maybe not viable mold spores, but definately lots

of stuff, looks like it is a long time accumulation.

Geez, I'm going around cleaning up all these heating and cooling

systems at places I'm just staying temporarily. They should pay me to

stay awhile at their place. I get all the deep down dirt out. If I

made a job out of this, cleaning air and heating systems, it would be

kind of like modern day chimney sweep.

--- In , Christ <antares41_41@...>

wrote:

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>>I used pool hose and a shop vac to duct my vacuum exhaust outdoors.

> Some shopvacs have an option to hook a hose to the exhaust. there

> extension hoses were too expensive so I used some pool hose I got for

> free.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Barb,

Jeff has a good point about exhaust. Come to think about it while I

was on the boat I used to be worried about this same problem. Sorry

for the bad advice. If you were NOT overly concerned about leakage you

could do this but than why not just use an ordinary vac . It would be

troublesome to put a shop vac outside but that would be fool proof.

You could probably by pool hose for far less than the short extension

hoses they sell at home depot but you will need ear muffs because the

pool hose whistles VERY loudly. (on intake side only)

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:43:56 -0000, you wrote:

>I DO have a shop vac that has never come out of the box I could use.

>Is pool hose like a garden hose ??

[Guest guest]

Hi . No. It isn't bad advice. Thanks for the help.

I see the wisdom in this but I'm not sure I can do this because

apartment is on second floor, but if I had some one to help me outside

I could probably. I may just buy a hepa. I know that isn't as good

as exhausting outside but Miele has one that sounds okay for 345.00 or

so. Then I can get the crevice tool. I don't know if crevice tool

will fit on the end of my shop vac set. I forgot to look for it

today. I'm sure the 'dust is cooking' as there is a 'soot' line on

the ceiling over both radiators. It might be the smell I detect when

I come in apartment.

--- In , Christ <antares41_41@...>

wrote:

>

> Barb,

> Jeff has a good point about exhaust. Come to think about it while I

> was on the boat I used to be worried about this same problem.

[Guest guest]

can you put a fan blowing out in the window while you do it to suck

the dust out of the room?

> >

> > Barb,

> > Jeff has a good point about exhaust. Come to think about it while

I

> > was on the boat I used to be worried about this same problem.

>

[Guest guest]

If I cannot rig up the outside vacuum due to distance, this would be

the way to go, vaccumm with fans exhausting out window in room. There

are two windows, so I should be able to get plenty of air flow.

>

> can you put a fan blowing out in the window while you do it to suck

> the dust out of the room?