Last week we stayed at my wife's sister and her husband for several days. He is a a construction contractor. i picked his brain about many things including power tools, wood shop machines and shop design. When I ask about a sliding table saw, an edge bander and a dust collection system he said his professional cabinet builder has all of those including two banding machines. So I went to the professional cabinet shop and picked his brain too, but briefly as it was during his business hours.
His cyclone was in a purpose-built, small room attached to the outside of the main shiop. It was a nice set-up but when he opened the walk-in door, the vacuum created by opening the dorr caused a cloud of dust to fly about. There was about 3" of flour dust on the floor. I was taken aback by all the random dust in the room. I can only speculate how it got that way, either ducting leaks or thru the filter bags.
Skip to my shop, soon to be. They just dug the new house basement last week. The house will have a 20 x 20 garage with another 20 x 30 beside it. I'm pretty sure I am going to partition the two areas. In the past I was thinking about building a small room within the 20 x 30 space to house the DC and a vertical air compressor. Then I came up with an alternative. As the 20 x 20 will house my wife's car and storage shelves only, I thought of putting the DC and vertical air compressor in the smaller bay, saving shop space in the 20 x 30 space. After seeing the amount of dust in the cabinet makers DC closet I decided that would not be acceptable, if my DC (yet to be purchased) did the same.
Do you find your DC and the space around it really dusty? In the shop or in a closet?
Would routine and preventive maintenance eliminate the mess I witnessed?
I want to do it right the first time; buy one, set it up and use it; not move it around and figure it out by trail and error.