What vacuum for plaster dust? Henry with hepa bags sufficient?

[alligatorlizard]

Is a Henry hoover, used with "HEPAFLO" bags, sufficient for containing the fine dust created from sanding plaster? Specifically, I will be smoothing out some recently plastered-in chases in walls (after a full rewire of my house, so quite a few chases)

There are plenty of threads and info websites which say a Henry or similar is ideal for this sort of thing - and plenty of others that say you need at least an L class vacuum. Obviously L/M/H class vacuums get a lot costlier...

What I'm not clear on is if using a non L/M/H class vacuum, but with bags, will still result in fine plaster dust being thrown out of the vacuum's exhaust - i.e. do the bags prevent this from happening??

And if a Henry is fine, what about the £40 wet-and-dry one from Wickes - is that just as good, or is worth shelling out a bit more for a Henry? Or something else?

Essentially, what's the best non-expensive vacuum I can buy that will contain plaster dust as opposed to just blowing it all around the house?

 

[RrogerD]

Use anything it's fine.

 

[robinbanks]

Or buying a longer hose and putting the vac motor outside, with as basic filtration as you can get. You'll find that the fine dust clogs any filter quickly; it might be better to form an extractor that gets dust outside and doesn't try to contain it all, than trying to contain all the dust inside a thing inside the house

 

[Burnerman]

The genuine Hepaflo bags are just fine for this......that's the white cloth base ones in boxes of 10.
The Henry is a mighty fine machine.
However, you may like to consider buying one of the Henry range that does wet vacuuming too - I forget the name but it might be Harriet or something?
So much more useful for other jobs.
John

 

[DAZB]

I always use Henry / James / Charles vacs as they are just so good and cope with anything I throw at them and dust is never an issue. Use the white bags and you will be fine.

 

[lostinthelight]

Compared to a vac where one can reverse the air to shake the dust off the inside of the bag, ive found a Henry very disappointing

 

[robinbanks]

I use my compressor for that..

But the vac that blows was super for getting the hobo bin blazing before I invested in a leaf blower

 

[lostinthelight]

I use my compressor for that..

But the vac that blows was super for getting the hobo bin blazing before I invested in a leaf blower

Not referring to a vac with a suck and blow port but one that has a button that blows internally