Hi Guy's I have a house that is in a constant state of renovations.
and I am at my wits end about the constant mess
I really need a Vacuum that does the job..sand, leaves, gyprock, stones, nails...
Does anyone know what I should be buying...?
Even size or wattage...or what ever I need to look for
and needless to say, It has to suck and suck hard
I need the job done the 1st time not have to go over and over
Help please
Forget the vacuum - you need a hard bristled broom and a square nosed shovel.
Note: I am not being a smart ar5e.
Edit: and a soft bristled broom for the finer stuff.
True Scotty....but the house is vintage old and frankly crap with cracks in floor
boards and hard to get to places....
I think I need Tim the Toolman Taylor to retro fit a normal Vac 
what you need is called a Boyfriend / hubby Gypsygirl .... and the words like "you will or I won't ...." .... well you get the drift (scusi the pun) 
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Try and find some sort of shop-vac (you know, the barrel type) that can handle water as well. The one I had, til it broke, worked well, and because they are meant to handle water, they don't have to use bags, so you can just empty out the barrel.
It had some sort of filter that went over the intake, when you used it bagless, or you used a regular bag.
I tried to replace it with a more modern 'bagless' cylconic thing, and it works better, but fills up in a nano second when you use it for picking up sawdust. What do people make these things for? Not for picking up sawdust, that's for sure.
If you really want a quality hardcore Vac get a Festool. I use mine hooked up to a diamond cup concrete grinder and still sucks well when the bag is almost full (holds same as about 2 bags of cement too heavy to lift) They have a Hepa filter which are meant to be safe to suck asbestos fibres and not send them back in the air. Also good for sucking up water
The leaf blower, well mine at least will fill your room with fine dust through the bag
All the festo gear is pretty good if not better than that, festoool / festo is also really good at at very fine dust. I think they are designed with the sanders that they make.
I have a spitwater drum style vac that is 3000W and will handle all of the general stuff, water included (it will pass a coke can through the inlet too). But clogs up pretty quick if I attach it to a gyprock sander.
The thing is that these machines cost North of $2000 to buy if my memory serves me right, I recently bought a Ryobi $300 job from Bunnings in an emergency................. POS it is, battling to suck up damp sand.
first I read this :
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"you will clean up your mess or I won't be in the mood tonight ....."
respectfully on my part Gyps
oh and always put down a plastic dropsheet (Hardware store item) far easier to get rid of rubbish
Ive just used wifeys old VAX,2000w to clean out the bathroom reno.
Ive learnt to sweep with coarse broom,then soft broom and handbrush,
THEN vac up . But if gyprock,plasterand cement dust you need to empty the bag asap,then blow it out or even wash it out as the gyprock will reset with airborne moisture.
thanks for the heads up on the ryobi,I was looking at one last week
