Cleaning up after a grinding, cutting, or polishing job shouldn't cost you hours — or your crew's lungs. Our concrete vacuums are built for the job site, pulling up wet slurry, fine silica dust, and debris that a hardware-store shop vac simply can't handle. Call for pricing or request a quote — you'll talk to a real surface-prep expert, not a call center.
A shop vac made for home messes won’t survive heavy concrete work — it clogs on slurry, loses suction on fine dust, and burns out fast. A purpose-built concrete vacuum is engineered for exactly this:
OSHA compliance and silica safety. Dry grinding and polishing throw off respirable crystalline silica — the dust linked to silicosis. OSHA’s silica standard calls for capturing that dust rather than dry sweeping (which just kicks it back into the air). A concrete vacuum helps keep you compliant and your crew protected.
Power that won’t quit. Heavy slurry and dense dust jam ordinary vacuums. Ours use high-capacity, multi-stage motors that pick up wet and dry material without clogging.
Built to last. A consumer shop vac wears out after a few concrete jobs. Equipment designed for this work holds up over hundreds of them — so you buy once, not every season.
Can a concrete vacuum pick up wet slurry? Yes — a true wet/dry concrete vacuum handles both liquid slurry from wet grinding and dry dust from dry grinding.
Will a regular shop vac work for concrete dust? Not well. Consumer shop vacs clog on slurry, lose suction on fine silica, wear out quickly, and generally don’t meet OSHA dust-capture recommendations.
Do I need a vacuum or a dust collector? A dust collector attaches to your grinder or shot blaster to capture dust at the source during the job; a vacuum cleans up slurry and debris afterward. Many contractors use both.
Call (815) 941-4800 x 1 or fill out our contact form, and we’ll match the right concrete vacuum to your work.