How To Remove Sheetrock Dust From Wood Floors

Drywall is used in almost all home building and remodeling because it is inexpensive easy to work with and takes paint well.

How to remove sheetrock dust from wood floors.

Your vacuum accessory shouldn t have a beater bar and if it does make sure you turn it off or it might redistribute as much dust into the air as it picks up. Add soap if you want to give the floor a good cleaning in the process. I dry mopped and used a shop vac. Drywall dust is embedded into our engineered hardwood floor in the cracks and in the grain of the wood.

Not water we are in process of having our kitchen completely remodeled and now have new hardwood floors. The downside is the dust it. I dry mopped and used a shop vac. The floor feels gritty and all the grain is a grey colour really noticeable next to the hallway hardwood floors.

Every drywall installation and repair job brings with it clouds of fine dust a product of sanding the drywall after taping and finishing. How do i safely remove construction dust and dirt from drywall safely off new hardwood floors. I ve googled cleaning hardwood floors but several that have tried the new swiffer mopjet say the liquid leaves a film on the floor. The dust isn t poisonous but it does create a respiratory hazard so letting it circulate throughout the house isn t an option you don t want to wet it down though because it turns into a goopy mess that settles into every crack and crevice in the room.

Once you have a working vacuum with a proper filter cleaning drywall dust and residue from a hardwood floor is easy. We have recently renovated the en suite bathroom and the drywall and cement dust silt has settled into the grain of the hardwood bedroom floor. Work the mop into the gaps between boards to remove any dust that settled there. This helped the surface of the wood but the white dust is still embedded in there.