What is DustLess and is it actually Dust Less

When you sand and finish a hardwood floor you create dust.  This is a major head ache for the consumer who may be dusting thier home endlessly as a result of re doing their hardwood floors.  The floor covering industry has address this in a number of ways trying to "contain the dust"  There is no such thing as DUST LESS sand and finishing.  The most common way is with vacuum bags on the sanders that suck most of the dust out of the air and put them in the bag just like a vacuum cleaner would.  However this doesnt get ALL of the dust just MOST of the dust.  The other way is to put a trailer outside the home the runs a pretty cool reverse air suction system that attaches to the sanders and sucks the saw dust out of the home.  There are grades of suction systems and some are better than others, its all about how many particles you can move and the more you can move the more expensive and noisy the system.  I am posting this in as always a response that I have gotten from consumers asking what is the difference in "Dustless" vs non Dustless.  I have a joke that if it was really Dustless my guys would run their equipment gurgling thier lips like motormouth in "Police Academy" and the process would take all but a couple moments and be almost free.  Please do post let me know what you think about Dustless sanders because we always love to hear from the consumers how products and systems perform.

Ways to avoid the dust are; Buy prefinished hardwood floors, Pay a little extra for a trailer dust containment system, or put up a lot of visquene to try and trap the dust in the area then wipe down the ways for dust.  There is always going to be dust involved but you are still way better off with hardwood than carpet if you have allergies if you ask me.