The two buckets create a large reservoir that you can use to keep your workspace neat and clean and to safely collect dust.
Simple diy dust collection system.
This simple dust collection system requires you to sweep the dust on the ground and to manually collect it with the house.
It is affordable and easy to construct and will serve as a good home improvement project if you end up cleaning your home after yourself anyway.
Cheap easy diy dust collector.
A secondary option is to build your own dust collection system using a shop vac which can be picked up for less than 100.
You need a bucket and a couple of plastic pipes to make this dust collector will rock for any office or workshop.
Very cheap to build as it only requires your existing shop vac hose one more hos.
It uses an old ship vacs filter and will work up super quickly.
Assembling the dust collection system.
We had one already but i discovered my husband forgot it in our old house in baltimore and the vacuum never made the move.
While the dust collector is static the tools i use are all mobile.
Watch the video to see how i did it this is a fantastic cheap and extremely easy way to minimize dust in your shop while saving the filter on your existing shop vac.
We recommend 1 1 4 inch hose for most hand power tools however keep duct tape handy for completely sealing odd size dust ports.
If i want to move them i can.
That s because the helpful experts on rockler s support team suggested an entirely different plan altogether.
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Make some cheap investments like 5 and build most of this diy dust collection system will be magical in quick home cleaning.
Hope the new owners like it the dust collection system was super.
For the dust collection system i actually got a new shop vac this fancy rigid shop vac from home depot.
I ve put together a youtube video showing the entire process of setting up my new dust collection system.