Floor Sander

[jbasen]

I don't install wood flooring but I've had to live through the dust from having my hardwood floors refinished.  I would think there would be an opportunity for Festool to leverage their expertise in dust collection to create a floor sander for custom wood flooring installers.  I would think it could leverage the CT36 Autoclean extractor as sanding floors creates about as much, if not more, dust as sanding drywall.

Just an idea.

Jay

 

[leakyroof]

Well, here's how I manage that for now with no similar product from Festool.  I own an 8" Drum Sander, standard floor sander unit from Clarke. I hook up my 36mm AS Festool hose to its output DC pipe. I then hook up the other end of the hose to my Oneida Dust Deputy which sits on top of my old CT-22 Extractor.
The CT creates enough suction to easily handle all the dust that the drum sander is putting out.  The cyclone of the DD drops almost all the dust into the collection box below it, with very little ever making it down to the bag inside the Festool vac.
Easy set-up, rolls around the room that I'm sanding fairly well, and you only need to empty the Oneida DD box once it's about 1/2 to 3/4s full to keep the suction/perfomance of the dust collection at a constant level.