How to keep dust out of the house during a window replacement
Window installation generates fine concrete dust and debris that settles on floors overnight when installers don't use proper containment frames. Because staying home during the project is common due to time and budget limits, homeowners need to know what dust mitigation is reasonable to expect from installers.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Putting specific requirements in the contract with installers to section off areas with plastic
- 2Covering all furniture with plastic in advance
- 3Holding a shopvac nozzle next to the grinder while working
- 4Constructing a small frame with metal rods and plastic sheeting around each window to confine dust
- 5Running roomba vacuums repeatedly each evening to clean up
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I don’t have the money or time to move out while new windows are put in. What is reasonable to expect from a window installer as far as dust mitigation goes?”source ↗
“However the light concrete dust floating in the air would continue to fall onto the floor overnight. Wish our guys had used the frames the neighbor's guys had.”source ↗
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