For those who have a "floor sweep" hooked into their DC setup -

[Ben Rivel]

I have the 5" (10" opening) Oneida version. Very nice but honestly I rarely use it. I much prefer to do shop floor cleanup with my Festool CT vac and the Festool Workshop Cleaning Set. I prefer taking the vacuum hose around the shop rather than sweeping all over the place and dragging the dust back to the floor sweep. Plus I have large/deep expansion joints in the floor so no matter what I do I still have to come back over those with a vacuum to clean them out.

[James Gunning]

Interesting that many have not found floor sweeps convenient. I use mine frequently, but I will admit, not every time. I have a shop vac hooked up to a Dust Deputy and use it for some cleanup. My DC is portable and has about 10 ft. of pickup hose, so plugging the floor sweep in where ever its needed is easy. I don't need to sweep the stuff all the way across the shop. My floor sweep was made of MDF scraps and a metal HVAC fitting. It hooks up to a 6" hose
It's heavy enough to stay where it's put. No so with the lightweight sheet metal one it replaced.

[Andrew J. Coholic]

I have one centrally located in the shop (hooked up to the 7.5 hp Belfab collector). Gets used multiple times a day.

Wouldnt want to be without it..

[Martin Wasner]

I have one centrally located in the shop (hooked up to the 7.5 hp Belfab collector). Gets used multiple times a day.

Wouldnt want to be without it..

I don't trust my employees enough to do that.

[andrew weldon]

I've got a similar story to a lot of people here. One of the main things I was excited about when I first got a DC with a cyclone was a floor sweep. In the end, I took it off the system and put in a 4' extendable Rockler Dust Right 4" hose (which stretches out to like 28' or something ridiculous) and the Rockler floor nozzle. The floor nozzle is mildly cumbersome, so I typically sweep up the big stuff and then rove around the shop and get as many of the nooks and crannies as I can.

The floor sweep was cool, but this takes up a similar amount of space and is more versatile.

[Rod Sheridan]

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Here's a photo of mine, it's a 4' X 10" floor boot with a 5" inlet.............Rod.

[Bill McNiel]

I took my floor sweeps out. If I have to sweep towards the 'floor sweep' I may as well use a dust pan and save the quicker fill on my DC bin. JMHO.

+1 on the vac for floor cleanup. I sweep/dust pan curlies from hand tools.

Same for me.

[Mike Heidrick]

Anyone have 6" inlet floor sweeps available they are not using?

[jack duren]

I need to put one in at work. I'll put chicken wire on it...

Home shop? Need one there too...

[Jebediah Eckert]

Not that this helps you any but I put my system in with a floor sleep. I used the Oneida sweep like pictured earlier. After a couple of years I have not used it once. When I first put it in I lined the bottom with rare earth magnets to catch a metals. I tested it and it works great. Even so I don't have much wood dust on the ground with the new system. Most ground debris is other "junk" I would be hesitant to send to the collector. I find a vacuum or dust pan works better then sweeping to a fixed spot hoping you don't suck up a handful of screws. Maybe by a lathe for piles of curls would be good?

[Chris Padilla]

I have one but haven't used it as much as I thought I would. One problem is that it isn't discriminant about what it sucks up!! LOL!
I've also gotten lazy in my years and tend to use a leaf-blower to clean out the shop. I want to make sure the neighborhood enjoys the sawdust as much as I do.

[Mike Hollingsworth]

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No better way to terminate a leg coming from the ceiling. I've got three outlets on mine that feed my combo.

[Mike Hollingsworth]

Sorry if this makes me sound like an idiot, but what do you mean?

No better way to terminate a leg coming from the ceiling. I've got three outlets on mine that feed my combo.
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[Jim Becker]

Mike, that's a great way to anchor the drop in a useful way!

[Ole Anderson]

Having a really smooth floor makes it so easy to sweep up using a horsehair push broom. Before I laid my Pergo I had a well used concrete floor in my basement shop which required me to push, push, push which still left dust on the floor and in the air. Now I can do a long push without raising dust. No floor sweep for me. If I need a thorough clean up I use my shop vac and 4" Rockler DustRight. Really thorough? I close the doors, Run the ambient cleaner on full, open my blast gates, wear a n95 mask and blow everything down with compressed air, then vac. Maybe once a year or less.