As my client watched over my shoulder while I began removing the acoustic texture on his ceiling, I thought about the incredible mess I was about to make. There just had to be a way to gather the dusty particles as I scraped them off the ceiling.
As shown in the drawing, I modified a $4 plastic gas can into a hopperlike vacuum nozzle. I cut out the bottom and one side of the can, and then I hooked up my shop vacuum to the can’s pour spout. Armed with my scraper and this big nozzle, I made short work of that old ceiling.
Bobby Bordelon, Leesville,, LA
