JHZR2
Staff member
As some know, I have multiple properties, multiple garages, multiple places to do car work. And to keep clean.
At each place I have a shop vac. I also have a festool HEPA vac.
I usually run bags in all the vacuums, but in some ways they’re as much a pain as my past experiences messing with dumping the vac bins and cleaning the filters on the motor. I don’t really want to re-deposit or blast out fine dust, so a filter and bag seems like the best bet, but some situations where there’s a lot of cleanup, or say where more damp organic matter is involved (say, cleaning leaf litter or maple seeds from car drains), it also tends to ruin the bag if sitting in there a while…
So, how do you run your shop vacs? Bags, filters, both?
At each place I have a shop vac. I also have a festool HEPA vac.
I usually run bags in all the vacuums, but in some ways they’re as much a pain as my past experiences messing with dumping the vac bins and cleaning the filters on the motor. I don’t really want to re-deposit or blast out fine dust, so a filter and bag seems like the best bet, but some situations where there’s a lot of cleanup, or say where more damp organic matter is involved (say, cleaning leaf litter or maple seeds from car drains), it also tends to ruin the bag if sitting in there a while…
So, how do you run your shop vacs? Bags, filters, both?