Has anyone paid someone to install dust collection ducting and how did it go

[jlimey]

Hi. I have finally gotten my shop space electrified , mostly insulated and painted. As some of you know I have answered that i currently don’t have a shop when asked what I am working on for several years at this point.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that I fell off a later and tore up my knee so cannot install the ducting for the dust collection. Plan is to run it through the attic with drops in a few places for work stations.

Has anybody hired someone to do similar work and was your exerience good or bad?

Thanks for any feedback.

 

[wndopdlr]

I had a local handy-man install mine when I bought my Oneida cyclone. He did an excellent job. It may have been helpful that he was also a woodworker and understood my needs. I bought everything from Oneida and it came complete with a diagram for him to follow.

 

[Bill Clemmons]

Jeff, if you hire an HVAC company, make sure they understand air will be flowing INWARD (suction) and not OUTWARD like heat and cooling. It makes a difference on how dust will flow through the pipes without getting clogged.

 

[Chaz]

Hi. I have finally gotten my shop space electrified , mostly insulated and painted. As some of you know I have answered that i currently don’t have a shop when asked what I am working on for several years at this point.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that I fell off a later and tore up my knee so cannot install the ducting for the dust collection. Plan is to run it through the attic with drops in a few places for work stations.

Has anybody hired someone to do similar work and was your exerience good or bad?

Thanks for any feedback.

Why don't you rustle up a couple of buddies to help out? Get everything they'll need figure out where you want everything to go. You're the foremen and they do the work, that you can't. When everything is in place and proper, then you break out pizza and decent beer. I live down in Rock Hill, SC, and couldn't make the trip, but if I lived up your way, I think an afternoon putting all that together with you would be dope. I'd even bring my own beer. Hell, if you can wait till March, I'll be up your way and have the day to myself. If you know what you want, the two of us could prolly get in done, but the more the merrier.. Many hands make light work.

I would say this - I don't think running the plumbing up the ceiling is a good idea.

 

[jlimey]

Unfortunately, I am not sure that I have friends that are able to help. i would definitely be willing to feed folks and offer some shop time in return if I have some equipment that they don't.

Can I ask why you think running ducts through attic space is a bad idea? I have 8 1/2' foot ceilings, so not a of of height. I could run the main trunk above my upper cabinets so that would be out of the way.

 

[creasman]

Most of my ductwork is run overhead. That seems to be the case in most DC systems.

 

[Chaz]

Unfortunately, I am not sure that I have friends that are able to help. i would definitely be willing to feed folks and offer some shop time in return if I have some equipment that they don't.

Can I ask why you think running ducts through attic space is a bad idea? I have 8 1/2' foot ceilings, so not a of of height. I could run the main trunk above my upper cabinets so that would be out of the way.

i think that the higher you run your ducting, the harder the DC would have to work to get the dust from the other side of your shop. The vac would have to draw dust up nearly 8 ft.

Your idea will work, but lowering the ductwork will make it work better. That's all

 

[jlimey]

i think that the higher you run your ducting, the harder the DC would have to work to get the dust from the other side of your shop. The vac would have to draw dust up nearly 8 ft.

Your idea will work, but lowering the ductwork will make it work better. That's all

Agreed. But since I cannot run the ductwork below the floor, it is either near the ceiling, or a foot higher to put it in the attic. Otherwise, it would be necessary to run duct along the floor to get to the machines from the wall. Drops from above at the machinery was my thought.

It is tempting to lay a main trunk on top of my upper cabinets for a long stretch of the length of the shop. this would avoid the attic and hanging a long stretch of duct from the ceiling.

 

[Westpacx3]

I dont have any cabinets on the wall and had to just run mine around the wall about 4 ft up just below my outlets. I only have 1 run going up and over to my jointer. Not the best but it works well enough. I could have gone under the floor but hated the idea of drilling holes in the floor and then later deciding to move something. My DC is the 2hp harbor frieght model

I have a friend with pipe In the attic but he has what I would call a small commercial DC outside. Nothing my league

 

[Bill Clemmons]

Agreed. But since I cannot run the ductwork below the floor, it is either near the ceiling, or a foot higher to put it in the attic. Otherwise, it would be necessary to run duct along the floor to get to the machines from the wall. Drops from above at the machinery was my thought.

It is tempting to lay a main trunk on top of my upper cabinets for a long stretch of the length of the shop. this would avoid the attic and hanging a long stretch of duct from the ceiling.

Jeff, I don't know if you've paid much attention to my DC setup the times you've been to my shop, but if you'd like to come over sometime we can talk about what I did and why, and how it's working. I have the luxury of 10' ceilings, so plenty of room to run the ducts across the ceiling.

The vertical lift from shop floor to the horizontal duct in the attic wouldn't be much different in your case. Depending on the CFM of your system, you should be okay. Mine is a 5 hp cyclone and I don't have any issues with getting dust and small pieces from the floor sweeps, across the ceiling,