My Central Vac PVC Sawdust Collection System 

No matter what you say Doug. You are a genius. Between you and Ashley it's no wonder how smart Bella and Maverick are.

Not only do you think outside the box, you kick that bad boy to the curb🤣 I love it. Hi Ashley and kids. Stay safe

Doug you are a wonder!

👍👍 Before too long, (hopefully) you'll have the boards for your walls!

Another video!! Whoop!!

Sometimes I think you must be a relative to Einstein with all the inventive ideas you do. This is just another example of your excellent ideas and endeavors. You are amazing. I hope this helps save you breathing capacity and health. I follow your videos and can't wait for each one each day. Looking forward to the next.

I would add ground wire to each tool connection because of static electricity. Fine dust can be explosive!!! It's a safety issue!

Great job Doug looks pretty slick.

I love this channel, you guy are my favorite!

Pretty sweet dust collection system there. Please let us know who it works out for you. 👏🏼👍🏼

Looks good. I sell central vac's for a living. When it comes to application like yours (or vet clinics / barber shops) I like to sell a cyclonic separator (Vacu-Maid sells one) before the dirt enters the canister. It just protects your central vacuum from coming in contact with fine woodworking dust because the separator captures 97 percent of the dust you suck up. If you are on top of your maintenance you should be fine though.

You are a genius Doug! What a great idea!

Doug and Ashley, if you leave that orange tube the length of is, you can also use it to clean your workshop on wheels. The hand tools that came with the hose will work great for the stuff that is left over and general dust that naturally comes in when you're working in it. This portable workshop is absolutely fantastic. A+ on your part for building it. I can imagine several craftsmen copying this as this would make getting to and leaving a jobsite much easier and faster.

Doug ..... You are without question...the brightest light in the ball park. You hit a home run with this project as you always do. You are AMAAAAZING!

Well of course this was a brilliant idea! I appreciate how Doug and Ashley think outside the box and make it work for them. Having to empty the system frequently isn't a bit deal and the sawdust is beneficial for helping with mud, composting, possibly in a Woodstock, etc. Such a sharp idea!

Great job! I love the inventive way you solve your own problems.

Wow Doug, you are so innovative. The archetypal "thinker outside the box".

Doug, you're so intelligent about so many things!! I'd still wear a mask. One idea for the sawdust is to let your kids use it along with nice black dirt and coffee grounds to make a nice bedding for worms/night crawlers.

Smart idea.. good luck 🧲

Very cool idea I would suggest adding a suction port that extends to the floor to sweep floor particles into.👍

Doug, you are a genius, so creative, so clever. Your family is the sweetest ever on RU-vid, you’re my favorite channel. Much Love ❤️

Hey! Happy Sunday evening!🥰🥰🥰

Doug you can make anything, you are a genius, and also so humble about it.

Great job and video!, but don't forget to run a ground strap to the pvc vacuum pipe, friction will cause static electricity!!, also, connect the strap to the electrical ground emt and run a ground from the trailer frame to a nearby ground rod !!

Really cool idea Doug. We had a central vac in our house growing up. I never thought about using it as a dust collection system. Dave in TX

Hi Doug. You are a *master* at thinking up brilliant ideas👍. You are meticulous and take pride in everything that you do no matter how small or big. Well done! Another brilliant video. Thank you for sharing🤲. As always keep safe and God bless your beautiful 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 💐💞

Doug, you inquisitive and inventive soul, it's a pleasure to watch you develop solutions like this one. Well done you. Cheers, Ardith

Oh my goodness….you never cease to amaze me. What a great idea!!!! And it looks to work pretty good. Love your “thinking outside the box” attitude. Nothing you two do surprises me. But I get it. The best vibes for your family. I am so excited when your videos show up 😍😍

Great garden compost maker!

Doug you are so talented.

Just love how your mind works 🤔

Awesome idea 💡. You can repurpose the saw dust possibly for your wood stove make small compacted blocks for it or spread it out on and muddy areas.

Great idea Doug. You could donate the sawdust to an animal shelter for use as kitty litter or save it for a kitty of your own.😻

My dad DIYd his own vacuum system in his workshop. Running the pipe similar to yours but he used a shop vac outside the shop and that went into a plastic barrel with a large bag inside it. Once the bag was full he’d take it out and give it to people for mulch or chicken bedding or horse bedding.

Doug stay safe and ground your system so static electricity don't build up

You have amazing ideas, you guys have incredible minds 👍❤️😀

Awesome little workshop. About dust collection, maybe you want to check the static generated by suction in pvc pipes, with the sawdust may be a security issue. In some videos of another people, I saw they put a grounded copper wire all along the pipe to reduce that static. I love your videos and I enjoy a lot all your great work, this new home will be great for sure.

Very ingenious Doug, great way to keep down the mess along with guard your breathing work space! Plus those wood chip and shavings may come in handy for something. 👍👍👍

Since you are a DIYer and not a contractor, electrician or HVAC expert, things do not have to be done only one way. Up to code yes, but you always throughly and diligently look into that for each area you have lived. This gives you the freedom to think outside the box, which you are an expert at, a n d adapt what is needed to meet your particular need at the time. This has served you very well! It always is interesting to me to watch TV shows or videos of renovation or building something. So keep up the good work Doug!

Very nice, I think that should work well for you.

Hey Doug, I've heard these pvc dust collector systems can create a lot of static and maybe be a fire hazard? I think some people run ground wires along the pipes maybe something to look into. Nice work

Wow, you are so good at finding solutions. What a great idea to keep the air cleaner in the workshop.

Doug you did a great job once again 👏

A very nice, simple solution to keeping your shop clean and your lungs healthy. Great job!

I have a dust collection system in my house but people generally call it "furniture".

Always thinking, always doing. Pretty neat. I figure you can tweak it. Hi Ash, Belle and Mav !!! Love ya all, Granny

Good ideal. It will work fine. My motorhome had a built-in system and I never had a problem with all the sand and dirt and pet hair. As long as you empty the vacuum and clean the filter it will last a long time. 👍🙂 Well after watching the whole video. Maybe you could get a drum the same size as the vac. And adapt it to fit with that. So holding capacity is bigger. Just a thought. 👍

I was wondering when you were going to get this up and running!! I am always so IMPRESSED with you guys!! You never take the easy route!! But, what is best for your family and in the long run you help all of us !! THANK YOU!!

Your brain is amazing.

That’s amazing! You are so smart

You are so creative Doug! I think you did a really cool job on your vacuum system. Until next time God bless y’all 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸

Y'all have come a long way in a year. Proud of you.

Nice job! You are so creative. That looks like good bedding for rabbits or hamsters. 😀

My last home had a central vac and I loved it so much. Yes my central vac had bags that needed to be changed. Again you are amazing to be able to think of so many things to help you out in the long run👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Pretty clever system. I appreciate the ingenuity of the design. Progress!

I am kinda jealous of all the wood chips you are going to have. We left a large pile of wood chips for about 1.5 years and ended up with the nicest soil amendment. Happy accident. Thanks Bob. Since we have no soil to speak of here ( bedrock) this is huge for gardening especially with the fertilizer shortage. Very nice adaptation. Going to mention this to my wood working son-in-law. He has a much larger space, but maybe it will work.

You have such a wonderful imagination. Great job!!!

Wow, once again Doug, you are so amazing with all of your ideas on making the work with things better, sawdust can be such an unfun clean up and you just made that part so much better, and I believe there is never anything wrong with making work easier and better. Thanks so much for sharing this great video, I hope you all have a great week, I'm looking forward to seeing your next video, sending love and hugs, bye for now.

Nice job.

You are so clever Doug! The shop looks great.

If you add more tools along the trailer, replace the switch with a pull chain style one back towards the vacuum, and then run a string along the center of the trailer from front to back, kinda like a stop request on public bus, can just reach up and grab it without looking :)

You are like the MacGyver of building tools! You see something you need and you just do it! You're very crafty! Overall I think it worked precisely how you needed it to! Good job!

I think this is one of the cooler non-home projects. I would make a safe bet that there r a lot of people who want one of these and will make themselves one. DIY’ers love a place well stocked with tools with easy work space. And the organization that comes from something like this improves a persons physical environment and emotional need for order. Great job Doug!!!

Looking great. Maybe put one port on the floor, in a corner. that way you can just sweep all the leftover debris in to a foot wide funnel on the floor, that leads into the vacuum pipe. Those are very convinient imo. Just remember to have the gate higher up so you dont't need to do a deep squat every time you wanna sweep the floor.

great idea. That will save you from breathing in so much dust. since the canister fills up so fast would there be a way to divert the fill intake hose outside so it can fill a larger container or bag?

Doug does it again, brilliant!

Doug, hope you put a screen on your vacuum exhaust exiting the shop to keep critters out!

Ingenious. Great sawdust for compost toilet!

You guys have a very creative minds! That's so awesome!

Thanks Doug and Ashley👍😎

I love how u invent things.

I believe that you have thought about most issues, and it is great that you are taking care to protect yourself and the family from risks. However, everyone needs to please take care dealing with all workshop dust. Even metal swarf and dust can cause fires or explosions. It is an explosive! Someone mentioned the risk of static charges, they are not a trivial issue and can be the source of ignition that the dust air mix is seeking to go bang. Any finely distributed dust mixed with the air can cause a destructive explosion, and many workshops have been destroyed. Yes, with loss of life when the system fails, is not maintained, or not installed in the first place. Flour mills are well known for his issue, but other workshops suffer. Dust is insidious, damaging lungs when not blowing things up. Some materials can also cause other troubles, with fine particles, and the glues and preservatives used in manufactured goods, being unsafe to health.

hi ash tell dug to cut a square hole on the vacum collection can and then put a perspex window and then you can see the how full it is hope this helps

When I build my workshop, I will have to use a lot of your ideas on dust collection. Thanks for sharing.

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Could you not add a big clear or black plastic bag to the bottom end of the collecter chamber instead of the metal collection bin. That way you will see when the bag is nearly full and needs changing.

well done, I would tape the joints that you didn't glue just to ensure no suction is being lost at the joints. To bad the bottom of the vacuum isn't a clear plastic so you could see how full it is.

The ends that you didn't have a need for, you should have a need for. A length of hose would make an excellent hand-held vacuum to clean up the loose stuff that didn't get picked up by the main unit. Plug it onto the system at any inlet and use it to vacuum the surfaces of your tools AND the floor.

Incredibly creative… You are amazing Doug. Thank you for sharing this. Stay safe and well

With all that sand you spread around your property you certainly are going to need something like that , great idea

Excellent idea and setup... I might do the same when the time comes for my new shed

There are a few people concerned about static charges. It can be an issue. Stumpy Nubs did an entire video about how he added wire to the duct work. One person suggested grounding the vac unit. I'm sure it is already grounded. The problem is when saw dust and particles are flowing in the plastic pipe, it creates static electricity. So, the pipe should be grounded. Looks like a great system for a small shop. Very ingenious. I recently added a wireless 240 volt lighting contactor to operate my dust collector remotely. The contactor with 2 remotes, mounting box, fittings and by-pass switch (optional) was $45. A dedicated "dust collector remote switch" with 1 remote is $130. Congrats.

That's a great idea, it's not everyday you'll be doing tongue and groove .. I think just for normal things in the work shop it will work well .. clever idea Doug.

Brilliant idea. I just installed one in my sister's house. Glad you didn't glue all of it in case of a clog.

You are making a dream workshop. I think you did a great job with the vacuum. Looking forward to you using the boards you've prepared.

Possible free chicken bedding! I know you did the chicken thing! My wife and I have chickens but we only have two hens and a rooster we acquired some fertile eggs from a neighbour but plan to keep a total of maybe five hens and the rooster hatching out a couple dozen to sell each year and have enough eggs to furnish ourselves. I have a sawmill so we have our own source for bedding. I cut cedar and I heard it was good for keeping mites and other pests at bay as they don't like the cedar. Your doing a great job Doug and Ashley and family!

Put in a flex pipe in the middle so you can vacuume the entire shop after working what is left over

Hi there, well done Douglas. I like your way of doing things ( simple and efficient) 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗

You are a great problem solver Doug. You never fail!

Talk about being creative! Your work is amazing. Your projects are well thought out. Maybe there is a way u can somehow see the bag while working, is it possible to remove the lower can and tie the bag some how so u can see it. I don’t know. If there is a static situation u need to take care of it, important. Good job.

You need to run a ground wire on the PVC pipe it will build static electricity

Good job doug, that is a diy win !

That dust collection system is a great idea..but I was wondering what are you doing with all the extra saw dust that you are collecting..

Hey Doug, I myself thought about the dust clogging statically, and the idea that fabric softener is suppose to suppress dust from sticking to surfaces, surfaced in my mind. Maybe a few softener sheets sucked through it when it’s emptied from time to time would help🤔 It’s really a shame (for me) that you live all the way across the country, literally upper to lower corners!! I’d find💰to have you as my projects manager! I don’t know anyone personally I could trust more to do an excellent job given all that us glued to your channel have witnessed! Old people still dream!!! I got drywall, plumbing, insulation, windows to replace, siding…are you drooling at the 💭 yet??!! Hahaha! My compliments To another job well done!!

Great job👍🙋‍♀️🙏

Looks like you mastered another job. Well done as always Doug. Looking forward to the next project. Have a great week.

Great idea!! Loving the workshop! All the tools you'll ever need for DIY's in the future! Have a blessed week!!

Great setup, Jeremy! Well done! Really nice dust gates! Hey, you might look at Loc-Line 80813 Shop Vacuum Kit, 2.5", Blue/Orange for your drill press. I've seen them used on drill presses and lathes. Thank you for another excellent video, Team #DIYfferent!

Yay! Great idea! I'd say that's a win.

Whoa! Lookin good! Love the red white and blue color scheme! 😉(May not have been intentional, but I noticed it!)