SANDING AND POLISHING

The Optional Dust Containment System

Dust has always been part and parcel of sanding timber floors. Have your floors sanded and get a big mess to clean up. Thankfully, it doesn't have to be that way anymore. Our dust containment setup is a straightforward and effective system that can reduce the amount of dust by 99% or more.

Our main dustless timber floor sanding vacuum

Why is it so dusty?

Because floor sanding machines aren't great at capturing all the dust they create. They were designed to collect dust in a big cloth bag. All the larger sawdust gets captured, no problem. But the super fine dust can't be contained in the bag, and it filters out into the room. Then the cloth bags are emptied into larger plastic bags, causing even more dust. It's a big mess. The edger sanding machine is even worse, with its severely inadequate small bag and lack of suction. And the main culprit is the buffer. It has zero dust containment capabilities.

With our dust containment system, there is minimal airborne dust. All our sanding machinery is hooked up directly to a specialized industrial grade vacuum system. Dust is collected and sucked away in a sealed system.

Our finish sanders hooked up to a vacuum

The difference between the old cloth bag system (that many timber floor polishing companies in Toowoomba still use) and this new method is pretty significant. We couldn't be happier with how it works.

By hooking all our machines up to this dust reduction system, we can eliminate around 98-99% of the dust from the sanding process. The remaining 1-2% we clean up at the end of the job.

This optional add-on may not be appropriate for every project, especially if you have multiple trades coming in after our work. But for many projects it's a worthwhile investment that will save you time and frustration. Ask for more details when we come out and provide your quote.

Important Points to Keep in Mind

You only have a limited number of re-sands possible before the tongue and groove (which keeps them locked together) in your floors are reached. Once that happens, it’s not possible to sand your floors anymore. They will need replacing.

Because of this, you want to ensure the very minimum amount of wood is removed from the surface as possible to give you the desired results. You don’t want someone coming in and grinding a ton of wood from the surface. It may look good, but you would have just removed years and decades of life from your floors.

We have perfected a system that will give you beautiful-looking results while leaving as much life on your floors as possible. Then, if they need to be restored down the road, you have that option.

There are several other things you need to know about the refinishing process. Rather than repeat them here, you can follow the links below to read them…