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My basement ceiling went from fuzzy to clean in one afternoon with a shop vac and a stiff brush
I spent $0 on fancy tools, just borrowed my neighbor's old Rigid vac and spent 4 hours knocking down cobwebs and dust from the joists. Has anyone else tried a DIY attic or basement ceiling cleanup without renting a commercial foam cannon?
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tyler61mo ago
I read somewhere that using a drywall knife or a wide putty knife can scrape off the really caked on dust way faster than a brush for the rough spots. Then you just hit it with the vac after. Saves some time on the really nasty joists...
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milesj701mo ago
Putty knives work alright for the really thick stuff on top of joists, but I've found they gouge up the wood pretty bad if you're not careful. Those rough spots you're scraping can leave grooves that hold dust later and make it harder to get a clean seal if you're air sealing. A stiff nylon brush and a good shop vac with a brush attachment has always been faster for me overall since you're not stopping to swap tools every few feet. Plus you miss all the loose crap in the cracks and corners that a knife just pushes around instead of picking up. Do you find you have to go back over those scraped areas with a brush anyway to get the fine stuff?
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