Festool hepa vacuum professional#

Vacuums are rated by their suction power and their filtration (how fine a particle they can filter out). All corded Festool vacs have an outlet to plug in corded tools, and turning on the tool also turns on the vac.

All the other vacs come on wheels and except for the budget CT15, all the vacs have a “Sys Dock” to which you can clip Systainers so that the vacuum becomes a rolling platform and base for your work.

The CTC SYS, the new cordless version of the discontinued CT-Sys, comes in a Systainer and is designed to be carried on a shoulder strap. Speaking of mobility, all Festool vacuums connect easily to the Systainer storage system storage system for easy transport. We want to focus on mobile dust collection that you can take to the job site - and for that matter, use in your shop or around your home too if you so desire. A stationary dust collection system with extensive ductwork is the typical approach for large shops with lots of stationary machinery but it's outside the scope of this discussion. Increasingly having a clean job-site is a contract requirement and a way to showcase your professionalism. Dust is not your friend! Dust you collect as you work means less dust to irritate your lungs, less to clean up, less to mess up your finishes, less to track through the house, less annoyance for you, your clients, your family, your shopmates, your pets, and so on. We take our dust collection seriously, and you should too. The Midi below has to be at least a decade old and it's going strong.

Festool hepa vacuum professional#

Fortunately, and I can say this with experience, Festool vacs are all professional grade and they last. The vacuums in the back are used mostly for metalwork and we beat the crap out of them. The vacuum on the left has the Cyclone (more on this below) on top of it. The middle one is a CT 36, the other two are CT 26s. No, they’re not the latest - limited supply means we’ve cut down on the concept of “showroom demo models” - and besides these still work quite well. Below are pictures of the two vacuums we have in our manufacturing workshop. The picture above shows the three Festool vacuums we have in our showroom. We call them 'vacuums' or 'vacs' and I don't know of anyone outside a Festool rep who calls them anything different. So it seems like a good time to once again write about your vacuum options.įestool uses the term 'dust extractor' whenever they mention their vacuums. Most recently - this month - Festool has discontinued the CT Mini and changed the CT Sys to be a cordless vac. We get this question all the time: 'What is the best Festool vacuum for my shop?'Įvery few years I revisit this topic, because the Festool vacs get changed. What Is The Best Festool Vacuum For My Shop? (2022 Version)