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Katherine

Katherine

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MikeG said:
Well, it gets a bit technical, but negative pressure is part of it, and paying a little more attention to service entry holes (2mm gaps around the radiator pipes, and so on). I had used boards over the floor because of gaps between the (300 year old) floorboards and the absence of a ceiling below, but that wasn't enough. I should have put dust-sheets down instead, and thrown them out of the window when I'd finished. Back to negative pressure.....this is basically having an extractor running constantly sucking air out of the room to the outside, which means that air gets drawn in through all the little gaps which had released the dust into the rest of the house. With the air all moving into the room it should in theory prevent dust escaping into the rest of the house.

I've got two more rooms to do, and I've learned my lesson. I will be mounting a big old Expelair on a temporary board and fixing this in place at an open window, and I'll be going around the rooms with expanding foam and filling even the slightest gap.
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Good luck with regaining those lost brownie points!
 
MikeG

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Katherine said:
Good luck with regaining those lost brownie points!
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I have the most equable wife on the planet. It takes a huge effort or an enormous foul-up to lose brownie points. In fact, she apologised to me (for being cross when she walked in to a fog of dust in the kitchen) before I had the chance to apologise to her for creating it.
 
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MikeG said:
Well, it gets a bit technical, but negative pressure is part of it, and paying a little more attention to service entry holes (2mm gaps around the radiator pipes, and so on). I had used boards over the floor because of gaps between the (300 year old) floorboards and the absence of a ceiling below, but that wasn't enough. I should have put dust-sheets down instead, and thrown them out of the window when I'd finished. Back to negative pressure.....this is basically having an extractor running constantly sucking air out of the room to the outside, which means that air gets drawn in through all the little gaps which had released the dust into the rest of the house. With the air all moving into the room it should in theory prevent dust escaping into the rest of the house.

I've got two more rooms to do, and I've learned my lesson. I will be mounting a big old Expelair on a temporary board and fixing this in place at an open window, and I'll be going around the rooms with expanding foam and filling even the slightest gap.
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That's exactly what I did.......installed a high pressure fan in the window opening of the room I was working on, exhausting to outside. We used the fan at work for leakage testing of houses at a maximum of 100 pascals. In a single room, with the door shut, not a speck of dust escaped.

EDIT: A small section of the garden looked like the surroundings of a china clay quarry.
 
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Shut Up Legs

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hopless500 said:
(Mon) :tongue:
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Agreed. I blame Google Translate for that one. I know that the possessive pronoun for singular objects must have the gender of the object (leçon). I really shouldn't trust Google Translate too much.
 
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