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Home-Wizard™ calculates your ideal home care program to avoid problems with your Baseboard Heating, but sometimes trouble can still occur. Here are answers to questions about baseboard heating clean soot.
QUESTION FROM jim t cuff
I have an oil-fired furnace/with hot water baseboard for my ranch house. I am quite handy, and would like to vaccume out the soot from the inner furnace. is their any special type vacuum/shop-vac i need to use and bag.
thanks
ANSWER FROM HOME-WIZARD
Dear Jim:
For difficult jobs where you need strong suction, like vacuuming out a sooted up oil burning furnace, I would suggest that you look at the "Sootmaster" furnace vacuum:
http://www.cgfproducts.com/prod5frame.htm#01
I've heard some good things about the DeWalt DC500 vacuum:
http://www.dewalt.com/us/products/tool_detail.asp?productID=6220
But I've heard many complaints about the Stinger brand vaccum.
Hope this is helpful.
Home-Wizard.com
FOLLOW-UP FROM jim t cuff
I have a regular 3 gallon sears wet/dry vac could i use that?
thanks
ANSWER FROM HOME-WIZARD
Jim:
The main concern that I would have with using a small Craftsman wet/dry vacuum for vacuuming out soot from a oil-fired furnace is that the filter system may not be fine enough to keep the soot from coming through and making a mess in your house. I've heard of cases where the tiny soot particles got churned up in the air and actually setting off the fire detectors in the home.
Part of the reason that the bigger (and unfortunately more expensive) furnace vaccums have more suction power, is so they can force the air through the finer filtering system.
Hope this is helpful.
Home-Wizard.com
FOLLOW-UP FROM jim t cuff
Great, thanks for your help.
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