Having read all of the info on the website and watched some product videos, I’m seriously thinking about ordering one of these - and thanks to [member=76043]bobtskutter[/member] for making me aware of it. I fit 10-15 kitchens every year, and the more ‘finished’ a project gets, the more critical dust control becomes. I can’t tell you how happy it would make me not to have to spend hours at the end of every job cleaning everywhere up. It strikes me that the key to this unit’s effectiveness is where you position it - locate it on the floor underneath where you’re drilling into a wall, locate it in front of your mitre saw, locate it at the rear of your workstation when you’re cutting tiles with a diamond blade, and so on. I can also imagine this on top of a little tower of other T-Locs, standing right next to the flexi-tub I’m using to mix 25kg bags of flooring compound or plaster. The dust generated when you tip out a full bag into a tub is gross. And then leave it running for a few hours at the end of the day, telling the customer to shut it off before they turn in for the night.
Although all of my cutting, sanding and routing equipment hooks up to a CTL26 + CT-VA-20, a lot of other daily-use tools don’t - and it’s the tail-end jobs such as cutting plinths, crowns and pelmets (all usually made from foil-wrapped or painted MDF) which always result in a brand-new kitchen whose air is filled with micro-particles which end up coating every surface, since the extractor captures most of it - but not all of it. “So do your cutting outside” I hear you say? …… it hasn’t stopped raining here for two weeks straight. This job I just finished was a nightmare - the cabinets were super-dark navy blue with a dead-flat acrylic paint finish which showed up every conceivable particle. It took forever to clean it all up at the end;
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I also obviously worry that I’m breathing this junk in. Although it’s a lot of money, I’m very tempted.
