I have having a small bathroom gutted and remodeled. How do I keep dust and depri from spreading all over home

Question

I am putting up a plastic cover at door panel But I am sure I am going to need more than this to keep the dust from spreading. Please ideas to keep me from having to clean the "whole" house". Yea I hate a mess.

Answer 1

If you want to seriously do something about it, then you need a dust extracter, its like a vaccum cleaner but can run continuely whole day in the room, while the renovation is being done. You can try renting it from paint contractors.

Otherwise, you can use your household vaccum cleaner, keep it running for half an hour continuely while you see the maximum suspended dust particles in your bathroom. Keep changing the dust bag after every operation. Do it 3-4 times or more a day specially when the dust is maximum.

Secondly you can hang wet curtain around the panels it will catch the dry dust trying to escape the gaps.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

dust control during remodeling -- http://www.askthebuilder.com/007_Dust_Co... maybe you could get one of those dust door things (one brand is caled Zip It)  from a home improvement store -- they cost about $20

Answer 3

dust sheets and shut your doors!

Answer 4

Use masking tape and  to cover ALL gaps between the kitchen and the rest of the house.  If the kitchen has an outside entrance then use this the whole time during the works.  If not, then you will have to religiously re-apply the masking tape every time someone enters or leaves the kitchen.

We recently had the granite surface in the kitchen cut using come kind of stone cutting circular saw.  You would not believe how much fine dust was produced.  Luckily we had tape shut all drawers, doors etc in the kitchen.  Afterwards we had to hoover and wipe every surface several times, dust that thin sticks to everything (even the walls and ceiling)

Answer 5

You could put a dust sheild like a big peice of plastic or maybe a tarp or something to put over the open spaces to your house so that it wont get through...